Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1914-07-02
= HE unemployed woman! Sever
al decades 40 that phrase would

q have been meaningless. Even
now we can hardly bring ourselves to
comprehend it's full meaning. Just
Enow the newspapers are filled with &C
counts of the unemployed armies of
the various cities. Not until the in
dustry of modern times and our up-to.
date methods of production arrived
did we have the unemployed woman.
On one page we read of a woman
in a western city who threw q brick
through a plate glass window in or
der that she might be sentenced to
Jail and thus have food and lodg-
| ing. Testimony revealed her long
and earnest search for honest labor.
In another column is the story of
a girls attempt at suicide Cause:
Out Of work.
So it goes. We are forced to ad;
NIT that the struggle for an exist
ence is no longer problem for the
male population of this earth.
None=sof the municipalities make
any provision for the housing and
feeding Of the unemployed woman.
Various churches and charitable as
sociations maintain homes for fall
en- women" but where is the home
for the unemployed woman?
I recently heard related the story
of a girl out of work, who applied
for admission at one Of the homes
maintained for the unfortunate wo.
men Of the street. When asked ii
she belonged to the so-called immor-
al women, she replied that she did
not, but was simply out of employ.
ment and desired place to stay un'
til she found work. She was refused
admission, being told that the insti
tuition was kept up for the purpose
of aiding the fallen. She went away,
IA few days afterward she returned
Having convinced the matron that
she could now qualify as an inmate
she was admitted. +
| The other day we read where, In
a certain eastern city, young cir
was arrested in the restricted dis
trict and brought before the Judge
Because Of her pears the usual sen
tence could not be mted out. After
receiving a lecture on good behav
ior, she was discharged. AS she
turned to leave the court rom ths
Judge asked her where she was go
ing.
'T'm gong back" she replied, point
4 ing toward the district from which
she had come. I'm going back. !.
can live there and l can't any place
else. What do you know about {
girl maxim, Twin? Me to the sec
ton of the city where 1 can find
shelter."a =
Where is the unemployed woman
to go? f
What is she to do?
Her desire to live is as strong al
that Of the protected and well-cared
for woman.
She follows the law of self-preser
walton She must eat. She forcet
to go back. -
/ And she walked out of the cour
room and down the street LEADING
to do the things she can do.
Having tried all other ways, sh
can sell herself. There is one mark
ct open to her. For the dollar tina
buys a. loaf of bread and a cheal
lodging place the unemployed won
an exchanges all that has been
priceless possession with her-he
womanhood!
Hounded to her destination by net
essity, she becomes a prey for th
demon profit, who says, "All must liv
by my law"
The unemployed woman is VII
tim of .asvicious. system She has No
where to lay her head. She has ash
ed for a job and received a RUNE
career; offered her labor power bu
was told that the market was glu
| lted. AS last resort she is force
down the road of destruction wher
she loses her indemnity in dens Of il
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