Industrial organization and political activity constitute the two powerful arms of the labor movement. Men are free to use both their arms. Women are struggling with one arm tied.
The Plea of the Women
By Katherine Parrott Sorringe
(In “The Woman’s Journal.”)
Standing before you with suppliant hands,
Mothers and wives and daughters, we
Sue for the justice long denied;—
Give us the vote that makes us free!
She who went down to the gates of death,