Clara Lemlich, a Ukranian Jewish immigrant, at twenty-three years old, was largely responsible for igniting the 1909 walkout of shirtwaist makers in New York City with her call for a general strike. The walkout came to be known as the Uprising of the Twenty Thousand and lasted more than two months. In this article published in the New York Evening Journal on November 28, 1909, she describes the working conditions in a shirtwaist factory. Lemlich later married an activist for a printer’s union and continued to act on behalf of labor and other causes.