ABSTRACT
In several legislative hearings certain well-groomed ladies from the National Woman’s Party have fought shoulder to shoulder with the manufacturing interests against special labor laws for women. The manufacturers have welcomed this feminine support with great gusto and the press has given generous headlines indicating that the women reformers are divided among themselves. As The Nation has frequently pointed out, the leaders of the Woman’s Party do not oppose labor legislation as such but only labor laws which apply to women as a sex. The question at issue is largely one of social philosophy. The left-wing feminist tends to see society as struggle in which man exploits woman, while the laborite looks upon the same milieu as a class struggle in which employer exploits worker. The investigation proves that in the matter of laws against night work for women the Woman’s Party has some justification for its claim that men have supplanted women as a direct result of the laws.
