Read the excerpt from We Shall Not Be Moved.Nobody had, since this was the first "general strike" in the garment trades, also the largest strike of women workers ever known in the United States until that moment.

The excerpt gives factual information about the strike: it was the first general strike in the garment trades and, at the time, the largest strike of women workers in the United States. Its purpose is to inform readers about the event’s historical importance, not to dramatize a participant or connect the event to the present. The best choice is “to tell the reader about an important historical event.”

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