Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-11-29
WOULD REQUIRE
UNION CARD Of
FUTURE WIVES
Socialist Congressman-el ect
Has Original Ideas and
Gives Interesting Interview
10 Detroit Paper.

The walking delegates win get you.
Cupid. IL you don't watch out
Meyer London says 80, even II he
docs say II with twinkle In his eye,
says Marguerite Mooers Marshall In
the Detroit Free Press. Meyer Lon
don IL the sole. solitary socialist con-
gresham eleet of these United states,
and. as with most other rarities New
York's got him. He'll be in Washing
ton when the next congress meets, to
represent the east side district, which
made ehlnk In The last election in
New York's Solid East
Meanwhile. MIR. London has Just
addressed 5000 girl workers in white
goods, and this Is one of the things
he told them:
When ! 10 TO congress | will try
10 get law passed under which no
workman will be allowed to marry
working girl unless she has n union
card
The eugenIsts and other sober
minded folks have already wished on
poor little Cupid a choice collection
of certificates and guarantees. But
the addition of the union card must
be credited to Mr.. London. lie IL as
surcdly the first to suggest the appli-
cation of the closed shop principle TO
matrimony. And 50 | asked him why
when | talked with him at his office
at No. a02 ilroadway.
Il was q Joke" he defended him
self. You see, ! was addressing 5000
bright, pretty girls. and of course.
had 10 talk on the subject that would
be most interesting to them.
Joke Not Entirely Joke.
but, although | was joking when
suggested the union card as a GER
tficate of admission 10 matrimony,
! Will say this. If every girl refused
TO marry every young man who IS not
patriotic enough and broad minded
enough to Join union, and likewise
IL every man refused to marry the
girl who could not produce her union
card. the movement for social Justice
and the bctterment of all would re-
ceive q tremendous impetus"
Smiling broadly when he began.
Mr.. London was serious now. With
one very distinguished exception. he
As the most scholarly looking office
holder ! have ever seen--thls young
man who was horn In RUSSIA and
who has made cigarettes ut $l.50 for
z tuuV bn the eHSi siutt ne tt0 tnt
thin, clean shaver, sensitive face,
with rs bnny foundation strongly
marked. that one finds SO often in q
scientist or a college professor Jn-
der the pcnt-huuse hrows are blue
gray eyes, forever lighting np with
swift enthusiasm, usually tempered. ]
fancy, hy the hunor af which his
wide Whimsical smile Is an index.
Is /. hsft a IA A.
hasn't o swciled hend--reformerl
though he undoubtedly Isl
I'm Russia he continued. vieor-
ously. young men who are interest
"a In social and revolutionary work,
never think OF marrying girls who
are not themselves interested in SIM
liar propaganda. And likewise girls
who are lahoring for a better social
order will not become the wives of
men who are ignorant Of their cause
or opposed 10 It. That Is generally
Perhaps that's where Mrs. Bel
mont got one of her pet ideas" | OBJ
served "Yon know she has advised
snffragists 20 boycott marriage until
they are given the vote.
Would Have Women Cooperate.
MIR. London smiled "The way TO
bring about any act Of social justice
Is for all the men and women who
believe In Il TO work for II together
he said
CAS- society is now arranged the
union Is one OF the most useful meth
DDS for obtaining proper treatment
for the workers, and it will do az
least as much for women as il does
for men. Socialists we're among the
first leaders of labor 10 recognize this
fact. although few socialists have
declared that women cannot be or
ganixed. But womens labor unions
In New York--thc white goods work
ers, the garment workers, and others
have proved beyond doubt that
women can work together for the
good Of all
4 was proud Of those girls IN
Cooper Union the other night, Mr..
London added In parenthesis. They
looked so Intelligent. and they had
happy faces toe.
Don't you think that women es
peciaiN need the influence of unions