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What eight million women want

CHAPTER VI
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One hundred and fifty dressmakers in New York City belong to a union.

Seventy stenographers have organized in the same city.

The Teachers' Federation of Chicago is a labor union, and although it was formed before the Women's Trade Union League came into existence, it is now affiliated.
The women telegraphers all over the United States are well organized.
The businesslike, resourceful, and fearless policy of the League was brilliantly demonstrated during the famous strike of the shirt-waist makers in New York and Philadelphia in the winter of 1910.

The story of this strike will bear retelling.
On the evening of November 22, 1909, there was a great mass meeting of workers held at Cooper Union in New York.

Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, presided, and the stage was well filled with members of the Women's Trade Union League.


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