Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1888 — Woman’s Work aud Wages. [ARTICLE]

Woman’s Work aud Wages.

One of the most satisfactory and important reports presented to the Knights of Labor Convention was made by Mrs. Leon&ra M. Barnes, General Investigator of Woman’s Work and Wages. The following is a paragraph from it: ■——“it has bccn-intimatcd that the -Wreman’s Department was started on sentiment Well, if so,lt has 'urned out to be one of tire most thoroughly practical departments in the order. Without egotism, I can safely say it hasfloneas much effective work in cheering, educating and instructing the women of this order in the short year of its existence as was done by the organization in the whole time of women’s connection with it previous to its establishment. Ten thousand organized won en to-day look to the Women's Department for counsel advice and assistance. It is their hope, their guiding star; and the free and full outpouring of sorrow-stricken and heavy aden hearts, not alone of women and girls, but their heart-broken parents that comes to the Woman’s Department for consolation can not be recorded here, because that w r ould be a breach of sacred confidence.” Tab investigator recommends the adoption of » more universally systematic and practical way of carrying out the laws of Knighthood; that more effectiv- child-labor laws will be sought; She urges that not “good fellows’’ and .ltigkdal’Jb&,elect -d to office, but that mtcUigenf, competent general officers. lie ch osen: