The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1922-01-06
Cincinnati Employer Says Prop
osal Is Definite Step For Eman-
cipation OF Women In Industry
Feels For Mothers Who Toll

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selves men and women of full stature.
completely developed mentally, NOR
ally and spiritually.
The church lays upon us the duty
of going to service on the Sabbath.
Only Day to Clean House
If woman works six days at a
machine how is she going to church
on the Sabbath? That is the only
day she has to clean house, tidy up
her home, and perhaps do her wash
ing if she is married and has fam
lily. If she is single that is her only
day to meet her friends and seek rest
and recreation, and she is not apt to
be overzealous about going to a
church that does not lift up it's voice
against these injustices. If she is en-
tirely dependent upon herself she uses
the Sabbath to take a little beauty
sleep, mend her clothes, do her wash
ing, and in the evening she longs for
amusement; hence is not over Jealous
to pass up a theatre to go to church.
There is another point that / would
have no one overlook. We profess
to have religious liberty in this coun-
try, and perhaps we have in political
theory, but in this, like many other
things, what our laws say and what
our industries do are two different
things.
Privilege of Sabbath
Our laws allow every man the priv
ilege of observing the Sabbath which
he believes conscientiously to be right,
but our industries say the Seventh
Day Adventists, Seventh Day Bap-
fists, and orthodox Jews, you cannot
observe what you believe to be the
Sabbath of the Lord your God and
hold position in our place.
When we put our factories on a
five-day week basis, we will make re-
ligious liberty reality in industry.
Our churches will never be filled
on the Sabbath as long as our women
workers have to work six days, but
when Saturday becomes holiday the
women can do the tasks on that day
that they have been doing on the Sab
bath and still have day for rest and
spiritual development. If they do not
have the obligation of home they
can use Saturday as day of recrea-
ton, then perhaps there would be
some justification in asking that our
places of amusement be closed on
Sunday. But so long as that is the
only day that our working people
have for recreation, my voice shall be
raised without qualification against
all blue laws, or anything that would
restrict the pleasure of the laboring
people for this one day.
Voice Against Injustice
| have more respect for the preach
er who raises his voice against the
injustice of our industrial system"
, than for the one who argues that we
ought to close our amusement places
on Sunday.
A question will be raised in the
minds of some regarding the proper
hours for men workers We are not
entering into a discussion at this
time regarding that feature About
IS per cent of our workers are wo-
men and our duty toward them is SO
obvious that we cannot even stop to
argue what the hours of men should
be. | am proposing for all our week
workers a 40-hour week.
Now, fellow workers, there is one
thing that l want to bring very for
chilly to you, and that is that no bless
ings come to US without obligations
The eyes of the world are now upon
us, and the first question that the
world is going to ask is how are the
Nash workers spending this extra
time. Yes, they are even going to
want to know whether you go to
church on the Sabbath and if there is
the least ground for any one truth.
fully or maliciously to say that this is
harmful rather than helpful to your
selves, then our efforts will all be in
vain.
Now, in taking this first step to-
ward the emancipation Of the wornar
workers in industry, appeal to yor
all, men and women alike, to use This
extra time for the greater happiness
of your homes, the better care ane
education of your children and the
Improvement of yourselves and Of the