“I don’t want sympathy or a helping hand out of this life,” one of them wrote. “All I ask is a living wage and I will get out of it myself.” Another, who signed her letter “One of Society’s Victims,” offered a solution to those intent on moralizing her out of a job. “To the good people who are really interested in us I say, you cannot save us unless you overthrow the system of society that made us what we are.”
