This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

Florence Kelley
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  1. Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

  2. This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation.

  3. The workingmen have perceived that women are in the field of industry to stay; and they see, too, that there can not be two standards of work and wages for any trade without constant menace to the higher standard.

  4. Their effort to place the women upon the same industrial level with themselves in order that all may pull together in the effort to maintain reasonable conditions of life.

  5. The very fact that women now form about one-fifth of the employes in manufacture and commerce in this country has opened a vast field of industrial legislation directly affecting women as wage-earners.

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