The herald., 1896-08-23
q few seem to realize their responsibll-

and perverted to build jails and prisons
to incarcerate q few misguided people,
who, had they the right care and train
ing in early life, would have avoided the
sorrows of after-llfe. Today destitution
Is stalking abroad in this socalled "land
of milk and honey"-men begging for
work or bread; women of culture and re-
finement who are trying to earn their
bread and hold their virtue sacred; hun
dreds without homes.
Women receive on the average one
third the pay men receive for doing the
same kind of work. 1t has caused an
army of women to walk the streets So
Letting for means to save their homes
and their children from hunger.
While men debar women from councils
and legislative halls they will grow
selfish. coarse and brutal in creating
law. because they follow not Gods fam
lily plan In government-man and wo-
man. He created them male and female.
and gave them dominion together. We
have dominion in every other interest
of society, and why not have dominion in
the scheme of government, in making
laws under which we live, being endowed
with intellect and love, purity and spir-
ftuality, to make the journey of life to-
gether happy one?
There is movement Of women, which
had its beginning In the east, but which
is spreading with great rapidity to the
west, to alleviate somewhat the present
stress Of want among the working wo-
men Of this country. It is auspicious.
will encourage higher standard of
wages. and will seek to establish more
uniform hours for q days work. An
effort is being made in this city to or
ganize Working Women's union and
to establish a home for. said women,
where women and girls when out of EN-.
ployment can live at small cost and In
raSnanfQ n nd thAxr 1l,N
learn some of the more common trades
and professions. Such. an institution
VIII cost less than a well-supporteJ
church, for this can be made to be self
supporting by each inmate having u
partnership in the concern, thus Great
ing united interest in building up So
cfal. financial and educational home. A
plan is suggested that large building
be secured, to furnish cheap rooms an
board. with an employment office and
Dank, reading room and mission; also to
teach cooking, table waiting, chamber
work. laundry, dressmaking, millinery,
typewriting, typesetting. telegraphy,
music and painting. Women's souls
crave sweet melodies and bright pic
lures as the stomach hungers for food
All organizations are cordially invited
to send representative to consider
ways and means to provide for such a
project for the benefit of the working
WoHleH OIL Los Angeles.
MRS. U. NJ. PAATES.
1oI1a south Broadway Los Angeles.
LABOR NOTES.
At the regular meeting on Tuesdav
evening last of the Butchers associa-
tion, five candidates were initiated and
-FOUR applications received. At the close
was held
Mayor Monihon of Phoenix, Ariz.. pre-
SIDED at large and enthusiastic crowd
OF union workmen in the city hall of that
city TO discusa Labor day celebration.
Ihe mayor made short address, thank
ing the meeting for the honor conferred
on him, and stated that he was in hearty
sympathy with organized labor and that
ne would devote his time for the success
OF Labor day celebration.
Many prizes will be contested for on
Labor day.
The labor congress meets this after
noon at o'clock at Council of Labor
nall. All delegates are requested to be
present as nominations will be presented
Tor a referendum vote of the various
unions.
The entries for the field events of La
Dor day celebration at Agricultural
park are open events, no entry fee being
charged. Entries can be made at Zech's
cigar store, 109-111 West First street. bv
applying to H. e. Martens. Application
pianks Will be left at the following bicy-
cie nouses: Thistle, Tufts-Lyons, Co
lumbia and Hartford and Relay.
A Council of Labor has been organized
IN Phoenix, Ariz., and a committee has
been appointed to draft constitution
ana bylaws. The carpenters, clerks
and printers'form the nucleus of the new
organization. Good for Phoenix
Governor Franklin of Arizona has is
sued Labor day proclamation.
MT. Jacob HOGAN is q ooptr, o<&,, o..
pudding reservoir near Hazelton, Pa.
Jacob Is for the gQld standard. He has
IN his employ 300 foreigners Through
his bosses he has been educating his
hands' to vote the gold standard ticket
and convince them that the silver dol
lar was worth only SO cents. When pay
day came around the imported cattle
concluded they would not take paper or
silver and must have gold, Mr. Hogan
mad to confess himself a liar but the
cattle were resolute in their demand and
got it.
The Plant system of railroads controll-
ing several thousand miles of road in
four southern states has inaugurated
q warfare on the A. r. u; after having
Just wiped out every old Brotherhood
lodse. The system compelled the engi-
neers and firemen, as we'll as the train
men, to submit to their conditions and
TO send in their charters. The A. r. U.
- AoSe OiiC dttdckeQ, DuC tneY are
so we'll established that they have suf-
fered no inconvenience.
Skilled and unskilled labor was fu,Iv
represented In the city hall yesterday.
EVERY labor union that is organized and
trades union men not organized were
represented. The meeting was an ex-
ponent of the intelligent wage Garner
and bread winner; the bone and, sinew
or the land and the bulwark of the
country. They were not, 1t is true, adepts
IN the science of parliamentary usages
IN the transaction of business in q de-
lucrative body, but knew what thew
wanted; and, understanding that. It is
needless to say they will accomplish II.
organized labor has been recognized as
a FACTOR in our government. A day has
been set apart as its holiday-its festal
season-and to commemorate the Latin
aphorism, that labor .omnia vincit-
Herald. Phoe1tx. Ariz
Nowhere has labor shown Its power
as the important factor as in the west
eern country, in its reclama ton of eiyiliz-
alton. For after all the CONQUEST of the
savage amounts to but little as com
pared to the wonderful achievement of
the building up of cities, and in all this
labor Is chief and by all odds
the building of railroads, the construc-
tion Of canals, the reclamation of the
desert to agriculture and horticulture.
the building up of cities, and by all odds
the most important. Hence labor day.
which has been set apart by congress as
a legal holiday. occurring on the first
Monday in September. should be cele-
brated by our people. and in it's observ-
apoa oil cbouId M fo oc-if to- <P