The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-11-06

iting daughters in very gracefully worded address in which reference was made to the church, it's age and dignity, to the glories of New England as the home of\so many glorious an- cestors and expressed her happiness at seeing so many present to accept her cordial welcome.
 Mrs. Frank Chamberlain Porter's address was What the Connecticut D. A. R. Can do for the Connecticut Working Girls"
 Mrs. Porter spoke of the last time she saw the D. A, R. together, four years ago, when the Oliver Ellsworth homestead in Windsor was given over by his descendants into the charge of the Daughters of the American Rev olution.
 "On that day. in October, 1903, 1t was my privilege to give to you the deed of that homestead which has given pleasure to nearly 5000 daugh- ters of the Connecticut society. Will you allow me to-day to give you an- other deed? This time deed to per form which will give pleasure to near ly sixty thousand working women in Connecticut And the deed to which l refer is the title of my talk this aft ernoon.
 have the approval of our regent in suggesting that each society here rep resented to-day appoint an industrial committee, or call 1t the c. D. r, F., "Committee for Developing Future Patriots" as that title seems more in line with the purpose of our society
 This committee should be composed first of all, of any wives, sisters or daughters of manufacturers on whom a great responsibility rests. Many an ideally conducted factory and depart ment store where strikes are never heard of owes its prosperity to some splendid broad minded wife of the manufacturer who has as tender q heart for her working sisters and their children as for her own So by all means let every woman who has any tie of kindred to manufacturers be on this committee And to 1t be added any who are already interested or can be easily persuaded to have an interest in this direction
 Now what shall this committee of three or five do?
 First-Find out all you can about the working girls of your own town. l my self first became interested to do this after reading a book called "The Long Day" by Dorothy Richardson, a story of her efforts to get work in New York city
 l became acquainted with Miss Rich ardson and found that her statements were true, and stralghtway determined to find out what the long day of the New Haven factory girl was. visited factories, talked with superintendents l asked questions and received answers of nearly a hundred girls. From these answers came d flood of interesting facts. l cultivated the acquaintance oi every working girl I could, many o them came and spent evenings with me or on Sunday afternoons for tea at my house for that was their only day off They will talk freely when they realizt
 thta you are their friend and many { story of the difficulties and temptations
 under which they work was poured ou over one cup of tea. From the forewo man I learned much and was appalled,
 at the conditions which exist in som factories, not in all.
 My second point Is, having found ou fa 1V1r 4A Y, any need you may have discovered,
 the girls are obliged to eat their luncl at their bench persuade the manufac , turer, if you can, to provide a room
 somewhere near, where in the fresh ai
 they can bring and eat lunch with suit
 able provision for making coffee an, f washing dishes. Or start a club, an , get room outside as we did ot ou 7 Lowell house settlement here in Ney a Haven, the details of which will glad l ly give anybody who will write me fo a them Run this cluA on up-to-dat v lines, where the girls can pay for al 0 most everything and choose their ow : officers and what forms of amusemen 2 and recreation they wish to take up. T My third point Is: Let this commit | tee become also familiar with stat . labor laws and local ordinances. Yo
 can get from the child labor burea h of the Consumers league in New Tor . thrilling stories as to what is bein . done in other states and other coun n tries. Your national pride will be hur Y to learn that we rank with Russia
 far behind the enlightened nations c q Europe, in the way we carry on ou a work, IA striking illustration is tn "a law in several countries in Europe ( f giving vacations with pay to workin q mothers some weeks before and afte l. the birth of child, a thing unhear o Of in this country, but every mother ( Il us knows how important to both mott l. CT and child. As to nouns of work, W y are behind Massachusetts. As to nigf e work we are behind New York. As { $ laws of protection of children, news e boys and the like on the street { q night, we are behind many states. 4
 the committee of labor of one of ou o large states declared, it Is almost a .e ways a woman who starts a neede Y reform in individual matters, who hs s, the heart and takes the time to edl ts cate public opinion to it and persuaC h the legislatures of it's wisdom. Me 1T must make the laws, but woma IS can help create a demand for a go s- and needed law. And surely tho,