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Coming here in
childhood, her life has been spent in New York.
As an example of her achievements, for four years she worked
untiringly among the white-goods-workers of New York, until they
were strong enough to call a general strike, a strike which was so
successful that they won a great part of their demands, and ever since
have held their union together, seven thousand strong. Penetrated with
the profound sadness of her people, and passionately alive to the
workers' wrongs, Rose Schneidermann can stir immense audiences, and
move them to tears as readily as to indignation. For her all the hope
of the world's future is embodied in two movements, trade unionism on
the one hand and socialism on the other.
[Illustration: IN A BASEMENT SWEATSHOP
Women picking rags collected from households. These rags have neither
been cleaned nor disinfected and give off dust at every handling.]
[Illustration: GIRL GAS BLOWERS. KANSAS CITY]
The New York League owes much of its success to Mary Dreier, the
sister of Mrs.


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