ABSTRACT
That of all questions of the moment the labour question is the most urgent for women, few who watch the under-currents of motive can doubt. The notes which have been sent us by a spectator of the proceedings of the Trade Congress in Glasgow indicate the quarters alike for hope and for alarm: hope, in the new-found willingness of men to urge women to combine, even as they themselves do, and thus be at one with them; alarm, in the indications that this apparent unison of interest is only the old selfishness cropping up in a new form, and forcing the women at (metaphorically) the bayonet's point to put themselves outside of competition with men, not for their own benefit, but for that of the compellant.
"We are so weak, We know our motives least in their obscure beginning,"
and nothing but incessant watchfulness and strenuous endeavour to place women on the same firm footing of citizenship can save the new labour movement from 218becoming only a new form of oppression for those who have least protection.