Belmont, mother of the Duchess of Marlborough, leader of a large Woman Suffrage Association, engaged the Hippodrome, and packed it to the roof with ten thousand interested spectators.
Something like five thousand dollars was donated by this meeting.
At the beginning of the strike fully five hundred waist houses were involved.

Many of these settled within a few days on the basis of increased pay, a fifty-two-hour working week, and recognition of the union.

Others settled later, and under the influence of the "uptown scum," as the employers' association gallantly termed the Women's Trade Union League, the Colony Club, and the Suffragists, still others reluctantly gave in.

Late in January all except about one hundred out of the five hundred had settled with the union, and only about three thousand of the workers were still out of work.
Women have been called the scabs of the labor world.

That they would ever become trade unionists, ever evolve the class consciousness of the intelligent proletarian men, was deemed an impossible dream.