Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-20
WARS EFFECT ON womAN,s WORK.

WARo EFFECT ON WOMRN'S WORK.
 In the countries whose men have gone to war women taking their places men swork Thousands and thousands of whose places were in the home there occupied unoccupied are now out in the world in factories mills working policemen streetcar con ductors deivery-van drivers, railway ticket collectors station porters and in all of occupations formerly considered sacred to the masculine element
 What will be the effect of this when the war is over?
 One bad immediate effect is that general standard of has been lowered by the change Women who are these occupations new to reckoning their living expenses and levels relation to wages have permitted themselves to make the mistake of taking less money than for the work In some cases of course this justified by the fact of their inexperence in forms of labor requiring skill and practice and in few others by their lack of physical strength But for the most part the work in which they have engaged they are equally efficient, in cases more so than the men they have displaced.
 In the first glow of patriotism and in their nexperence in solidarity with their fellows they have rushed in with out regard to the effect upon wage standards The sheltered woman s by the fact that she lives in her own little shell instead of mixing with her mates in dividualist ignorant the necessity of cooperation She begin the beginning learn the lesson bitterly acquired by men, that permit herself low wages in a separate is to make herself a drag upon the rising her fellows She yet learn that the lowering of individual wages by its pull the standard a pull the living conditions of the whole community.
 workers general learn this before the is and succeed in getting up their wormer level they will done great their coun- tries and to all women with no accompanying harm. u,t many degrees backward and the whole weary road be again
 But another effect is that upon the themselves. Selling ones labor in the open market, doing definite amount of the worlds outer work (outer as opposed the inner, indefinite work of the home) for def mite of money which be touched, handled, which all ones own the fruit of ones endeayor over which no other human being has any right tbority-thats a wine that goes to ones very soul
 Years ago. shortly before left college to earn my lN- ing a wise said to me- Independence my child is not merely a fact Independence is an emotion You will find it is of the most vital emotions in If" " have proved it true, and all financially independent women find it true likewise.
 These women who are now, in their maturity, expert encng that emotion for the first time in their lvescan they go back to their positions of financial seni slavery where no money their own where they never have a penny except by gift?
 It seems unlikely. Most of these women have never heard of the Feminist movement such-and yet they are contributing 10 it the strongest impetus it has yet had from any
 No longer in England refuse the vote to wom en the ground that they do not know the conditions that they are unfit to do Englands work. They arc doing it, and they will easily be cast out from the share They carrying Englands burden as well as men ever did No longer will there be any semblanc' of reason for refusing their just representation the processes Of government
 Financial independence is the very foundation of tho feminist movement The worker women of the warrinl nations are laying the foundation deep and strong