New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-29
WOMEN AID TRADES UNIONS
WIVES OF WASHINGTON TYPOS HAVE Or
CANNED A GUILD
TRA1NMEN ALSO HAVE woMEN's AUxrIAR1Es-
THE MOVEMENT is SPREADING. BUT is ONLY

TRAINMEN ALSO HAVE woMEN's AUxIILAR1Es-
THE MOVEMENT is SPREADING, BUT is ONLY
SOCIAL AND CHARITABLE IN ITS SCOPE.
Miss NJ. f. J. Kelley. of the Social Reform Club.
has great faith In the future of tradesunon auxil
iaries. made UP of women. She said yesterday TO
Tribune reporter:
"Women's auxiiaries the newest development
In the trades-union movement. Only the printers
and the railway mems unions have them yet
but the chances are that in a year two there
will be auxiaries all along the limestone cutters
tailors and cigarmakers' northumberland then the
public may see interesting developments. Women
have not been much of trades-union-
lists" she declared. Even the optmists admit that
They seem to take kindly to the auxiliary notion
however. and there learned folks who claim
that the solution of many industrial problems will
be brought about by organizing women. not as pro-
ducers but as consumers.
Women certainly do most of the buying. Par
tcularly is this true Of American women. One has
only to stop and think who buys the food. fur
niture. the childrens clothes and the various other
things needed by the ordinary household to realize
the force of the statement. Certainly If large
organization OF women should refuse, individually,
complied with. its fate be easily guessed, SO
future
The chief objects Of the auxiliarles just now
they began as social adjuncts The membership Is
made Ino1s up Of women whose husbands fathers or
Most of the social life of the union is in their
hands. They arrange the entertainments and
dances, The printers auxares differ slightly In
being Of more exclusive character. and having
more of charitable purpose.
Membership In the printers auxiliaries." Miss
Kelley said '.s confined to the wives Of union
printers The official name is The Union Printers
Wives Wives Guild, The first guild was organized in
Washington, ID. c., last year. 1t is an auxiliary
of Printers Union No. 1ol Each member must be
vouched for to her husbands standing in his
trade organization by one or more members Of the
guild
ut Is provided that funds In the treasury shall be
used for the relief of destitute union printers
their dependent relatives Many OF the members
are the wives OF employees in the Government
Printing Office and pretty wide section of
rtory is represented among the officers. The pres-
dent comes from North Dakota. the vice-president
from Missouri. the secretary from Indiana and the
treasurer from Virginia
Another guild similar in character has recently
Other organizations which have like aims with the
printers wives guilds and the womens auxiliaries
of the railway trainmen are the mixed Federal
unions affiliated with the American Federation
of Labor Non,wage-earning workingmens wives.
college girls and women of wealth and leisure are
found among the members of these unions. Several
Of tho social settlements headquarters for the
trades union auxiliaries. Hull House at Chicago
has q particularly notable one, which has made it.
self conspicuous In the investigation of shop evils
and In agtating for reforms in the factory nspec-
ton laws"