Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-27
WORK OF SOME WOMEN
Mrs. Anna E Murray Raising Money
for Kindergartens as Solution
OF Race Problem.
Mrs. Florence Kelley and National
Consumers League-Fi
the Sweat Shops.
Work Of the Organization in Differ
ent states-Standard of En-.
ployment Raised.
Special to Tlmes-RepuhIican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Meines, Aug. 27.-Those who at
tended the Mothers Congress in this
city last May or read its report will re-
member the earnest and intelligent
woman from Washington who repre-
sented the zcolored race. She was Mrs.
Anna r. Murray and she told the con-
gress and all the world plainly that the
country could not advance without lift
| ing up the colored race to better COM
dition. She has been helping to solve
1.-THE race problem by securing free kin
ldergartens for the city of Washington
and by educating kindergarten teachers
flor the work in the south. This is now
| her chief mission and for this purpose
she is endeavoring TO raise money
Mrs Murray recently presented the
free kindergarten as the solution of the
race problem at the session of the negro
conference which is held yearly in
| Hampton. Va, in connection With the
i
Hampton Normal and Industrial Insti-
tute. Mrs. Murray writes concerning
this meeting and her work as follows:
1T was most interesting and in
Istructive meeting attended by about 800
peopie from all over the country. / am
Isure that did some good. for when the
closed there was a request for
| apractical kindergarten school for next
Hsummer which i think will be granted.
i hope to begin my work of kindergar-
Item training for the south by the first OF
IOctober. want To bring twenty-five
Women from the leading schools in the
south to BE- trained in Washington and
! afterwards sent back to the south u
4 meet tbs demands that Will be made
upon ilsm. / must raise $4,000 by the
| first of October il am 10 begin this
4 year, ard it does seem a pity that any
ltime should be lost. Mrs. Phoebe
/ Hearst, of California, has contributed
4 81 900 and wish that some noble
hearted woman or women from Iowa
would contribute the second thousand
4 There are many noble women and men
Tin Iowa Who are ever ready to help a
3.righteaus cause and if they could only
isee how necessary to their own happi-
.iress is the solution Of the race ai:es-
lEtiotl they would not hesitate. The sons
5lif the women of Iowa have ever been
1.-THE champions Of the oppressed race of
which | am a member, and / look to
them for Rearty support in this Work
THAT lies al the Foundation of all noble
tlchasacter and f,rsedoni.
u Mrs. Mur.ayts address is 1874 South
.Istreet.. Northwest Washington. D. c..
land she invites correspondence With all
3Ewho are interested in the work she is
ldoing.
4 Another woman whodeeply Interested
1.-The Mothers Congress and attracted
wide attention in the west during heI
6isvisit here w1. Mrs. Florence Kelley. o!
New York City, secretary of the Ma
istiopal Consumers League. This is tbs
Organization that IS fighting thessWeat-
4lsiops. The hstory. of this organization
HIS a most interesting one. A noveTnent
4iin the interest of the women and chill.
sidren employed in the retail stores Of
New York City ewas5 undertaken in thC
winter Of 1890 by the Working Women's
5fSoci,ty. An inquiry into conditions pre-,
waiting in the principal establishment:
< proved that the working hours We're eN-
& ieessiVe and that employees We're rarely
A paid for over-iime, that the wages bott
4 OF saleswanlen and cash girls We're loW
land that fines imposed for various de.
liinquencies materially reduced the stit
lisnd agread upon. that children uhdel
i ia years Cthe lowest legal age for en-
pioslncni in q factory or Workshop,
Ewere employed for long hours and a
6htasks far beyond their strength, that
Eworkr5unls Mere often unsanitary. tot
llet-rnnms inadeauate. and the law re
iiq,liring seats behind the counters gen,
Eerally evaded. A public appeal resulted
lin the Organization of the Consumers
4 League OF the Citv8of New York. Janu
AIRY. 1921. TIE principles actuating thi:
Isociety We're declared to be:
I'D That the interest Of the commu,
lnity demands that all workers shall re
glceive fair living wages.
Fl "t2) That the responsibility for somt
4 OF the worst evils from which wage.
Il learnerss suffer rests With the consumers
q who persist in buying in the cheapes
market, regardless of how cheapness i:
4 brought about.
A "t3e That it is the duty of consum-
srs to find out under what condition.
u the articles they purchase are produced
End To insist that these conditions shall
Z he at least decent and consistent with {
Respectable existence on the part of tbs
+ wosASrs
'tf4) That this duty is especially in
3cunbent upon consumers in relation Il
tl,e products of women's work sincs
atth@re is no limit beyond which th'
i wss ses of women may not be presset
down, url5 - maintained at living
.Fiate By combinations, either Of the
Wor!lS.s THEMSELVES or of consumers.
TIE league undertook to secure q lis
9f such shops as dealt justly with theil
employees. IL order TO bring public ac,
3 tiGn tobsar III favor OF just employers
The standard Of employment ther
adopted has been consistently main
taine3. not only in New York. bur il
4 brooklyn and other cities where simi
lar effort to improve working condition.
& lin the retail stores has been made.
"A fair house Is one in which eaua
3 pay is given fora work of equal value
II ttirrespective of SEX in which the mini
mum wages are Sc per week for expert
!. fenced adult workers, and fall in few in
stances below Is: In which wages ar,