The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1903-03-28

"OIlu Ids Ucctl advocating the OrSdu.
ization of a Woman's Label League in
this city. We had hoped that the dele
gates to the Trades Assembly would
take the matter up, and that a call
would be issued for a meeting to begin
an organization.
union men should be awakened to the
fact that they can be of great service
to the trade union movement, and that
its ultimate success can be fastened
by their cooperation.
Any cause is as good as won when
the ladies take hold of it. If the wives,
sisters and mothers of union men will
use their Influence the cause will take
more rapid strides than ever before in
its history. We do not mean that they
shall take the stump or do anything
unWomanly. They have in their hands
a weapon that is more effective and
many of them are using it. 1t is this:
Buy Union Goods! Always call for
goods made by union men. The ladies
do most of the buying, and if they will
for one week ask to be served by union
clerks, insist that her shoes shall bear
the leather workers label, that the
broom makers label Is on the broom
she buys, that the shirt waist she adj
mires at the dry good store has the
shirt waist workers label upon it, that
her laundry work goes to a union
laundry, that the paper she reads bears
the union label, the dray that delivers
goods at her home is driven by union
teamster, We say that if she will do
this for one week there would be Won
derS accomplished
When women have learned that the
American Federation of Labor stands
for the purity Of home by reduction
Of the hours Of toll, increase Of wage,
the abolition Of child labor, and sweat
shops, and that the union label attach
ed to l3bors' products is the only proof
that these reforms are being secured,
the will need no further knowledge
upon the matter. The labor movement
will advance in Strides unequalled in
it's past growth, the demand for the
label will become So great and popu-
lar that manufacturers will find it i'm
possible to succeed without it's use. The
will of the consumer is the law of the
producter, and the times is not far dis
tant when the women of America who
depend upon the men who toll as
learn that within the union label CLOVIS
their star of hope and ambition.
Unionism is the only salvation of
men in these days, and the women Of
the union mans family can do more
than he can to make it popular.
Always call for union made goods,
and if they haven't got them go where
they keep them. They will have them
the next time you call, never fear.
This is not mere sentiment, it is bus
mess. Scab goods are made in unheal-
thy; sWeatshops by. people who are paid.
starvation wages. Every article you
buy made under such conditions
makes you a party to the infamy.
Union made goods, goods bearing the
union label are made under the best
conditions, in clean, hea1thfu1 shops
by men and women who were paid de-
cent wages for making them. If it
were not so the label would not be
there. The label is a guarantee that
these conditions have been fulfilled.
what we want" says woman
who is besieging the Kansas Legisla-
ture for the right of the ballot, sis
not the worship Of man. We are not
delicate and fragile pieces of china,
good only to be put on the mantel-
piece to look at What we want is
full fellowship and equality with man,
and we will be satisfied with the treat
ment accorded by man to man. Is
the good woman sure Of this? Would
she be satisfied, for instance, with the
salutation ordinarily accorded by man
unto man. We think not. We think
that she would pine for the place on
the mantelpiece Immediately after
some man had slapped her on the
back and said: "Why, hello, Liz!
Wherein blazes did you come from ?"
Kansas City Journal.
The labor union is the means by
which the workers of all trades have
gained one advantage after another.
Through it wages have increased, hours
of labor lessened and more sanitary
conditions been secured.
Working women can not succeed
without labor unions. So long as they
are unorganized they will have less
wages for the same work as men are
doing. This is wrong to themselves
and to men. believe in women work.
ing, but I do not believe in their cutt-
ing wages.
Women must face the situation and
deal with it as men have done. They
must go forward; they cannot go back.
We have left behind the time when
four or five big, strong, healthy wo-
men would sit around doing fancy
work while the one man of the family,
and he, PERHAPS, delicate, would try
to earn living for the lot
Young women today would rightly be
ashamed to shirk their responsibilities
in such a manner.
An important reason why girls go
out to do work today is that there is
practically nothing left for them to do
at home. Men have taken that work
to factories. Women used to make
their fathers and husbands shirts.
Men have established shirt factories.
In every branch of what was once
domestic industry, men have stepped
in and taken the work out of the hands
Of women