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Are You Interested in a Life Outside of the Factory?

Without the language, workers cannot communicate with her employers, fellow workers, or union members effectively. As a result she readily becomes the follower of foreign labor leaders and agitators. By providing every woman the opportunity at education, each woman has a choice to strike, rather that being a passive follower. We hope that with education, all of our union members to be leaders.

Importance of Education:
Sadie Frowne: “it is good to have an education; it makes you feel higher. Ignorant people are all low. People say now that I am clever and fine in conversation”

Sadie Frowne: “I can read quite well in English now and I look at the newspapers everyday!”

 

The Young Ladies Educational Society:
Laboring does not mean that we cannot have an education!

We are white, free women, and we deserve better treatment than those Negroes.

Without the language, workers cannot communicate with her employers, fellow workers, or union members effectively. As a result she readily becomes the follower of foreign labor leaders and agitators. By providing every woman the opportunity at education, each woman has a choice to strike, rather that being a passive follower. We hope that with education, all of our union members to be leaders.