Byline: Catharine Brody; 1924-01-06; Buffalo Morning Express; pages 3
Report: Job Hunting Series - Catharine Brody
Tags: labor, posed as, women's issues, factories
Article Links"The first day I became a bean packer in the Heinz works, spent a maddening nine hours with Emma and the twins, 'Dawrathe-e-e" and Katherine, simply pasting stickers on boxes to contain tomato soup. We worked under Katie, the forelady, in a huge room filled with piles of boxes that reached nearly to the low ceiling and stacks of cans that reached half-way up. We sat on a truck and became covered and choked by the dust from the boxes. I did not mind that so much as the monotony of the work. But it suited the girls exactly."