“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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We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers and sisters by way of a charity gift.
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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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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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I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.
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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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