Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1913 — Woman’s Day in Austria. [ARTICLE]

Woman’s Day in Austria.

The women of the Social Democratic party held lately a “woman’s day” in Austria. The Vienna town hall was filled to overflowing with women bearing banners. The speakers at the meeting said that women must organize themselves with the object of getting the law, which forbids them to hold political meetings or to form political organizations, repealed. During the meeting, it was pointed out that when the men had been called away from their daily avocations, without warning, to spend weeks and months on the frontier, the women at home had been obliged to work for the support of their families, as the allowance made by the government to the wives and families of reservists was ridiculously Inadequate.