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were struggling little men trying to make a penny here and a penny there - there were no big garment factories. The employers were furious. They denounced the strikers. They denounced the organizers. They declared that the organizers had put them up to this. They made statements to the press. It was a completely new sight to New York to see quite young girls rushing out of these factories screaming and waving their hats and their banners - parading up and down the street screaming to everybody, “Come out you scab. Come out you scab,” shouting up to the women still at work in another loft. Then they'd get mad and they'd come pouring out. It was great fun while it lasted.

They complained to the mayor and delegations waited on the mayor. The mayor told the police to keep order. They described this terrible disorder. There were a few instances where some of the girls on strike got kind of excited in their enthusiasm and pulled the coats and hats off other girls. They declared they were tearing the clothes off their back. There were some fights. Girls can fight and scratch when they want. The police came to keep order. The way they kept order was to arrest all hands - haul them over to the woman's court which had been set up in the Jefferson Market court.

There again I came bang into the picture. People like