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"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."
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"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."
"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."
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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."
"The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with."
"We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat."
"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."
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