We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.
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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.Rose Schneiderman
Our people were very restive, saying that they could not sit under that notice, and that if the National Board did not call them out soon they would go out of themselves.
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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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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.
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So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take - just that and no more.
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After I had been working as a cap maker for three years it began to dawn on me that we girls needed an organization. The men had organized already, and had gained some advantages, but the bosses had lost nothing, as they took it out on us.
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