Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There was the Prohibition Party. It met in the Hotel La Salle, an undistinguished-looking handful of men and women from 22 states. And there was the Farmer-Labor Party, a more healthy-looking but smaller congregation, representing ten States and the District of Columbia. The upshots of the two meetings were as follows...
...actual count there are seven parties with candidates for the Presidency thus far this year: Republican, Democratic, Socialist, Communist, Farmer-Labor, Prohibition, Interracial Independent...
...easily. . . . Even a feminist must be aware that the reason, and the sole reason, why women have retained any hold on such posts is economic. They are permitted to do a man's work because they do it more cheaply. The reason they are able to sell their labor at a lower price is because women in general receive a measure of protection and assistance from modern society which is not accorded in like measure...
...Every woman in industry who by underselling her labor deprives a man of his post is making more difficult the setting up of a home by that man. This prevents some other woman from becoming mistress of his home and exercising the rights and privileges inseparable from that position...
Soon obliging Mrs. Stanley Baldwin, beloved and industriously charitable wife of the Prime Minister, produced a broadly political and deeply feminine opinion: "A woman Labor leader at Bournemouth declared, the other day, that the Socialist party is out for power. I fancy that we Conservative women want something which is higher than power. We want peace and goodwill, and we shall never get it from a party that preaches power and warfare...