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Garment Workers on Strike These two young women, both of them probably immigrants, walked the picket line during the successful “uprising of the twenty thousand” garment workers in 1909. The women’s hats and dresses display their needlework skills and their respectability. The glowering men in the background suggest the conventional middle-class opposition to the working women’s strike.
Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ggbain-04505.