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Goldmark, Pauline Dorothea. The truth about wage-earning women and the state. [Concord, N. H.: Concord Equal Suffrage Association].
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THE TRUTH ABOUT WAGE-EARNING
WOMEN AND THE STATE


ji Rcplv to Miss Minnie Bronson


The Massachusetts Association Opposed to the
Further Extension of Suffrage to Women has published a
pamphlet written by Miss Minnie Bronson to prove two
conclusions alleged to be detrimental to the exercise of
the suffrage by women. First, that women are more
generously protected by law in the states where there
is no woman suffrage than in the states where women
vote. Second, that in all the states wage-earning women
are better protected by law than wage-earning men. If
they were based on facts, these arguments would at first
sight appear to be effective. Unfortunately for the
strength of this position, the statements made in
support of them are in many cases misleading or entirely
false The interpretation of the facts is wholly so.


I. ARGUMENT MISLEADING.

Aside from the errors of fact which will be
subsequently pointed out, the argument is wholly misleading,
because it ignores the fundamental differences in the
industrial conditions of the suffrage and non-suffrage
states.
Labor laws are enacted to protect women who labor
in industry. Where factories are few, ther. is obviously