The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-02-19

building should be made from gifts. "the
price of nail, the price of a brick
Many of the womens Clubs of the coun-
try have declared their purpose to send
contributions on this Offering day" The
state declarations have sanctioned it and
at the biennial resolutions were passed
approving the plan and pledging support
by giving one programme in the years
club work TO the consideration of this
question
Mrs, J. NJ. White of Butte is the repre-
sentative for Montana.
The Missouri State Federation now con-
ssts of 50 clubs. representing more than
1000 club members. The cubs vary in
size from the parlor circle of 10 or y mem
bers to the department club of several
hundred. The rules governing the Mis-
souri, federation are of the simplest; the
obligations are so small as to be a bur-
den upon none, and the expenses are held
within the limits of the slenderest purse.
The object, as expressed in the constitu-
ton. is Ito bring the women of the state
into communication for acquaintance,
mental helpfuiness, social and moral con-
dtions' Without imposing any regua-
tons or set lines of work, the federation
will, when desired. furnish suggestive
courses of study. By means of it's bureau
of reciprocity it offers the use of papers
anu programmes from OlueT CLUBS ,
through its free circulating libraries it Of
fers books for the bare cost of transport
tation: and by club extension work it
hopes not only to establish new clubs. but
to promote pleasant relations among all
the educational associations of whatever
name in the state.
The attention of the clubs of Montana
is called to the following, which is the
contents of the first circular letter issued
by the committee of the General Fedora
ton of Women's clubs on the industrial
problems affecting women and children:
Believing that right and justice de-
mand that women of larger opportunities
should stand for the tolers who cannot
help themselves we therefore beg leave
to present the following resolutions:
Resolved, First, that the United
States government be asked to establish
a system of postal savings banks for the
benefit of small wage earners.
Resolved. Second, that no child under
II years of age be employed in mill, fac
tory. workshop, store, office or laundry,
and no boy under 16 years old be employed
in mines.
Resolved Third, that adequate school
facilities. including manual training.
should be provided in the United States
for every child up to the age of II years.
and also that good school laws shall be Sc
cured and strictly enforced in every COM
munity.
RESOLVED. Fourth. that in mill. factory.
workshop, laundry and mercantile estab-
lishment the maximum working day for
women and children shall not exceed
eight hours, or 4S hours per week.
Resolved, Fifth that SO far as possible
uniform labor legislation shall be secured
throughout the different states.
Resolved. Sixth, that each club in this
federation shall appoint a standing COM
mittee, whose special duty it shall be to
inquire into the labor conditions of women
and children in that particular locality;
that each state federation shall appoint a
similar committee to investigate It's state
labor laws and those relating to SANTA
ton and protection for women and chill
dren; that it also shall be the duties of
these committees to influence and secure
enforcement Of labor ordinances and state
laws of this character: that these commit
tees al specified times shall inform theiI
organizations of all conferences and con-
Ventions in the interest of social and in
dustrial progress; also that the general
federation shall appoint committee oil
five members whose duty 1t shall be to
collect the reports of the above mentioned
work and present the results at the next
biennial
In accordance with the last resolution
the following were appointed a committee
on the industrial problems affecting wo-
men and children: Mrs. John X. Ottley
Atlanta, Ga: Mrs. J. c. Hume, Des
Moines, Iowa: Mrs. Levi Young, Port
land. Ore; Miss Glare de Graffenried
Washington, D. g.; Mrs. Corrinne S.
Brown, Chicago, chairman.
To carry out the purpose for which the
committee was appointed, attention is in
vited to the following:
Women's clubs have mainly been de-
voted to intellectual study and to philan-
thropy, few have dealt with legisla tive
reforms, but along whatever line they
have worked unequal industrial conditions
have formed a common barrier to pro-
gress. The question. How shall I earn
my living?' is displacing the question.
"How shall l live righteously?" and club
women cannot ignore the disastrous eff
feet of such displacement upon their own
sex or upon their children.
So large a portion of the people are
obliged to devote their best energies 20
bread getting that grace and refinement
born of leisure are becoming rarer. In
dustrial necessity is shortening the pc
Rod of childhood. is driving the boys AMI
girls out of school into factories and shops
at so early an age that to predicate the ig-
| norance of the future citizen is as start.
| The development of all social factors
art, literature. education, philanthropy
and law is now waiting on industrial de.
| velopment 1t is for these social factors
| that women's clubs are working. The timt
| has come for an extension of effort to-
wards those members of society upor
| whose labor all depend, and withou
whose improvement all demands for
| higher standard will fail.
| The best and brightest minds of al
countries are bending their energies to
wards industrial reform. Therefore, t,
| attain a clearer vision of her own pur
| suits, to insure a safe and positive flu
| ture for her children, to ally herself will
| the mental vigor of the age organized
| womanhood must study the Fundamental
| basis of progress, the growth of industrial
| methods
| Recognizing this necessity and in com
! pliance with the resolutions of the genera
! federation. the undersigned urge that
| your club at once appoint committee OF
| those who are interested in the subject
| and that their names and addresses be
| forwarded to the chairman of the general
| committee, with such suggestions and in