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1. Housewife not interested 2. Don't have time to think about such things 3. Don't see how voting is going to help. 4. Socialism means "Dividing up."
Bread buying - Wards Bakery - ginger cakes. Hoar - bound candy. Food produced under insanitary conditions when done for profit - Only remedy is public membership. Laundries - [unclear] municipal laundry electrical washing machines. High cost of living - car loads of potatoes thrown away. coffee - rice profits on apples - 75 c - $5.00 Fruit rotting on the ground. Co operation between farmers and consumers - grocers profits - 8% on sugar 20% on stock
Female Labor. Stocking factory 1 3/4 per day. Made 98 c a day. 56 day stockings per day. 112 pieces handled making shirts at 48 cents a dozen. Miss Phillps - Quincy. Mrs Cobb - Quincy - candy factory $4 per week and paid $2 for room and board. Child labor - sweat shops - glass factories, cotton mills. flat for pup - in N.Y. city women started four days before birth of child.