Weekly journal-miner., 1916-11-01
URGES WEST ID HELP DEFEAT
 DEMOCRATS
ROSE WINSLOW MAKES A TOUCHING APPEAL IN BEHALF OF NATIONAL SUFFRAGE PARTY.
(From Saturdays DailYl

young labor Joan of Arc, fired for tn,
 National Woman's party the last ring
 ing shot of this campaign. Some O
 the audience, gathered together unde
 the purple, white and gold banner O
 the Woman's party that decorated
 the theatre, were enjoying a seen,
 that will be part of the political his
 tory of this State. Although tn,
 Eastern envoy, Mrs. Boissevain, Wa
 detained by serious illness in Los An
 geles and obliged to cancel her Ari
 zona dates, her appeal from the vote less woman of the East to the Wes
 was read by Iris Calderhead, ana
 copies of this appeal were distributed
 freely throughout the audience.
 Miss Cory, acted as chairman ir
 the absence of Mrs. E. w. Wells county chairman of the Woman's
 party, and spoke of the splendid fight
 that Mrs. Boissevain made on the
 coast that her Arizona dates might
 not be interrupted; how she had faint ed during her Los Angeles speech
 and was finally forced to give up the idea of making the Arizona trip.
 Rose Winslow plunged immediately into the causes for the existence of the Woman's party.
 ''I look back over that long line of women who went before me-" she cried, ''the martyrs of 6S years. Wom- en who asked in vain and were in suited and scorned, who saw the black man freed and the white woman push ed aside, and I see the hope in this {: we are asking the free woman to free their sisters, we are no longer beg ging as these patient women were forced so humiliatingly to beg.
 We have turned our back at last on the East where we have so long battled against the vicious interests, where we have gone to defeat 2o times in the last 50 years: we have come to the great West which has embodied in so much of its legislation the great principles of freedom, and asking the cooperation of our sisters"
 The girl who grew up as child in the mills of the Eastern industrial centers, made a passionate appeal for the women who mint their own lives into dollars they may never spend, in the crushing factories of cities like Philadelphia and Pittsburg. She told a touching story of the unjust dis crimination suffered against the ignor- ant and foreign-born women-those never welcomed as citizens by pres ident, unable to escape from the gray prison house of their lives.
 With wages lowered because they fnra,nparc ,,Dah1a tA horc,a,, victims of cruel bonus system, she described women victims supporting families on wages that were unheard of in the West The thing that is so hideously unjust, she said, in a coun- try that claims it does not believe in class, IS just the fact that the employ CT can use his influence to lobby against the women of labor and keep them from even hearing. Often the voteless women making the fight for shorter hours, or minimum wages, are not even allowed hearing.
 When l appeared before the legis- lative committee of labor and indus try in my own State," the speaker said, ''the protesting chairman who did not want my appeal to be heard, said, what right has this woman in this legislature" Yet I, all of us had right, according to him, in working unbearable hours under unbcarablc conditions in the mills of that State.
 If you men of the West could only realize what happened to the oppress- ed women of labor in the East When they arc hungry and cold in the pick ct line, they are compelled to listen to the whisper of the white shaver them with meals and warmth
 and comfort. There is always price on a woman. The fact that we accept these hideous facts, that we let such conditions exist without lifting our voices in protest, Is unbelievable. Yes, we freed the black man in the South, but what are we doing to free these exploited wretched children: President Wilson tells us to wait little while and talks about moons and tides. We have waited for more than 50 years"
 On the question of the child labor bill, Miss Winslow said: Tt is more to conserve the mothers of the race, to give them the power to protect themselves and their children, than to pass compromise child labor bill
 She went on to show that women had worked for child labor legislation for 20 years, to be handed a measure but l50,000 children govern ed by interstate commerce regulations which failed to touch the child slavery of the Gulf States and many sections of the East. She pointed out that the president had not excited himself over the year-old child labor bill un- til the death of the progressive" measures cxpcdient for campaign pur- poses.
 Miss Winslow fired a parting shot on militancy in suffrage, pointing out that people unsympathetic to the Woman's party were cutting down in the most ruthless fashion the banners of this party, tearing down posters their meetings in some of the headquarters, and actually de- the property of the hcadquar- ters. Clearly, said Miss Winslow, the in this campaign is on the part of the opponents of the Federal