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be equal advantages, equal free-
dom, equal pay for equal work,
and the same standard of purity
for both sexes; and anything short
of that is injustice.

The article was received
with much approval, and the
Sec'y was instructed to send it
to the "Woman's Journal" for public-
cation.

Next followed the reading of
some facts gleaned from a recent
report by Commissioner of Labor,
Carroll D. Wright.

Women are extensively employ-
ed in 342 wage-earning occupations.
Their average age is 22 years, 7 months.
The bulk of the 17,247 women interview-
ed were between the ages of 18 & 20.

The great majority marry early in
life, and this fact, employers say,
justifies them in paying to women
lower wages than to men.

14,554 were in good health, which
was thought to argue well for
the sanitary condition of American
work-shops.

The exercises were conclu-
ded by reading from the "Woman's
Journal", (Kentucky edition) "An Object
Lesson", showing the injustice done
to a married woman by our property
laws, as now administered.

The meeting was then adjourned.