...old Jewish oath?" Thousands of right hands were held up and the whole audience repeated in Yiddish*: "If I turn traitor to the cause I now pledge, may this hand wither from the arm I now raise." This was the beginning of the general shirtwaist strike. A committee of fifteen girls and one boy was...

...mean faith? Will you take the old Jewish oath?" up went two thousand hands, with one great chorus : "If I turn traitor to the cause I now pledge, may this hand wither from the arm I now raise." By this oath Rhona was bound. And so were thirty thousand others— Americans, Italians, Jews — and...

...old Jewish oath?" Thousands of right hands were held up and the whole audience repeated in Yiddish: 1 "If I turn traitor to the cause I now pledge, may this hand wither from the arm I now raise." This was the beginning of the general shirt-waist strike. A committee of fifteen girls and one boy...

...fathers?" Two thousand Jewish hands were thrust in air, and two thousand Jewish throats uttered the oath: "If I turn traitor to the cause I now pledge, may this hand wither and drop off from this arm I now raise." Clara Lemlich's part in the work was accomplished. Within...

...you mean faith? Will you take the old Jewish oath?" And up came 2,000 right hands with the prayer: "If I turn traitor to the cause I now pledge, may this hand wither and drop off at the wrist from the arm I now raise." Several weeks before this eventful night, the...

...the chairman. 'Will you take the old Jewish oath,' And up came 2,000 Jewish hands with the prayer, 'If I turn traitor to the cause I now pledge, may this hand wither and drop off at the wrist from this arm I now raise.' " The girl was Clara Lemlich, from the Leiserson...

...you mean faith? Will you take the old Jewish oath?' And up came two thousand hands, with the prayer: 'If I turn traitor to the cause I now pledge, may this hand wither from the arm I now raise.' " The strike which stirred the press and public-spirited citizens throughout the country, because of...

...2,000 strikers. With tears in his eyes the workers repeated it, word for word, as Feigenbaum said : "If I turn traitor to the cause I now pledge, may this hand wither from the arm I now raise." — From material submitted by Mr. Harry Lang. Levine, The Women's Garment Workers, pp. 151-155, also...

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