Excerpt from Women Wage-Earners: Their Past, Their Present and Their Future

It is impossible for even the most dispa'ssion ate or indifferent Observer to blink these facts. Proclaim as we may that there is no antagonism between capital and labor, that their interests are one, and that conditions and opportunities for the worker are always better and better, practical thinkers and workers deny this con Clusion. Wealth has enormously increased, in a far greater ratio than population. Does the laborer receive his due proportion Of this in crease? One must unhesitatingly answer no. In a country whose life began in the search for freedom, and which professes to give equal opportunity to all, more startling inequality exists than in any other in the civilized world. One of Our ablest lawyers, Thomas G. Shearman, has lately written.

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