Many of the women involved in Inghinidhe na hÉireann (Daughters of Erin) were working class and in 1911 they began to organize themselves in the Irish Women Workers' Union following a dispute at Jacob's biscuit factory. Thousands were directly involved in the 1913 Lockout whit 'Big Jim' and many joined the Irish Citizen Army under James Connolly, a well-known supporter of the Suffrage Movement. From 'Guns & Chiffon'.
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Both Connolly and Larkin used the language of priests and bishops against the women of the Magdalen institution. Instead of railing against the use of slave labour, with its inevitable undercutting of wage rates for workers in commercial laundries, they complained that Mary Ellen [jailed Jacobs Striker] would be forced to mix there with "fallen women". Mary Ellen was committed to High Park Convent in Drumcondra, where the nuns ran an Industrial School and Magdalen institution on the same site.
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