Rose Schneiderman Quotes


We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat. Rose Schneiderman Uncategorized 72
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. Rose Schneiderman Victory 65
The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with. Rose Schneiderman Uncategorized 55
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth. Rose Schneiderman Uncategorized 52
So we must stand together to resist, for we will get what we can take – just that and no more. Rose Schneiderman Uncategorized 48
We have tried you good people of the public and we have found you wanting. Rose Schneiderman Uncategorized 46
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. Rose Schneiderman Uncategorized 43
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 labor movement. Rose Schneiderman Uncategorized 43
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. Rose Schneiderman Job 42
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. Rose Schneiderman Uncategorized 36
I would be a traitor to these poor burned bodies if I came here to talk good fellowship. Rose Schneiderman Uncategorized 35
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. Rose Schneiderman Gift 35
You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also. Rose Schneiderman Uncategorized 33
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. Rose Schneiderman Uncategorized 33
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. Rose Schneiderman Uncategorized 31
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. Rose Schneiderman Uncategorized 24

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