Evening star., 1915-05-19
was paving the food bills of the stat
militia
Darrow Completes Testimony.

barrow completes 1eSt1mony.
| Clarence S. Darrow, who defended the
Mcnamara brothers in the Los Angeles
| dynamiting case completed his testi-
! mony before the commission yesterday y
| afternoon.
| Mcnamara thought he was doing
! something for the common good when
| he blew up the Los Angeles Times y
said the lawyer. He risked his life be-
| ing at it from his own standpoint he
was martyr
Il hope to see him pardoned some
day said Darrow. "and think it is
pretty near time he should be-
James A. Emery Witness.
James A. Emery of the National AS
sociation of Manufacturers follow ed
| Darrow on the stand He remarked that
Mcnamara received fees for his dyna
mite jobs. and added that he supposed
even martyr had his perauisites y
Mr.. Emery said that were he laborer
he would far rather be subject to the
Industrial laws of America than those
of Great Britain.
Mr.. Emery asserted that every trade
union as we'll every employers or
ganiZation should he made responsible
III /,
had served 4 very important purpose
commissioner OConnell read into the
record a letter from Secretary of La Dor
wilson. denying q statement by Walter
Ore" of the National Erectors' Asso-
cation. that the Department of Labor
was used in the interest of the CLOSED
shop. Secretary Wilson said the de-
pa rtment handled cases in the interest
OF labor where closed shops or open
shops We're involved or where there
was no organiZa ton
In Il letter addressed to the commits
sion. Mrs. Flora Mcdonald Thompson
of Washington pleaded the cause Of 1In-
organized women. She urged the com
mission to make two recommends tions
to Congress. First. that the Secretary
of Labor be directed to make a report
on the conditions of housework con-
sidered as an element of the cost of
living, and. second, that nationa
maternity commission be created to
report to Congress the conditions of
! womans work in the home considered
as cause OF infant mortality, race
suicide, divorce and prostitution
Mrs. Thompson's Letter.
In her letter Mrs. Thompson said:
The wage question battles solution
until economic value shall be definitely
attributed to the work of wives in the
| home. 1t is ascribed to the virtue OF
womanhood that wives may be worked
to death in the home That is an eco
nomic error from which capital and
labor both suffer. 1t should be possible
to value and condition the work OF
women in the home with respect to eff
ciency the same as any work done in
| shop or factory. 1t is a loss to the
| wealth. OF the nation to permit the
sweating of wives in the home and
only as it is made possible to value and
| eliminate that loss can it become pos
| sible to eliminate another loss to the
nation proceeding from the same cause
the shirking of wives.
There are women who regard matri-
mony as divinely instituted means
whereby the weaker vessel is permitted
to get a living for nothing; those won
en- married shirk work and they shirk
maternity. The situation of those won
en- constitutes a problem of unemploy-
| ment that will be regulated only after
| economic value has been definitely at
| tributed to the work of wives and erfi
| cheney demanded of women in the home
| the same of men in the shop"