The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1910-08-12
EQUAL SuFFRAGISTS ARE
SPREADING PROPAGANDA
Spokane Suffragists Spend Week Among
Everett Unionists to Good Purpose---COn-
stitutional Amendment Before the Voters
for Approval at the General Election in
November


to grasp the significance of the social
! life in which we are living or to get
any concept of the laws which govern
society. If we happen to be interested
research we read and study and delve
but we spend no time studying the
science of sociology. 1t is only too true
that the masses of the people do not
notice existing conditions, and more,
that they are not pleased with those
who do.
Edwin Markham, in his beautiful
poem, was writing of the hopeless,
lifeess worker, who was crushed by
the burdens of toll and sordid unhappy
surroundings has lost even his man
hood and become indeed a brother to
the ox--the type of man who has no
knowledge or conception OF the great
world struggle of united workers, the
| type of man of whom scabs are made.
To such men we have nothing to say;
they should be in the hands of a So
called labor agitator and organizer but
our message is to the intelligent union
man who is a student of economics and
viii not fail to grasp the import of the
brief message we have to bring in re-
gard to the Woman Question: and the
reasons why she should be enfranchised
Industry has changed from the sim
Pile handicraft form to the highly so
Geological form of production and in the
process of development the baking and
brewing, the spinning and weaving and
other so.callpd home industries have
taken out of the home into the mill
and the factory and our women by
economic necessity are forced into the
arena of industry to become competitors
with husbands and sons. These women
are an important factor in forcing the
wage scale down. They are cheap. You
well know that women work side by
side with men in industry for a wage
winch the man fellow worker would not
consider. She has been forced out of
the home, where she has been a solitary
worker, thinking in individualstic
terms, into the great cooperative in
dustries and she is still thinking in
terms of an individual Now we feel
that if you give the woman the ballot
Won will place her on the same footing
with men in the industrial and political
field and she will not be so easily ex
plotted by an employer, you can then
reach her with your union propaganda
teach her the principles of unionism and
make of her an intelligent class con
scious worker. Then our women will no
longer be scabbing in the labor market
against husbands and brothers and
sors."
Particularly anxious are the suffra
gists that the voters shall familarize
themselves with the suffrage amend
ment. The question as it will appear
on the ballot will not be very illumi
mating to the average voter and unless
care is taken he will be very apt to
pass it up. The question which means
so much to the suffragists will appear
on the ballot in this wise:
"For the proposed amendment to
Article VI of the constitution relating
to the qualifications of voters within
this state"
against the proposed amendment to
Article VI of the constitution relating
to the qualifications of voters within
this state"
If you place an X in the square oppo-
site the words "For the amendment,
etc" YOU vote for equal suffrage.
The ladies are anxious that the voters
shall not only be Won over to their cause
but that they shall show their faith
by their works. In other words, vote
FOR the proposed amendment to Article
VI of the constitution From the care
ful attention their words were given in
the various meeting halls in the Labor
Temple and the expressions of good
will it is safe to say that an over
whelming majority of the union
voters of Everett will vote FOR the
amendment.