These young women went out day after day with girl strikers, endured the insults and threats of the police, suffered arrest on more than one occasion, and faced the scorn and indignation of magistrates who--well, who did not understand.
The strike received an immense amount of publicity, and organizations of women other than the Women's Trade Union League began to take an interest in it.

They sent for Miss Marot, Miss Cole, Miss Gertrude Barnum, and other women known to be familiar with the industrial world of women, and begged for enlightenment on the subject of the strike.
They particularly asked to hear the story from the striking women in person.
The exclusive Colony Club, to which only women of the highest social eminence are eligible, was called together by Miss Anne Morgan and several others, including Mrs.Egerton Winthrop, wife of the president of the New York Board of Education, to hear the story from the strikers' own lips.

The Colony Club was swept into the shirt-waist strike.

More than thirteen hundred dollars was collected in a few minutes.

A dozen women promised influence and personal service in behalf of the strikers.
A week later Mrs.O.H.P.