The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1920-09-04
AN APPEAL TO
W0MIEN'SPR|DE
|ioW Women Can Serve Their
Own Interests and Why They
Should Do So,

How to get the wives of union men
interested in the union label and the
union labor movement, has ever been
perplexing question. Anna Fitz-
gerald, president of the Woman's In
ternational Union Label league and
Trade Union auxiliary, believes she
has found way. She has issued an
appeal to working women and to the
wives, mothers and other dependents
OF union men to join her organiza-
ton. This is how she puts it:
The league is a voluntary associa-
ton which admits to embership
women. regardless of occupation. It
also accepts men, but without vote.
The initiation fees and dues are with
in the reach of all.
Boosts Onion Goods.
".The chief. objects are to prom ote
the sale and consumption Of union
| made products, regardless of craft or
calling, to- be helpful in advancing
the sale Of goods made in sanitary
work shops. to secure better wages
and shorter hours for women who
may work at trades not yet organiz-
ed, and to be helpful in building and
STRENGTHENING all labor and industrial
| organizations. 1t is strictly non-par-
| tisan and non -sectarian, and well
comes all within it's ranks who would
assist the workers to establish bet
ter social and economic state for
themselves, their families and de-
pendents.
AS the shop conditions, of the
bread winner of the family improves,
as wages increase, and hours grow
shorter, just IN that proportion will
the home and social conditions of the
whole family improve and grow bet
! ter.
I'm trades unions, all agree, we
find the. only means whereby this
can be accomplished. Trades unions,
which keep vital statistics, have de-
| monstrated through them that the
lives of the wives and mothers Of
union men have been prolonged since
the advent of the short hour work
day, and fair wages and better treat
ment in sanitary workshops, all
brought about by trades union ef-
forts. What woman will deny that
little children should be kept in
school instead of being forced into
the factories? None, and none can
successfully deny that it was the
trades unions which took the first
steps that finally led to legislation
prohibiting child labor. -,
Better wages for the head Of the
family means better home and liv-
ing for wives, mothers, sisters and
helpless children; hence it is to your
direct interest and material welfare
as we'll as your duty to: assist in
| maintaining the union.
The Family Purse.
women spend the major portion
| Of the family income in purchasing
the daily necessities. The earning
D4Kcr-the provider. has a. right to
EXPECT: that she will spend money
union wages-received through ira
des union efforts, for union made
wcducts, and goods made under sa-
| nitary conditions by fair inclined en-
ployers, and where women do this We
| have shown they help themselves
and the whole family, and at the
same time perform duty they owe
, TO, themselves
IF you believe in maintaining rea-
! sonable hours for the workers in the
! factory, as well as for yourself in the
home, become one of us. If you be-
heve in keeping the little children in
the schools and the Fairgrounds, ana
thus developing a more sturdy race
! OF men and women. instead of having
them competing with fathers in the
shops. underconditions that stunt the
growth, often lower the standard of
morality, and frequently resulting in
premature deaths, do your xshare to-
ward maintaining the unions. -
III you believe in a fair livinx, .
good home. better clothing for your
self and the children, instead of let
ting :, 1t all so to the favored few,
then do your plain duty by joining
the j, j: SWoman's international Union
Label league. .sz.s9 Il. III. 5sss..
The wives, mothers and sisters Of
i trades untonists constitute an ire