New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-05-24

r,-,,-. &f.ts~ Nav q (SpeciaD.-"I can't let you
80 +rje afternoon off Mary" said the mistress
~ one of the mansions on the hill 10 hel 1ii7''
cook. =, eating her
AN, why not?" demanded the girl setting nes
s alzirnbo after the fashion of hired girls upon
the stage. z -. 4b.+ La has
.r,1,, husband has just telephoned me tpat ne No
. friapd coming out to supper" returned ieF ms
tress turning back into her part OF the nouse =,
wait = minute" from the servant alinoS' -
tone Of command :, that tons
".,Jarv. don't you ever speak TO me IN li'a' t'"'
again lit T. o,err.. ex-
claimed the girl. .o.-,as.
MARY" gasped the mistress almost speeclile -,.
..Did Won ever hear of the Holyoke houSehoiO
r,,r1,,-as, I-Dion?" asked Miss Ireland
tn ,na+ron tossed her head little higher anu
considered discharging Mary on the spot
..weu it's been formed. an at last the poor
do,vntrodden overworbed, underpaid hlreo s4iI i
. sucker in time Of need Mary continued hia'.-
..rbaro's the mans very words mum s"OA'- 49,
..T1-bat Of that. Mary? What Of that?" from the
mistress >, -. ,a a-+sr-
This of that be jabers. if don't get me
Moons and nights off regular I'll join the UNION
that's what II do.
..You threaten me?"
call il what you Ike. mum
The mistress little mite as she was went up
p the strappine3 Irish girl and siezed her ny the
shoulders. me BIlP was --@-
sure. :. -,
lyon miserable creature" she began III angry
tones do you think I'd ever be dictated 10 py {
servant Before Ia endure that VIII DO the WIZ
myself Now. you go back into the kltehel' ai-I
! hear another word out OF you about that uiiioH
~, sand Won into the street quickly that your
head will swim $3.50 e. .h.
She even shook the girl, who started ior 'Ns
domain she is supposed to rule.
And Mary" called the mistress. We Il nave
-F-, tfr7da
T.,us has the war between mistress and maid
+aler IN new phase In Holyoke. The above is
an incident one of many, and the servant girls
union is hardly organized yet. no officers have
been elected no walking delegate been appointed
Another girl it is asserted. tackled a sign IN the
kitchen outlining the union demands ana lea IleF
mistress ont 10 view il. Some housewives say tliAt
if they fad their girls even attending 4 Hiee'i"s
they win discharge them at once. doing the "orA
themselves until they secure cooEed slrls IIo"i
the South.
..1en,f n scandalois" declared a woman who
maintains one of Hoyokes most pretentious estao-
ushments this servant girls union! what wouu
orr mothers have thought of II? .Dofnesuc help
was the word sixty years ago. Tor servant va
unknown except IN the Bible Girls were scarce
then and my mother used TO hold out inducements
Every girl was anxious TO get married ana she sa"
TO Il that they did. and happily AFTER certain
rerru of work. ] wonder II the union VIII 40 that
for them We had a hired man once who was most
e-i1e,,I in hunting these mountain maidens- He
never came back without ore. and she was always
neat obedient and something OF a cook
The situation in Holyoke is just this: 1t Is one
% the strongest union towns In the country. ATTY
60 unions being affiliated with the central body
IF there Is a line OF labor which has not been
,,nionized the general agent does not know oil IL
The servant girls came naturally into the scheme
OF union expansion The organizer got after them,
and with the assistance of other union men, caiea
meeting II was attended by sixty girls, instead Of
thrss hundred or four hundred, as news dispatches