Mill workers bravely took the injustices that they faced, in terms of hours and treatment, and became vocal and demanding. In the early strikes of the 1830s, the women of the mills banded together in solidarity based on their mutual experiences and cultures and a desire for their friends and colleagues to be treated with respect and fairness; this solidary was not founded in antagonism against the managers. It was in both February 1834 and October 1836, when women first began to rebel against two reductions in wages and increases in boarding-home rates. It was in February 1834, when around 800 women quit work to protest the unexpected salary cuts. Additionally, they wrote and signed pledges, protested in the streets, and continued to have