The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1914-05-09
Harris Speaks for Union
Labor on Woman, Suffrage
Secretary Of Superior Trades and Labor Assembly Gives History
= Organized Labors Attitude Political and Eco
. . nomic Freedom Of Women. y -.

.t. - IL -
From Buffers, work Women In
the Trades" we learn that OF 22,1s5
between the ages Of 14sand 80, 81
per cent receive a, weekly wage OF
$500 to $780,. FL. per cent, $500 to
$500 and only, II per cent, $500 and
over. H.. .-,.s IL. -.
"surely II the cost OF living has any
meaning to you. these statistics should
carry enormous weight, especially In
view Of the fact that all have. agreed
that the minimum below which a
working girl cannot live decently and
be self-supporting in Pittsburgh is
800 per week. :
Women In Industry.
But that's in Pittsburgh. Yes, d
Pittsburgh Is far from home, so r.
turn to the United States department
Of labor and find in the Unemployment.
of Women in Power Laundries in Mil
waukee," that total Of 554 girls:
average 1888 per week. OF this num-,
Der, S25 average from $500 to: $500,
21S average $7.15 to *.$s:25s and 10
average $11.4N. Also we learn from
the same source, in the report on
working Hours Of Women,in the Pea
Canneries of. Wisconsin, that out of
sixteen establishments, twelve pay
from ~ to In cents per hour, two
pay from 10 to Is; cents, one, pays 10
cents to 17h cents and two pay, from
121s cents to 20 cents per hour
Slightly over three-quarters: of all
women employed, receive less than Is
cents per hour. 49,.
Injury to Life and Morals.
These are conditions that make for
sickness and often times, but thank
Heaven not always, for: immortality.
I'VE, the organized workers, are
most vitality concerned in these con-
ditions. It's the workers who must
live In the slums and. suffer poor
housing conditions: it's the children Of
the workers, whom We love and cher
ish dearly, who must work in factory,
mill and mine, and have their limo
cent lives blasted. by cruel greed: it's
the daughters, wives and sisters of
the working class, who are forced to
lead lives Of shame. to satisfy the
gluttons of industry.
These are conditions which exist
and grow in every state Of the union
It ceases therefore to be a. question
of Estates rights and has long since
peCOuo a naIlOnal issue.
Equality the Slogan.
"Our goal is, not only to- achieve
equality of men and women under
the present social order. which seems
to constitute the sole aim of the
bourgeois woman's movement, but to
go far beyond this. and to remove all
barriers that make one human being
dependent upon another which in
cludes the dependence Of one sex up
on the other. This solution OF the
woman question ts,indentical with the
solution Of the social question. They
who seek complete solution Of the |
woman question must therefore join |
hands with those who have inscribed |
upon their banner the solution Of. the |
social question in the interest Of man
kind" - !
The trade union is the only insti-
tuition that has made the full equality
OF women, their liberation from every
form Of dependence and oppression, [
an integral part of it's program. not
for reasonsof propaganda, but from |
necessity. For there can be no liber-
alton Of mankind without SOCIAL. in
dependence and equality Of the sexes"