Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 37, Number 278, 26 September 1912 — Page 7

PAGE SEVEN. , ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE

THE rciCH3I0ND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, SEPTE3IBER 26, 1912.

Can Never Be Achieved by Women Until They Recognize the Necessity of Organization and Combinations to Secure the Franchise.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Suffrage sentiment is not found In regular stratas. . Save now and then. " But oftencr in isolated pockets. . And in the least expected places. One of its', natural habitats might be thought to be the woman's labor unions. But this is not invariably, the rule. Not the rule at all, according to one of the delegates to the state convention of the Federation of Labor with whom the wfiter talked yesterday. "The woman's labor union is strictly non-partisan," ' said this woman, "and bars politics. We are organized for economic, not political reasons." There are, according to official statement, six women delegates to the convention but, so far. as this column could learn, none are pronounced suffragists save the one with whom the writer talked and whose name she did not happen to learn but whose residence is In Logansport. This woman, however, is a member of the State Suffrage Association, which is a branch of the National Suffrage Association, Mrs. Anna Nolan, of Logansport, being its state president. This to" an old organization and its members are largely made up of long time suffragists. It is ; entirely separate from the Woman's Franchise League of Indiana, .which is the dominant suffrage organization in the state having branches in over half of the counties and twelve out of the thirteen districts. Or the Equal Suffrage . Association of Indiana, which is really an Indianapolis organization. The delegate with whom the writer talked stated that her political affiliations Were Socialist in character although this had nothing to do with her union activities. The object of the Woman's International Union Label League, however, are very much those of the Franchise League and, incidentally, of the "Pnv gressiv-e party,' which 'has a large feminine fallowing in this city. They are, In brief:

1 To promote the welfare of wageearners." 2 To discountenance the sweatshop system of production by aiding and encouraging the sale of Union made goods. 3 To gain a universal eight hour day. 4 To abolish child labor; to secure equal pay for equal work, regardless of sex. 5 To sustain fair employers. 6 To urge industrial and political equality for women. This last hardly accords with the statement of the woman delegate that unions Ignore this phase of woman's emancipation. And certainly is a sane form of the Label League's propaganda. For women may as well recognize first as last that they will only secure economic independence and achieve industrial freedom through the medium of the franchise. It'B the simplest proposition in the world. " And has been animadverted upon here with frequency. , Women will never be accorded economic justice until they can form political combinations through which to operate to that end. Men don't want women to vote. That is, in their role of the dominating sex. As Intelligent human entities many of them do, Instanced by the states in which women have the privilege of voting and by the platform, both national and state, of the Progressive party. But men do not want universal political equality. Because It will lead to sex legislation and that is what the men are really fighting although they'd deny it with vigor. The Label League and all woman's labor unions recognize the benefits of organization.' That is the reason for their existence. And organization means combination. The trouble with women is, as has been said here before perhaps, that they cannot lose sight of inessentials

and combine for the purpose of the one essential thing that will adjust every vexed economic and social question in time the universal enfranchisement of the sex. They cannot see that they put this off just bo long by combinations into small groups each vociferating that they are the only entrance - through which the economic heaven can be reached. It is unfortunate that women, as well as men, always number among their numbers a few who take advantage of a righteous cause to project themselves into the limelight. It isn't the cause or the question they care so much for as the opportunity for posing, in the spot-light and singing , in a loud brass voice "see what a great man am I."

This, oftener than not, acts as a sort of boomerang and prevents the accomplishment of the very thing they are pretending to advocate. There are always a lot of these fools around and always will be, because its human nature. And they're in the suffrage movement. But look past them. Keep your eyes on the goal. What women want that Is the element which counts In the social scheme is economic freedom and the only way they are going to get it is through political equality with men. - In Indiana the straightest avenue through which this can be attained is the Progressive party. We want it here in Indiana. Why not work for it, then, when we have a chance to get it in this legitimate manner? What if you do not agree entirely with the tenets of that party? Although its platform includes everything which women in this state have been fighting for for years. The point is that if the Progressive win in the next state election, women will get the franchise. After they get it they can affiliate themselves with whatever political

group expresses their political ideals. But, in the meantime, take what you can get. : Woman will always remain an industrial slave, her economic independence will never be achieved unless she recognizes this. Women must combine all together. If they'll do this and embrace the opportunity that is handed to them on a silver platter if the metaphorical bull may be permitted this time next year, maybe, a lot of first rate women will be getting first rate compensation

in return for their work. . Competent women are getting weary of doing first rate work for third rate salaries and seeing third rate men receiving first rate wages. We're tired of it. We can stop it. Why don't you all get together in Indiana and do it? Give one big, united shove and you're on top. And there you can, for the first time, take a long, deep, economic breath. You can see all points of the industrial compass. If you're blind any longer, you're willfully so.

Fine, strong, determined faces are those you see among the delegates to the State Federation of Labor. Entirely differing in type from that a reporter of conventions sees oftenest. Here is something strong, elemental. Life scraped down to the bone. These are the representatives of those who work with the hands. Who form the foundations. Who are in at the start. And there is, too, a sort of ferocity if it could so be termed, in their social attitude. The ferocity of the fighter, who has gained his present position, inch by inch, and by fearful odds. It is splendid after a fashion. And embodies a certain pathos. It is a sort of vizualization of that terrible social system in which every man is at every other man's throat. The labor unions are the moat behind which the modern worker en-

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trenches himself and from , which he builds his plans for defense. The labor union is, in its ideal and largely in its, practice, one of the most beneficent and altrurian of modern institutions. If the professional people would combine in like manner they might adjust the inequalities that exist in the professional world. That the labor union, too, is a forum for free speech is seen in the speaking to be heard from the floor of the convention. For the delegates speak well, easily, forcefully and with acumen. Their speech, from which elegancies are elided, takes on a primitive character. " Those in other departments of social activity, in short, might take cognizance of their methods with spine reason and effect.

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