T HUS far we have been discussing mainly
one class in America -- the workers.
Most women who belong to the workers'
families have no accurate or reliable knowledge
of contraceptives, and are, therefore, bringing
children into the world so rapidly that they,
their families and their class are overwhelmed
with numbers. Out of these numbers, as has
been shown, have grown many of the burdens
with which society in general is weighted; out
of them have come, also, the want, disease, hard
living conditions and general misery of the
workers.

The women of this class are the greatest
sufferers of all. Not only do they bear the ma-
terial hardships and deprivations in common
with the rest of the family, but in the case of
the mother, these are intensified. It is the man
and the child who have first call upon the in-
sufficient amount of food. It is the man and

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