Moreover, the power to strike, and, if necessary, to hold out for a long period of time, is an essential to a strong Trade Union.

Almost all the advantages won by women's Unions have been won by their proved capacity for holding out against employers.

This is largely a matter of funds.

It is almost impossible for the poorest classes of women-workers to raise by their own abstinence a fund which shall make their Union formidable.

Their efforts where successful have been always backed by outside assistance.
Even were there a close federation of Unions of various women's trades-- a distant dream at present--the larger proportion of recipients of low wages among women-workers as compared with men would render their success more difficult.
Sec.9.Legislative Restriction and the force of Public Opinion .-- If Trade Unionism among women is destined to achieve any large result, it would appear that it will require to be supported by two extra-Union forces.
The first of these forces must consist of legislative restriction of "out-work." If all employers of women were compelled to provide factories, and to employ them there in doing that work at present done at home or in small and practically unapproachable workshops, several wholesome results would follow.