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== Leonara Barry, on what the Knights of Labor are doing for women, 1888 == | == Leonara Barry, on what the Knights of Labor are doing for women, 1888 == | ||
| + | To be honest, I thought this was going to be a humorous read when I began reading the first paragraph. What kind of people have a secret labor organization?! Sounds pretty silly to me. I thought these people were going to be lazy when I read "...it was believed, did no productive work" (303) (referring to the people they welcomed into the organization). As I read on I learned just the opposite. Barry organized funds to give women money who were sick and could not work, or to women who experienced death. She supplied women who were in the Knights of Labor, as well as women who were not. She also took children out of the factories and educated them. She was definitely a respectably and honorable woman, even though she admitted the organization made plenty of mistakes. --Ashley V. | ||
== Sadie Frome, 1902, “Story of a Sweatshop Girl” == | == Sadie Frome, 1902, “Story of a Sweatshop Girl” == | ||
