The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-02-19
PROTECTIVE WORK FOR GIRLS

ing order of the day was approved as
first step:
The congress recognizing the fact
that almost wherever woman has been
called upon to take the place of man
in industries, she has accepted a lower
rate of compensation and that she has
thereby injured her dignity as a human
being and has neglected her duty of
solidarity towards her companion in
labor, lowering the value of mans
work and creating a state of unem-
ployment; recognizing that sweating
the woman IS Furthermore an injustice
to herself and a social injury because
the inadequate compensation does not
allow her to recover lost energy to the
detriment of the future mother; recog-
nizing that for the reasons mentioned
above such questions are less feminist
than they are clearly humanitarian, the
members of the congress pledged it to
an active propaganda to secure for WON.
en- equal salary or equal compensa.
ton for equal work.
| Furthermore, it was brought out
that in recent tests the women have
proved themselves superior to the man
in certain special fields of labor, a fact
! that must be taken into consideration
also for Industrial conditions after the
war; and the right of women to co.
operate in formulating labor laws was
| insisted upon.
Next the necessity was pointed out
! for creating women inspectors and in
! spectorships Immediately even for other
/ than war industries. Emphasis was
laid on the unhappy state Of domestic
servants and it was explicitly requested
, that it should be understood that they
also should be included in the express
sion working women The congress
further took into consideration the
harm done in families by the removal
of the women, and the necessity on the
part of the state to solve the problem
of working at home and to try to de.
eide the recompense they could offer
to the wOmen--to her advantage or her
return home.
In recognition of the participation
of women in the consulting bodies of
the state the vote was approved that
in the composition of the royal com.
missions for the study of conditions
after the war, an equal share be granted
to women
In regard to the establishment of
school loans the following order Of the
day was approved: While we regret the
lack of foresight in the laboring classes
it would be advisable to establish, with
the idea Of making obligatory the in.
stitution of school loans at least for
thse pupils whom the teachers meet
frequently, and so to inculcate in the
children the idea of thrift and Of say
ing, which if practiced on a small scale
in youth grows later into n habit al
ready formed when utilized in adult
life
Finally came another order of the
day, unanimously approved in which
the following demands were made
among others; The extension of the
benefits of the law on labor to include
women and children in all industrial
benefits of the law on labor to include
women and children in all industrial
concerns whatever the number of EN-
ployes, icluding also transfers in serv
ice the obligation to insure all the
categores of women workers in case
of illness, including childbirth and ole
age, to prohibit explicitly, in the laws
on labor of women and children, the
employment of minors of less than six
teen years at theatrical spectacles OF
moving picture establishments; the
extension of certain settlements of dis
putes on social legislation to womer
working at home; recognition and or
dering of appointment offices; intensi
1cation and extension of inspection OF
work with a larger participation on the
part Of women; institution Of a com
mission on arbitraun for domestic ser
wants"