56:39 Read the excerpt from We Shall Not Be Moved.
What conclusion can
be drawn by connecting knowledge
League women came and went, usually at a run. Some
of the historical time period with information in the text?
were "ladies," like Mary Dreier, others were worker-
members, like Rose Schneiderman, a former cap
O The women of the league were wealthy women who
maker, and Leonora O'Reilly, who had started work in a
had little-to-no experience working in a garment
collar factory at the age of eleven. Another League
factory.
member, Rose Pastor Stokes, known as the red Yiddish
• The
support of wealthy league women contributed to
Cinderella, used to
work in a cigar
factory. When she
the successful outcome
workers' strike.
of the female garment
became engaged to the son of a millionaire
met at a settlement house -
they had
•
front page headlines in the
Women who worked in garment factories were often
New York Times announced J. G. Phelps Stokes to
married, so it was not critical that they receive equal
Wed Young Jewess. At strike
headquarters Mrs. Stokes
pay.
delivered fiery speeches about freeing workers from the
Women who did not need to work
were not interested
shackles of the bosses.
in or aware of the
workers.
difficulties faced by garment factory
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