Uprising (2011)
“It was a Saturday afternoon in March, and the spring breezes were back. She’d heard them rattling the windows when the machines were shut down for lunch; she knew that as soon as she stepped outside, they’d tease at her hair and tug at her hat. This year, the breezes seemed to carry a slightly different message: Another year past and what do you have to show for yourself ? So you can read English a little bit better, so you handed out a few suffrage fliers—do you think that that’s enough?
What ...would ever be enough for Yetta?
“I think they set the clocks back again,” the girl beside her muttered. “It’s got to be past quitting time!”
“And that’s why we need a strong union, why we need a closed shop,” Yetta muttered back.
The girl rolled her eyes at Yetta.
“Don’t you ever give up?” she asked over the clatter of the machine.
“No,” Yetta said, but she grinned at the girl, and the girl grinned back, and Yetta thought maybe, just maybe, they’d inched just a little closer to the solidarity Yetta longed for.MoreLess
What ...would ever be enough for Yetta?
“I think they set the clocks back again,” the girl beside her muttered. “It’s got to be past quitting time!”
“And that’s why we need a strong union, why we need a closed shop,” Yetta muttered back.
The girl rolled her eyes at Yetta.
“Don’t you ever give up?” she asked over the clatter of the machine.
“No,” Yetta said, but she grinned at the girl, and the girl grinned back, and Yetta thought maybe, just maybe, they’d inched just a little closer to the solidarity Yetta longed for.MoreLess
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