The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-06-05

veIopes on Saturday afternoons, A
strike followed and the girls marched
out The homely girls Not at all,
The pretty girls They had noted
the favoritisr ana their mirrors had
told them the reason, They knew the
plain girls were rs competent as they
as tieft OF hand rs nimblc Of finger, of
industry as great as theirs They
knew these girls mad burdens a. heavy
al home. which their pay envelopes
tightened, swarms of small brothers
and sisters, an undergrad father. an
,.porworkea mother. The girls felt the
injustice of discrimination by ro~
mantle young foremeu They protest
ed against il in the way which is most
eloquent on the East Side. They
struck,
The employers were aghest at this
cessation OF activity in the busy
season. They demanded the reason.
They learned 1t from a committee ap-
pointed to tell them, and there was
as many plain girls as pretty ones in
the committee. The pretty girls had
insisted upon this.
The girls that have been over
looked In the distribution Of work be-
cause they were plain never COM
planned They were too, proud" said
rs at% i#s: EiEi AZ St&s> f&as3rl% tess
Joan of Arc of the movement and
spokesman Of the committee. looking
with d gaze that shrievelled. at the
susceptible foremen who had kept
the table beside her piled high With
work. But the rest of MS noticed IL,
and we wouldn't stand for tt. You
will either take us all back on equal
terms, giving each OF as enough work
TO earn a good pay envelope every
week or Wen all stay out"
The employers assured them they
would take them back on the terms
dictated by Joan, Joan made an
other demand.
IT'S been almost impossible for a
girl that isn't good looking. no mat
ter how good a workwomau she Is.
TO get into the factory We want
that changed"
1t shall he." conceded the factory
owners Now will YOU young ladies'
please go back to work ~ They did
and "A new era of Justice has begun In
the Crane street factory.
Women incapable of justice 10 each
other. Twice the recent news dis
patches have told us how the first
wife OF a bigamist sympathized with
the mans subsequent victims. One
woman took into her home young
girl who had been the innocent ard
unconscious cause Of the hrea king up
of that home. and comforted and
helped her husbands victim. While
a funeral procession was passing out
OF Il church in New York, a woman
dressed in black stood on the street
curb ana watched the mourners. ore
a beautiful woman, taking their
places In the carriage that follows
the hearse. When the last cAerlag e
In the procession had passed the spot
where she stood the woman went
home and wrote letter to the one she
had seen getting into the carriage.
Though you took my husband from
nae and utterly changed my life,
have not only pity for you BY ever
turning my life as you did you gave
mo the blessed experience of learning
10 stand alone, and TO maintain myr
self, ! am established in business nd
am successful have heard you are
in want. If you need work YOU may
came into nay store. No one wilt
know who you are. While we cannot
e. pect to become intimate friends. I
VIII offer yos the kindness one wo-
man should show another"
Woman not woman's friend Be
gone foundationiess failacy. TO the
black cave Of superstition and is
norsnce whence you came.