A NAMELESS HEROINE.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 32, 13 October 1911, Page 9

A NAMELESS HEROINE.

During- the course of the garment workers'": strike in Chicago, which lasted, many months and caused untold,suffering,, , 12r.0 babies Avere born to the The''..Woman's Trade TJnioii Leag \i& HA.<£■ other sympathiser s tfied to supply all these little non-coinbat-ahtfi With milk. ■- 'A visitor,'going into one of the a mother in bed with a new-born baby, and surrounded by three lot her children, of three, four, and, five years old. There was neither food nor fuel, and it AA>as a bitter winda v. On the mouther's bed were throe .letters from her husband's employe?;',.' offering to raise his pay from 15 dollars to 30 dollars per ■■week if he would come back and help to break the strike.* He'had refused, and his wife rejoiced in the refusal. The- visitor asked'her jhoAV she could bear so much suffering, riot for herself, her children. '.With-a steady, quiet look in her. patient eyes, the mother ansAvered: l? It is hot ionly bread Aye give the children. We live not by bread alone, we live by freedom I. and I will-fight for ft till I -dies to give it to my children."