EDITORIALS

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...Being behind the times, the supreme court promptly knocked out all these reform enactments...

...In a way not expected, the grangers then set about to recoup their losses by electing a new court which sustained legislation on the same lines...

...Even while the two committees were holding their hearings, two great corporations, the United States Steel Company, and the International Harvester Company, announced the adoption of generous scales of compensation for injured workmen and their heirs...

...Laws secured to protect children from social and industrial exploitation...

...Then someone or some interest, not liking the way the grangers had done things, had the law changed so that the election of supreme court judges would come in June...

...She writes sympathetically...

...The day has come when the cry of the woman who works under oppressive conditions is a call to arms for the hosts enlisted in the women's club and suffrage movement...

...Women of leisure and privilege were enlisted in the cause...

...The Strike of Two Cities" ON ANOTHER page of this issue of La Follette's Miss Elizabeth Dutcher tells about the recent "shirtwaist strike...

...the right to stand together and a maximum of fifty-two hours' work in a week...

...In passing upon a contested election case, the court held practically that since the constitution of the United States and the constitution of Illinois made no mention of the primary elections such elections must be regarded as private arrangements and any trouble that might arise over them must be settled among the participants themselves, as, for instance, would an elec£ion row among the Masons or Modern Woodmen...

...It may be that the previous law in that machine-ridden state was a travesty on the primary principle, a joker designed to allay by appearances the popular demand, and that it deserved death, but the attitude of the court was none the less significant...

...They are George S. Loftus and James Manahan, both of Minneapolis...

...Jenkin Lloyd Jones of Chicago, in a sermon preached while the strike was in progress...

...From the moment that Clara Lemlich, one of the shirtwaist girls, put the motion for a general strike, till the struggle was ended, the officers of the League, led by its president, Mrs...

...Before working out its final bills the Wisconsin committee will hold hearings in various parts of the state...

...This is significant...

...Consequently the farmer vote is light at these elections and the supreme court decisions sometimes show the necessity of a repetition by the people of the disciplinary act of forty years ago...

...Her story carries an appeal for nation-wide interest in this newly-found solidarity among women and girls in industry...

...If you want to get an idea of what one determined, unselfish citizen can accomplish for decency and right against the combined opposition of the Powers that Prey, read the May installment of "The Beast and the Jungle...

...For the Public Good PULLMAN rates have been pared down by the Interstate Commerce Commission...

...This catches the farmer when he is busy plowing corn and doing other pressing work...

...It is an honor to be defeated in it...

...The public has secured a measure of relief from the toll exacted by the sleeping car parasite...

...And he answered the question in the following words: "Simply a better adjustment of a wage scale...

...And he adds: "The whole System is an alliance of lawbreakers against the sources, agents, and penalties of the law...

...For such a defense of liberty, it is a privilege to fight...

...Encouragement SOME victories of the long fight in Denver—the brave struggle with the Beast that lurks in the Jungle of American Politics—are enumerated by Judge Ben B. Lindsey in the May number of Everybody's...

...The Wisconsin committee has one great advantage over the New York commission, in that its bills have not been introduced into the legislature...

...Certainly this strife was the greatest organized protest ever made by women against the conditions under which they were forced to toil...

...Raymond Robins, acted as field generals for the girls...

...Brotherhood is on trial down there, and the inspirations of Israel's host, the guidance of the cross, are invoked by these unarmed girls who are engaging in perhaps the largest industrial strife ever witnessed in America...

...Public hearings on the New York employers' liability bills began in Albany April 11 before the commission appointed last year...

...We should have shirked our duty," remarks Judge Lindsey...

...The hearing in Milwaukee was merely an informal discussion of the tentative bills...

...And it has emphasized in a most striking manner the fact that the increasing participation of women in the world's work has brought with it a demand, that will not go unheeded, for a voice in the conduct of business...

...While the New York and Wisconsin committees were hearing the addresses of representatives of labor and capital, the Minnesota commission continued its work...

...Brief reviews of these systems will be found on another page of this issue...

...The best thought and effort of our civilization must be given to prevent this distortion of work (spinning, weaving, baking and preserving under modern factory conditions as distinct from the home-work of the past) from becoming the portion of our girls and women, if we are to continue to look to them for the essential service which it is theirs to render mankind—not the mere bearing of children but the sustained direction of each generation toward better and higher things.—Florence Lucas San-ville, in "A Woman in the Pennsylvania Silk-Mills," in Harper's Monthly for April, an article whose second title is "The Conservation of Our Young Womanhood...

...Even though I had never succeeded in doing anything to check this system, to oppose this corruption, I should still be content that I had fought it...

...It is an inspiring account...

...These elections come in June, and thereby hangs a tale...

...By all means let us preserve the safety of the home, but let us also make safe the street in which the majority of our young people find their recreation and form their permanent relationships...

...Workmen's Compensation AST week important progress was noted in the workLing out of the now generally accepted doctrine that loss of wages suffered by workmen, through accidents, should be borne by the industry in which they occur...

...George M. Gillett of Minneapolis, chairman of that committee, is now in Germany studying certain phases of the wide system of compensation in operation there...

...The supreme court of Illinois is not given to following election returns, except the returns of its own elections...

...Miss Dutcher, together with Elsie La Grange Cole, edited special editions of the New York Call and the New York Journal which were sold on the streets of New York to raise money for the striking girls...

...It's an excellent antidote to civic pessimism...

...It is my one hope that as long as I live I may be able, I may be found worthy, I may be considered fit, to devote myself to this allegiance and in this cause to defend my state and its people, my own birthright and our children's inheritance, our right to freedom, and our institutions of freedom that are founded in that right...

...Direct nominations have been repeatedly demanded by the public sentiment of that commonwealth...

...It now remains to be seen if the state supreme court will acquiesce in the popular demand and permit the people to exercise the right to nominate their own political candidates...

...Their ends accomplished, the grangers disbanded...

...Some forty years ago the grangers, i. e., the rural population of Illinois, organized for the enactment of certain legislation designed to regulate railways and secure other protection against corporations...

...This strike of the girls who manufacture shirtwaists in New York and in Philadelphia—"the strike of two cities"—was developed and engineered by the Women's Trade Union League...

...had we failed to help in educating the public to see that the greatest wrongs to the home, the child, and the community are inflicted by the rich criminal of the community...

...Corrupt practice acts wrung from unwilling law-makers...

...On the next day, April 12, the Wisconsin legislative committee began its hearings in Milwaukee on the tentative bills published March 25...

...With the court basing their decision on the assumption that the state has no business to recognize a primary, it is easy to see where the people of Illinois "get off at...

...Women in industry are beginning to revolt against the exploitation of women and child workers...

...What do these girls want...

...Boys and girls saved from degrading prison brutalities and put upon the high road to honest, useful citizenship...

...It is hoped that before the final bills are introduced into the Wisconsin legislature an agreement of the three interested classes—employers, employees and the insurance companies—will have been reached...

...It is the alliance of a 'plunder-bund'—a compact among thieves and criminals, rich and poor, for the subversion of law and the protection of illegal profit...

...It is a happiness beyond glory to succeed, however obscurely, in the smallest .struggle for it...

...Jane Addams, in "The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets...

...But in the general rejoicing, let it not be forgotten that this was brought about in large measure by the unflagging activity of two men...