Years after the strike, she recalled: “We all went out we had to be recognized as people.” Anna Rudnitsky On September 22, Shapiro finally had enough and walked out. Things reached a breaking point when HSM cut pay by ¼ cent and introduced a bonus system that demanded high production rates. She and the other garment workers earned 4 cents per piece of clothing, sewing pockets on men’s trousers or jackets. Shapiro had once earned her highest wage, $12 per week, while operating a pocket cutting machine.īut in September 1910, Shapiro’s weekly earnings totaled only $7. She performed various jobs in the garment industry, such as making bowties and removing temporary stitches in men’s coats. As her parents’ eldest child, Shapiro joined the workforce when she was 13 to help support her family. Like most HSM employees, she was an immigrant. When Hannah “Annie” Shapiro led the original walkout at Shop No. Marchers in the 1910 Chicago garment workers' strike. The historic district was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. 5 is now a contributing property in Pilsen Historic District. Located at 18th and Halsted Streets, Shop No. After almost five months of growing distrust, leaders finally secured a deal. Even with assistance from the unions, tensions continued to rise. At first, some male garment workers and the United Garment Workers of America (UGWA) were reluctant to support a woman-led strike. Tensions over low wages, inconsistent shifts, high production quotas, and unsafe working conditions had been brewing for a long time.
At its peak, the walkout involved over 40,000 mostly immigrant laborers throughout the city. The 1910 garment workers’ strike lasted from September 22 until February 1911. 5, they launched what became one of the biggest strikes in Chicago history. When sixteen young women walked out of Hart, Schaffner, and Marx’s (HSM) Shop No. The content for this article was researched and written by Jade Ryerson, an intern with the Cultural Resources Office of Interpretation and Education. Union members staff a distribution table providing food to strikers, 1911.
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