The labor journal. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1909-1976, 1911-08-25
WHAT OUR LABEL LEAGUE is
DOING.
(By Rose B. Moore.)

Each night when the WomenS card
and label League meets we are filled
with enthusiasm and hope, for our mem
bership is being swelled and likewise
our strength is growing. We are not
boasting vainly of mere strength in
numbers but we do rejoice in our ability
to do something worth while-to be a
factor in awakening the men and wom-
en- in industry to the need of organiza-
tion-to feel ourselves welded together
by bond of mutual helpfulness and
o-operation which is stronger and
broader than mere family bonds. We
are growing in human'ness. We are
developing new consciousness beyond
self and family and home, the SOCIAL
CONSCIOUSNESS which longs for ex-
preston and will not tire of well doing
will never be satisfied until this world
of ours is a fit place for human beings
to grow in. Until every individual has
chance to enjoy and benefit by the
ACCUMULATED PRODUCT OF LABOR
OF THE WORLD, the heritage of the
ages; of piled up treasures of art and
science and literature and industry. We
as members of the human family are
demanding for the children of Mother
Earth chance to partake of her boun-
ty, to each according to his capacity, to
each individual child decent environ
ment, the opportunity to know health
and joy and beauty.
The last meeting of the League was
the best of all. Our hall was filled with
women. The room was alive with vi
brations of good will and comradeship
Many of us are strangers to each other
but underneath is the bond uniting us
all-our bond of sisterhood and love OF
kind.
Gne feature of the meeting was the
initiatory process which our good broth
ers, the electricians, inflicted on two
new members who lent themselves will
ing victims to the torture process fol
the delectation of those present We
must not disclose the tortures these new
brothers faced and endured. Suffice il
to say they submitted with the spirit
which goes to make for true diversion
The members We're appreciative. VIZ
believe in fun and frolic-"a little non
sense now and then" We especially
appreciate the ingenious mind which
brings into its service MODERN METH
ODS-"applied electricity" Lesson il
PSYCHOLOGY, the potency of mental sug
gestion and like up-to-date factors and
ideas.
Labor Day was discussed and there
were several stimulating, voluntary out
bursts from the membership under tn,
rule of Good and Welfare" which gen
Grated much good feeling. Bros. Hill
and Straka offered stimuli in the form
of hints to women voters and sugges
tions as to the use of applying the gentle
art of non-resistance in asking for tht
union card. In other words, do it Sc
gently and sweetly, yet so firmly re
fusing to be served by worker not il
the ranks of organized labor, that the
person applied to will be so agreeably
impressed by the cheerful, gracious man
ner of asking that, being human, viii
naturally respond to your manner anj
be truly sorry if unable to supply tbs
thing you ask for. You have created il
that person a pleasant sensation that
he or she associates with the sound ol
the union card. You have planted q
thought which will grow. Try tit
works.
Graciousness is so much more subtle
and efficacious than gruffness. 1t works
both ways, on the recipient and the donor
It is a splendid preventative for melan
choly and pessimism and it is infectious
There was some discussion in regar'
to political action and it brought on
the information that one of our member
was the first woman in Everett to reg
ister Such is the spirit of the member
ship of the League. Pioneers, not cam