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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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The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.

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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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You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.

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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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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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I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship.

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We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.

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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.

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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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Biography

Nationality: Polish

Type: Activist

Born: April 6th, 1882

Died: August 11th, 1972

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