The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-15
GIVE BOTH A CHANCE
LEONORA II. BARRY ON CHILL
DRENS AND WOMEN'S WORK.

The knights Of Labor's Instructor
Handles the Labor Question in an
Interesting Manner - Organization
Advocated as Means OF saving the
Children and Protecting Women
Education the Key to the Labor
Problem.
Mrs. l. NJ. Barry, general director and
instructor Of the women's work Of the
knights Of Labor, spoke before large au-
dience last night at Odd Fellows hall on
the subject Of "Child and Womens Labor
Mayor Schwarz, Senator duBisnon, j. X.
Ssussy. Esq, Alderman Reid, Rev. J. L.
Gilmore and Mrs Richard Webb were on
the stage. There was large number Of
colored people present, d they seemed to
be in sympathy with the speaker.
Mrs. Barry prefaced her remarks by re-
viewing the labor question, aud recon-
uending the edura ion OF the laborers as
tie OILY solution Of the problem. She then
took up her subject. She said that there
are 0}0OJJ orxIng ineu now in com
Uets;Ion with the working men. TIER are
J. ~ Industries in which these women are
employed, aud 1t IS safe 10 say that seven
out Of ten of them ore competitors Of the
nen-injury 10 the men and Injury -
themselves, because they rk for 50 much
less THAI the men.
FORTY YEARS AGO AND NOW.
Forty years ago, the speaker said, there
were only three industries in win b women
were employed. A shoemaker, so called
then, is only the forty second part OF a
shoemaker now, since the shoe hat he made
then alone is passed through forty-two
different hands before il is completed now,
and perhaps the shoemaker's child stands
next to him, doing just as much work as
the father and receiving not one
fifth much for the work.
In Philadelphia, in the large
glass factories men are employed to handle
glass for s 80 per day while women do the
same work aud receive only seventy-fye
cents per day. In the Pullman car com
pany's ests blishment women are engaged in
all the different departments and work side
by side with men who get ice as much for
the same service that they perform.
ORGANIZATION A REMEDY.
There is a remedy for this condition Of
affairs Mrs Barry said. What is iti The
leboTers must organize and stand by and
support the organization. The people in
the south who have not felt the iron grip
Ct the oppre5sOrs can not understand this
distress and misery Of the poor women ami
children in the crowded cities whose earn
ings are hardly sufficient to keep them
alive. Mrs. Barry said that she knew a
woman who lived in the twelfth story OF a
house ina northern city. Sunlight was shut
of from her and. unable on her earnings,
70 supply herself with light, she slept ali
day and at night size would draw her sew
ing machine up near the window, and
through which an electric Ii ght shone, and
there she would sit and sew all the night.
Women, the speaker said, are the uncon-
scious oppressors Of women. They
will purchase an article which costs
them less than it would if they had made il.
They must know that some poor womau's
fingers made 1t. There are girls, she said,
employs 10 make uecktios in the haber-
dasher establishments for 60 cents per
doze AID the same ties are sold for 3
eacn. In Norfolk there are girls employed
70 make gentlemen's shirts at - cents per
dozen.
TWO MILLION WORKING CHILDREN.
There are 2,OO0, 900 children, the speaker
said, in this country under the age Of Is
years who are workiag for "A living One
hundred and twenty five thousand Of this
number are employed IN Pennsy lvanla in
factories aud mercantile establishments. II
IL necessary to their life Tor them TO bnve
fresh air, but ms cad they are doing labor
that soon destroys their little lives
This IS wrong. Men should Do the
labor aud their children should be
educated. Where shall we look, the
speaker asked, for the men to do the labor
IL coming We rs If the chldren-ths bows
are oyeTwOrked aud their vitality de-
stroyed before they roach manhood 1t is
In the hands OF the fathers, mothers.
brothers and sisters, she said, to remedy
the evil. They mast organize. The chill
dren must he educ ted. The people must
enlist public sentiment aud make the or
ganlzation strong IN the dire ton Of good.