Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-05-08

DANGER TO
WOMEN IS
EMPHASIZED

41lOuSdIl0S Oh x1Sxp0lStICS0
Females Doing Work
of Males.
Hot Springs. Ark. May s.-DAn-
gers to women in industry, suddAnly
plunged into occupations 10 which
they were unaccustomed before the
nations entrance into the war, were
emphasized by Mrs. Minnie U. Ruth
erford-Fuller. social worker graduate
lawyer. and a representative Of Amer
lea at The Hague conference Of WON.
en- who addressed the biennial con
vention Of the General Federation Of
Women's club here yesterday After
sas Women's Christian Temperance
Union and chairman Of legislation HoP
h Arkansas Federation Of Women'1
clubs.
III the strain upon the industrial
and social life of our people before
the wal so far exceeded capacity
to ease its tension that 1t has caused
tragedies which have stained with
blood many pages Of our industrial
history and with dishonor many vol
umes of our social history, what must
~ ASO~be Va ~ er VI "~A
times?" she asked.
Because SO many Of the occupations
are new to women they are devoid Of
the safeguards which have been
slowly built in occupations not new
to women. she added, urging that il
girls could not be kept from mes
senger service they should at least be
excluded from night work; that ele-
'vator girls be guaranteed proper
wnRkfnD Nn~Aft{A~As AAA -A-A- - IL
way and street 4 conductors needed
protection from men rs we'll -
adequate wages: and that Juvenile
courts over the country indicated de
moralization in family life, showing
an increase of from IS per % to IS
per cent in juvenile delinquency.
Arkansas industries had tried to get
minimum wage and maximum hour
law because of the existing ''ener-
gency." she said. and in New York
and other states asu had had. at
times, more than a fighting chance to
go through. "of some of which 1t
might be said that. it authorizes q
child to work from the day Of its birth
at the rate Of "a hours pen day until
the day of its DEATH"
But the evils an be averted and
remedied by men and women working
together, she declared, although for
many of the club women It nay re.
Quire a 24-hour day instead of an g.
hour day. The task she outlined was
to cooperate with all existing agen-
cies in maintaining existing social
standards. lifting higher standards.
living, prohibiting night work for
women and girls and arranging for
such "hour shifte'' for women so that
time will be left to keep the home
fires burning and that wages will be
adequate to keep the fires "~fueled."
Wasted Power.
Hot Springs, Ark, May Point
ing to the vast potential value OF
man-power now going to waste in the
United States through hack of means
to utilize idle forces ins productive
employment and declaring this
timely hour in which Ito give the
Man in the Shadow in our prisons the
proud privilege of contributing to the
Worlds need" Mrs. G. A. Brown Of
Mangum. OKLA, urged delegates to
the biennial convention of the Gener-
al Federation Of Women's clubs to
support a bill already introduced in
congress which seeks utilization Of
the labor Of federal and other prison.
ers in the manufacture of government
supplies, especially those for wal pur-
poses.
Mrs. Brown has advocated many
lines Of prison reform, having had
charge Of that work in the General
a member of the Southern Sociqlogi-
cal Congress and Oklahoma represen-
tative Of the War Board OF the Ma
tional Committee or Prison and Pri-
son Labor.
Work is the prisoners right" she
said" a blessing without disguise to
those, condemned to idleness and soli-
tude. But it should be under condi-
tions which do no debase the state
degrade the prisoner. II. he 10 nov
called to labor for his country as q
form of wal service. the conscious
ness that he is thus squaring his &C.
count with society will bring increas-
ed self-respect and new courage with
which to face the world upon re-
lease 49,
The bill before congress. she said.
has the unqualified endorsement Of
the president Of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor. the secretaries Of
war, Nabor and the navy, the Quarter
master General Of the Army, q repre-
sentative Of the men In the prisons Of
the nation. and Of President Wilson.
It provides, she explained, for the
establishment Of factories in the led
Fort Leavenworth, KAN: and McNeill
Island. WASH, and the equipment Of
the army prison and disciplinary bar
racks for the manufac ture Of supplies
for government 9 Surplus output
could he put or the open market she
pointed out, since the bill provides
prices paid shall be the current prices
dities and that the hours OF labor ana
the rate NJ wa PES shall he those pros