Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-05
Women's Federation at st. Paul
Learn of Woes of Work
ing Girls
INSULTS FROM EMPLOYERS
Chicago Girls Tell of Alleged Abuses on
a." Roads and in the Department
stores--Cause Of Socialism Found to
Get Many Recruits in the Congested
Cities-Other News.

St Paul, Mimi, June 1.-TWO young
working women from Chicago, Agnes
Nestor. who stitches gloves for mine
hours day, and Josephine Casey, who
works for one Of the L. roads. told the
federated club women of the conditions
that surround working girls in Chicago
Their revelations were startling.
las self-possessed as IL she were ad.
dressing her own branch union, little
Miss Nestor came before the 2.00C
women. Intense, short sentences and
voice vibrant with emotion, she told
the convention Of what her union OF
girls had done to help the women
workers in Chicago. She told of hard
conditions. low wages, long hours that
We're theirs before they organized" and
Of the vast improvement in the condi-
tons since their organization.
But it was Josephine Casey, who
works for an IL" road, who revealed
the most about Chicago employers and
heard of the young girl who was flung
downstairs because she asked permits
sion to leave work one night to attend
religious service, of another girl Of at
tractive personality whose wages were
cut and when she inquired the cause
her employer insulted her vilely.
Another, believing the employers
statement that they would be glad to
see dissatisfied employees in the office,
was. turned from the place with the
threat that shed have her brains
blown out" If she came back.
The insanitary conditions were
painted ELS bad. but low wages and I'M
healthy surroundings are not the work
ing girls only hardship. The insults
of Inscriptions employers are what
make her life a terror.
Rheta c. Dorr, chairman Of the in
dustrial committee and writer on a
New York newspaper, in her address
on THE Relation Of Women to In
said: "Women belong
permanently in the great class of toll
ers. The trouble is they do not know
it, the men workers will not acknowl-
elge it and the employing classes are
too ready and willing to disregard 1t.
"The social unrest is increasing, the
class struggle goes on and our DEM
my part of New York, the lower east
side, / do not think I know man or
a thinking woman who is not an avow-
ed socialist or anarchist"
Ask Industrial Inquiry.
AT the request of Miss Mary Nc
who presented resolution
that a bill now before congress having
for it's purpose the investigation of
conditions surrounding industrial
women, be Endorsed and urging that
the bill be speedily passed,sth conven-
ton voted to adopt the resolution!
Forestry, literature, women in the
the subjects discussed yester-
day. There were addresses by two
men. Enos A. Mills spoke on "Our
Faithful Servant and Constant Friend
the Forest 'and George H. Maxwell
spoke on "Forestry and Homecroft."
Mr.. Mills, speaking on forestry, de-
livered e. poetic and enthusiastic de-
tense Of birds and trees. He said among
other things:
"a wandering, lonely tribe upon the
desert is the fate of every nation that
destroys it's forests.
'.No nation has ever fallen from
having too many trees
"'The two nations most honored at
the worlds fair are the two who can
AXE care Of their forests-G ermany
and Japan.
Young America sowed wild oats
With it's forest resources, but haven't
We found that wild oats make poor
breakfast food?
Birds are the conservators Of trees
md the forests purify the water sup
by, and we need pure water"