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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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"I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I'm afraid it will not be controversial."
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"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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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