NOTES FOR WOMEN

Maoriland Worker, Volume 12, Issue 294, 18 October 1922, Page 12

NOTES FOR WOMEN

By VAILIMA

Labour Women in America At tli2 Eighth. Biennial Convention of National "Women's Trade Union league . ... ■ ITEMS OF INTEREST "It as I most heartily believe, we Sxe a group of Working folk joined together for the purpose of making ute richer, and fuller, and finer, for jffi o^her groups of folks a3 well as Ourselves, if we are simply one group In the age-long struggle of the human r&ce finding its way upward, then Labour's kinship is as broad and wide as Life" (the President on. Trade Unionism). He * * "industrial legislation must vary with the demands of the hour, and the ! gradual advance in, public opinion. ] Once; a minimum wage seemed j enough to ask for; then if was a liv-J jtg wage, now it is : An Standard of living, that organised j women lire out to obtain." The In- j ieraalional Note is struck in two new ; •jlanks. asking for "The Outlawing j 3t" War," and for ''The Affi.lia.tion of j //omen Workers in all -countries." * * * * Give most important message was '■ that brought by the New York deloga- I ticn. telling of the placing of a woman ' in the position of Adviser s;o Women, | (n Workmen's Compensation Oas.?.s. ■ whether the woman herself were the ' victim, or one of her family.. j Tlwre is evidently room for such ?etm-oftic 5 sU aide, in any centre where ! cases of Industrial Accidents are; handled. ! The new president of the National . Women's Trp.de Union League of ■ America, is Mrs. Maud Swartz, who' is aprinter, secretary of the Women's ; Trade Union League of New York, I noted -for her good work in reaching ] tua foreign speaking group of votei-s ', dur-ug the New York State suffrage : campaign} and familiar with all In-; tc;rnational problems, as Secretary of l?ie International Federation of Wo- i jnea Workers. ' . ■ ] & Sjt sfc * i Touching the subject of unempioy-. neat—the De-ague delegates think, • 'That a vital problem presented, to; ' our thinkers to-day, is the bringing: noixie to the managers of industry, not; only the need for Unemployment Insarance, but the pr'aicipls that it, should be a direct charge upon in- j dustry. i That idea, once driven home, what | baa happened in the case oE work-1 men's compensation laws, -would 'be j repeated, and unemployment be found —100 expensive, and would promptly he listed among the leakages arid wastes. j' V> r e should soon have unemployment j as out-of-date, as is unguarded ma-! in a modern well-equipped ■' factory."