Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1917 — Suppose This Happens! [ARTICLE]

Suppose This Happens!

“Well, mother," said a workingman to his wife, as he returned from the park, where he bad been hobnobbing with his fellow strikers, “let's have dinner." “No dinner today, old man," she replied. “Nd dinner I What’s up?" *Tve struck for eight hours’ work and two meals a day. So has Mrs. Johnson, so has Mrs. Spring. In fact, we’ve had a meeting, and we have come to the conclusion that sixteen hours a day is too hard on women when big, strong men can only stand eight houta."