Arizona republican., 1916-10-11
ROSE W|NSLOW FINDS ARIZONA
 THE WEST IF HER DREAMS

Rose Winslow tRuza Wenslaw in her native Polish), product of the eastern mills and sweatshops. young crusader for a better day for the working women of this nation, pass ed through Phoenix today, to speak in Globe and Miami. She will return 10 Phoenix for the big womans party mass meeting, which is to be staged in the Y. M. C. A. stadium Saturday night, for the purpose of introducing for the first time to a southern Ari- zona audience, this remarkable Pol ish American girl-orator, poet, social worker. strike organizer. in herself a prediction of the new blood and the new point of view that this American melting pot of the races, is to bring to the future,
 Rose Winslow is very tall almost awkward young woman: she has gray far seeing eyes that seem to be visualizmg wonderful countries just ahead. She wears curiously- cut and quamtly- -colored clothing that smacks of anything but practical America. If Sou comment on these odd and vivid garments she merely says. Why l make them myself because it is cheaD. They are like the peasant clothes of my native land, very sim ple and comfortable. Why should l try ta he anything but what l am? Why indecd'
 Arizona has its magical colors and strange growths-this girl who has spent half her life in the dire pow erty os the eastern slums cannot talk enough Cf the new wonderland she has discovered Back there so many years ago" she confessed naively. when I used every day to be poured
 r1a int those tall gray mills with their cra%ns If filthy smoke, I used to dream of the west. I had gotten hold of some cheap paper backed stories about it. I had heard of bronchos. l didn't know they were just horses. I thought they were some magical purely western animal. and l used 10 imagine myself riding like the Winc over the painted deserts,' across th' rocky canyons I used to walk back and forth before the looms in the terrific roar of machinery, and imag-- inc this country that l didn't think l would ever see. It seems so wonder full 10 me that when l do at last come to the west, the free country useu fo imagine. l come to make an ap- neal for the millions of girls like the sad little girl l used to be-to ap- neal to the men and women of the west 70 stand by eastern women ana heln them to change the shameiui conditions I grew up in.
 ~I have just come from the northern mining camps of this state. l talked also 10 men in railroad shops and on the streets. and women wherever l could reach them. What strikes me about Arizona is that labor in thls state is passionately interested Tn the problems that mean se much to me When the men in the WinsloW railroad shops-where l had been advised not to go because the feeling against the womans party was so hitter--when those men came to me and gripped my hand and said, We want to help you women; tell us what we can dO.' I felt proud Of the Arizona I had always dreamed about. I don't believe that the real laoor men in this state or any other state will 20 back on the women of labor. once they understand. And l am here 10 try to make you people understand
 The people in the camps and the towns | have been in have asked the most intelligent questions l have beer asked since l began speaking for tho woman's party When l told then of the terrible contrast between th' men of labor and the women O. iabor-the men standing shoulder t' shoulder and making their demands and the women-millions of them the mothers of men. paid wages ant forced % live under conditions tha