Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-22
WORE OF THE CLUB WOMEN
Bills in Nebraska Legislature Get Some
Further Endorsement.
CHLDLABoR AND EQUAL INHERITANCE LAW
Douglas Comfy Members WIN ne
Notified of Cubs Position
ON Measures Now
Pending.

Monday was a legislative day with the
Woman's club II was the midyear bust
ness meeting and the greater part Of
very fun hour was devoted to the pre-
sentation and discussion OF half dozen
matters regarding which legislators. ma
tional, state and municipal, will be asked
for favorable action. The child labor law
and compulsory education bill and the equal
inheritance bill, now before the legislature,
came up first. and the secretary was in
structed to communicate with the Douglas
county representatives I'm the legislature,
asking their support of the bills. The pure
food committee has not yet reported, but
the same support will be asked for Its
recommendations The support Of Me-
braska's representatives in congress will
be asked for the child labor bill for the
District Of Columbia; for the bill providing
for a permanent children's bureau and for
a bill carrying an appropriation Of s3oo0oo
for the investigation of the industrial con-
ditions of women and children.
Reform In city Jail.
A report was made from committee
that recently visited the city Jail, and upon
its recommendation the club will ask the
Beard Of Fire and Police for a complete
separation of the men and women prison.
ers at the city Jail and for night matron
Ahe Beveridge- Parsons child labor bill in
congress and the Lodge bill pertaining to
the District of Columbia.
A communication was read from the vice
president Of the Second district Mrs. Ed
ward Johnson, asking the support OF the
Omaha Woman's club and other clubs of
the city in the entertainment Of the dis
trict meeting some time in February. 1t
was decided to leave the decision of place
with Mrs. johnson, the club to accept her
decision.
The club was presented picture of Mrs.
Lucy Savage. it's first president, Mrs. Harry
Miller being the donor. The program fol-
lowed, including music, recitation talk
by DR. ]. p. Lord on the orthopedic hos
| pitaI at Lincoln and paper by Mrs. Fred
Burnett on wild Foods
Nebraska Federation Chairmen.
While the membership of the standing
committees of the Nebraska Federation of
! women's Clubs has not as yet been filled
out, the chairmen have all been appointed
and are as follows: Mrs. Draper Smith,
Omaha Industrial Mrs. Mary Hart, Peru,
art; Mrs Helen Norris, North Bend. house
hold economies; Mrs Margaret earns, Lin
coin, civil service; Mrs. Helen Harrison,
York, civics and forestry; Mrs. Halleck
Rose, Lincoln, legislative; Mrs Emma Pile,
Wayne educational; Mrs. Packard, Kear-
ney library; Miss Nanette McCarn FREE
mont, reciprocity.
Council at JameHtOwn.
| Club women are beginning to hear a
great deal about the council to be held at
jamestown next June, when many matters
| in which the General Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs are Interested and that must
have consideration before the Boston bien-
NAL in 1908 will be presented. This will be
! the second council and a meeting next in
Importance to the biennial. General off,
| GERS, standing committee chairmen and
state federation and club presidents will
I make up the body. The work of the Gem
eral Federation has assumed such proper
lions that a council alternating with its
/ biennial convention has become a neces-
sity and some of the most important con-
siderations will be presented at the James,
town meeting next June.
| Ignorance and Indifference.
Mary Mcdowell of Chicago writes: 1T is
| ignorance and Indifference, not cruelty, that
permit the meat packers to build a room
that wastes nothing but the peasant girls
who work in tia trimming room, where
all sun, light and air are shut out, where
the walls are running with cold sweat and
the floor is covered with water, where the
| temperature is 3S degrees Fahrenheit. colder
than an ice box, and where the girls who
trim the pork for the sausage must work
ten hours a day. II one of these girls Is
taken with tuberculosis the packer will give
generously to one who intercedes for her,
but he does not see the relation of the
work to the disease. That is the relation
he and all of us must know"
| The Chicago Woman's club and the Chi
cago Federation of Labor have combined
| forces for a descent upon the legislature
at Springfield to secure laws for the pro-
| lection Of girls and women I'm factories A
committee. composed of club women, set
! Element workers and labor unionists met
| together and drafted a bill which would
give the state power to compel the installa-
| ton of guards on dangerous machinery and
to regulate the ventilation and sanitary
conditions of the shops where the women
toll. Mrs. John d. Sherman, Mrs Charles
| Henrotin and Miss Mary Mcdowell are
| among the prominent women active i'm this
campaign in behalf of legislative protec-
ton for the factory and shop girls.
DESCRIBES THE ISL AND W0RI n