gether in the
Women's Trade Union movement, has, however, deep social significance,
especially as wage-earners' organizations relate themselves to family
life. No woman who has had right opportunities for education and
family life in her own experience can work in intimate comradeship
with those who have been denied such advantages without aiming
directly for social arrangements in labor which will no longer cheat
any young life of its joy, its culture, or chance for its possibility
of right relation in the home. The signs are full of hope that more
and more members of each class will feel that society as a whole has
claims upon them above all that any group may attain by working only
for its own advantage. No law of justice will stand the test of time
save that which ordains an order in which "Each for All, and All for
Each" will be the rule in industry as in the nobler state!

QUESTIONS ON THE FAMILY AND THE WORKERS

1. What is most important to the success of the modern family, a
minimum wage for working women or a minimum wage for men which
can supply decent living for a man, his wife, and at least
three children?

2. What effect has the wage-earning of married women and mothers
in gainful employments outside the home had upon the stability
and happiness of the family?

3. What effect have the laws protecting women and children in
industry had upon family life?

4. What effect would the proposed increase of legislation placing
men and women, married and single women, and unionized and
non-unionized labor upon an identical legal plane be likely to
have upon family life? As, for example, in the case of
"deserting husbands," or in work especially inimical to women's
health?

5. How can the admitted evil of industrial exploitation of
children be best and most surely prevented?

FOOTNOTES:

[16] See _American Journal of Sociology_ for January, 1912.

CHAPTER XIV

THE FAMILY AND THE SCHOOL

"To prepare us for complete living is the function which education
has to discharge, and we judge the value of any training solely by
reference to this end. For complete living we must know in what
way to treat the body, in what way to treat the mind, in what way
to manage our affairs, in what way to bring up a family, in what
way to behave as a citizen, in what way to utilize those sources
of happiness which Nature supplies,