Quotation from: The Strength of the Strong

Written by: Jack London

The next time he saw Mary Condon was during the Laundry Strike.
The Laundry Workers, but recently organized, were green at the
business, and had petitioned Mary Condon to engineer the strike.
Freddie Drummond had had an inkling of what was coming, and had
sent Bill Totts to join the union and investigate. Bill's job was
in the wash-room, and the men had been called out first, that
morning, in order to stiffen the courage of the girls; and Bill
chanced to be near the door to the mangle-room when Mary Condon
started to enter. The superintendent, who was both large and
stout, barred her way. He wasn't going to have his girls called
out, and he'd teach her a lesson to mind her own business. And as
Mary tried to squeeze past him he thrust her back with a fat hand
on her shoulder. She glanced around and saw Bill.