waiting our answer? Wait. You men! Oh, you kings and traders: you have bereft Will answer your age-long challenge. on the land you've left. You're The women Come, look Come, look on the stricken cities your soldiers like beasts gone wild Have ravaged. Our children hunger: our daughters have been defiled. You call us, when guns are silent, to blood-wet fields stained red To fight the low-hanging vultures and gather our ghastly dead. You want us where busy surgeons are cutting with flashing steel. The wreckage of souls and bodies you give us to save and to heal. At last, when your glut of murder, destruction and rapine cease, You will sit among blackened ruins to sign your last pledge of peace; And then we will come and face you and take from your hands the pen And point to your world in ruins. We'll give you your answer then. The fields we have saved from famine, the stores which our labor fills, The homes, the re-builded cities, the factories, mines and mills, The schools where the world is learning, the halls where the laws are made, Will be ours, we will claim and hold them. We have builded and bought and paid. We will marry our splendid daughters to the weakened wrecks of men Who are left from war, and in patience we will people the world again; And the race we shall rear and nurture, our children so dearly bought, We will give them to peace and labor, for they shall be woman-taught. You men! Oh, you kings and traders! You failed in your rule of might, And the treaty of peace eternal, you shall sign it as we shall write; We will gather your flying navies, will mend all their broken wings And send them to tell the nations that the world has been freed from kings. Our world needs no kings nor traders, their power will be broken. Then, When the last, red war is ended, sign our treaty if you are men. Then mothers in silent courage shall give the new race its birth, And laborers, toilers, artists, in joy shall re-build the earth. We wait amid desolation, we are dumb in a world's despair; But our hearts hold the hope of ages, life eternal, our age-long care. We dream of a new creation; we see it through blinding tears; We will build a new world, we women, in the peace of the coming years. FINANCIAL STATEMENT, MARCH, 1915 RECEIPTS Financial Secretaries The financial statement is closed regularly on the last day of each month. will please have their reports at headquarters on or before the 30th day of each month. The following shows all moneys received from February 28, 1915, to March 31, 1915. ber should check this statement and note if remittances made are properly credited. received from March 31, 1915, to April 30, 1915, will appear in next report. Each mem All remittances 45 19.10 3.00 124 14.50 46 119.80 36 65.20 3.75 115 166.90 35.50 91.40 14.60 189 18.10 4.11 14.20 358 5.70 1.00 451 3.90 2.25 359 108.40 1.50 452 19.30 1.00 360 9.60 453 10.50 .50 .50 361 13.80 362 454 124.90 16.20 1.00 455 76.50 2.00 35.10 2.50 457 8.60 10.00 6.30 5.70 128 30.30 3.75 205 35.05 2.50 293 18.60 5.00 390 10.90 47 117.60 15.00 129 29.50 1.00 207 14.70 294 34.30 391 295 9.60 2.50 392 296 56.40 8.50 393 297 6.10 2.00 394 478 8.60 .90 480 40.80 13.10 66.60 21.30 3.50 19.00 211 6.90 300 99.30 11.50 5.10 396 12.20 471 100.40 482 4.50 483 19.40 484 13.30 213 70.60 301 36.90 397 5.40 91.60 10.00 135 16.50 214 31.30 4.50 302 16.20 5.00 485 33.60 486 4.80 487 105.20 488 7.80 6.00 2.80 489 10.20 490 306.20 491 32.00 493 4.80 1.80 .90 494 12.30 1.75 495 3.20 5.25 497 28.80 498 54.50 499 267.80 15.00 398 21.20 399 12.00 1.35 2.10 1.50 2.50 500 13.50 502 70.80 23.80 9.70 32.20 419 10.70 6 251 325 3.30 121 3.75 423 424 4.50 510 115.30 9.00 63.70 503 47.20 505 15.80 5.00 506 4.20 507 44.20 1.00 508 20.90 512 20.40 7.70 NOTE. The total receipts with the exception of receipts for special funds, which are applied direct, or from sale of supplies, which are applied to the Supply Fund, or in making good protested checks which are credited to the General Fund, are divided among the remaining funds as follows: General Fund, 12% per cent.; Journal Fund, 12% per cent.; Organizing Fund, 10 per cent.; Defense Fund, 15 per cent.; Death and Disability Fund, 50 per cent. The agreement with the International (Alteration) Painters of New York City and vicinity, under which its members transferred to the Brotherhood, provided that they should be admitted on payment of three months' dues and one dollar transfer fee to cover the cost of the transfer and the campaign of organization in Greater New York. As these fees were distinct and different from all other receipts, they have been applied direct to the Organizing Fund from which the expenses of the work in connection with the transfer and the campaign of organization have been paid. |