Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-18
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NEW YORK, April 1.-THE closing
session OF the convention of the Association
of Working Girls Societies was held in the
assembly rooms of the Metropolitan Opera
House this morning. The girls have
crowded an immense amount of talk and
business into the convention hours, but they
have not said nearly all they wanted to.
So Miss Dodge has invited them to hold
one or two informal talks in the rooms OF
the Thirty-eighth Street Club be fore the
out-of-town delegates go home.
The final session of the convention was
begun by addresses from a few women not
affiliated with the association, but engaged
in helping working girls. Miss Corner,
of Montreal, told of the Montreal Indus
trial Union; Miss Chaplin read a paper
from Miss Hurley, of Chicago. describing
the Working Women's Improvement Asso-
citation there, and Miss Browning, of Law
renee, Mass, described the successful ex-
pertinent conducted by the women of her
town in getting up club for the mill girls.
THE WORK OF ORGANIZATION.
Miss Smoot, of Washington, spoke of the
100 assemblies of working girls which the
Graeff read Mrs. Turner's description of the
efforts of the new century guild of Philadel-
phia to organize factory women into clubs,
and Miss Holman, of Philadelphia, told
about "lend-a hand" clubs in the mining
regions. Miss Jarvis, of Danielsville, Conn,
and Miss Warner spoke of clubs which had
been successfully maintained in country
towns.
The convention then took up the discus
sion of a proposed constitution for all the
clubs, and INDUCED in some lively talk.
Miss Martha Draper, of the Endeavor So
ciety, read the constitution adopted by her
society and proposed it as a model 1t pro-
vides for the usual officers of society and a
governing council of II members, including
the officers. This started the question OF
what proportion Of officers and members of
council should be wage workers. in distinc-
tlon from those who were members from the
love of the work and were financially be-
yond the necessity OF working for a living.
LITTLE CLASS FEELING.
like class feeling that had appeared In the
convention. Miss Dodge was applauded to
the echo when she gracefully said that as
wage workers and other members were all
simply members, one of no more importance
than the other, and all working side by side
toward the one end, such question should
not be recognized. 1t was with each society
to elect whom its members individually pre-
ierred.
Miss Draper said that in the Endeavor
Society at least two-thirds of the officers and
council were active wage earners. Miss
Emily NJ. Morgan, of Hartford. Chairman
OF the committee on starting a journal to
be devoted 10 the interests of the working
frIr fod 70 1r 10
it was adopted. Miss Helen Iselin reported
the following resolution about women fac
tory inspectors
WHEREAS, Several bills have been present-
ed to the Legislature of the State of New York
providing for the appointment of women as
deputy factory inspectors
Resol ed, That the convention heartily en-
dorses and urges the passage OF a bill provid-
ing for the appointment of women as deputy
factory inspectors; further
HARMONY NECESSARY.
Resolved, That harmonious and effective
action in the department of factory inspection
imperatiyely demands that the appointment of
all deputies, male and female, be committed to
the head of the department. the chief factory
inspector.
Resolved. That female deputy factory in
spectors should not be required to inspect fac
ployed
The resolutions were unanimously passed
amid great applause. The following was
also adopted:
Resolved, That this convention recommends
the formation of a united association of work
ing girls societies. whose constitution and by
laws shall be presented to each uniting asso-
citation for its approval by a committee COM
posed of the first directress and secretary of
each association.
This was adopted, thereby making the
association permanent. That closed the
convention.