The Botto House in Haledon, New Jersey, became the focal point for striking workers during the Paterson Silk Strike of 1913. Eva Botto, daughter of Pietro and Maria Botto and herself a striking silk mill worker, appeared in a photograph taken during the strike under the grape arbor of the family home with a friend and labor leader Elizabeth Gurley Flynn. Flynn, twenty-two years old at the time and active in labor causes since her youth, gave two and three speeches a day during the strike, many from the second-floor balcony of the house. At the family home, Italian immigrant silk mill worker Maria Botto ran her household, did outwork for local mills including the Cedar Cliff Mill in Haledon, and helped support the family through the informal inn operated on the property. Because the trolley car linked Haledon to Paterson, the borough became a favorite Sunday recreation spot for workers, and the Botto family offered visitors a bocce court, card tables, wine, and Northern Italian cuisine. Maria and her four daughters often served meals to as many as a hundred people who came to Haledon for country outings. William D. “Big Bull” Haywood of the Industrial Workers’ of the World said in June 1913 that women had been an enormous factor in the Paterson strike and were becoming deeply interested in the issues confronting women and developing sentiments that formed the great feminist movement of the world, with economic freedom rather than equal suffrage at stake.