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Show DISCBIXUATIOX IS iV03IA-"S The annual report of tlic Massachusetts Massa-chusetts Stale Board of Labor Jala. - u-Uc furnished some figures that will Interest the promoters of woin-v woin-v ' r aa'i caue, aud bo profltable t al who paj attention to the labor uet- v- "' . ' Takloc the louest ratoof wages for the fltvt comparison of relative "" v male anil female pay it appears that .. of actual trages paid to 24i,2fl0tm- plsjresof botli sexes 8 99 per cent of I -' ail msles receive less Uian $5 a I week, iJSS per c-nt 1cm than 56, and I 4.77 fer cent 13 than $7. About about oue-flftli of all mile, iverage leeetbaaSl -r day. The females V&rkingjit this low eale of wage- eomprise 72.99 per cent of all the "troriers. No intelligent rendervlll fall to realize what tliit f ict mean. In the higher "-cale of wages we find that II. "I per cent of all miles reeelveSS but under J10 j.er ueefc, 13.71 per cent $10 but under SI.!, 18.37 per cent $12 lt under S15 and 10.49 per cent $15 or over. These xnales, who cool prise 8S.7S j er cent or nearly two thirds of all males re-Oeive re-Oeive $1.59 or more per day. Uuly 10.28 per cent of the females em-J) em-J) Jed are pal J similar uacs. As i '- thascale of waes rises the number r f females enjoyin,; them grows etsaJIly Jets. Of a total of 7,7 workers receiving $20 a week and over, only 243 ara fern ilea. From these figures it seems that in tbotu kinds of ork for which the very lowest wages are paid, woolen form seventy per cent of the wori.au, while they only lorm thtee percent of the employes In Iutior that brings a hiih rate of wage. Tills U rr.il alL For the ,me work perfjmed with Hie sitae skill, woman are paid lai than men at the aartie wta'.lirlimeuls. Bveryiiody cu see tlui this is not jost. The question i, why tln dUcfcniutK.ii? Tile ll.rn.ou Olo&e eajs It is bucau-e women carry uo votes, aai lherefre lixldauirs per tnK this injustice. Women "cvt neither sett uur unseat a jIi-Uciau." jIi-Uciau." i Bjttbe reulit.oii of wages by lis-im ootyex bsen accomplMied ' who any decree of satisfaction. Te la' of supply and demand it Nippo-md so rule lu tlie labor market, mar-ket, a el'swhere. We do cot ay this rule always holds giod. There areoxoeptiiHis. For inM.itice, jour-, jour-, nslism is not nid in anything like the same proportions as tlie otlier profeqioa, and yet tliere Is no tal-ent tal-ent that issexreer, in places where it omoianla but meagre remuneration, remuner-ation, as genuine jwirnalbtic ability. abil-ity. Ja Husachcsetts woman I al-bjv al-bjv a drug on the labor market. ThefalringTeatly outnumber the wmdsera of the nute peruiion. This, no doubt, has somi-thing to 2o with the disparity m the wages f Uio two wns. Utu-aBy, Utu-aBy, however, a man's work, In n6t branches of labor, is reIIy of mora value than a wo-mm's. wo-mm's. lint in cas whtru woman's work is equal to rain's in quantity ani quality, there is no gooJ reason why it should command a lesprli-e There ara many things in this worl.iUiatare'-outof jjut." Thei "will all be put right some day. But mejuwhiiatiie weak Hill hi tferfrom abu-esby the fctrong, ainj true clvill-z3Un, clvill-z3Un, justice, liberty and equal rights exist ciiierly in theory. Workers for women should continue con-tinue their liuiiable exertions, and not tea- uutll tliiMju t:cm of mx thall no longer be permitted to ialer-reno ialer-reno to prevent that bichis tiht, IHtIcally, socially or in relation to anything that affects hu uanity. |