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The women of Troy had an awful time. There's no doubt about it. The laundry workers had a terrible time. Leonora had been one of them. She'd been in a laundry since she was thirteen or fourteen. She had got consumption as a result of her bad work, so forth and so on, at least so she said. I believed it all right, and so did many others.

She had organized at that time. They had had a strike. All the intellectuals of New York went up. They all tried to help. Mary Sanford owned a lot of stock in the Troy Laundry Company. The Troy Laundry was a steam laundry that was all over the country. It had branches everywhere and was a very profitable concern. I suppose that strike wrecked it really, because it has just disappeared. It grew up in Troy because they laundered the collars and shirts that were made in the Cluett-Peabody concern. They did wholesale laundry and were a big steam laundry. Then they moved on and opened branches other places. Mary Sanford, who was a very distinguished spinster of considerable wealth, sold or gave away, or got rid of all her stock in the Troy Laundry Company and denounced it. Her father had been one of the principal stockholders so she held a large bloc. She denounced it. She tried to queer them with the bank and all kinds of things. She worked hard to ruin the company, because she thought that their labor positions were so