The Nevada County picayune., 1922-04-27

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 tenn 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
 6:J per cent of our workers are women, land our duty toward them is so obyi- ous that we cannot even stop to argue what the hours of men should be l am proposing for all our week work CTS a forty hour week.
 When I put this shorter hour and more pay resolution up to them, | said Now. fellow workers. there is one thing that I want to bring forci- bly, to you, and that is that no bless ings come 10 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 yourselves, then our efforts will all be in vain.
 "In taking this step forward the emancipatio of the women workers i'll industry, I appeal to you all, men and women alike, to use this extra time for the greater happiness of your homes. the better care and education of your children, and the improve ment of yourselves and of the com munity of which you are Il part. Let us each one here resolve to seek every Sabba tn in the church of your own choice. the largest possible interpreta- ion of the Golden Rule which has been our guiding star. and which Jesus declared to be the Law and the Prophets
 Some people have raised this ques- tion about this fiye-day proposition without recognizing that all women workers have twO-fOld job. feel that ought not hold you any longer you have been here two hours-but want to show you that this road that we are travelling is not a bed of roses. and I want to entreat you to remember us in your prayers at all times before the throne of Grace, be- cause we know that our duties are clear I want to read from two or three notes here just to give you an idea of how much bad blood the Gold on Rule can stir up.
 The first is from a minister, of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He sayS. In speaking of the exorbitant prices of clothing to the general public If you would reduce your wages and in crease your hours, il would look little more humane As if reads. II looks to me very much like a band of robbers agreeing on robbing, but to divide the spoils n little more equally among themselves,' Then there is an editorial here from q paper that says, We would suggest hold-up with an equal division Of the spells.
 The minister goes on to say, You can get an abundance of booty in forty hours. and you don't need to work forty-four."
 Now, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers say, This plant in the name of religion and Golden Rule, is pay ing sweat shop wages
 One says that our wages are hlgh. that we are robbing the public, and the other says that we are paying sweat shop wages Gentlemen, l want to say to you that we think of these things not in the light of the harm it does us, because we are going on | just the same. but we think Of the delusion that is going on to the world This minister says that in the mines and on farms they work forty five,
 fifty five and even seventy-two hours.
 I wonder if that man is thinking that the mothers in our factories ought to
 work seventytwo hours week and
 leave their children without mo