The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1906-06-16
STRIKE BREAKING IS
INDUCING TO WOMEN.
At Least Big Money Is Offered
to Females Who Engage to
Break Strikes.
Writer Says That They Are
More to Be Pitied Than
Censured for Work.

The woman strikebreaker is to be
more p1tied than censured for the sim
pie reason that she does not realize at /
the time what she is doing, says a
writer in the Rochester Labor Journal
Nine times out of ten when she is ask .
ed to take the situation of man who
has gone on strike the proposal is ac-
companied by monetary considera-=
tion far above that which she has ever
received. y.
Through the accursed greed : for
gold she loses sight of everything else
and accepts, never realizing what it
means to her sisters who have entered
into the motherhood period of this life.
She never realizes it until she has en-
tered into that same period of matri-
mon1al strife. It then stands out be-
fore her like an insurmountable noun
tain.
Right here the writer would like to
explain himself, so as not to be mis-
construed, as follows: When a man
goes on strike he endeavors to better
his condition, and by so doing he bet
ters the condition Of his wife and chill
dren; but If, while on strike, his posi-
tion is usurped by a woman or man.
and he goes down to defeat, his chance
for betterment is lessened and even
lowered.
Think Of the hardships and priva-
t1ons that noble little woman with her
offspring has to- endure during a strike
of her partner for betterment of con-.
ditions. and then ask yourself if it lis
right for you to step in and usurp the
strikers position.
Are you not helping to keep down,
your sisters chance to eliminate some
of the privations? Are you not help
ing to create conditions that make IT
almost impossible to rear family in
comfort? Are you not helping to Gre
ate conditions which you yourself will
have to endure when you enter the
same matrimonial period Of life?
Reflection brings Its lessons. Why
not refieaes now. and instead of letting
yourself besused as tool to keep down
the betterment OF conditions. refuse to
let yourself be used as a strikebreaker
and thus help your sisterhood.
The union1stso 81 today is striving, to
raise his wages and lessen his hours.
By the lessening of hours he gives
ssEerx Ifes:
sllgfferent an tnn Il fo 9ets
q situation, and by so doing every ons.
has an, opportunity to have home, IL
not of his own. sufficiently large to
rear his family under comfortable cir-
cumstances.|
Take the striking printers of today
as an example. All@over this country
women are being used as tools by the
Typothetae to defeat the printer Min
listers of the Gospel who edit and-con-
troll papers published by large church,
es are using frail women as strike-
breakers to defeat the printer. Think
We, ministers Of the Gospel. using wo-
men to defeat the husbands and faith
ers of their own sisterhood!
In conclusion. the writer wishes to
state that foul-smelling print shop
Is not the place for a woman-not the
place for mothers Of future genera
tfons. Think of it, you expounders Of
the Gospel, who are preaching every
day about race suicide. and then ask
women to take the place Of men who
sit at the type-setting machines and
inha1e the lead-ladened atmosphere.
Statistics show that more printers die
from consumption than any other dis
ease. The reasons given are many. but
unsanitary newspaper offices and close
confinement are the chief causes. If&
this be true. why ask women. who are
much weaker than men, to commit SUI S
eide or lessen their vitality. and after
few years Of labor in a print shop.
become 1nvalids. or, should they mar
ry, become the mothers Of weaklinRs?
to a proper recognition of the local