Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-07-14
THOSE SHRGWD WOMEN.
A Worthy Chicago Alliance That Has
Big Political Pull.

A Worthy Chicago Alliance That Has n
Big Political Pull.
The Woman's Alliance of Chicago is
one of the most powerful bodies of work
ing women in existence. Its organiza-
ton was brought about through the eff
forts of the Women's Labor union. 1t is
a central body of women sent as dele
gates from various clubs interested in
women's work. There is no restriction to
organizations composed entirely of wom-
en-, but all delegates must be women.
The constitution Of the alliance provides
that any organization receiving ma
jority vote and paying one dollar shall
be entitled to three delegates Varied
organizations have sunk petty differences
and met on the platform of "justice to
children, loyalty to women"
Represented there are Masonic chan
ter, charity aid societies, Christian
science associations, womans suffrage
leagues, ethical, temperance, medical
and labor associations. Monthly meet
ings are held, at which seventy or eighty
women are in attendance. Its objects
are to enforce all laws relating TO women
and children, to secure the enactment Of
new laws, to inspect factories where wo-
men and children are employed and pub
lie institutions where they are main
tanned; to secure the appointment of wo-
men as health inspectors, factory inspec-
tors, members Of the boards of manage
ment Of public institutions and of the
board of education.
The work is divided among commit
tees. AT the regular meetings notices Of
injustices or wrongs Of any sort to WON
en- are received from any source; the
committees report, and notices of delin-
quencies in any public department are
sent to the proper authorities AS this
usually means that further action will
be taken if this is not attended to, and
az the alliance has behind it the Trade
and Labor assembly, representing 25, 900
votes, second notice is seldom neces-
sary TO remedy an evil. The work which
it has accomplished in the three years of
its existence is marvellous.
1t has revived the compulsory educa-
ton law, which had been dead letter
for seven years. This necessitates the
employment Of twenty-five truant Off
GERS, thirteen Of whom are women. Five
women have been appointed sanitary POI
lice officers, the first in the world,
through its efforts. They wear silver
star and are admitted everywhere. Or
dinances have been passed limiting the
employment Of children to eight hours a
day and forbidding the Gale of cigarettes
to them. And these ordinances are en-
forced.
They have visited and remedied abuses
in twenty-six public institutions; public
meetings have been held in the interest
of sanitary Improvements, and ON one
occasion 500 women attended a meeting
of the city council in a body and secured
the appointment Of a second woman
member of the board Of education, de
spite the opposition Of the mayor. TC
prevent any possibility Of its being used
by politicians, it has provided in its by
laws that no person holding political Of
fee shall be a member Of the Alliance
Would it be difficult for New York WON
en- to follow the example set by theil
Chicago sisters? The good they might
do in this city is Observation-Disclosures
York Recorder.