New Britain herald., 1915-03-17
Men HEAR
SUFfRACE TALKS
u, Senator and Representatives
Address Labor Mass MceIinQ.

E@A ne question u woman SURFACE was
ut torn to tatters at the union labor
nRss meeting in Carpenters hall on
AEhurch street last night as some who
Eattended had fondly hoped. The
officers of the Central Labor union
agreed to give the ladies each GER
tain amount Of time and to permit of
no extended debate. AS a result the
usual statements for and against
woman suffrage and it's relation to the
labor question were made.
Miss Emily Pierson of Cromwell,
the prominent state suffrage worker,
explained that the low wages PAID
women will sooner or later lead TO an
underwriting of the mems wages A
demand for higher wages cannot be-
come effective without organization
and a club for that organization to.
WELD. The club is the vote.
When Mayor Mcclellan OF New
York was appealed to by the women
workers of the city, said Miss Pierson,
he said: cit not Interested in work
ing women "Now," said Miss Pier
son, turning to Mayor George A. Quig-
Icy who was sitting on the platform.
mo mayor would say that to thirty
thousand voters, would he:''
The labor organizations in New
Britain, as well as elsewhere, said
The speaker, have all Endorsed woman
suffrage
The ''Anti" Argument.
1--WE don't want equality; We want
more and we are honest enough to
say So was the statement of Miss
Dorman. the speaker for the anti
si1ffragette cause We'll get special
privilege Jaws in all the states if the
woman suffra gists will only let us
alone.''
Miss Dorman insisted that she rep
resented the two types Of women for
whom the vote is especially sought
the working woman and the old maid
and neither needed the vote. Only
ten per cent of the women in the
United States over thirty years Of age
are single. she said, and only six per
cent of those over sixty-five have been
unable to find a husband. This
means she said that while there is
life there must be hope, for there are
only six chances Of getting away from
the burden of a husband to ninety
four chances of getting one
The United States therefore, is the
married woman's country. The rela-
ton of woman to labor is transient
ard the relation of men is entirely
different. It is a waste of energy
t., have two do the work Of one. If
g. wife votes with her husband, as
the speaker claimed eight per cent. of
the women will do, the result is in
efficiency If she votes against her
hoo oil will
the married man.
Mayor Gives Approval.
The big noise Of the evening as
far as interesting statements were
concerned, was Sol Sontheimer,
second vice president of the State
Federation of Labor, of Hartford.
Sol was Simply astounded to find that
you have a mayor who is such a good
friend of union labor and that, too,
in a city in which uniosim is far be-
low the level" mayor Quigley, in
short opening speech, told the union
men that he had put his stamp Of ap-
prevail on labor organizations.)
Mr. Sontheimer said ne had been
unsuccessful in his efforts to organize
union among the moulders and the
machinists in New Britain but said
that now LABOR mao a Splenulu OppOT-
tunity. Mind you,' he added, you
have your mayor behind YOU
Sol said he came from the west and
had learned union principles from
Samuel Gompers. In Connecticut, he
said, property rights are the big
sa cred thing and human rights are
secondary The speaker had had his
ire aroused by the statements OF an
attorney at a hearing in Hartford dur
ing the day and, without mentioning
the name of the particular attorney,
he called him beef stew politician
and "a parasite and feeder at the po-
litical pie counter" Similar epithets
were found for the members of the
legal profession. eff it is a good law
he said, sthe lawyers know where
there are certain powers that will
make a gold brick out of it..
The workingmens compensation
law was the center of discussion on
the part of the speakers. 1t was
touched upon by Sol Sontheimer, who
told his audience that the act was
the result of political accident and