The Simple Right to Live
By Margaret Dreier Robins
(American contemporary. Writer and speaker on labor problems, especially those concerning the woman and child. President of the National Women’s Trade Union League. In “Life and Labor.”)
Why must young girls pay the price of their youth and forfeit their right of motherhood at the machine—why must thousands of men and women endure hardships and sufferings to secure the primitive demands of a living wage and the right to self-government, to which we as a people stand pledged? What power makes necessary these terrible struggles for the simple right to live?