The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-07-21
women SHOULD JOIN
IN UNION MOVEMENT
Trade Union is Only Home for the
Woman. Wage Earner-Will
Get Her Wages.
Organization is the Only Salvation
for Workingmen and
Working Women.

Organized labor the world over is
struggling to open the minds of wo-
men wage earners to the great and
lasting benefits to be theirs by join
ing their forces with it in trying to
improve the conditions under which
all wage earners labor. It's literature
daily presents simple remedies entire
ly within their power to vastly i'm
prove their conditions without entail
ing any sacrifice. Every Improvement
organized labor seeks either from the
legislature, society, or capital, means
dollars, health and happiness to all
live in for all.
A shorter work-day, greater oppor-
tunities for education and healthful
recreation, abolition of child labor,
sanitary conditions in factories, and
arbitration of all differences between
employer and employee are some of
the improvements organized labor
hopes to bring about. Would not the
| individual station In life Of every one
! Of us wage earners be vastly bettered
If these improvements could be gained?
These improvements and more will be
gained II women wage earners would
| Join labor unions in larger numbers.
| Become interested enough to try to
improve your present labor conditions.
| 1t should be your first and not your
last consideration. Do not think that
| because Labor unions do not gain an
immediate increase of wages they are
not worthy Of the support your men,
bership would give. Think of what
they have gained with comparatively
little support of all wage earners. Can
you think of anything that organized
labor has gained that has not benefited
you? Can you think of anything it Is
striving to gain that will not benefit
you? Can you think of any better
way to improve your condition than
| by joining forces with it? Does it
not hold out to you great hopes Of
future advancement If you will only
| give it your support? Forget for a
m oment your small prejudicies against
| joining labor unions and answer the
factory do not stop there but Join your
|
what Is primarily your own AFFAIR, and
by Joining q. labor union make that
| linteresta poM Msrlul asnce, Con-
ftfrfbuts yoaSs 81 df 4nIkdd ia
| Dor which is doing 80 much TO support
you Strengthen the wea pons in its
hands by your support and it will
strengthen the weapons in your hands
by it's support. You receive much for
little and in every other transaction
would consider that you had made a
good bargain. Fortify yourselves
against reduction of wagese by join
in your local union. Each wage
Garner contributes his trifing support
and organized labor will furnish the
advancement and build the road over
which to travel to reach It, Spend
your money for union stamped goods,
| thereby becoming the arbitrator to
settle the differences between your en-
ployer and the competition of his
market and he will speedily become
the arbitrator to settle the grevious
differences between you and the
market for your labor. Buy union
stamped goods and increase the pur-
chasing power of your dollar. Where
they are not tor sale, create a demand
for them and broaden the market for
| every manufacturer of union label
| goods. BY this simple means you are
! promoting your own cause and making
1t possible for a widespread trades
union market.
Your fortunes are indissolubly link;
ed with your employers. He is not
-
| ditions. II you spend your wages for
! the products Of sweat shops you force
earners by buying products Of sweat
| shop competition. If your employer
| must compete with the proprietor Of
sweatshop, you must compete with
( tha workers in sweat shops.
Buy union label goods and drive the
| sweat shops out of existence. Wage
earners by buying te products of sweat
| shops become t..e\ supporters of them.
| Continue to support them and you will
soon be working in them. Women are
the househould economists. and as the
| manaeers and disbursers of the family
| income, can, by buying union label
! goods, make it possible for the bread
winners to increase the family income.
A vast power is within the hands Of
! women to intellectually strengthen or
! greatly retard the trades union move
ment.- Will you use 1t, by buying un-
ion label goods, to strengthen this
| movement and promote your up-lift-
ing or will you use 1t by buying sweat
shop goods to retard this movement
and retard your uplifting? All wage
earners, promote your interests and
strengthen your unions by combining
your wages into one gigantic fund for
the purchase of union label goods.
/ .Wares OF 10000 Increased.
A voluntary wage increase Of 10 per
| ~. Aoa, 0rantod all cotfnn mill