So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more.
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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
Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.
Rose Schneiderman
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.
Rose Schneiderman
Women have proved in the late strike that they can be faithful to an organization and to each other. The men give us the credit of winning the strike.
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We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.
Rose Schneiderman
We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.
Rose Schneiderman
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