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They’re telling workers they’ve got to step back and do with less. What does that mean? Not having a car? Not being able to make the payments on their house? Not being able to send their kids to college? Not having any money for recreation? I thought that what’s it all about–to make the life of the worker decent and with dignity and the ability to enjoy the things of society like culture and recreation. Now they’re saying we’ve taken too much from the corporations. - Alice Puerala 1928-1986.

Alice Peurala, entering the US Steel's South Works in 1953, was the only woman to head a basic-steel local in the nation. Southeast Chicago-Gary region.

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