Phrase by 'Rose Schneiderman'

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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.

Author: Rose Schneiderman - Polish Activist
  Life , Men , Women , Death


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.

Author: Rose Schneiderman - Polish Activist
  You , Gift , Way , Charity


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.

Author: Rose Schneiderman - Polish Activist
  Time , Down , Strong , Law


I can't talk fellowship to you who are gathered here. Too much blood has been spilled. 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 movement.

Author: Rose Schneiderman - Polish Activist
  You , People , Experience , Strong


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.

Author: Rose Schneiderman - Polish Activist
  Own , Down , Hard , Plan


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.

Author: Rose Schneiderman - Polish Activist
  Doing , Business , Down , Hard


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.

Author: Rose Schneiderman - Polish Activist
  Me , Nothing , Men , Dawn


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.

Author: Rose Schneiderman - Polish Activist
  Result , Big , Us , Victory


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.

Author: Rose Schneiderman - Polish Activist
  Me , Time , Work , Day


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.

Author: Rose Schneiderman - Polish Activist
  People , Sit , Go , Saying


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