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 la….

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 payin….

Today, for many people, being a union member simply means paying dues, but in the early days there were so few of us that if a majority of the member….

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 move….

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist — the right to life as the rich woman has the right to life, and the sun and m….

... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and ….

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, a….

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 standin….

What the woman who labors wants is the right to live, not simply exist ... the right to life, and the sun and music and art ... The worker must have ….

To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a great cause that created fell….

there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement..

I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days..

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 chari….

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

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 dea….

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 aver….