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OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.n.v Ciertrude Breslau Hunt in ('ii.fair*• Dnll.v Socialist.In m.v journeying* a* a lecturer I that poverty can lv nlikishcd. I meet over and oxer dozens, exm* : the child prisoners o! toil and hundreds. of times a certain *rti greed liberated, that ruined lives of objections which arc raiwl I*.' may be averted that there is nlt; men and women to our efforts to ; reason why ever.x human being induce women to Join the parti j should not have a full. glad and help emancipate the wot kintr and complete lift save our outclass. After a few years contai 11 worn itidustriaI system, then we with these honest hut thought* I want to help to' our utmost'to less persons I prepared a little I accomplish the change. and it hoineiy preachment for them, he- i must he done by ballots after w* cause we need them and thex art I have islueatetl tht' brain, all about, everywhere, waiting! Socialist party is the political for something to turn up. j expression of the producing elas*. They usually begiti in this fash-j Its founders were profound achoi „ ion. 1 think a woman's place i*iai*s, students of economic and st-I .at home, that xxonn-n have no I rial problems: they know that . ; liusint'ss mixing up in politics : I any helpless (politically* sectioitiiat the Socialist pnrt.x is muk-jof a society can always he used ,r ilig a mistake when it Lak. * th by the master class as a lexer o' t. | uncompromising stand sc ♦ qua 11 increasing exploitation, xvhethci ,t j civil an 1 industrial I i 1»■ • r t; a the helpless section he ties roes.i women as well as men.,j The.v frequcntl.x go on to sa.x • j that women tiout want tlt;' xot,; anywa.x . that the.x don't know : lioxx to xoic. ‘taint in their inn . tare.' and sometimes 1 got tin (. 1 sujrtir-coa ti'l. aati-suffratf, • 11«j. dost* that Voting i- t. o jrreat a I bunion to add tlt; tli si of x\ ir • j mother or shop worker.'Some men wax warmer and te'.i ■me that women liaxe taken tinII jobs of the men and are sealiliinc * upon men's labor.i. Tliis last statement i» mostl.x ,, : true, but I try to ansxxer exer.x | point raised ill as plain c xva.x is they have objectedforeigners, women or children All members of the producing class must be educated to stand and work and str.x.* tugethci for the emancipation of all. Ignorance and indifference pla.x -into the hands of tlm master ' ass. whether ignornnee lt;f women or men. Women arc half oi ttiis elass. How ridieuloiis a?n‘ harmful to wish to keep them ignorant and helpless to protect their children and their class.It cannot he done. Ism’t yoi suppose--know, in fact- that these heroic shirtxvaist and laundry girl strikers have learne*. the same as men strikers thatIi let us have a little patience ami the toilers need to control th I go over the ground together. jiaxvs. executives, courts and th* t,, | As to the idea that a woman's i governmental machinery that isir place is at home. You know, do j now used to beat us into submis-you not. that ideas groxv out o' ; sion?to j material conditions'' ' When the capitalist iiires an I This i*iea came to being xvh'*q ; man to dip. | woman's work was at home.when tier canting spinning, knit-t-e ! ting and weaving. Moving and lm-:,l king, canning and curing, cn *e*c n. I and butter making and the * du-i,, cation ami raising of imr children nt | were ail clone at horn* it is an . i intellectual rag-tug of a long-st I ago time. Men and i„.ishould have a right v ...... work heknoxvs he niust pay the mar enough in wages to enable him t buy f*msi. clotiling and siielter to renew the life energ.x xx liich he has expended: hut when lie turns the man out and puts a woman in. tie knoxvs he can heat her wages bei'ixv the living (mint: that women While mun.x —lie can easily spare work to i a fcxv xvill starve, steal or com-ri. i get tht* necessities *f life, and ndt suicide, a great many ca' I the.v must be where their wark is j lie forc**d out upon tin* street t 1lt;1 ) while they aiv doing it i*f course*. . piece out their precarious living m I All of these labors of women 1 ' We t an, as women, do nothing L,f have mentioned can be done much j about it but talk and write.j faster, even ls*tt**r and cheaper, hence the master class used us to it i w ith our wonderful complex mu-1 brut doxvn the standard of you: t,, chines and with the power of Mixing, men. the standard for the »j. ! steam and electricity. We could xvhole class is lowered That rlt; tb j protluc** all w *• need xx ith these , the soumi pi'incipie oil which this li_ I modern machines and haxo far! position of the Socialist party is „_ ] more l**isu!'«' for our families tintrt . hascd.j_ vx c iuul xx lieu xx*‘ ha*i it all to do | As tlt; women knoxx ing enough. b.x sloxv. unai'1***1 hands, and it is etc. Well my friend* smile at in* Inure unxx'omanl.x work noxx * my way of reasoning uport tic*. l„. ' tlian it was then, if xxe could iiaxc i mur xva.x if you like it. hut here our say about our xxors as xx lid ineaa to liaxe agail it iniit : Right years or more agotiie United States government be that if you ' appointed a com mission to gatli* r the industrial statistics f* xx a'I -; us. At the head of that couiinis-s ,x ou | sion was Carroll D. Wright.Doubtless tlm report was not perfect, but additional reports shoxv it to be not oxp'**tnted. Mr. Wright shoxvi*d us that at that time, before our maehineryn.once had,„„ | However.111**11 hud rxer had sense rlioUgll t*| xote xoui'selx»*s into tinlt ship of the beautiful hoi. have buiUhsl. many of us women ;,f * would he glad to stu.x ia them a n, j great «l**al tuorc.As to our being mixed up mpolitii's you klioxx tlici arc txxo| phases to tins. Voting is not all! was as highly developed ami be * there is «»f politic*. Your vote j fore our more pppfect organiza-| determines *mr industrial s.x stem | tion of industry had eliminated ri. jaud the laxvs and institutions to j many avenue* of xvnste. even i sustain ami enforce it. } then, we were* producing un aver-Wc xv*iin*'n arc half the human | era go of SiJ.KDO per year. That's . ! family, half the robbed, over-; xvhat our labor |H*xver was pro-‘u i xvorked. underpaid. Inmu*l**ss , duciiig. but .xou maintained a toolles* w orking class, ami xvi* system tlmt forced you to receiveii|hnve never tieen permitted to an average of only *447 a yearis-1 help determine the imiustrial I \ow you nia.x think xx omen don't on and social institution* under know enough to vote, but I want •eS which we live, but xx«* imx** t*. to sa.x rrnnkly that in my judg-u(j; ti**a !• our full share, and more, of 'meat and thut of many other*, f0 the evils. We were mixed up in you men. xvho have voted the Rc-. the consequences of your xoting. j publican or Democratic capital-_ j but given no vlmncc to protect ! its tickets, that forced you to 1,8• ourselves at tlte ballot 1*\. jseli your $11,300 lalxir jxoxx'cr for to I Y’ou say women don't want to $447. you have ,x et to prox'e to vote? Well, we xvill not force us that you knoxx enough to vote,anybody to vote. I know men it takes a man tti drive a foolwho Itoast that they have never bargain like that. We women voted. That Is no reason xvh.x hnxc been bargain hunting t*si xve should deu.x' you and others t long.xvho want to vote tlte ballot-Capitalist women, leisure class women, don't fet*l much need of voting, truly.They do not have to toil long hours, they are not afraid of starving if some capita list refuses to buy their labor power; they do not need to fear a poverty-bitten old age. ami their children have home uud pla.x. good foisl and school.It is we women of the producing class who have nothing in the world but our labor power who need the ballot most. We want to secure to ourselves access to the productive rorces of society and the product of our toll.Now, as long as women understand no chance of duiug anything more with their uni lot* than voting capitalist ticket* has done. I don’t wonder the.v don't care much about It.’ but when we learn of SocialismI don't believe you could get the women of Chicago. Kalamazoo. Bird Center or Pumpkinvllie to go to the ballot box year after year and vote for a system that would force them ta sell a $U,500 article for S447, whether our grandfathers did or not.Again you are mistaken about us taking your Jobs, brothers. You haven’t any Jobs, the capitalist has the jobs and he can say who shall use them, on what terms and when.When you get ready to own your own jobs, the machinery, of production and distribution, you may—and none can put you out, but only the Socialists understand and strive to* tfels and they oall to all worker* men and women of all oolor, race or emsiL Workers of the world saMs) you have nothing to teas bat your chains, you navs a world to gain.Subscrtbs for ths only Kiekor. .
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Benton Scott County kicker
Benton, Missouri, US
Sat, Mar 26, 1910
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