Too often its real object was a desire to play the philanthropist's role, to exact obsequience from the wage earner.
[Illustration: MRS.

J.BORDEN HARRIMAN President of the Colony Club, New York, the most exclusive Women's Club in the country] I know a corset factory which makes a feature in its advertising of the perfect sanitary condition of its works; when visitors are expected, the girls are required to stop work and clean the rooms.

Since they work on a piece-work scale, the "perfect sanitary conditions" exist at their expense.

In a department store I know, employees are required to sign a printed expression of gratitude for overtime pay or an extra holiday.
This kind of welfare work simply alienates employees from their employers.

It always fails.
It seems to the women who have studied these things that proper sanitary conditions, lunch rooms, comfortable seats, provision for rest, vacations with pay, and the like are no more than the wage earner's due.