Of course, we knew that this meant an attack on the union. The bosses intended gradually to get rid of us, employing in our place child labor and raw immigrant girls who would work for next to nothing.
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Working people are under the worst attack in 80 years. Never has there been a stronger need for a stronger union movement.
Then came a big strike. About 100 girls went out. The result was a victory, which netted us - I mean the girls - $2 increase in our wages on the average.
I was a union member in my youth as well and I went on strike, and I don't think it solved anything. It only made the situation worse for everyone involved.
This is the crux of the problem: because the Republicans and the right wing have been successful in almost eliminating unions, everyone else has suffered as a result.
There has been a huge attack against private sector unions. Actually, that's been going on since the Second World War.
At first everyone predicted that it would be impossible to hold these divergent people together, but aside from the skilled men, some of whom belonged to craft unions, comparatively few went back to the mills. And as a whole, the strike was conducted with little violence.
I think we will see a united labor movement again. When workers unite they're stronger. The same goes for unions.
And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers.
What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.
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