The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1902-11-13
LOVERS MUST HAVE CARDS.
Working Girls in Chicago Introduse
This as Rule in Their Labor
ORGANIZATIONS.

nlzed in wage-earning circles in this
city. More than 100 girls have, within
the past few days, Joined the No
card, no girl movement organized re-
Gently, and applications are piling up
IN the hands of the three young wom-
en- who organized the crusade against
nonunion sweethearts, says the New
| York World.
When the purposes of the order were
hrst announced, Nellie Mahoney, Ma
ME Dillon and Kittie Halle, the pro-
motors, and the few others who had
she courage to unite with them. were
laughed at and even jeered. The idea
OF mixing up love and unionism seemed
too funny; in fact, the whole matter
was treated as a joke by the working
girls of Chicago.
Now it is apparent that the three
young women builded better than they
knew, for there are no three girls in
the country who have as many offers of
marriage from substantial working
men,
The trio speak of the stacks of love
letters and photographs they have re-
celved as silly" which treatment of
:he situation serves to make more acute
the envy of the girls who thought the
movement a joke.
The loyalty of Miss Mahoney and
her associates to the cause of union
labor, by which they announced, some
weeks ago, that thereafter they would
nave nothing to do with young men
who did not carry union cards in their
pockets, has had its reward, and they
are the leaders of a cult that bids fair
to grow to permanency and great pro-
portions.
FROM the time that the announce
ment of the girls intentions was made
until to-day, they have been besieged
with offers of marriage Pink, blue and
green enveloped letters, every one a
palpable sign of delicate attention.
nave accumulated at the headquarters
OF the Union League club" No. 1855
Washington street. They are from men
wiling and eager to comply with the
conditions the girls announced that
they would impose upon all suitors.
GU are the girls for u.s." the let
tiers say, and they praise the girls for
the remarkable impetus their resolve
is certain to give to organized labor.
Some of the writer's assert that when
young women are thoroughly organ
1zed against nonunionism, there will
be no artisan or laborer to be found
outside the pale of unionism.
The letters come from all parts of the
country-from Maine to the Pacific
coast-and the remarkable thing of it
is that nearly all of the writer's assert
that they will not marry a girl who is
not member or does not join the
MISUNDERSTANDING order of. union
sweethearts.
There is at this time tremendous
demand for membership in the Union
League Club" a small army of girls
was initiated at the first meeting of
the club last week, and twice as many
have applied to come into the fold this
week
All the applicants declare that the
offers of matrimony which have poured
in upon the pioneers in the mo card.
no girl movement has nothing to do
with their desire to become members
of the organization. There are those
who whisper that they are not entire
ly unintiuenced by the effect of the
original announcement, however.
The three original union label sweet
hearts are ready to share their adYan-
tage with their tardy sisters.
1--WE did not know that we were 90
ing to receive those silly letters" said
one of them the other day, "and we
wish the men would stop writing to
us. We have enough letters to burn
during the winter in place of non-union
coal, and enough photographs to cover
the walls of our rooms"
The girls are anxious to impress upon
all they meet that the pledge which all
members must take not to associate
with non-union men is only incidental
to the work of their new organization.
They expect to accomplish great things
by it and are already discussing one
plan for making their organization pop
ular.
1t is their intention to establish their
headquarters in furnished fiat, which.
of course, must have been built bv
union men and contain nothing but
union-made furniture. In this fiat
members of the organiza ton who are
out of work or sick will be cared for
by other members. At the same time
the fiat will be utilized as the meeting
place of the club and the place where
all business of the organization will be
transacted.
Other plans of a similar nature are
being considered, and before long the
girls expect to have majority of the
young women who belong to unions,
such as those of the rubber workers.
the glove makers and others in which
the feminine element predominates, in
their organization.
Depends on Circumstances
She-Do you regard marriage as a
necessity or luxury?
He-Well, when man marries
cross-eyed girl who says silly things,
whose nose turns up at the end and
whose father is worth about 50 .OOO,-