The wageworker. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1904-????, 1906-02-09
CLUB WOMEN WORK.
Interest of ToiIing Children Arouse
Them to Great Activity.

Interest of ToiIing Children Arouse
Them to Great Activity.
Peculiarly illustrative of the ways
and methods by which women are out
growing their conservatism through
the medium of the woman's club, the
members of the social science depart
ment of the local club were Monday
afternoon treated to a liberal presen-
tatiOn of the object and value of labor
unions through a program announced
as explanatory of the white label of
the National Consumers League. The
origin and object of the Consumers
League were presented by Mrs Clara
Burbank in paper, in which she fur
Their pointed out the responsibility Of
the club woman in creating the demand
for the goods bearing the label which
is guarantee that they have been
manufactured under sanitary and
wholesome conditions, for fair wage
and that no person under 16 years of
age has worked on them.
AoAh 1IO oIidll O0S1AuluS Ill 1888, Lno
league has grown to include branches
| III twenty states, and the club women
constitute a substantial proportion of
| it's membership. At present the white
label IS used most on women's wear,
! particularly white underwear, and
women are urged to insist on buying
| goods SO marked as the most prac-
| teal and surest way of eventually
other manufacturing evils against
which they are striving.
On invitation of the department, MIR
Will NJ. Maupin of The Wageworker
| spoke of the labels of the various
trades unions, what they stand for and
why it is to the interest of women
especially to lend their support to ex-
| tending the demand for union label
| goods. ANY Industrial system that
| necessitates women laboring outside
| the home is wrong in principle and
| vicious in theory" he said "The home
| is the woman's rightful place, and any
| thing that takes her from it and de-
| prives it of her influence is a menace
to that home" And then he told the
women that the union label is 2 guar
antee of manufacturing conditions that
will correct many of the present wrong
| conditions and make it possible for
proper and natural places. He found
no fault with the Consumers League
label except that it does not guarantee
enough and asked the cooperation of
| by asking for goods bearing it. He
| condemned the bargain sale" and the
| dainty finery in women's wear that is
| bought by needless women totally ig-
norant of the tears and blood and
| sweat that are sewed mot them by
| their despairing sisters in eastern
sweat shops. He described the sweat
| shops of the large cities he had per-
sonally visited, where practically every
| kind of wearing apparel is made and
! amid conditions as dangerous to the
| eventual purchaser as they are hard for
| the unfortunate laborers. He told the
| story, now familiar to club women,
of the wearing apparel being made in
| the dark rooms of the New York tene-
| ments where all manner of disease,
| contagious and otherwise, existed and
| actually worked on by men and women
| far gone whit consumption. He con-
nj, Id ,,rir,rr 6of
the trades unions can have the 60
operation of the club women of the
country for a few years the battle
| against the sweat shop, child labor and
the other evils will be won. Mr. Maui
| pin illustrated his argument with two
| pairs of overalls, one made by union
labor at 81 cents dozen and one made
| by non-union labor at AZ cents dozen.
J. Several other men present, represen-
| taives of various unions, were invited
to speak and each added something to
the argument that the greatest posi-
bilities OF solving this problem through
the demand, for labeled goods lies with
the women who do SO much of the buy
ing. Besides representatives of the
labor unions, members of the Woman's
Auxiliary to Typographical Union No.
1870 we're guests Of the department.
While all of the merchants of the city
have been requested to send the heads
of their women's white goods depart.
ments to the meeting that they might
know more of the work of the league,
only two stores we're represented
Omaha Bee.
The Danger.
Undoubtedly the greatest danger that
threatens labor unions today is the de-
sire of new, inexperienced members
g. u,,:,I~ o,a b;o roc,I1tS While this