During this strike period we girls each received 3 a week single men 3 a week, and married men 5 a week. This was paid us by the National Board.
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But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.Rose Schneiderman
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All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement.
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Surely these women won't lose any more of their beauty and charm by putting a ballot in a ballot box once a year than they are likely to lose standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.
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The girls and women by their meetings and discussions come to understand and sympathize with each other, and more and more easily they act together.
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The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
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