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Updated: May 27, 2025
Then there was a dancer; then, just after Gorky's visit here, a Russian anarchist woman. After that the coat-makers and shirtwaist-makers began to whisper that Stein's great success was with Kitty Ayrshire. "It is the hardest thing in the world to disprove such a story, as Dan Leland and I discovered.
Be shut out like this? She was as petulant as a child; she felt like shedding tears. But the girl at her side seemed to be playing the part of hostess, and she had to speak. "What strike is this?" The girl was amazed. "What strike! Don't you know?" Myra smiled. "No I don't. I've been out of the city." "It's the shirtwaist-makers' strike." "Oh! I see!" said Myra, mechanically.
Sally felt that her supreme task was to organize the women in industry, to take this trampled class and make of it a powerful engine for self-betterment, and no women were more prepared, she felt, than the shirtwaist-makers.
"But the shirtwaist-makers are working in intolerable conditions; they're just ready to strike; a spark would blow 'em all up." He shook his head. "Wait wait till we see what my next number does!" Sally said no more; but her heart nursed her desire until it grew to an overmastering passion. She left for the night, and Joe sat down, burning with the fires of righteousness.
Some day there will be a strike of shirt-waist-makers, and then your boss will go to the cloak-house and say, 'Now you make shirtwaists for me, and the cloak-makers will make the shirtwaists, saying, 'When we were striking, the shirtwaist-makers made cloaks; now we'll make waists. And that will ruin your strike, and ruin you all. Working people must unite!
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