The second result is a reduction in the cost of manufacture, this notwithstanding the fact that every woman on our payroll has always received man's wages, and we have never worked more than eight hours a day.
To those who watched the work done by women in the war, neither of the above results will be surprising.
Because of the accuracy of her work, Spencer bearings are giving better satisfaction than ever before.
Because of her dexterity and quickness, we are able to make the following public announcement:
We are raising the wages of every woman in our factory one dollar a day; and we are reducing the price of our bearings ten per cent.
These changes go into effect immediately.
JOSIAH SPENCER & SON, INC.
MARY SPENCER, President.
"There!" said Mary, sitting up in bed and making a gesture to the world outside. "That's what women can do! … Are you going to boycott us now?"
CHAPTER XXXI
If you can imagine a smiling, dreamy-eyed bombshell that explodes in silence, aimed at men's minds instead of their bodies, rocking fixed ideas upon their foundations and shaking innumerable old notions upon their pedestals until it is hard to tell whether or not they are going to fall, perhaps you can get an idea of the first effect of Mary's advertisement. Wherever skilled workmen gathered together her announcement was discussed, and nowhere with greater interest than in her own home town.