The sun., 1918-09-24
No Time for Leisure When
Labor Is Needed, Defence So
ciety Aids Are Told.
SPECIAL PLEA TO RICH
Carry On Work of Men at
Front Despite Industrial
Strikers. Militant Says.

writing that Miss ELISABETH Narpury'
head of the womens National Commit
tee Of the American Defense Society. is
going to work In the shipyards at HOG
Island, but her enthusiastic applause
when Mrs Emmehne Pankhurst. In
meeting at the Princess Theatre yester-
day told her that II was her duty TO do
so, indicated that she would not shirk
the call of patriotism.
or course Mrs Pankhurst didn't aim
her advice at Miss Marbury alone. She
included the whole theatre full OF women
members OF the A. d. s. most'y-and
beyond them she meant all American
women who are not already at work. II
they don't take up the tools at Hog ISL
and they must take them up somewhere,
she declared. and follow the example OF
English women who are filing the places
OF their men at war,
The reason the English militant spoke
Of Hog Island. she said, was that dis
oueting news OF the situation there had
come to her just as she left her hotel
for the theatre.
81 heard that the promised number of
ships would not be forthcoming from
Hog Island" she told the women. "As
you know, our first reverses on the west
ern front. the reverses we met pe1ore
your soldiers came to Join us. were due
to lack Of ammunition. And the lack OF
that was due to the shortage OF labor
How English Women Won.
.In those early days the women who
wished to go into nunition factories ana
ehipyards met with all sorts OF objec-
tions. Lloyd George then our able Min
lister of Munitions, In trying to back
them met with the prejudice Of the en-
ployers against women in the factories.
met the opposition of the trade unions !;
and he made no Roadway until the
woman's party organized a parade OF
women, $4,000 strong. women OF all
ranks, from duchesses to charwomen.
and marched direct to him and demanded
that the doors OF munition works and
shipyards be open to women.
What Englishwomen do you can do.
Nine-tenths of the shells our troops send
against the Germans are made by
women. Women are doing everything
that men do in our shipyards. A re-
eponsible ship builder told me that he
could build a warship throughout with
woman labor Now. you women before
me. i assume are women OF leisure.
Your being here in the afternoon indi-
Gates that. 1 want to say that it is
because the women OF leisure in Eng
land have gone to work in factories and
shipyards side by side with laboring
women that we have such loyalty from
the lateral least II Ia one reason.
They see that titled women and women
OF wealth don't shirk the tasks which
they. the working women. are perform
Ing. And the wealthy women take their
wages. but mostly they turn the money
over to some war service.
More and more your country will be
depleted of men. AS for England, our
best men are all gone. They went when
we made the mistake You have avoided
that of raising an army by voluntary
enlistment. But your shops will be de-
Dleted, and you women must take hold
There is no greater patriotic service
you can perform than that OF getting
right into the Industrial and political
situation.
Loyalty of Workers.
women are able and willing to work
far more willing than those men who
get jobs in shipyards to avoid military
service. Our English women workers
don't strike. Let the men down tools
they say-that Is our phrase for strik-
ing-Let 'em down tools; we'll work for
them"
Women with ability to speak and to
influence people could do no better ser
vice than by combating Bolshevkism in
munition and shipbuilding centres, she
declared. MY trips through those CEN
tres show me that you have the same
peril that has Swallowed us in England
Depend upon 1t. these strikes are engi-
neered. In England we never had such
good wages, but never was there such
unrest among the workers. Doesn't that
prove that there Is some force at work
saying to workers: Now is your time to
down those who rule over you to get
your rights &C.?
1T isn't the old trade union men who
advise strikes. Some of them admit that
the situation Is often beyond them No.
this discomfort ia fomentet by groups OF
young men in the factories. Young men
OF special type. who have somehow
managed to get immunity from military
service IN England We found that a
good many OF them had been keeping
saloons before the war. II the young
men OF this type could be cleared out
and put into the army II would be a very
good thing. That is what President VIII
son is undertaking to do. OF course, but
sometimes these Bolsheviki are very
hard to get at You women who can
speak can do no better thing than to 10
out and combat this German propa-
sanda.
Menace of Bolsbevikism.
Don't think YOU are immune from the
that the Government of Russia was very
strong; now Russia is a chaos and Rus
-r-ns who thought they were safe from
want for life are glad to do the meanest
jcne TO earn a crust OF bread. A small
minority. II II gets control of tho ma
chipery of government. can do much
harm. II Is for us TO arm ourselves
against these enemies within our gates
" we propose TO win the war and keep
our pledges TO the smaller peoples of
Europe"
Mrs. Pankhurst said she was going
home soon to join the campaign the
Woman's party will make against the
Labor Nationalist- Socialist parties at
tempt to down Lloyd George in the fall
elections" She told the audience that IL
the women's vote could do IL, Parliament
would he eleansed OF "all those let us be
kind TO Germany after the war men, all
the business with Germany as usual
after the war men. all those who were
not firm for the kind OF peace President
Wilson had outlined"
After the lecture Mrs. Thomas Slack
an active member OF the New York City
Federation OF Women's Clubs, rose &c
suggest that the women ought to gel
after the German propaganda that 4,
being taught to little American children
In their school books.
II was looking through my little boys
books which he studies at the publ,
school," she said. "and / was dlsmayet
at some of the things I found In n new
geography. revised In 1916 from ar
earlier edition. the children are told tina,
In order to hold It's present boundarIe.
Germany must be ready to defend her
Il.