At the beginning of every slow season, $2 is deducted from our salaries. We have never been able to find out what this is for. - Clara Lemlich

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At the beginning of every slow season, $2 is deducted from our salaries. We have never been able to find out what this is for.

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Clara Lemlich Shavelson (March 28, 1886 – July 12, 1982) was a leader of the Uprising of 20,000, the massive strike of shirtwaist workers in New York's garment industry in 1909, where she spoke in Yiddish and called for action. Later blacklisted from the industry for her labor union work, she became a member of the Communist Party USA and a consumer activist. In her last years as a nursing home resident she helped to organize the staff.

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Alternative Names: Clara Lemlich Shavelson
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Senators, we are here to stay, 800,000 women in New York State alone. We have learned a good many things. We have learned to organize in the industrial field. Give us a chance, the workingwomen together with the working men, through an intelligent vote and we will make good in the political field.
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