The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-10-14
.FRAIL YOUNG WOMAN
SHOWS GOOD d COURAGE
Arrested Thirty-nine Times In
Eleven Weeks During Gar
ment Workers Strike.
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She Calamity Held the Fort and
Repulsed Every Attack Of
tho Employers.


movements for the uplift have had
their heroes, heroines and martyrs.
and the labor movement is no ex-;
ception to the rule Tie strike that
is now going ON in this city has de-,
veloped many noble characters,
among them, Becky Fisher a frail
girl, II years old: who has displayed
great courage and instilled conf
dence into her fellow strikers. And
she is only one Of several hundreds
Of girls who are gallantly, holding
the fort Of unfonism and repulsing
every attack of interruptions em>
ployers who are daily attempting to
scale the breastworks Of organized
labor. A better fight has never been
witnessed. The girls are exhibiting a
spirit Of self sacrifice that stirs the
hearts of all honest men and women.
For Is weeks 5000 members Of the
International Ladies' Garment Work.
ers' union have been on strike. 1000
Of the strikers are women and girls
and no advance movement has had
drawer or more self sacrificing ex-
ponents than the girl strikers, who
are now fighting for the very life Of
their union in the home city of John
.. Rockefeller. t.
Hounded by Detectives.
Hounded by the private detectives
and sluggers of the avaricious en-
arrested by the city police. the wom-
en- have maintained the picket line,
and with >undaunted spirit continue
the fight for living wages, reasonable
hours of labor and industrial free
dom. Even the specter Of the jail
with all its attendant horrors for frail
women has not kept them from re-,
spending to the call. Of duty, and
scores Of them are arrested daily for
attempting to exercise the rights of
American. citizens.
HumiliatIng and mortifying trips
in the patrol, abuse at the hands OF
DULLES, private detectives and city
police, and even confinement in vile
cages in station houses have all failed
to break the spirit Of the strikers and
the battle is being Waged with un-
diminished vigor and Smarve1ous cour-:
; age. There caie only be one ending
for sucl, q conflict and that a COM
plete~ victory for the strikers. =
/ Noble Becky Fisher:
". Becky Fisher has been arrested 80
times in II weeks and driven in the
patrol to the station house because
she refused to surrender her right to
talk to her fellow workers and Try
to persuade them not to take the
places of the strikers and help UNI
scrupulous employers to defeat hon
est toilers. She has been insulted
and abused by those who should have
been her protectors. Becky has never
flinched. Released from durance vile
she has always hastened back to the
scene Of the fray to succor and cheer
her fellow unionists.
She has horror of the police, the
patrol wagon and the Jail, but her
Union is as sacred to her as Old
Glory to Barbara Fritchie, and fear
is an unknown quality to this little
girl when she is fighting for her
loved union and the cause it repre-
sents.
Becky is now on: the road plead
ing for funds to enable her brothers
and sisters to continue the struggle
against tie Cleveland labor crushers.
Her appeal is from the heart and
should meet a ready response from
all union men and women.
The strikers want q 50 hour in
stead of a Is. hour week, the aboli-
ton of the sub-contract system, and
the charge Of 2b cents a day for the
use of the machines AID many other
very obnoxious conditions.