St. Paul daily globe., 1895-10-13

The necessity for and Importance of
trade unions will be noticed when we
take into view the radical and rapid
changes that are now going on in our
social and industrial system, says
James f. Mahn in the Carpenter. Men
seeing the constant changes going on
must be stupid indeed not to adapt
themselves to the new conditions.
The New Woman is now a disturb
ing factor in our social order. What
is to be her status in the order of
progress and development, or what is
to peculiarly distinguish the distinc-
tion between male and female? We
are not so much concerned now as to
whether woman is entitled to all the
political rights and privileges which
are granted to man, as to whether she
is to become a formidable competitor
and sEpersede men in all the avenues
of labor. The spirit of the times is
to permanently employ females in all
branches of industry
Women are engaged in all the de-
partments of manual labor, formerly
occupied exclusively by men. This has
been accomplished by a gradual en-
croachment, by entering through the
lighter and arduous occupations, and
adopting some of the professions. This
is no new phase in the field of eVolu-
ton, since nations of antiquity, and
crude races, have tolerated the en-
ployment of females in the lowest
drudgery, and today females may be
found engaged in rough work of
mines in Europe; and we can find them
in the fields of agriculture and til
lage, in manufactures, earning their
own and their families support In
countries where despotism rules edu-
cation and intelligence is not so gen.
orally diffuSed as here and they are
oppressed by tyrants. Here it is ques-
t1onable If the new order of female
employment is a march of our prog
ress and the development of a higher
civilization, or is it only one of the
results of our greed and selfshness,
indicating deteioration rather than an
Improvement in our social conditions.
The New Woman" is only one of
several disturbing features in our So
cial order. The school room is de-
prived of the presence of pupils, in
order to place them at work, to earn
their bread, and in this way wages are
reduced by competition with child
labor, and men are prevented from
getting work while the labor market
is superabundantly stocked with idle
working men. A child should certainly
have good elementary educa ton be-
fore being turned out into the world
to gain its own sustenance or held
the parents increase their incomes.
Children are not mere servile ami
mails, to be nursed into sufficient
strength to endure toll and then be
set adrift into the world actuated onIy
by sensual appetites, and without any
intellectual or moral culture. The
early years. of life should be devoted to
the development of the intellect and
morals, so as to afford nourishments
an0 SuStenance to any genius. which
may subsequently be manifest in the
individual. 1t will likewise furnish q
foundation to rear him to manhood
and good citizenship. There is more
need now for intellectual and honest
good citizenship than there is demand
Tor good mechanics. A supply of the
nrst order will certainly create de-
mand for the other. We must not
however, fail to remember that the in
PRODUCTION Of improved machinery dis
pehses with large amount of hard
manual labor, and will accomplish
much more work than hand labor
hehce smaller number of hours are
necessary for days labor.
very little business of general inter
sst was transacted at the regular meet
ng OF Typographical Union No. 90 last
sunday. The committees having the
Eeilef OF the unemployed in charge re-
ported progress and were given further
lilne In winch to make their report. A
Iolli,l lurSat ton from International
ieauquarters .n IN regard to advertising
the label was referred to the label oon,7
mlttee of the Allied Printing Trades
council. Action in relation to ratifving