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The girls took their discharge without suspicion; but the next
morning they saw in the newspaper advertisements of the company
asking for shirt-waist operators at once. Their eyes opened by
this, the girls picketed the shop, and told the girls who answered
the advertisement that the shop was on strike. The company
retaliated by hiring thugs to intimidate the girls, and for
several weeks the picketing girls were being constantly attacked
and beaten. These melees were followed by wholesale arrests of
strikers, from a dozen to twenty girls being arrested daily.
Out of ninety-eight arrested all but nineteen were fined in sums of
from one to ten dollars.
With the aid of the police and a complaisant bench the Triangle
Company had been successful in its attempt to empty the young union's
treasury, and had likewise intimidated the workers till their courage
and spirit were failing them. The manufacturers had accomplished their
object.
At this stage the New York Women's Trade Union League took up the
battle of the girls.


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