The bosses in the shops are hardly what you would call educated men. And the girls to them are part of the machines they are running. - Clara Lemlich

When these girls are brought to Court, to a court of men, do you know how they are punished? They are fined and punished for the things that men have done.

You men as a body who make the laws, and men of money who support the makers of the law are responsible for this system of ours that forces 30,000 girls out into the streets.

The shops. Well, there is just one row of machines that the daylight ever gets to-that is the front row, nearest the window. The girls at all the other rows of machines back in the shops have to work by gaslight, by day as well as by night. Oh, yes, the shops keep the work going at night, too.