1 On her way home: "Now that I've made a precedent, joined the union and gone out on one strike and learned personal solidarity, I won't be so afraid."
2 If ever the fusion of two human beings into one has been accomplished on this sphere it was surely in their union.
3 In the end Jurgis got into a fine rage, and made it sufficiently plain that it would take more than one Irishman to scare him into a union.
4 He felt like fighting now himself; and when the Irish delegate of the butcher-helpers' union came to him a second time, he received him in a far different spirit.
5 Before another month was by, all the working members of his family had union cards, and wore their union buttons conspicuously and with pride.
6 For fully a week they were quite blissfully happy, thinking that belonging to a union meant an end to all their troubles.
7 They could not understand why the union had not prevented it, and the very first time she attended a meeting Marija got up and made a speech about it.
8 Jurgis too had an adventure the first time he attended a union meeting, but it was not of his own seeking.
9 Their one chance for life was in union, and so the struggle became a kind of crusade.
10 One of the first consequences of the discovery of the union was that Jurgis became desirous of learning English.
11 It was a little state, the union, a miniature republic; its affairs were every man's affairs, and every man had a real say about them.
12 In other words, in the union Jurgis learned to talk politics.
13 And now in the union Jurgis met men who explained all this mystery to him; and he learned that America differed from Russia in that its government existed under the form of a democracy.
14 Marija insisted that it was because of her activity in the union.
15 The packers, of course, had spies in all the unions, and in addition they made a practice of buying up a certain number of the union officials, as many as they thought they needed.