In 1914, when the men were all off in another country fighting for our safety, all the jobs were left open and we had no one to work them. Someone had to work them because the men needed food, clothes, shoes, etc. Everyone turned to the women to work. My mother and I had to start working in factories. We have never really worked before, so this was something new for all of us, men and women. We got to have our own money and could spend it on anything we would like. When the men came back from the war, they came back and everything was different. Things had been created and we had been working. When the men started wanting their jobs back, we were not going to give them up because we finally had their own money. We could finally do and spend
