Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-10-31
loyer, th tmploye, and perhaps

employer, tb t.mploye, and perhaps
the people IS, large.
Under tssss Progressive party, said
Miss Addhas, the United States gov
ernment. would carry on work
which 81 many years has been left
in thu glands Of the women devoted
to 1anthropic and domestic eff
fort She dwelt upon the mini
M 5: wage plank for women. direct
j Gfecting inhabitants of the large
y stern and manufacturing cities
where woman and child labor is
more common than in the west. She
pointed out the direful condition
resulting in England, where poor.
.underfed, half clad women even as
sisted in blacksmith shops, where
box making girls could not earn
enough to afford continuous res
idence," but roamed about in gangs
when out Of work. Such condition
she said affected the public gerler-
ally and the government has a right
to step in, for the government de-
termines what kind of buildings,
what sanitation and what fire pro-
lection shall prevail, and it also
should set a standard Of living.
The industrial insurance plank,
she explained. There are annually
killed in the United States $4,000
people, and $4,000 are manned.
In Germany the law requires fac
tory in which an employe is disabled
to care for the family for four years
and the result has been a great in
crease Of safety devices and lessen
ing of accidents. The interstate
commerce commission, she claimed,
could back up law shortening the
hours of work for women. and pro-
hibiting night work. Twenty-nine
European countries have such a law,
and three states of this nation.
The vocational training plank she
advocated. In the United States
between three and three and a half
million children leave school an
nually at the average age OF IA, to
enter the, ranks Of unskilled labor.
As result they remain unskilled
throughout life. and beth they and
the industries suHef At fthsEt asc
the children have the most capacity
for learning, and the lsast capacity
for earning. Germany requires each
employer to give. 16 hours instruc-
ton to children employed; Wiscon-
sin and Minnesota require five hours
per week.
The Progressive party advocate
schools of industry, which would
benefit this country in the same way
as do the public schools of agricul-
ture and mines.
The new party recommends max
ing the government more democrat
ic and responsive to the will and the
wish of the people, through the ini-
tiative, referendum and recall, and
easier amendment to the constitu-
tion,~ and further by the franchise
for women. @
Equal suffrage, claims Jane Ad-
dams, marks the passing of the work
of social and industrial betterment
by women from the philanthropic
and domestic stage to active govern
ment supervision. The influence Of
women in the fields Of government
and politics is increasing over the
world. Even in China ten women
have seats in the new parliament
and the first measures they took up
were laws against the custom Of
binding women's 8 feet, sale OF. opium,
and sale of little girls as slaves.
Women, she said, have faculty Of
getting things done, and related an
apt story Of the origin Of the Ameri-
can flag. made by Betsy Ross at the
beginning Of the American revolq.-. 4.
tion,s after the men had long talked
.ahont the need Of such nag. She
closed with an urgent plea for votes
for women. Women, she urged, al-
ready have q vote on some ques-
tions. but they should have equal