All who could be reached had been asked how they thought the strike would end, and the reply which I am quoting is typical of many.
"They may bungle through with a few bearings for a while," said Mr.
Reisinger, "but they won't last long.

It stands to reason that a woman can't do man's work and get away with it." Mary was walking through the factory the next day when she heard two women discussing that article.
"I told Sam Reisinger what I thought about him last night," said the younger.

"He was over to our house for supper.
"'So it stands to reason, does it ?' I said to him, 'that a woman can't do a man's work and get away with it?
Well, I like your nerve! What do you understand by a man's work ?' I said to him.
"'Do you think she ought to have all the meanest, hardest work in the world, and get paid nothing for it, working from the time she gets up in the morning till she goes to bed at night?
Is that your idea of woman's work ?' I said to him.

'But any nice, easy job that only has to be worked at four hours in the morning, and four hours in the afternoon, and has a pay envelope attached to it: I suppose you think that's a man's work!' I said to him.
"'Listen to me, Sam Reisinger, there's no such thing as man's work, and there's no such thing as woman's work,' I said to him.

'Work's work, and it makes no difference who does it, as long as it gets done! "'Take dressmaking,' I said to him.