Fairly Feminine.

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 10, 12 May 1911, Page 14

Fairly Feminine.

The Norwegian CJovernment has introduced a Bill admitting women to all ottk-es of the State., with the exception of Government Positions, clerical 01----tico:i in the State Church, officer in the .Diplomatic and Consular service, and offices in the military service. -* * * Writing of tlie last Women's International Congress, at which she was present, Dora *>. ivionteftore (vvrose portrait appears herewith) s;'i« = -We had an interesting discussion on the part Socialist women miglit play in the prevention of war; and til 3 point that st-ocd out so'strongly in all these discussions was that the working women of every country showed how rapidly they were developing, what excellent speakers and debaters they were proving themselves to be. and how fatted, they were to carry on with their men comrades the class struggle, and , en ,V n " ciate their own economx demands. •X- ■ * * '•The more beautiful a woman the more difficult she is to says the Berlin "Illustrierte .Zeit-ung. * *. . .*->•■■ The French f>ress announces the appearance, at an early _ date of the 'vLife- and Letters of lvarl Marx by the surviving daughter of Marx, Madame Laf argue-. *■ ■ * * <: In its essence Socialism a reli-o-ion standing for the harmonious relating of the whole life of man; and that is the reason why it has caught ac the heart and understanding of the twentieth-century workers, and .is developing among them self-discipline and fidelity, and a call to elemental righteousness. There can bs no industrial tieace until there is industrial justice • "and there can be no industrial justice until the worker receives the full and complete reward of his labor. ■x- * * Melb '-Aro-us/' which usually- rejects letters from" Socialists, printed one from Mrs. Montefiore during the implement makers' strike—possibly because Mrs. Montefiore is well-connected unci wc-U-olr, and it would be too obvious if she were waste-paper basketed But it termed the letter from whk-h we quote "rainbow chasing and wouldn't have any more. ** * ' Lace more than Lives. Towards the end of March the cables were busy telling us of a New York bag factory fir© and the girl employees whose lives were sacrificed in it. ■*■ au ' Hanna.thus in 'New lork Call or Nov. 28: '•Every hour since fierce flames devoured nearly 150 human lives in the Triaixgle tragedy last Saturday night the evidence has been piling up to prove that the men, women and children who went daily to slave for bread and clothing in the Asch Building walked into a death trap. That only 150 of them died when the trar> was sprung on Saturday indicates only once niore that humanity •has a way of escaping the most criminal cumd'ity of some of its members. Investigation since the fire has shown that while every apparent effort was made to insure the deaths of those in the building in case of fire panic not a single adequate avenue of escape was. provided. . The girls and men of the Triangle Waist Company worked behind locked doors, which wore opened to them only after they had been searched like so many convicts to prevent them carrying away any of the valuable material from which profits are created. One hundred and fifty human lives were sacrified to save some yards of lace which might have been stolen.