What are some benefits of signing the petition in the book Lyddie?

A petition
is being circulated among the girls and women who work at Concord Corporation by the Female
Labor Reform Association.'s friend Diana is very active in the Association and tries to get
workers to sign the petition, which calls on the factories to reduce their work days from
thirteen hours per day to ten. The primary reason workers would want to sign the petition is
that it would pressure the factories to all change...