Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.
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By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.Rose Schneiderman
The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
Rose Schneiderman
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.
Rose Schneiderman
I learned the business in about two months, and then made as much as the others, and was consequently doing quite well when the factory burned down, destroying all our machines - 150 of them. This was very hard on the girls who had paid for their machines.
Rose Schneiderman
Yet the Senator says nothing about these women losing their charm. They have got to retain their charm and delicacy and work in foundries.
Rose Schneiderman
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