She was an American labor organizer who founded the Lowell Female Labor Reform Organization and later left the mills to work as the first female telegraph operator.
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Sarah George Bagley (April 1805 to June 1883) was a women's rights advocate. Bagley campaigned to make a maximum of ten hour work days in Massachusetts.
She was an advocate for womans rights and was the first woman telegrapher in America.
Sarah George Bagley, who was an advocate for women's rights died in 1884.
Because the mill owners did not want to change their ways. They believed their female workers should be grateful for their jobs and not demand better pay or working conditions. It was a time (1830s and 1840s) when women could not vote and had few rights. In fact, the mill owners did raise wages for the men, but not for the women. So, Sarah Bagley and some of her co-workers decided the only way to get the mill owners to take their demands seriously was to organize, which meant forming a union.
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