The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-12

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This entire country must. and will, recognize the
industrial equality of women.
10 Grace {. Strachan. district superintendent in
The public schools of BROOKLYN and leader in the vic
orious fight for equal pay equal work" throughout
the school system Of New York City, the battle that
ana her fellow teachers have just is not con-
ccrncd with but city but profession.
II touches all women who work.
1t reaches every city, every industrial town, every
village iii America.
1t is the national womcn's revolution.
The battle Miss Srachan and her fellow teachers
quick to explain, has connection with
the cause of womens suffrage Whether the laws
OF the country be in the near future so amended
as TO give women the right to vote the customs OF inc
country will be so changed rs 10 grant women the
right 10 be paid-pad for their work i'll exactly the
same ratio rs men are paid.
The womcn's battle is simply for the recognition
Of their industrial equality.
Miss S,raclan herself. and the women who worked
with her in New York and are ready 10 work with her
winnings. Their appeal is altogether constructive
Their argument is one of common sense.
Aud 50. ha,inc big fight in New York, they
ready join the of other cities and of other
professions i'll winning big fight everywhere
Mayor Gnynor signed the bin providing for equal
Iay for teachers Thursday. the nineteenth
OF October said Miss Srachan.
II told Him then, and want TO tell every one all
over this country that that just rs big thing as
The signing Of Magma Charta the Declaration of In
dependence. That's date To remember.
IL WAS cpcchmnking. 1t was, like Magma Charta
and our Declaration of Independence, the breaking
down of old ,yrannics the casting off of the
>hncklcs of useless tradition.
For the first time in human history the law ex-
rrcssy provides that discrimination i'll pay be made
against women because of their
III isn't going TO stop with New York, YOU may be
sure.
III isn't going 10 stop with teachers
While Miss Srachan is in her determination
10 bring about womcns industrial equality, while she
ipco:%cS The fact thai Old pcjudceS must he beaten
fellow soldiers If making complaint their ammunition.
Things aren't right about women's work and
wolncns wages they say.
But we not going 10 waste our time aud yours
fussng about that.
What we are going 10 DO is make them better,
we arc building things up, not whining about
oppression and mnfairncss
Is matter Of fact Miss Strqchan explains, she
understands perfectly The way the payment by SEX
instead of by work To he into
It is quite natural. Possibly at time it quite
right
''But it isn't right now she added emphatically
at isn't natural
1t is going the way OF all WORKOUT, outgrown
useless, cNcumbcrinc things
Tile day Of discrimination agans; women because
Of their is very nearly over.
And when ii is quite gone from a day will
dawn Of greater efficiency.
III is FOR that that all of us working"
. ACK in the old days when the industries Of life
~ were concentrated in the home Miss Strachan
continued neither received expected pay 70,
their work They spun and woyc and made clothing
for the family. They cooked and washed and scrubbed
They taught tic children They did all the work OF
the home, and they paid for it. il was a part
of the making Of the family life. 1t WINS keeping
house.
When began 10 so into the factories tc
follow their industries, they content having re
ceeed nothing 81 all heretofore work for little
money. Especially during the years of the Civil War
when it impossible TO find 10 do the work o
the nation ana women had to bc called in in tbc
stead, did women begin to take hold Of industrial work
OF institutional work, of professional work. And The,
did it for low
But now conditions have changed. Women mus
earn their living must Industry has gone on
of the home and women have followed ii. Education
has ont Of the home and lave followed it
Women have become, in industry and in professional
3sactiyihes, craftsmen. They compete with me-
& now their ground. They must be. judged tn
z teacher explained, by their efficiency. And SO il i
by their efficiency that they must lie paid
That the new era Of industrial equality will brin
with it broader life for everywhere and
wider capacity for usefulness, Miss Strachan has
doubt
10 me, the victory Of the New York teachers
epoclnakng not only as beginning the general fgi
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