Rose Schneiderman Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)
Rose Schneiderman quotes and sayings page 2 (activist). These are the last 10 out of 20 quotes we have.
“We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.”
“You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.”
“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.”
“But every time the workers come out in the only way they know to protest against conditions which are unbearable the strong hand of the law is allowed to press down heavily upon us.”
“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.”
“We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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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