The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-04-23
THE WORKING WOMEN OF BOSTON.

"A General convention Oh the HluDOriu8 w D.
men Of the ssHub'-Snd Stories OF Their
Trials and Wrongs and a Proposition for
Their Relief.
BOSTON, April 81, 1850.
The working women Of Boston and vicinity. indig
nant and sad at their treatment at the hands Of
their employers now vigorously agitated In the
matter Of prospective Improvement OF their truly
deporable condition They have held numerous
informal meetings in their workshops and at their
homes but not until to-day have they made any
public demonstration or any public statement OF
their condition. They came together to the number
Of several hundred in the Meionian, their grand
purpose being to consult upon the general welfare OF
the working women to devise means for their relief
especially to consider plan OF Miss Aurora II. G.
Phelps for colonzing poor women upon lands to be
provided by the State or by persons Of means who
are friendly to their cause.
william B. Green, gentleman who Is laboring In
their behalf. was selected to preside over the con-
venlion. The forenoon proceedings were partic
pated In wholly BY the women themselves, and con-
sisted chiefly Of statements OF their condition In
life. It was given out as fact that there are up
wards of In a n
employed the earnings OF each are not more
than sixty or seventy-nve cents per week; that
they are, In many cases, Obliged TO I've
on one scanty meal day, and that many to obtain
the necessares Of life are forced to resort to prost
tuition. TncSe anu Otner STATEMENTS equally Sdu
were made and reiterated, and then the question
was asked, ''what Is TO be doner
Miss Aurora II. O. Phelps, who herself Is work
fng woman, and has given considerable attention to
tile matter, proposes that the Legislature should
grant them aid and petition, signed by the officers
OF the convention and a large number OF the work
Inc women here VIII be presented 10 that body to-
morrow.
The following resolutions expressing the sense
and purpose OF the convention were also adoptsd:-
wherea. the system Of divided labor which has been
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women being constantly and employed at rea
product learning pegIn and hni.h product
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houses Of which they are where they
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or when educational and other Institutions have applied
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condition and not dearous Of settling on the land
FORM unssed hstsklei labor only, that espcuse
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tnus currency, much objects OF enlightened,