Women's Trades Unions

Lady Dilke contributes to the last Fortnightly Review a paper showing what woinen's trades unions are acconiplishing. Wherever women can join unions aiready formed by men in the same vocation, Lady Dilke says it is better for them to do so. But where their wages are too small to meet the dues men pay, she endeavors to ave them form unions of their own. A very small sum from their weekly earnings thus put into the union will take care of a woman when she is out of work, pay the expenses of illness, or bury her if she dies. Some of these bodies of women, even with their small wages, are so powerful that no member of them has ever been helped by public charity. It is the re snit of co-operation in its simplest form. When the unions hang together they are able to command better wages. As one working girl expressed it: "I feel that I atn now part of something larger than myself."