Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1914 — SUFFRAGETTE WINS A POINT [ARTICLE]

SUFFRAGETTE WINS A POINT

Shovels Grain With Laborers In Order to Get Their Signatures to Petition. ——— Elden, O.—Miss Elizabeth Strauss, nineteen yean old, suffragist, and one of the most strenuous petition circulators in Ohio, asked a group of laborers who were persplrlngly shoveling grain into a box car to sign the “votes for women” paper. “Women ought not to vote, 'lessen they do the same work as men does,” one of the workers said, and the others agreed with him. Miss Strauss shoveled grain with a big scoop for 16 minutes, and left with the signatures of all the men.