The Washington times., 1907-05-05

MAJ unsympathetici she is mer-
v eenaFyi she is without con-
sideration for others; she Is
the bitter foe OF her own sex.
rms - TIE sort Of Indictment that
Miss Mary Macarthur. secretary Of the
British Trade Union League. drafts
against all womankind.
Count IA woman raised a little
above other women I'm power Is de-
void Of sympathy for those beneath
her.
Count Z-The business woman, or the
torewoman. has no consideration for
those Of her sex who must slave under
her eye
Count S-Woman Is mercenary, even
greedy; she viii drive her Fellow
women 20 suffering and distress "a
please an employer.
Count 4-The harshest kind OF treat
ment Is given by women 10 thosa
whom she can LASH with her slave
drivers whip.
''WOmankind has no worse eneunv
than woman says Miss Macarthur.
Given the chance. nearly everv WON
an viii crush down every other WON
an As a taskmaster man is the en-
oodiment OF kindness when compared
with her"
Woman the world over Is the
same" said Miss Macarthur. when
asked by a Chicago reporter to ex-
plain her startling speech. but M
closest observations and studies have
been made in London. where my work
keeps me the greater part OF the tina.
in LondOn-taklng that city. then.
for an eXample-the fashionable dress
makers Of the West End rival the
sweatshOp proprietors OF the East End
in their sweating capacities. The fore
woman Is more severe than the rough
est foreman
Let me tell OF a case IN Isrgs
English concern, where women are
employed as department heads. A girl
had tainted from Overwork. The fore
woman stopped long enough 10 give
her glass OF water restored her 10
consciousness and ordered her back 10
work Again the girl tainted. again
she was revived ana sent to work. A
tRird time she dropped unconscious.
This time il was impossible 10 revive
her and she was sent to her home. A
lew days later she was dead. She had
been driven 70 death by a woman slave
driver,
Men know to what extremes woman
viii so ~ bounding their own sex. For
this reason the woman IS. more ana mon.
OFTEN found 10 be IN charge OF departz
'nent work Employers know that fore
men would not force women TO the en-
tremes Of toll. and unmercifuI drudEery
that foreUOmen will In factories ths
torewoman is great factor. She does
the cruel things that the employer fears
to order-but which he knows are being
done And then those same employers
shield themselves behind the plain stata-
ment. 1 leave the treatment Of the
women to the forewomen: I cannot at
tend TO such details"
Department stores are using worn-
en- as ioOrwalkers in great numbers.
Why? Because they are taskmasters:
because they abandon sympathy and
consideration and allow no respite to
the clerks.
DressnaSers and mjlliners a re the
hardest on their girls Stitch. stitch.
stitch. for long hours ard little nay
and with only a cross word for every
sigh Of distress or every nalt for re-
lief. Man never imposed such burdens
on women as these women put on their
employees.
And this lack OF sympathy is creep
ing into the homes where the mis-
tress Is forgetting that a domestic Ea
worthy OF some consideration Right
here inNChiCagO I know OF a WOMAN
who had been widowed and forcsa %
earn "A living She is a maid IN a
aristocratc family
This maid mas two little children.
She has been forbidden by her en-
plDyer % see her own children for fear
thai some infection will be carried 70
the children Of the wealthy woman
Think of thati The maid Is denied a
sight OF her own little ones
And that lack of sympathy. that al
most heartless order. comes from n
woman known throughout the city an
a leading phiianthTopic workeri Oh
II is pretty pass when one woman
rises above another,
81 believe that man Is more svnnoa-
thetic for his fellow. by nature. than
Is woman, His heart is more respou-
sive 10 the sight OF suffering and pala.
IL IL hard charge 10 make, but OBJ
SeTVatlOn bears II out II ia q pfty
that the dirty work OF gae emDl0yer
must be done by women and Il