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(IVE million American worn-
Fa en and children are work
I ing in gainful occupations.
inree muuou oi mese la
bor outside the home.
These women workers are
handicapped by their
physical weakness and un-
I I Pi accustomed environment.
E I Yet they-have entered our
sharply competitive indus
trial system, and must
often take up single-handed a strug
gle for existence in which the war
ware is no less sharp because the
weapons are the tools of manufacture
and the stake the supply or failure of
their daily bread.
The fact that they have been able
to do this without loss of virtue, and
with an increasing degree of justice
from the men who are their competi
tors and employers proves chivalry
to be something more than a beautiful
dream of the past.
The great army of men represent
ed by the American Federation of
Labor are pledged to the fulfillment I
of these vows, not only by the ties
which the human heart holds most
sacred, but by the fundamental prin
ciple underlying the organizations.
and the stern economical necessity
that gives persistence and force to all
their efforts.
Whose little ones gather the spools
and watch the endless threads of the
cotton mills, or run to and fro on
the countless errands of the great
stores? These are not the carefully
protected children of the capitalist or
professional man. The frail young
girl who stands long hours behind
the counter or sacrifices health and
eyesight in some basement work room
Is the daughter and sweetheart of a
wageworker. In proportion as the
conditions surrounding the working
man's life become less brutalizing, his
finer human sentiments urge him to
insist on the protection of those
bound to him by the tenderest of hu
man ties.
The labor organizations are not
only pledged to the protection of
women and children workers by these
most primitive and potent of human
ties, but by ideals that give deeper
meaning to the movement.
Economists assure us that wages
are largely determined by the stand
ard of comfort demanded by the
workers. The high standard of the
American workman is threatened, not
alone by the competition of foreign
ers, unable to adopt it, but also by
the more insidious inroads due to
child labor, or to some forms of fe
male competition. How is - a child
whose immature mind and body have
been stunted by the deadening round
of machine tending to learn pride of
race or attain the manly vigor neces
sary to claim and defend the priv
ilege of his class? Occasionally one
of exceptional strength may overcome
the difficulties of his youth, but the
majority grow up to reinforce that
class of incompetents, mentally, mor
ally and physically, who prove heavy
burdens within the unions, or with
out them menace their fellow-work
men more seriously by their short
sighted readiness to accept the lower
standard against which the unions are
struggling.
Dr. Englemann, in a recent in
vestigation of the health of women of
the professional and working classes,
finds that women who have undergone
the severe mental training necessary
for a professional career suffer much
less from the ills peculiar to women
than the working girls, with their
long hours of standing and confine
ment. Direct observers, like the Van
Vorsts, lay great emphasis on the uni
versally unsanitary conditions under
which women work, and the resulting
prevalence of anaemic and distorted
physiques. These women will be the
mothers of the next generation of
American workmen. The most ef
fective and far-reaching efforts . to
promote class and national welfare
will begin with their protection.
In the closing paragraphs of an ar
ticle In the Annals of the American
Academy of Political and Social
Science, Walter Macarthur says:
"The attitude of the American
trade unionist is that of appeal to the
spirit of independence and to a reali
zation of the truth that the workers
are themselves the sole repository of
power to better their lot. The solemn
lesson of history, to-day and every
day of our lives, is that the workers
must depend upon themselves for the
improvement of the conditions of la
bor." Aside from inherited incapacity for
organization, women have been de
terred from any systematic and per
sistent effort to better their condition
as workers by the feeling that theii
employment was but a temporary ex
pedient, from which they would be re
leased by marriage. While this
must continue to be true of a large
number of women workers, still as a
class there can be no question of the
permanence of their position in the
industrial world or of the necessity
of developing the higher altruism
which shall prompt temporary work
ers to guard the interests of less for
tunate sisters, whose lives depend en
tirely on their conditions of work.
Notwithstanding these drawbacks to
organization on the part of the women,
their influence has not been entirely
wanting in the organizations of the
past. They were admitted on equal
terms with the men in the old English
crafts guilds, and seem to have re
ceived full recognition, both in the con
trol of the affairs of the guild and in
the consumption of ale. -
Women's unions were not unknown
in the early annals of the English
trades unionism. We hear of them as
early as 1833. To quote from history
by Sydney and Beatrice Webb: : "Nor
were the women neglected. The grand
lodge of Operative Bonnet Makers vies
in activity with the miscellaneous
grand lodge of the Women of Great
Britain and Ireland, and the Lodge of
Female Tailors asks indignantly
whether the Tailors' order is really go
ing to prohibit women from making
waistcoats. Whether the Grand Na
tional Consolidated Trades Union was
responsible for the lodges of Female
Gardeners and Ancient Virgins, who
afterward distinguished themselves in
the riotous demand for an eight-hour
day at Oldham, is not clear."
While women have been admitted
to membership in the older, more con
servative men's unions for over 20
years, their greatest advance in num
bers and influence has been during
the last ten years. To-day women not
only sit as members in the central
labpr unions of the great cities, but
also exercise the full rights of dele
gates in the American Federation of
Labor. They have not received such
recognition in any other national or
ganization of men.
That this great central body has
complete faith in a wise use of what
ever power they may help put into
the hands of women is proven by the
adoption of the following resolution
in favor of woman suffrage; which
was introduced by Vice President
Duncan at the 1903 meeting:
"Resolved, That the best interests
of labor require the admission of
women to full citizenship as a matter
of justice to them and as a necessary
step toward insuring and raising the
scale of wages for all."
The labor organizations have dis
covered that the principles of union
ism are as applicable to consumption
as to production; they are trying to
influence the demand for the finished
product, as well as the condition un
der which it is made. They hope to
do this by means of the union label.
In the recently published prize essay
on the subject Macarthur says: "The
union lpbel enlists and arms in labor's
cause those elements which determine
the issue of every cause in civilized
society, namely, the women and chil
dren. In many places there are women's
union label leagues organized to pro
mote the demand for union-made
goods.
"The instincts of woman and the
interests of labor are conjoined in the
union label. Both stand for cleanli
ness, morality, the care of the young,
the sanctity of the home; both stand
against strife and force. The union
label' makes woman the strongest, as
she is the gentlest of God's creatures.
One has only to look over the rec
ords of the American Federation of
Labor to realize that the labor organi
zations are unqualified in their con
demnation -of child ' labor. Over ten
years ago President Gompers declared
"the damnable system which permits
young and innocent children to have
their very lives worked out of them
in factories, mills, workshops and
stores is one of the very worst of labor
grievances, one which the trade unions
have protested against for years, and
in the reformation of which we shall
never cease our agitation until we
have rescued them and placed them
where they should be, in the school
room and the playground." Since
then the president and delegates have
repeated and indorsed these senti
ments so often that they are now
looked upon as axiomatic, the last
committee on the president's report
remarking, "that the child belongs in
the school and on the playground in
stead of in the workshop and factory
is as well known and recognized by
those not blinded by personal inter
ests as is the multiplication table.'
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The water heater is a
most important thing at
any season of the year.
You can use our Gas Wa
, ter Heater independently,
and have hot watr in
stantaneously, or you can
attach it to a tank and
heat a supply sufficient
for a week's washing.
You can heat "'r
8 Gallons for II Cent
which means a bath for
about 4 cents. " Besides,
you don't have to wait
for the water to get hot
It is on Deck in Thirty Seconds.
if you have not a Gas
Range you need one for
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en is almost the living
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wife, and if she can elim
inate two hours of time,
the labor of carrying coal,
building fires, carrying
ashes and cleaning up the
litter, it goes far to
make life worth living-
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My hens lay as high aa 900 eggs a year. I have a few fine eockrella
left. They are beauties.
EGGS $1, $2 and $3, SETTING OF 15.
Won more firit prizes at Nebraska State Poultry Show last February
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