By Emmaline Pethick-Lawrence

(Editor of “Votes for Women,” London. In “Life and Labor.”)

Woman’s industrial life is inseparable from her civic and social status. The only way to earn equal pay for equal work is to win equal political rights, equal influence with the legislature.

Song of the Working Girls

By Harriet Monroe

(American contemporary. Editor “Poetry.” In “Life and Labor.”[13])

Sisters of the whirling wheel

Are we all day;

Builders of a house of steel

On Time’s highway,