In the union office . We'll need money to help pay the strikers and bail them out of jail. We'll have to get someone to organize the picket lines. This won't be easy. Pauline Newman, a former factory worker, is one such speaker.
Wealthy women raise money for the strikers.
They also build popular sympathy for the strikers by talking to newspaper reporters. Speakers also go to women's colleges. Imagine living on six dollars a week, sleeping on a mattress on a kitchen floor, and going hungry for weeks just to buy a winter jacket. Pike leaves Vassar College and goes to New York City. She joins dozens of young college women who march with striking workers in the picket line.