Patience Kershaw, age 17, Halifax: I go to pit at 5 o'clock in the morning and come out at 5 in the evening; I get my breakfast, porridge and milk, first; I take my dinner with me, a cake, and eat it as I go; I do not stop or rest at any time for the purpose, I get nothing else until I get home, and then have potatoes and meat, not every day meat. Why would Labor Unions want to help her?

A.
They would use her story to explain that women do not need to work in the mines because that is a man’s job.

B.
They would help her buy better clothes to work in the mines because the ash and soot ruins her clothes quickly.

C.
They would want to help her get shorter workdays and better wages so that she could afford basic necessities.

D.
They would encourage her to eat more meat, so that she would have the strength to do her job as a miner.
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