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Victoria C. Woodhull: “Government now has the power to take these conditions in hand, and none are more interested in having it do so than the…”

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Government now has the power to take these conditions in hand, and none are more interested in having it do so than the so-called labor party.
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Victoria C. Woodhull

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Woodhull calls for government intervention to address societal conditions, particularly for laborers.

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