The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1905-05-05
Why Don't
Women Strike?


woman We the spectacle the farmer riding suk pow
rope get the we'll In the business offices
down YEARLY work reading the morning papers
housewives stand redhot
and boil and bake and stew and fry and roast
print shop down the printer throws electric
switch and the job OF itself the man having only to stand
YEARLY wahtub bowling her
Whyn thunder don't the organize labor union and on
United Union OF Lincoln wouldn't last
'a "o GET
While the have by organization cooperation
reduction the working day from twelve hours eight and
hours have secured improved sanitary conditions under which to
benefited themselves in divers and sund waywe the Working
have done all these things their compelled to labor the
and in kitchens hot and stuy that union
Imagine union printer, union cigarnake
on leatherworke union electrical workers. union barber
practically other skilled radesmanwho would work
1oxs feet size with big steel full tilt and the
o m hed ID % BUT Whole OF
who give thought their wives home who doing that
morning and keeping it up until : 80 in the evening;
willing should reason that he doesn't think
would give kick that would Sis Maud look
nices his employer asked him thirteen hours day within
registered 1os in the shade the front porch And the
kick would be effective and don't forget it!
Now w the name of and self potectio" don"
Down electricity
dingbat your aching
makes head feel like the double distilled
But that home his wife running sewing
machine with her tired feet and her aching back bent the
machine until she believe that her spine invention of
e G heS % 1 he lad tn e nb ne m
foot while electricity running around loose but he
thought the wife home who the long by
iootpower.
When the IL office a
sample, Here, Johnny, this that
Johnny, the oceboy hikes off BBu that
mans house than likely the wife is ottng the garbage box
scueu of COAL shed splitting kindng with
And thing has been from
good better Tor the menand from bad better for the
menthe God bless vigorous
horns and make organized demand for shorter
better work and in the of labor
saving machinery?
We really can't afford it, gow the head of the family lighting
his 1ocen cigar and preparing to take the to get to his office
blocks mo- mother cooked old fashioned
charter oak cook and made complaints and
mother fine cook better We can't afford of those
newangd They cost much for the
blamed robber soaks it right and left
And the wife, after humb asking for little kitchen
quietly subsidies and the head of the
blamed thing sight calculated make his work The
wife slave stuy kitchen redho
down the office her husband tits back swivel chair
the kondke breezes from electric fan cool his
Wouldn't you? Your blue go
pathetic strike assist fellow unionst better con
lions but many of hemO give thought the
partner of their and especially ong
without modern and the midst OF surroundings that
would make business agent call strike.
Why don't the strike?
Why don't the wife who slaves redot
figures her husband Let her show that
the he spends for tobacco would
and relieve her of oneha of her kitchen nothing
Of adding thousand her comfort and
The labor With the wife
ling split. Scratch and the cooking begins
No long waits for the stove hot boil the
There thousands of strikes by