The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-23
An APPEAL TO WOMEN
TO SUPPORT THE LABEL

| To SUPPORT The LABEL
WHY THEY SHOULD SUPPORT THE
UNION LABEL.
I'm Their Hands IL Placed the Power
to Strengthen or Retard the Prog
ress of the Trades Union Movement.
Duty OF All Wage Farmers,
Organized labor the world over is
struggling to open the minds Of women
wage earners to the great and lasting
benefits to be theirs by joining their
forces with it in trying to improve the
conditions under which workers labor.
Its literature daily presents simple
| remedies entirely within their power to
vastly improve their conditions with
out entail1ng any sacrifice, says Shoe
Workers Journal. Every Improvement
organized labor seeks either from the
legislature, sdciety or capital means
dollars. health and happiness to all
wage earners and better world to
live In for ALL A shorter workday,
healthfu1 recreation, adjustment Of
child labor, sanitary conditions in fac
tories 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
the life of every one Of us wage earn
ers be vastly bettered If these improve
ments could be gained? These i'm
provements and more will be gained If
women wage earners would join labor
unions In larger numbers. Become in
terested enough to try to improve your
present labor conditions It should be
your first and not your last considera-
ton. Do not think that because labor
unions do not gain an immediate in
crease of wages they are not worthy
OF the support your membership would
give. Think of what they have gained
with comparatively little support, and
1t will be easy to estimate what could
be gained with the united support OF
all wage earners.
Can you think Of anything that or
ganized labor has gained that has not
benefited you? Can you think of any,
thing it is striving to gain that will not
benefit you? Can you think of any
than by joining forces with it.? Does
1T not hold out to you great hopes of
future advancement If you will only
give It your support? Fo.get for
moment your small prejudices
against joining Tabor unions and ans
wer these questions fairly. If the ans
wer is satisfactory do not stop there,
but join your local union at once. In
terest yourself in what is primarily
your own affair and by joining a labor
union make that interest a powerful
influence. Contribute your support to
organized labor, which is doing so
much to support you. Strengthen the
weapons In its hands by your support
and 1t will strengthen the weapons in
Your hands by it's support. You re-
ceive much for little and in everv other
transaction would consider that YOU
hao maze a good bargain. Fortify
yourselves against reduction of wag-
es by Joining your local union.
Eacn wage Garner contributes his
triHlng support, and organized labor
Will furnish the advancement and build
the road over which you travel to
reach 1t. Spend your money for union
stamped goods, thereby becoming the
arbitrator to settle the differences be-
tween your employer and the competf-
ton OF his market and he will sneed.
lily become the arbitrator to settle the
eflevous difference between YOU and
the market for your labor Buy union
stamped goods and increase the mr.
CHASING power of your dollar. Where
tney are not for sale create a. demand
LOT them and broaden the market for
every manufacturer of union 1aho,
goods. BY this simple means Won aro
promoting your own cause and mal<tnp
1t possible for a widespread trades nm.
ion market.
Your fortunes are indissolubly link
ed with your employers. ell is not
entirely to blame for prevailing condi-
lions. If you spend your wages for
the products of sweat shops YOU force
decent manufacturers to meet sweat
shop competition. If your emnlover
must compete with the proprietor of a
sweat shop you must compete with the
workers In sweat shops.
BUY union label goods and drive the
sweat shops out Of existence. WAGE
earhers by buying the products of
sweat shops become the supporters of
them. Continue to support them and
you Will soon be working in them.
women are the household economists
ana as the managers and disbursers
OF the family income can, by buying
union label goods, make it possible for
the breadwinners to increase the fam;-
~ income. A vast power is within the
hands Of women to incalculah1v
strengthen or greatly retard the trades
union movement. Will you Use it nv
buying union label goods to strenethen
this movement and promote your IN,
lifting or will you use it by buying
sweat shop goods to retard this move
ment and retard your uplifting? All
wage earners, promote your interests
and strengthen your unions by combin-
ing your wages into one gigantic fund
for the purchase Of union label goods
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Union Label and Home Made.