To "darling Anna" she wrote more specifically, "Both parties are owned body and soul by the _Gold Gamblers_ of the Nation--and so far as the honest working men and women of the country are concerned, it matters very little which succeeds. Oh that the Gods would inspire men of influence and money to move for a third party--universal suffrage and anti-monopolist of land and gold."[219] FOOTNOTES: [207] July 6, 1866, Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Library of Congress. [208] _The Revolution_, I, Jan. 8, 1868, pp. 1-12. [209] _Ibid._ [210] _Ibid._, April 23, June 25, 1868, pp. 49, 392. [211] Harper, _Anthony_, I, pp. 296-297, 302-303; _The Revolution_, I, Jan. 22, 1868, p. 34. [212] _The Revolution_, I, Jan. 29, 1868, p. 243. [213] Harper, _Anthony_, I, p. 301. [214] March 18, May 4, 1868, Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Library of Congress. Susan had a room at the Stantons until they prepared to move to their new home in Tenafly, New Jersey. [215] Aug. 20, 1868, Higginson Papers, Boston Public Library. [216] _The Revolution_, II, July 9, 1868, p. 1. [217] _Ibid._, July 16, 1868, p. 17. [218] _Ibid._, Aug. 6, 1868, p. 72. [219] July 10, 1868, Anna E. Dickinson Papers, Library of Congress. WORK, WAGES, AND THE BALLOT In her zeal to promote the welfare of all the people, Susan now turned her attention to the workingwomen of New York, whose low wages, long hours, and unhealthy working and living conditions had troubled her for a long time. Women were being forced out of the home into the factory by a changing and expanding economy, and at last were being paid for their work. However, the women she met on the streets of New York, hurrying to work at dawn and returning late at night, weary, pale, and shabbily dressed, had none of the confidence of the economically independent. They had merely exchanged one form of slavery for another. She saw the ballot as their most powerful ally, and as she told the factory girls of Cohoes, New York, they could compel their employers to grant them a ten-hour day, equal opportunity for advancement, and equal pay, the moment they held the ballot in their hands.[220] As yet labor unions were few and short-lived. The women tailors of New York had formed a union as early as 1825, but it had not survived, and later attempts to form women's unions had rarely been successful. A few men's unions had weathered the years, but they had not enrolled women, fearing their competition. Women were welcomed only by the National Labor Union, established in Baltimore in 1866 for the purpose of federating all unions.