Read the excerpt from We Shall Not Be Moved.In other words, the League had agreed to build a large and complex machine, to fit all its parts together, then set the whole in motion although they had never seen such a machine. Nobody had, since this was the first "general strike" in the garment trades, also the largest strike of women workers ever known in the United States until that moment.
Answer
A
Unions at the time were made up primarily of men and addressed men’s working conditions.
B
“Shirtwaists,” which are called “blouses” today, were one of the clothing items made in garment factories.
C
Striking workers were often arrested by police and attacked by hired groups of poor women.
D
More than twenty thousand workers, made up of many different ethnicities, took part in the general strike.