Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1917 — Present Hour Is the Greatest in History For Women of the World [ARTICLE]

Present Hour Is the Greatest in History For Women of the World

By MRS. RAYMOND ROBINS

Prescient of National Women's Trade Union League of America

Wonderful $s this hour is for democracy and labor, it is the greatest hour in history for ithe women of the world. After centuries of discrimination women are coming into the labor and festival of life on equal terms with men. Woman’s labor in the field * feeds the soldiers on the firing line. Woman’s labor in factories and mills feeds the cannon in the trenches. Woman’s labor in shops and stores feeds the homes of Europe. . V Canada, Russia, America, and even England will have an enfranchised womanhood when this war is over. . ' • i -