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3 unusual facts about Mollie Steimer


Mollie Steimer

Eventually she relented, but again refused to be transported to Ellis Island until a railroad strike was resolved, since she would not use a train run by strike breakers.

Ten days later the strike was called off and Steimer was transported to Ellis Island.

The motto was a Henry David Thoreau quote: "That government is best which governs not at all" (in Yiddish: "Yene regirung iz di beste, velke regirt in gantsn nit").



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