One day I had an argument with the forelady.

The forelady had to come up to a certain standard herself, and could not stop for sick people, Jadvyga explained.

He waited until nearly an hour after seven, and then went to the room where Ona worked to make inquiries of Ona's "forelady."

The next day Marija went to see her "forelady," and was told to report the first of the week, and learn the business of can-painter.

For a long time Ona had seen that Miss Henderson, the forelady in her department, did not like her.

So in the end Ona, with a ten-dollar bill burning a hole in her palm, had another interview with the forelady.

The next time she would know her place, as the forelady expressed it; and so Marija went out, and the family faced the problem of an existence again.

Ona had an idea that her "forelady" did not like to have her girls marry--perhaps because she was old and ugly and unmarried herself.

Ethel Colquhoun (née Alleyne), a conscientious sugar-packer who worked her way up through the ranks at Tate & Lyle until she became a forelady in charge of 200 women.

The "forelady," he found, had not yet come; all the lines of cars that came from downtown were stalled--there had been an accident in the powerhouse, and no cars had been running since last night.

In response to the president's comment, Mr. Giuliani said, "With all deference to the president of the United States, I think he should give more deference to the jury forelady, an African-American lady."

Then she concluded it must be because she did not give the forelady a present occasionally--she was the kind that took presents from the girls, Ona learned, and made all sorts of discriminations in favor of those who gave them.

After that it would be all right, said Ona, it was no strain sitting still sewing hams all day; and if she waited longer she might find that her dreadful forelady had put some one else in her place.

The fact that Mary had been there so long had not made any difference to her--it was doubtful if she even knew that, for both the forelady and the superintendent were new people, having only been there two or three years themselves.

Probably, as Marija claimed, she made mistakes on purpose after that; at any rate, she made them, and the third time it happened Marija went on the warpath and took the matter first to the forelady, and when she got no satisfaction there, to the superintendent.