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bold and intelligent.

Of course one regretted people tearing the dresses off each other's back and we all went around saying, “Naughty. Naughty. You musn't do that. I'll get you into trouble.” Violence is always disagreeable and shouldn't be done. What you got was the sense of the excitement and the modification of values in the time of excitement like that. Girls who wouldn't have thought of tearing a coat off some body's back did it in this excitement and in their resentment and anger. One understood that that was what it was; that they weren't bad, malicious people, but that they had acted unwisely.

Rose Schneiderman, Melinda Scott and people like that were towers of strength at that time in the union. They understood that violence would ruin them. If it went too far, it would alienate people who were then their friends. Also they knew that it was no way to conduct a strike. I remember Rose saying on one occasion, “You never want to strike that way. You have to win the strike by virtue of crippling the boss' opportunity to operate. That's the only way you can do it. You can't do it by being nasty to other people. You've got to deal with the boss reasonably when he shown an inclination to deal with you.”

By this time I, of course, had accepted the idea that