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The response within that hall typified the response next day outside.
I quote the words of an onlooker:
From every waist-making factory in New York and Brooklyn, the
girls poured forth, filling the narrow streets of the East Side,
crowding the headquarters at Clinton Hall, and overflowing into
twenty-four smaller halls in the vicinity. It was like a mighty
army, rising in the night, and demanding to be heard. But it was
an undisciplined army. Without previous knowledge of organization,
without means of expression, these young workers, mostly under
twenty, poured into the Union. For the first two weeks from 1,000
to 1,500 joined each day. The clerical work alone, involved in,
registering and placing recruits was almost overwhelming. Then
halls had to be rented and managed, and speakers to be procured.
And not for one nationality alone. Each hall, and there were
twenty-four, had to have speakers in Yiddish, Italian and English.
Every member of the League was pressed into service.


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