Biography
Mary E. Dreier was a Women’s Trade-Union League leader arrested while assisting New York shirtwaist strikers.
The contemporary book Making Both Ends Meet reports that early in November, during the 1909 shirtwaist campaign, a policeman arrested Mary E. Dreier after she quietly spoke with a strikebreaker. The sergeant recognized her when she reached the station and discharged the case. This establishes an arrest and station custody, without a precise day, formal jail admission or complete duration. Dreier is named literally; she is not the book’s separately masked worker “Natalya Urusova.”
Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt, Making Both Ends Meet, chapter II.
