It can only be a question of time, and of increasing industrial
pressure, when an active trade-union movement will spring up among
Canadian women. Among those who advocate and are prepared to lead in
such a movement are the President of the Trades and Labor Congress,
Mr. J.C. Watters, Mr. James Simpson of the Toronto _Industrial
Banner_, Mrs. Rose Henderson of Montreal, Mr. J.W. Wilkinson,
President of the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council, and Miss Helena
Gutteridge, also of Vancouver.
The President of the National Women's Trade Union League, in her
opening address before the New York convention in June, 1915, summed
up the situation as to the sweated trades tellingly:
For tens of thousands of girl and women workers the average wage
in sweated industries still is five, eight and ten cents an hour,
and these earnings represent, on the average, forty weeks' work
out of a fifty-two week year. Further, in the report of the New
York State Factory Investigation Commission we find that out of a
total of 104,000 men and women 13,000 receive less than $5.
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