And this is as it should be.

The woman who labors should be the one to recognize that all labor is _per se_ equally honorable--that there is no stigma in any honestly performed, useful service.

If she is to bring to the labor world the regeneration she dreams, she must begin not by saying that the shop girl, the clerk, the teacher, are in a higher class than the cook, the waitress, the maid, but that we are all laborers alike, sisters by virtue of the service we are rendering society.

That is, labor should be the last to recognize the canker of caste.[4] FOOTNOTES: [2] Report on Condition of Woman and Child Wage Earners in the United States, Vol.XV.Relation between Occupation and Criminality of Women.

1911.
[3] The number of people in 1910 in what is called "gainful occupations" has not as yet been compiled by the Census Bureau.
This figure of 7,000,000 is arrived at by the following method, suggested to the writer by Director Durand.