- Good People
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The life of men and women is so cheap and property is so sacred. There are so many of us for one job it matters little if 146 of us are burned to death.
- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Gathered
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. I know from my experience it is up to the working people to save themselves. The only way they can save themselves is by a strong working-class movement.
- Heat
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.
- Beauty
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fight
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- Nov 07, 2020
The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Consequently
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read upon the subject and grew more and more interested, and after a time I became a member of the National Board, and had duties and responsibilities that kept me busy after my day's work was done.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020