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...from the "National Woman's Party, guests at the Summer White House. State laws which "restrict the economic freedom of women" are objectionable, said Miss Gail Laughlin, lawyer of Portland, Me., first vice chairman of the Party. It took men long years of fighting to get a standard eight-hour day, but it is the eight-hour day for women that the Woman's Party is vigorously opposing. The obvious difference between male and female eight-hour days is that a man with an eight-hour day can make extra money working extra hours, but a woman...
...capital. There, 18 months ago the largest bituminous coal operator in the world, the Pittsburgh Coal Co., went nonunion. April 1, when the strike began is a Union fête day; in Pittsburgh, past smoke-stained buildings, union miners paraded to honor John Mitchell, champion of the eight-hour day. They timed their march to pass the shops of the Pittsburgh Coal Co. as the noon shift changed; they hoped by display of power to draw non-union men into the striking ranks. But non-union men, indifferent, raised no cheers. Only heart-breaking news came to the marchers...
...will repeat," shouted Mr. Jones, "that all the crocodile tears shed over this disaster by the Government are sheer hypocrisy. . . . The visit of the Prime Minister with a tearful sop to men on whom the Government has imposed the eight-hour day was sheer effrontery...
...Havre, France, one Joseph Eggermaier, Czechoslovak, tired, raw-footed, hid in a life boat of the French Liner Paris. He had walked the 600 miles from Liege, Belgium; now he would sneak a free eight-hour ride to Plymouth, England. He settled himself and yawned . . . salt air was making him sleepy. . . . He awoke 24 hours later, beyond the ship's stop at Plymouth; was perforce carried to Manhattan, where last week immigration officers turned him back to France...
...suddenly, from the White House today, the phrase 'predatory wealth' came crashing out? Remember that Theodore Roosevelt attacked decisions of the Supreme Court. Remember that he demanded the recall of judicial decisions by popular vote. Remember that he stood for the initiative and referendum; the primary; the eight-hour day; child labor laws; workmen's compensation, and had no word to say against the closed shop...