The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-07-28
NeM OF WOMEN.
FOR TRADE UNIONISM, PAST, PRES
ENT AND FUTURE.
WOman's Part I'm the Evolution Of
looked by the Advocates of Labor.
Women are Loyal When Their
Homes are Disturbed by Idustrial
battles-MOney caM not Buy Them.

Woman's part in the evolution of
trades unions has been overlooked by
many of the earnest advocates of Or
ganiZed labor. The change in indus
trial conditions since 1910 has not been
understood by the great majority of
workers. From house wives only,
mothers, wives, sisters and daughters
have been at first tempted into indus
trial pursuits, later on forced until now
they beg for work by tens of thousands.
And why?
Because the change from employee
owned tools to employer-owned ma
chimes, has in this age Of the throat
competition undermined that indepen-
dence which distinguished the former
hand worker has-made his ability to
support family more precarious, and
this uncertainty has been seized upon
by the employing class to enslave him
beyond relief.
Women are loyal. The affections of
the millions have responded with SYM
pathetic tears, anger, revenge, but new
er despair, when their homes have been
disturbed by industrial battles.
In the hearts of women there exists
love for home, family, protector and all
that is involved in his interest or his
injury.
When crafty employers first saw the
opportunity to plunder the workers by
the use of machines. their diabolical
greed knew no bounds. In woman, they
saw an unsuspecting tools and forth
with laid their plans. Employing
women at lower wage, enforcing ar
bitrary rules, melting men workers to
resent her entry into the industrial
field and deny her fraternal support,
they used one against the other, reduc-
ing wages at will until their victory
was apparently complete. Paid hire
lings adroitly placed to secure their
ear, preached woman's independence of
fear, partly from lack of thought al
lowed themselves to be arrayed on the
side of the employer-their brothers
oppressor.
The veil is lifting. Thoughtful union
men knowing woman's nature looked
deeper than the blind, bigoted suffer-
ers and saw hope in the future. One
trades union after another demanded
equal pay for equal work. and the
pendulumssWung to its place and from
now aE thera RENAL s,s .s sss
= alisress,a y
h islid Ssie fhe scheSs3sss
ana laid bare the crime Today union
women and union girls are marching
under the banner that denotes frater-
nalism and woman's aid to the cause
| will overcome the obstacles and right
the wrongs where all else failed. In
tuition aiding determination, confidence
supporting aggression, is accomplishing
marvels.
| In woman, the trades union Of today
has a leverage that no money can con-
troll, no military can suppress, no coer-
cion can subdue..
She can and she will demand the un-
ion label-the badge of fair work. She
is organizing leagues in every city ir
the land to aid the grand movement
for industrial democracy.
Every woman whose dearest ones are
unionists needs only to be told how
she can help and the cause is over hall
won. Organize label leagues every
where! Let no hamlet be too small, NJ
city too large. Modestly, persistently
earnestly demand the label on every
thing. Be not discouraged! Every sec
retary can give you list of article
of common use that are made by uniol
: workmen. Accept no other!
: Woman's emancipation from indus
trial slavery is fast approaching. It i
an unnatural condition of society tina
permits it. She will organize in ever
calling and her brother workers vii
/ aid her in her demand for equal pa.
for equal service" for therein lies tn
success of their hopes.
Men and women are interdependent
Nature made them so. Intelligence an
action will right the present wrong
, will bring harmony out Of chaos an
suffering.