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on Sunday. It was the law of the land that the Sabbath day was holy and you couldn't work on Sunday, but they did. There was no overtime. No one ever heard of overtime. You just worked and were paid piece work in the garment trade.

I got very interested in the whole business of the possibilities of organizing these women as then only semiskilled, or unskilled, women were so largely coming into the printing trade. Then I came back to New York. My family didn't live in New York. They didn't know what I did at Hull House and who I saw. It wasn't very interesting to them.

As a matter of fact, I went to Philadelphia first. I had never had a social work job, as Hull House was volunteer. I decided I wanted a social work job and I got one by hook or by crook. Mr. Devine had told me, when I tried to get a job with him earlier, to go out and teach school. I had gone out to Chicago, as a matter of fact, to teach school at a boarding school in Lake Forrest. I spent all my vacations and weekends at Hull House. Finally I stayed at Hull House for quite a long time. It wasn't a year, but part of a year. Then I decided to cast the die. I had wanted to be a social worker, and I might as well. I decided that I had a vocation for social work.