Union leaders, including Samuel Gompers, subsequently described the strike as "a real wake-up call for labor," Ewen said. "Gompers considered this strike like the sounding of a bell--and a lot of people heard it." "That these young women went on strike was an amazing event," said Pennee Bender, who produced a 30-minute video describing the unusual ethnic partnership during the strike. "They were new immigrants, they were young women and their families were very much dependent upon their salaries," Bender said. "Yet they were incredibly bold." Ewen notes that a supposedly impartial judge signaled his bias by telling the strikers that "they were not simply going on strike, they were going on strike against God."