While organizing new members we preach to them to be independent, to lose their fears and openly express themselves and demand their rights; so here … - Rose Pesotta

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While organizing new members we preach to them to be independent, to lose their fears and openly express themselves and demand their rights; so here I am practicing what I am preaching and am openly expressing my views to you, Mr. President.

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About Rose Pesotta

Rose Pesotta (born Rakhel Peisoty; November 20, 1896 – December 6, 1965) was an anarchist, feminist labor organizer and vice president within the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.

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Although they have readily spent billions of the people's money for destruction necessary to win the war, they balk at spending for peace-time constructive work at home. By the same token, conservatives who have not been averse to sending the best of American youth to foreign lands to make the world safe for the debaters at home, refuse to grant those boys and girls the privilege of using their constitutional rights in electing their national representatives.

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Much has been written and said about labor enjoying excessive pay, but little has appeared in print about low-paid workers, such as those in hotels, restaurants, and laundries, being frozen to their jobs if they were employed in "locally needed activities." And scarcely anything is being said about the munitions makers who are amassing huge profits in this war as in those of the past.

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