The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-11
COUNTESS OF WARWICK URGES
WORKING CLASS TO ITS DUTY
IN REPOPULATlNG WORLD
Many Children Must Be Brought Into World BY Working
Women and the Fathers Must Secure For Them Fair
and Proper Share of Conditions Producing
Best Citizenship.

worlds work TO be carried m. So
much then, for one aspect of tho case;
there is "a larger one with which j
should like 10 deal
The Larger Aspect.
1t is not to be expected that The dis
nal conditions OF so much labor are
more than temporary. We all believe
in a better world OF our own making,
in n steady reduction Of the anomalies
that in Great Britain for example, dis
/ tribute nine-tenths of the neutral
wealth among about 10 per cent OF the
population. Such condition G. mot
endure
Legislation beng directed by the
possessing classes whose chief ann and
object in life Is to continue to POSSESS,
will hardly avail to bring about rapid
or startling changes. 1t is impossible
for the rich to understand the CLAIMANT
needs Of the poor, just as II Is !mpos-
sible for the man who has neve. had
less than three meals in day TO enter
far into the feeling Of those who have
often been forced to content them
selves with two, or even one. It fol-
lows then, that if labor Is tc com into
it's rights 1t must be strong enough to
demand them. The strength required
lies first in numbers and then III or
ganization The trade unions are. in
all probability, the medium, anS the
only medium through which a ~ ace
full solution of the points at issue be-
tween capital and labor Is pos &ible.
who recruit the unions? The work
ers OF all countries, the starving psnu-
rious mem hope in the near future
It will DO possible to write me and
women and leave "penurious' 1t
the people who do the bulk of the
worlds work who pay REM lnte' est,
profit and heaven knows what else TO
the Capitalistic ciasses. and only when
these payments are made find their
own poor claims considered,
+ Discomfort Is the motive power OF
progress. 1t has in the past maze free
men OF slaves ard serfs II has abol-
ished the worst phases of child labor,
1t has cleared away slums, y has
raised wages and forced holidays and
widened on all sides the narrow ooln-
daries OF freedom.
Content Would Halt Progress.
One has heard of divine discomfort
and the adjective pleases me nightly
for there is nothing so dangerous to
the future Of worker as content with
the conditions that do not give them
what they have rightly earned. on
tent Is very much like apathy; II
marks tho end Of progress. II the
wives Of worl.ingmen were to refuse
to 10 their duty--that Is to say. Il they
were not better than their richet sis
ters-there would soon be an end to
discomfort, and is consequently 10 pro-
gress.
The great numbers of the workers.
10 which the friends of progress must
look. These numbers assure 81 eater
produCtiveness, II larger output OF all
that the world needs and an evei lin
creasinE share for those who's" hard
labor keeps world work winEing for
ward In short, il may be 3aid that
in the race between those who wish
to retain and those who deserve to
acquire. the signs of the times point
to the success OF the latter, AMI who
shall say that if they have good for
tune, they have not earned =?
II had been concerned with the
prolongation of class supremacy. or
even of the triumph OF plutoc~acy.
should have started a campaign for
the promotion Of a system of large