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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-hound candy.
    Food produced under insanitary conditions
    when done for profit - Only
    remedy is public membership.
    Laundries - terminate 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 c per doz. Made 98 c a day. 56 doz 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.