United labor bulletin., 1910-04-21
AN APPEAL TO WoMEN's PRIDE.
How Women Can Serve Their Own Best
Interests and Why They Should
Do So.

Let us tell you something of the
Woman's International Union Label
League and Trades Union Auxiliary, and
it's chief aims and objects.
The league is voluntary association
which admits to membership, women, re-
CARELESS of occupation. 1t also accepts
men, but without vote. The mutation
fees and dues are within the reach OF all
The chief objects are to promote the
sale and consumption of union-made
products, regardless of craft or calling,
to be helpful in advancing the sale oil
goods made in sanitary work shops, TO
secure better wages and shorter hours
for women who may work at trades not
yet organized, and to be helpful in build
ing and strengthening all labor and in
dustrial organizations. 1t is strictly nom
partisan and non-sectaran, and well
comes all within its ranks who would as
sist the workers to establish better So
cial and economic state for themselves,
their families and dependents.
AS the shop conditions of the bread
winner of the family improves, as wages
increase, and hours grow shorter, just in
that proportion will the home and social
conditions of the whole family improve
and grow better.
In trades unions, all agree, we find the
only means whereby this can be accom-
plished. Trades unions, which keep vital
statistics, have demonstrated through
them that the lives of the wives and
mothers of union men have been pro-
longed since the advent of the short hour
workday, and fair wages and better treat
ment in sanitary workshops, all brought
about by trades union efforts. what
woman will deny that little children
should be kept in school instead of being
forced into the factories? None, and
none can successfully deny that it was
the trades unions which took the first
steps that finally led to legislation pro-
hibiting child labor
Better wages for the head of the fam-
lily means better home and living for
wives, mothers, sisters and helpless chill
dren: hence it is to your direct interest
and material welfare as well as your
duty to assist in maintaining the Union.
Woman spend the major portion of the
family income in purchasing the daily ne
cessities. The earning-power- pro-
wider. has a right to expect that she will
spend money-union wages-received
through trades union efforts, for union
made products, and goods made under
sanitary conditions by fairly inclined en-
ployers. and where women do this we
have shown they help themselves and
the whole family, and at the same time
perform a duty they owe to themselves.
If you believe in maintaining reason
able hours for the workers in the factory,
as well as for yourself in the home, be-
come one of us. If you believe in keep
ing the little children in the schools and
the Fairgrounds. and thus developing
more sturdy race of men and women, in
stead of having them competing with
fathers in the shops, under conditions
that stunt the growth, often lower the
standard of morality, and frequently re-
sulting in premature deaths, do your
share toward maintaining the unions.
If you believe in a fair living, good
home, better clothing for yourself and
the children, instead of letting it all go
to the favored few, then do your plain
duty by joining the Womans lnterna-
tional Union Label League.
The wives, mothers and sisters of
trades unionists constitute an irresistible
army, eXpeHulnS all enOInOuS sum VI
union made wages, which if judiciously,
properly and rightfully spent for union
made and union-labeled products, would
be a tremendous force for good, and
would go long way towards completing
the work of organizing the yet morgan
lied forces. and toward finally bringing
about social and economic state more
befitting the workers of our beloved COM
mon country.
In the name of common justice, seek
ing to uplift the social and economic con-
dition of all humanity; to rekindle hope
and inspire ambition in the minds and
hearts of the wealth-producing masses,
always striving for brighter future, the
Woman's International Union Label
League and T. U. A. cordially invites you
to join with them and help in the move
ment which for material benefits is the
greatest uplift movement the world has
ever inaugurated.
Information concerning the league, its
death benefits, how to organize, etc, can
be obtained from Anna Fitzgerald, presi-
dent 1909 Adams street, Chicago, ILL.,, or
Mrs. Anna b. Field, secretary-treasurer
Harting Block, Elwood Ind.