Rose Schneiderman
Rose Schneiderman
Rose Schneidermanwas an American socialist and feminist, and one of the most prominent women labor union leaders...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth6 April 1882
CountryPoland
burned business destroying factory girls hard learned machines paid quite
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.
rack
The old Inquisition had its rack and its thumbscrews and its instruments of torture with iron teeth.
ballot women worker
The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
stripped women
We have women working in the foundries, stripped to the waist, if you please, because of the heat.
beauty years bread
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 standing in foundries or laundries all year round. There is no harder contest than the contest for bread, let me tell you that.
movement unions trade
there is nothing more American than the trade-union movement.
thinking past nostalgia
I cannot think of a thing that was better in those good old days.
reconstruction workers
You have nothing that the humblest worker has not a right to have also.
mean-girls average victory
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.
sister mother brother
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 bread ballots
The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too,