Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1916-06-23
NATIONS LABOR
PROBLEM
OVER A MILLION AND A HALF
WOMEN WORK AS FARM HANDa
IN THE UNITED STATES.
ey Peter Radford

The legislatures. md which. whom
erou I'D, will shake this nation from
crni,r to circumference. and make
civilization hide its face In shame
That problem ls-women in the field.
The last federal census reports
chow We nov have 1.bl4,OO0 women
tcr-ing in the field. most OF them
c"rth OF the Mason and Dixon line.
fbere we're approximately a million
oeero slaves working In the Ids
t'~r liberated by the emancipation
proclamation. We have freed our
Clnves and u women have taken
theIr places in bondage. We have
broken the shnckles on the negroes
ard wolded them upon our daughtera.
The chaIn.oana az Civilization.
4 million women In bondage I'm the
e~"thern fields form the chnin.rang OF
civilization the In1nstrInI tragedy
or the age. There ia no oyerseer ouIte
90 cruel as h n Of unrestrnined greed.
90 whIp that stinRs like the lnah of
mbornad destiny. and no au~ctIoneer's
b,ock cutie 20 revolving ma that OF or.
aanIzed ayarloe.
The president OF the United states
ans recently landed nv tho press. and
tSrv pronerlv al. for suggestinV medI.
Alton between the aud rail.
eoad IN adiusting thelr
schedule OF time and nav. The on-i
neers threatened 10 strike ~ their
eape we're not Increased from nm
Nroximately ten 10 eleven dollars per
law and service reduced from ton 10
eirht hours and n similar readiust.
nent OF the overtime acheduIe. Our
Vomen ara working IN the field. rapr-
a. them ~barefooted. for isqr IAN 80
cents per day. and tne,r achee.;, IN
Che rising sun and Ia, evening altar.
and after the davis work IA over they
milk the COWS. slop the hogs and rock
the baby 10 sleep. In anyone medIat.
ING oyer their urobiems and =. .hom
shall they threaten a atrika1
ConRreaa has ilatened approyinstv
n those who toll at the forge and be-.
hind the counter. ana many OF our
statesmen have smiled NJ the threats
and have famed the fame of unrest
among industrial laborers. But WON
en- are as surely the Anal Victims 81
Industrial warfare as they are the
burden. benrers In the war between mn.
tons. and those who arbif-ate and
mediate the differences between tnuL
Gal and labor shoulo not FORGET that
when the expensea Of anv industrv ara
unnecessarily Increased, society 'oots
tie b,iI by drafting n new CONSIGNMENT
Of women from the home 10 the field
plnen no crumb From Women's Crust
81 Bread.
No financial award can be mace
Vitnout aomeone footing the hill and
e. commend to those who accept the
responsibility of the distribution Of ia
austriai Justice. the still small voice Of
one woman in the field as she pleads
CIR mercy. and we beg that thew pinch
90 crumb from her crust of bread or
out another patch upon her ragged
Rnrments.
We beg that they listen 10 the
scream OF horror from tie eagle on
Every American dollar that is wruns
from the brow OF toiiing women and
hear the Goddess OF Justice hlsa AZ .
verdict that increases the want az
VomAn TO satisfy the greed Of man.
Tho women behind the counter and
n the factory cry aloud for sympathy
and the press thunderu out in their
aefense and the nulpit pleads for
mercy. but how about the woman Ia
ne Geidf WIN not these powerful
Gponents Of human rlshta turn theit