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some Senator who was game until Big Tim and Christy came puffing in - one rod-faced and puffing, one white-faced and gasping. They voted aye and the bill was passed. The Senate and galleries broke into roars of applause (unprecedented). Wagner and Foley looked sulky. I knew him later, and in all the years I never told Bob Wagner that I knew the trick that had been pulled. The Sullivans were heroes. I got some of it

I think the Senate didn't adjourn till early morning. Either that night or the next day, Al Smith said to me, “You pulled a smart one. That was very smart. I didn't think you had the courage to do it.”

It was very interesting, but I went back to New York in fear and trembling thinking I'd probably lose my job. Instead, Mrs. Kelley fell on my neck with embraces because for the first time in years we'd got some limitation on the hours of labor of women. Pauline Goldmark was reconciled then.

The 54 Hour Bill was passed in 1910. That, of course, made me a little reputation temporarily. The Triangle Fire was the next spring. The Consumers' League, for which I was working, was interested in all phases of factory and industrial circumstances and conditions, particularly as the effected the lower paid and weaker workers, and often these were women workers. We had set up in the Consumers' League,