| Show WHITE WOMEN AT WORK IF a woman in utah should choose to do a little dittle garden work or in some country place help her husband or father arto erto to rake edke hay in the nield field the cry would go ko up over the country that women in utah are forced to do manual labor 1 and the sorrows of the downtrodden down trodden would b be at once traced to polygamy there Is probably no part of the country where women do less outside of domestic work than in this territory although most of them find active employment at home or in labor suited to their feminine capacity but the following fr from the new york times tines tells a story ot woman labor in pennsylvania which ought to close the lips of all who have ever said a word in regard to women working in utah the account was given by ex mayor Powder lyof Scranton who had just returned to that place from a trip p to the connellsville coke region where he saw white women work ign round the furnaces doing tasks that would try the stoutest ston test men lie ile said to a times correspondent 1 I had often of ten heard of the elloy employment of women at the coke ovens but never had an opportunity of seeing it before the women are not employed by the corporations as some persons sup suppose ose but out they accompany their husbands husbands hus gands and fathers to the ovens early in the morning and and assist in drawing and forking coke at atu 6 in the morning I 1 went to the coke works and there I 1 saw that the stories I 1 had heard about this matter were not exaggerated atone at one of the ovens I 1 saw a woman half naked drawing the hot coke from the chamber she slie had no covering on her head and very little on herderson her person her appearance was that of one whose s spirit irit had been broken bv hardship ant and hard work her at tire consisted of a coarse chemise and a pair of cowhide boots in a freight car close clohe by stood another woman forking tile the coke as it came to the car forking is the term used to indicate the tile disposition of the coke when it is thrown into the car the person who does the forking throws the coal to either end odthe of the car as it is wheeled woman stood in the doorway and was dressed in a rough loose fiting outer an apron her person from the waist up was exposed when she stooped over to handle the coke she caught her hair between her teeth in order to tb keep it out of her way her feet were in cased eased la ia a pair of heavy shoes and her legs were exposed f from rom the knees down her babe which was brought to the works with lier her lay ili in front of the car with scarcely any auy covering except the shadow of a wheelbarrow which was turned up ill lil order to protect the child arop the rays of the sun many more such scenes met my view and ind some of them were even worse than this this remember ember was in pious pennsylvania sylva nirM in monogamous society and under the hins influences of chris chrls christian civilization i |
