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Unborn Race and Woman’s Work 8i
to have work, and a fixed minimum wage.
These demands along with that for a normal
working day, in which is included rest at night
and rest on Sunday, and other measures for
the protection of workingmen against accident
and old age, are the chief methods by which the
labour question, both for men and women, will
be solved. Until these aims are realised Rus-
kin’s judgment on modern industrialism
which kills the real humanity in man holds
good both for men and for women. We
make, he says, everything except real men;
we bleach cotton; we harden and improve
steel; we refine sugar; we make porcelain and
print books; but to refine a single living soul,
to reform it, to improve it never enters into
our reckoning of profit.
The women of the working classes must con-
tinue to endure the suffering, to bear the dan-
gers, to subject themselves to the forces which
solidarity in this great struggle implies. Only
under these conditions can men as well as
women elevate themselves, partly by their own
combination, partly by the extension of the
principle, more and more coming to be recog-
nised, that society, through its legislation, can
determine the conditions under which its mem-
bers work. So will be produced conditions of
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