New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-23
VETERANS AT CHAUTAUQUA.
GATHERING FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE
GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC.
MRS HELEN CAMPBELL SPEAKING OF REMEDIES
FOR THE TROUBLES OF WOMEN WORKERS


tBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE
ClautauQua, n. V, Aug. 22.-Ihe thautauqua
grounds full Of veterans OF the civil war VINO nave
come to take part in the Grand Army celebration TO-
morrow The Stars and Stripes and portraits OF war
leaders are displayed at many cottages. Governor
J. A. Beaver Of Pennsylvania, Is TO denver an ofdtioh
10 morrow afternoon. Tonight the Chautanqua County
Veteran Union held campfire. There has been q gen.
sral hegr OF other visitors, yet there seems no per-
oeptible diminuton in the Amphthcatre AUDIENCES
Mrs Helen Campbell concluded successful course
of lectures this morning vita consideration OF the
outlook for women workers in this country and abroad
In summing up the data furnished in her previous
Addresses she said:
"Womcu by slow degrees and under many disa-
biities have made their way into the industrial field
and the movement is an integral part Of the general
emsncpaton of thought and the demand at all points
for larger liberty and fuller life In 1861 IN Ehgahu
and Wales Oo4 277 women were at work IN 1901
the number had doubled, 100000 being fouhd IN
London alone. Among these were 2@0'ooo ooheSuo
servants 900 teachers and governesses 5lOo BOOK
binders 45OO fowermakeIs. $500 mlners, l4'o"o
dressmakcrs % 800 seamstrcsseS. 4sOo shoemakerS'
10000 sewing maehinists and 44OO w;SherWoho"'
The rest were employed in factories ana INC Ia'so
proportion were unskilled. For skilled workers aver
aging twelve hours day, the average earnihss uo NV
exceed ten shllings a week. Among the EhgNSh nan
and chain yvorkers women arc employed who receive
eghtpenoe a day. In the mines the rate IS the same
50 that executing a small proportion among the crihi
inal class. the majority Of English women wOrheFs
struggle for a wage below Subsistence point
ain France Leroy Beaaieu has computed the num-
her that work in factories as nearly 100000, not
Including 100000 lace workers. who receive from
80 confines to francs day. In Belgium 2oo'oVo
women are at work in mines, factories ana asrf
culture. In Germany the proportion OF women III
agriculture is larger than in any other country III
all the European countries the average wage uoe'
not rise above the subsistence point and oiten lahS
in pite of
standard Of living.
Many trades in which women are generally ell
ployed are dangerous TO life and health Inc
gases and acids used in bleaching straw ior hae
making are poisonous to nhale. The fur sewer ana
plucker soon yields 10 bronchitis and lung troubles.
Artificial flowers colored wall paper and waAerS,
the preparation of poisons and chemicals are all
dangerous and the slightest careessness in phosphorus
matchmaking may lead TO necrosis, which Is as
deadly as cancer The effects OF working In quick
silver are often fatal, and employment in SILK, tute
and shoddy mills is tOerably certain introduction
to consumption. Employers and inspectors admit
that child put into factory life at ten or
twelve becomes by twenty nearly useless. Leroy
Beaueu describes the CONSERVATION OF the French
Government inspectors appointed 10 investigate the
causes of the decadence of morals and physique and
general helplessness of the young married women
in the French manufacturing towns They found
that the ordinary girl worker could not sew seam
or mako a broth. or care for child. The Govern
ment In alarm organized industrial schools and these
have altered the whole face of affairs.
In America factory work for the mothers of little
children means an abnormal death rate and the de-
stction of family life The report of the New York
Bureau Of Labor specifies where children Of four
and five stripped tobacco picked threads sewed
buttons often for ten hours a day. DR.. Anna Daniels
in the eighteen months prior February. 1856. found
$50 child workers under twelve years of of whom
only sixty were healthy. In family she found
a Nislf
tons from O'Clock in the morning until 10 o'clock at
night. The remedes for these abuses already in
operation are chiefly palliative shortened day I'M
proved sanitary conditions and attempts at cO-Opcra
tion. But no single scheme meets the needs Of the
hour. am Nationalist in my dislike Of unbrdled
Of Communism. Yet believe, With DR. Ely, that il
is possible 10 naonazc many Industries with profit,
and that the growth of trusts and syndieatcs is our
first unconscious step in that direction. True de
velopnccnt. however, never come where one Is
army 1t is With women that the hope hes. 1t IS
women who must teach TO sons and daIgters the real
meaning Of wealth the necessity for justice ana the
Baptist Congress has elected trustees tile Rev.
t %I k coan Hd e. r r rf SowYcrR MIS- Mary F.
Vanderp0o. New York Mrs A. J. starr Coldwater,
has been made permanent chairman; Mrs. Griffith,
secretary and Mrs. sterr treasurer Two lots have
f ssns bought the viii a be q bu
Mrs. Helen Campbell, The novelist has Joined the
Hts president TIE following co@mitoc has been ap
pointed to help raise funds for the new union class
S on1T M a rsve Penn oS Mrs r Fs
shambufr. P 1i Miss Grace Fowler Buffalo.
have T' ds cGsT'u az Dr. c oo e 20
convention at Ptsbnrg in October Dri J.; j. Covert
Wiley Of Franklin and william Reader, OF yew York.
tool part in the dlseussiCs W A. NJ Martin S1dn was
ees4 fs Ms Son Ras HaS
and Mrs Emily Wakefield, of Ttusville, was chosen
recording secretary.