The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-11
home MAKERS
TRADE UNION
,test Development ia the Feminist
movement in England Has Gained
Quite = Foot
hold.
WHY SHE BECAME ONE
Young Woman Writing From Hoilo-
way Jail Tells What Caused Her
to Take up suffrasettes
Cause.
TBy Ed. L. Keen, London correspon.


dent Of the United Press.1
LONDON, May 10-The Home
Makers Trade Union" is the latest
development in the feminist move
ment In England
Designed primarily to bring about
betterment OF conditions among the
wives Of wage-earners, the new or
ganization has in few weeks gained
a substantial foothold In south Lon
don, and plans are now under way to
extend Its scope to the provinces.
Recognition of the rights OF mar
ried women is one Of the specific OBJ
jects. Members ale pledged to In.
sist, as a right. that fair proportion
of the husbands earnings be turned
over to the wife for the proper main
tenance Of the home. In return the
wives promise to do everything in
their power to assist their husbands
in obtaining better wages and condi-
tons Of employment. Also, by co
operation among themselves. and by
combining as consumers, they hope to
/ effect material reduction In the
present high cost of living.
In order for this movement to be
Of real value" today said Mrs. Mary
II. Wood, Its founder, at her home n
Stockwell, Il realize that it must be
worked on large scale. and that is
what we are now arranging to do.
Woman suffrage In England is not
going to help the wives of the wage
earners a great deal, unless they Or
ganize. Wien women possess the
vote it will be the middle-class wo
mer--and very largely the unmarried
women-who will WELD the greatest
influence. In the absence OF proper
organization we shall probably be
faced with useless and yexatious res
ulations made and administered II
the interests of the non-workins
classes.
I believe there is a rich field fol
our new union. Home-making is {
profession in itself. yet hitherto ir
the various social and Legislative
movements the home-maker has beer
absolutely ignored. Why shouldn'
Inc non-wage-earning women, wlit
are normally dependent on their hus
bands earnings, combine for mntua
aid and improvement OF conditions
Just as the men themselves hay,
cone SO successfully in their trad,
unions?
As part Of the scheme It is the in
'ehtion TO brighten up things gener
any Tor wives and mothers Of thi,
class, many of whom are now leadin'
particularly lonely lives. Attractiv,
cottages and gardens will be provid
60 where they may gather and com
pare notes on housekeeping. and un
dertake other interests outside OF TIN
inonotony Of their daily routine.
he economic feature of the plal
h the more important, however. w
are going to obtain household good
ana other articles by contract and il
large Quantities, thus saving the BIZ
Profits OF the middlsman. We shal
mus soon become power t. be recl
ohed with. We shall boycott the shor
keeper who underpays or mistreat
MS girl employees, and throw all on
trade toward those who conduct thei
business along humanitarian lines.
Eventually we expect to inaugul
a'e comprehensive scheme Of &C
operative housekeeping
mere is the reason why one youn
hhglishwoman became suffragette.
Writing from Holloway jail, Mis-
oiive Hockin, keeper of the "suffrs
sette arsenal in her studio in Cam
uen Hill gardens, and who was ser
fenced to four months imprisonment
Ut setting fire to the pavilion on tn
ioehampton golf links, says:
All my life had been an artis
My business in life seemed to me /
y 10 see and think only of what wa
ar and beautiful. and TO translate
- pest could into the language {
suipt and line. so that I might sho'
oiher people what great beauty Their
az IN the world, and through m