The shortened work day was a hundred times more fatiguing to the workers because of the increased speed and nerve-racking noise and jar of the machinery.

Other grievances developed.

The quality of the yarn furnished the weavers was often so bad that they spent hours of unpaid labor mending a broken warp or manipulating a rotten shuttle full of yarn.

Wages, fixed according to the piece system, declined, it is said, at least one-fourth.

Women who had formerly earned thirteen dollars a week were reduced to seven and eight dollars.
The women formed a union and struck.