New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-01-18
PROUD GIRL STRIKERS
REJECT PHILANTHROPY
"Poor Help the Poor" Says
One of the Leaders, Explain
ing RepuIse of Rich.
STAND TOGETHER SLOGAN
Workers Are Learning Organ
ization - Unions Aid Them
with Money and Speeches
Instill Courage.

/ II may not be natteriug 10 The vanity
Of rich women with nhilanthropic tendcn-
cics. but it's true. the fifty thousand
| girls who are on strike in the garment
/ trades in New York city to-day don't
/ give a snap of the finger for them or their
/ help.
| Il don't think ! shall take any part In
the strike" Mrs @. H. p Belmont said
recently They seem to be getting on
/ well by themselves"
/ And they are Their stomachs are
/ caved in with hunger, some Of them. but
/ they've the pride OF Lucifer 10 carry them
| through.
! sure We help each other" one Of the
/ girl leaders said yesterday. "Thc poor
| help the poor Maybe a rich lady gives
$50. and everybody says: How can the
strikers be hungry when Mrs Belmont
and Miss Morgan are supporting them
Ach, It IS the labor unions that support
the strike they are spending many thou
sands Of dollars n week and what is 500
that rich lady gives"
Yes. working women are learning or
eanization az last Go to-day into any
one or the scores OF halls in tn" manH-
featuring districts hired by the unions
and listen 10 the girl leaders taking turns
ri Grating to keep their courage up.
Mrs. laidIaw Makes Discovery.
81 didn't know" Mrs. James Lees Laid
law. chairman OF the Borough Of Man
haitian for the Woman Suffrage party
said Yesterday. when. in the course OF a
a. -
! places TO see what the suffragists could
do 70 help. SIN" stood listening while a
slip Of Cirl with thin checks ami a de-
/ tormiucd chin passionatoly cNhorted n
/ roomfur Of girls 10 stand together. re-
| member they were fghting for others, re-
/ member that many OF them would marry
| lbs and bv. and they should fight TO make
/ things better for their children '--
Il didn't know" Mrs Laidlaw said,
THAT these girls were Tx" this. Why,
/ there's ono with face ike flower.
The fouer-face was Dora-u"yor mind
her last name. Dora is alone IN TINS
country. Her father was killed .u Rus
sian masyarre-hc was a Jew. Her
mother. fearing life en- Russia without her
man. scrapcd money 90 send Dora aged
/ fourteen tueu.to America, 20 earn enough
10 bring the two younger girls and the
mother over here When Oh" strike
started Dora was earning s. week in
the white goods trade and sending y "i
/ this back 20 Russia Now she p'N''s
all day and liycs-how,
When ] saw Doras face said Miss
Molly Best. the elocutionIst who Is work
! ing SO hard organizing and helping th"
girls that she says She hash washed her
face or comhcd her hair, scarcely. since
the strike began. when s'" DORA ''''
] felt ] must get help and money 10 her
somehow. For these halls where the girls
cougregate az" haunted Bog procHI'r'. ana
when cir. has gone hungry a certain
time her courage must bf'a". Ih'h AN
invitation from one Of these men 10 20
out 10 d!nuer-a druggcd cup. and -
But they go hungry a long time with
out their courage breaking Do the hail
AZ so. III East Broadway a girl sat ye.-
| tcrdav. Her face was gre,nIsh-ycllow
/ with fatigue and hamilton
sur. she'll have To- scab ALREADY"
said one Of group ~ girls who stood
near her. 1T IS bad to scab- you los.
vour good name for II. But she's starr
ing already"
Rose Winslow. the girl leader who has
been In charge OF this hall. approached
/ the sitting one.
ne'useS " ''II'p'
Come out with me and hrve some
/ thing to eat she said meaning To take
! her TO one Of the places where the unions
| furnish free lunchcons for the strikers.
| The girl shook her head. My legs are
| tired. she said
That's what they tell you-"hat they
mean Is that they do not wish 10 accept
! food " Miss Winslow told the reporter
! "Jow much did you earn she asked
| the Girl
"oh did no. do badly: I earned - a
| week"
And YOUR mother"
"She is paralvzed she had little baby
and she is paralyzcd"
your father"
"ue is dead. / make the money"
/ With some trouble this girl was per
! shaded IN accent 81 out Of "A small sum a
friend from the Woman's Trade Union
e.e,,e had nroyided for such cases. She
s,o,,.d - quay and did not eat with il.
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