nine o’clock
He thought that with twenty or thirty such letters , each telling briefly and truthfully the story of one of the striking girls , he should be able to show one American town how its other half lived . He gave the letter to the four girl stenographers with the mailing list he already had and started them writing it to each of the names . At eight o'clock a man came in to install a telephone and girl strikers began bringing in new names for the mailing list . At nine o'clock three more stenographers appeared and were put to work , and girls who had been in began sending more names over the ` phone . The Jewish girl walked up and down , giving orders , making suggestions . From time to time she ran to Sam 's desk and suggested other sources of names for the mailing list . Sam thought that if the other working girls were timid and embarrassed before him this one was not .