Lectures were given round the clock by the volunteer teachers, some speaking thirteen or fourteen times a day in the cheerless rooms of the rented halls. Clara Lemlich remembered talking nonstop for what seemed like days at a time; the shirtwaist strike had become her life. The workers drank in their lessons, taking them so fervently to heart that those opening days of the strike had the spirit of revival meetings, the workers new converts to some soul-saving religion. They would win, they had only to stick together and wait it out. What a wonderful thing the union was. They loved it, they gave themselves to it, clasping it to their bosoms, putting all their faith in it and in one another. —We Shall Not Be Moved, Joan Dash How does the passage show unions? What might be the purpose of the way the union is described in this passage?