The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1909-10-29
TO OUR WOMEN READERS.

umns Of tins paper, we have been
preaching the gospel OF unionism to the
wage workers of Evdrettt trying as
best we knew how to point out to them
the necessity of organization if they
would receive from their labor enough
to fed and clothe themselves and de-
pendents and lay by competence for
the inevitable rainy day. Through these
lines we want to talk direct to the
women-the wives and mothers of the
wage Farmers. To the "home workers"
who must hear their part of the burdens
of life.
There is a direct connection between
the conditions which surround the
worker in shop and factory, and the
conditions which surround the woman
in the home. A we'll furnished home,
an education for the children, good food
and comfortable clothing, can only be
the result of good earning power pos
sessed by the husband and father. y
sanitary workshop, shorter workdaN.
the abolition of the piece system-alI
these are essential to the physical and
moral well-being of the wage Garner
and we have learned that the union is
the one powerful factor in bringing
these conditions about. No branch OF
organized labor but has enjoyed ma
terial benefits as a direct result OF or
ganized effort and the women of the
wage earners appreciate those improved
conditions. No true woman whose hus-
band or father or brother, as the case
NAV be. belongs to the union of his
craft. but wants to do whatever she
can to help maintain that organization.
but how?
There are numerous ways in which
woman's influence may be felt for the
betterment OF working conditions but
the one all -powerful weapon which lies
right at her hand IS the union label. We
do not dwell enough upon this phase OF
nonism. We explain to our members
ana to the general public the intrica
cies of the closed shop" and the
Secondary boycott" and "the sympa-
thatic strike" We talk of courts" and
"ininctions" and deplore the tendency
Of the courts to take away our rights
as citizens but we don't talk half en-
ough about that little union label,
the emblem OF a working class that i
selfreSpecting
The women of the wage earnere dis
tribute the better portion OF the income
through the channels OF business. Ii
they would insist that every article for
the household that they purchased bore
the union label a demand would be
created for union made product which
would make the storekeper sit up ana
take notice and he in turn would be
very sure to emphatically bring it to
the attention of the jobber and manu-
facturer that his trade had to have a
union made product.
Nou see. good women. there is con
Meeting link between the union your
men belong to and the one way back
somewhere in the east, whose members
manufacture the clothing and various
products YOU purchase. Cnionism is a
sort of endless chain proposition and
the chain is just a. strong as its
weakest link. II you help those union
men and women back there to maintain
their organization they are going to
help the wage Garner in the west to
maintain his Ii one union is crushed
the opponents are going to begin an
attack on another one without delay
and it may be the one that your own
wage earners belong to, The union
label is the strongest weapon of defence
the wage Garner possesses because a
refusal to purchase an article without
il strikes right at the manufacturer
pocket book.
The best way to create demand for
union labeled goods is in organization
Of the women of the wage earners into
auxiliary organizations or label leagues