The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-04-23
CLUB WOMEN WOULD PUT
GUARD on HON { LIFE.
lNoUsTRiALIsM AND D=THE:HoMEs
>. DISCUSSED BY CHICAGO
CLUB. ..,
Chicago Speakers Unite In Agreement
That All Other Considerations Must
Yield to the interests Of the Home.
Proposal That Widowed Mothers
Should be Pensioned Follows Grace
Suicide" Discussion. ..:

trialism, was looked at from every
side by a conference last week Of sew
eral hundred Of the most thoughtful
women Of Chicago. They represented
the greatest diversity of opinion as to
remedies for the many unfortunate
conditions shown to exist, but every
avowal rang clear in its sincere intent
Of aelpfulness. The note of universal
agreement was that the rearing and
training Of children must never be en-
dangered by commercialism and that
the home life must not be sacrificed to
any other consideration.
The conference was held Friday and
Saturday under the auspices of the
home department of the Chicago Wo-
mans. clubs and was one of the most
notable Of it's remarkable record of
steps in progressive modern life.
1T will soon be as disgra aceful for a
girl to marry without knowing how to
manage home as it is now for man
to- marry when he cannot support
wife,
"The home where bakers bread is
eaten is as sacred as the home where
mother does the baking
Where is the warrior with such
courage as the woman has who marries
man with salary of SO week?
What else but the innate power of the
heart-pulling thing-love of home
would we're make a WOrkingman or wo-
man marry and attempt to establish
family in the face of this modern in
dustrialism?"
when woman is widowed she must
work-scrub," do anything she can, to
feed and house her little ones, and, not
many women are educated to work.
The state should provide for the moth
er-pension her-and not take her chill
dren from her to place them in insti-
tutions and the poorhouse. She has
done a duty to the nation in being a
mother, and the nation should recognize
it,
These are few of the striking nut
shell arguments.
Dr.. Julia Ross Low took view of
women's health as affected by indus
trialism, u. american w omen are de-.
.tsEiorat ting, ',sas
mode sof xing taey
are too constantly on the alert, inter
ested in too many things, and eat too
badly.
High heels, tight laring and poor
food are responsible for the race sui
eide Of the country more than labor.
But the working woman is scarcely
competent to struggle with household
duties, with maternity. -Four years of
constant work, coupled with her snatch
ed pleasures, break her physique, and
her children are apt to be frail."
The 0QtoriOra fio,, of
men was actively disputed by Mrs,
Henrotin and several women physicians
who were present. who claimed that
American women were never healthier
or stronger than at the present time.
The race suicide question came up
IN various .guises, Mrs. McCulloch rails
ing it in a talk on "The Status Of wo-
men in the Law" She urged that when
q woman lawyer marries She is con-
fronted by the necessity of sacrificing
the law to children Or children to law.
Mrs. CharlesE. Henrotin urged that. =
woman can be both a good mother and
good lawyer. She declared that al
though fewer children are born nova
days than formerly, race suicide does
not exist, for the reason that a greater
number of children survive the diseas-
<es of infancy and attn maturity now
than ever before. The present educa-
tional demands are too great to per-
NIT woman to raise large family,
she said.
The question of woman as a labor
unionist STIRRED up the liveliest con-
troversy of the conference, but ended
in maintaining the favorable attitude
toward. unionism,, to which the confer
ence leaned before hearing the employ
ers' side. Frederick w. Job, secretary
of the Employers association of Him
ois, painted a very black picture of
trade unionism, claiming that it's prin-
ciples do not stand for law and order
but for bloodshed and violence.
Miss Jane Adams in: replying said:
II will not apologize for the violence Of
strikes. I think it should be suppress
ed, but when employersn charge that, it
is part and complement of labor. un-
ionism, they are misleading. Women
workers should organize themselves in
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