The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1917-06-04
NEW ORDER FOR
WORLDS WOMEN
THE WAR OVERTURNS ECONOMIC
CONDITIONS IN ALL NATIONS,
SPEAKER DECLARES.
EQUALITY DEMANDED
Most Far Reaching Transformation,
Woman Worker Tells WOmen's Trade
Unions, Is In Industrial Field, Which
Has Almost Been RevOlutionized.

Kansas City, June 4.-Pleading for
loyal support of the federal government
and declaring that a new social and
economic order is emerging in every
land and that new internationalism Is
coming through the suffering of man
kind, Mrs. Raymond Robins Of Chicago,
president of the National Women's
Trade Union League of America, ad
dressed the annual convention of that
body here today. She thought the world
was in the midst Of test Of labor's
three greatest principles - democracy,
recognition Of the worth of labor, and
uplift of woman. She spoke in part as
follows
Democracy is a truth for which we
have labored and suffered; the right Of
individual freedom and self.government
| is said to be the whole purpose of our
armies and all those fighting in the
allied cause.
"As to the worth Of labor, it is every
| where acknowledged that the issues OF
this great struggle will be determined
I 10y the producers Of the world. The
/ days of supermen-the Napoleons and
Caesars-haye gone, never to return,
and whether in the trenches or in the
shop, and mine and field, the workers
bear the burdens Of the war.
Great Hour for Woman.
But wonderful as this hour is for
democracy and labor, it is the greatest
hour in history for the women Of the
world. After centuries Of discrimina-
| ton women are coming into the labor
and festival of life on equal terms with
men. Woman's labor in the fields feeds
the soldiers on the firing line. Won.
ans labor in factories and mills feeds
the cannon in the trenches. Woman's
labor in shops and stores feeds the
homes Of Europe.
Canada, Russia, America and even
England should have an enfranchised
womanhood when this war is over. But
II Is in the Industrial and economic field
that the world war will mark the most
far.reaching transformation in the con
dition of women. From casual TO per
manent, from unskilled and unimport
ant TO trained and essential factors In
the economic life OF the world, this vii
be the effect Of the war in the condition
OF the working women Of the western
nations.
when we remember that even lr
times OF peace women were working IL
295 trades and occupations out OF tn,
3O3 listed by the census, and that be
fore the war they were serving a
chauffeurs, engineers. Marconi opera
tors and aviators, we can well imagine
what further development OF woman!
work and woman's power Will b
brought about by the withdrawal o.
two million men from American indus
try. At this very time men are beinl
dismissed In certain industries and WON
en- are engaged TO MI their places, It 4
claimed as a preparatory war measure
Urges Training for Girls.
Trade and technical training 70
women is OF the utmost importance
I England recognized this by providing
such training 10 her women after IN
first months Of the war We must Dc
mand that In the new development
OF public school education, girls b
given the same chance as their brother
FOR training in knowledge and master
OF their respective trade"
Mrs Robins closed by saying that IN
womens trade unions should give "unii
ed loyalty to this government in SUI
port Of It's war for democracy" tina
It should unite to maintain and extern
its standards In industry and shoul
work for the enfranchisement Of won
on and she quoted President Wilson a
follows.
1--WE are fighting FOR democracy In
I larger sense than can be expressed 4
any political term. There are man
forms OF democratic government an
' we are not fighting FOR any particula
form, but we are fighting Tor the o'
sential part OF IL all, namely, that W
are all equally interested In our socls
and political life and an have a righ
TO a voice in the government unde
which We live; and that when men an
women are equally admitted 20 thos
rights we have the best safeguard G
justice and peace that the world al
fords."