• Sadie Frowne
  • female garment worker lowered East side Manhattan New York
  • immigrated from whole and
  • Jewish
  • mother spoke German Russian Polish French and read English
  • she owned a store and manned a gate between two countries she was well thought of and smart
  • her little grocery shop in Poland was one story high and had one small pane of glass
  • they lived in the store it had two rooms the father worked in the field mother so groceries around town
  • Sadie was eight she worked in the store
  • father died when Sadie was 10
  • rent in the little store was six dollars a month they struggled until she was 13
  • mother wanted to move to America wrote to aunt Fanny who lived in New York
  • CD worked out at service so the mother was going to leave her and come alone but and then he said no relatives in New York took up a subscription for their passage

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  • Fay became a domestic servant the mother went to work at a factory making white goods
  • mother made nine dollars a week on white goods which meant underclothing its high-class work
  • she had consumption they use all their money to pay for the funeral when the mother died
  • Sadie didn’t speak English didn’t know how to read or write
  • work on Allen Street in Manhattan in a sweatshop making squirts with the sewing machine
  • she made four dollars a week worked six days a week there are two sabbaths hers is on Saturday the Christian one is on Sunday
  • Jewish Sabbath is on Saturday
  • Christian Sabbath is on Sunday and she worked on Christian Sabbath on Sunday
  • the women don’t go to synagogue in the United States like they do in Poland
  • she made five dollars a week it Custer two dollars a week to live she had a dollar a week to spend on close and pleasure
  • she likes to work piecework
  • Henry is a boyfriend he may he will get a job in real estate he has $400 saved to a 12 fortuneteller three or four times
  • she wakes up at five o'clock in the morning and comes back at six pocket night at seven o'clock in the morning the boss brings a pile of work years to finish during the day
  • A stint is what they call your pile of work every day and what you’re expected to get done some people finished early if you didn’t finish by six o’clock you had to stay late and we were done
  • she is saved $200 now and make seven dollars a week
  • the machines run by foot power and you’re exhausted but you have to go out and have some fun and have fresh air so you leave the house
  • she goes to night school for two winters she reads and writes
  • she pays $.25 a month to the Union and now they only have to work 9 1/2 hours a day instead of 12 so the union is good
  • she spends a lot of money on close because of girl has to have close to go to the park or Coney Island or the theater