The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1902-04-05

| With the Label.
| The women Of the country are ready
for some practical work outside the
home and the factory, yet important
to each which shall put them in touch
with the great reform forces Of the
times and which can be accomplished
| without neglecting the nearest duties
as home makers or bread winners.
| A glance at the magazines and news
| paper departments devoted to Women's
interests shows how inadequate is the
| idea of what will interest them.
Fashions, cooking recipes and COM
plexion beautifiers are all very we'll
in their way and not to be despised,
but they can hardly do much to broad
en- ideas or improve conditions
New fashions are a sarcasm to the
overworked and underpaid clerk.
Long hours of labor amid unsanitary
conditions will rob youth of its natural
heritage of beauty and freshness, so
thoroughly that no complexion lotion
| will repair the ravages.
Equally the directions for connecting
| toothsone dishes are an evaporation to
| the housekeeper, who never has any
| margin over when the strict necessities
| Of life have been provided for the fam
! lily.
The more ambitious attempts to salts
fy the questionings of women whose
social and intellectual yearnings are
starved out by our Industrial system,
show clearly that the advisers have not
have not yet realized that self Help"
| SC fho irct ri
There has always been some question
as to what women could do best to
help forward the general social and
economic movement.
In the way Of union organization the
work has not always been satisfac Glory.
It has been found that in many trades
women are slow to organize because
they regard the work as a temporary
employment pending the establishment
Of homes of their own. When this
eminently proper and pleasant result
comes to pass the former employe of
mill or factory naturally finds her home
interests so different that she ceased
to take an active interest in union mat
| tiers.
| Developments of the past two or three
years have shown that women are &C.
complishing work for union labels
which Is unique in character and very
valuable in results. There are untold
possibilities still to be realized.
Equally women clerks can do a great
work in behalf of union labels, and at
the same time improve their own con-
ditions by associating with fellow clerks
in an organizations whose mission is to
improve their conditions without work.
ing either injustice or hardship to en-
ployers. -. . j..
1.-THE hand that rocks the cradle
rules the world. ~ ~ y, @><
'"The mother ottoday is the queen Of
tomorrow"
Woman forms the citizen and guides
the republic"
I'm the dwelling-house must the true
character and hope Of the time be con-
sulted.": 800"
ION that imperishable tablet where
Fame inscribes the names of the good
and the brave, the highest and fairest
among them is only MOTHER, writ
ten large"
! mo office can compare in Importance
with that of training a child
| 1T is woman's vocation to train up
the children
| There are several items in the report
of the Indiana convention of the F. of
L., which are of especial interest to
women. OF the. 100 delegates seven
women were regular delegates, while
Mrs. j. w. Peters, an ex-delegate was
admitted as member Of the conven-
ton with all the rights and privileges
Of the floor. The committee on organi-
cation was entirely composed of women
thorough acquaintance with the labor
conditions of their state.
|
Reading of the raise Of wages given
the girls in a. Saginaw factory by
which they receive 60 cents a day, we
wonder how much they got before and
how they are expected to live re-
specially upon that pittance.
The last census shows that four mill
lion women are wage Farmers in this
country. The number has doubled dur
ing the last ten years.
| In 1910 Harriet Mart1neau found that
there were but seven employments
open to women in this country-teach-
! ing, needlework, keeping boarders,
working in cotton mills, typesetting,
work in book binderies, and household
service. Today almost every depart
ment of paid employment is open to
women. But as rule she can only
enter by taking less pay for her work
than is given to men, even when there
is no claim but that her work is as
good in quality and quantity. There is
but one just basis for financial con-
sideration in all work and that is merit.
Equal pay for equal work can only be
obtained by thorough organization.
TOM JOHNSON.