The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1910-01-06
UNDER HE LAH.
A STRIKE of shirtwaistmakers
n khoLleu4.

might seem TO have very little in-
Hnsnce on the comfort and we'll +
being of CITY. But when it ex-
tends TO thirty Thousand girls en-
gagged in making all kinds Of ladies,
garments, Il becomes something |
akin / 8 > revelation. Included
among the number are many who
have no personal grievance, who
are being adequately paid and who
have been carried away BY that
enthusiasm which breaks out dur
| ing All strikes Of their commence
ment. This is also 2 SUCCESSFUL
strike, Within two and half weeks,
more than half of the strikers we're
back again at work with their de-
mands granted. The power and
justice Of the Suffrage movement
| may be deduced from indications
Of this kind; for il girls, most of
them under twenty, can organize,
fight capital and beat it, it is OBJ
vious that the female sex is max
ing progress. The truth is that
this army of young girls has not
only shown the necessity of female
employment (which indeed needed
no proof, but has also demonstrat-
ed the power of organized woman
(which was much more debatable
matter.) A female strike has, on
the face of it, better chance than
lone of male workers; for in a large
percentage of cases, the woman has
la man TO fall back on duringthe time
of privation. This gives the strikers
q solid back bone of adherents who
can afford to lie.idle for long Pc
Rod; and when strike fails, it is
invariably through lack Of this sup
port. The connection of thisgirls'
strike with the Suffragette move
Iment is so obvious that even the
amateur Suffragette-she Of the
poodle. the furs and the violent
, acknowledgements it. Hence We
/ have til curious phenomenon
, tof the wives and daughters of cap
iitalists lending capital to fight cap
fital.' This merging Of the question
Icapital versus labor, in the larger
:, question, woman versus man, ha!
undoubtedly done much to max,
the strike a success. It deserves
. to succeed. There are no worker
in the world so poorly paid and 81
unsultably lodged as those wh'
have to do with the making of gar
ments. Only their weakness ant
9 their lack of organization prevent
their breaking through the trace
II long ago. To sit in badly ventilat
: ed, lighted and heated chop, sewin'
the same seam on innumerabl
waists seven days a week for tire
j. or four dollars per week, come
IS about as near topurgatory as a civ
t, ilized community can devise.
W WHAT most of us know abor
b that great body of legend whic
was the source of Tennyson
Idylls of the King and of much
le Arnold and Swinburne's work an
in which Wagner touched on in Tril
at tan and Isolde, is confined to tt
10 particular light which these gre'
artists have cast on their obscul
material. Hence such a book
ce Bul'fnch's Age of Chivalry "a cor
VS. panion volume to his Age OF r
BILE, which performs like servi'
for another body Of myths) is e
er tremely useful to fill in the gar
de The exploits and laws of the knigh
of the Round Table are not civ
subject; we may be very sure tn
te- 1t he whole description of the
IT. worthless represents the ingenio
Invention of some early chronicle
embellished by thousand lat
IN scribes and baladists. But as
yo- intellectual and ideal conceptie
King Arthur's court can never d
Just as obscure, barbarian deitl