New-York tribune., 1908-10-19
PLEA TO IDLE WOMEN
Factory Inspector Wants Leisure
Glass to Do Public York.

Buffalo. Oct. 1s-what woman with the ballot
in her hand could do toward alIeviating the hard
ships and suffering in the industrial world due to
injustice and inequality told at industrial
mass meeting at the Star Theatre to-day by dele
gates to the tortieth annual convention OF the Ma
tional American Woman Suffrage Association
President Anna H. Shaw opening the meeting
said that every human being should have the op-
portunity to toll: that Gods greatest, gift to the
human was when he sent man forth into the
world to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
Il believe in toll" said Miss Shaw, "and the dig
nifty of labor, and also believe in adequate COM
pensation for work done
Miss Jean NJ Gordon. factory inspector for the
parish OF Orleans, New Orleans. introduced by
President Shaw Industrious young
whom the political ring Of New Orleans sought TO
have removed but who still retains office,
doing splendid work for the poor Miss Gordon said
In part:
Too long the men and women OF leisure and ed
Of our public affairs to fall into the hands of
public service is Of the lowest order. I heard
an address given by Mr. Wind. OF the Prison Re
form Association, in which he said we left the
most important positions to be filed by he lowest
kinds Of political appointees We resarded all
such positions suPerntendents of penitentiaries
and wardens of jails unworthy for men OF
be regarde5 as postions Which sbouid demand
abilities of the highest order-that is. II pen
formatories.
have srown to feel the & same way about 2 t.'h the
regarded as only lifted for Women Of ordinary po7
sition intellect all positions such d superin-
tendents Of all reformatories, your atrons and
your women factory inspectors should % women
of position education, refinement and independent
means. Then they are above the temptation or
graft the fear Of losing the position again
they social footing with the manu-
facturers. and mill or factory owner likes TO
the factory inspector at reception or dining
in the home of q mutual friend II he is trying TO
evade the law. She might tell on him. YOU know,
before all his friends,
American women OF leisure must awaken to an
democratic nObieSSe
obiige. They must learn that the day Of aims
becoming educated one, and is beginning TO re
sent the hand OF charity always being extended
when it asks for justice.
Harriet Stanton Blatch. of New York. made
plea for attention the Industrial training
of young girls who going into the world
to work She took exception TO the expression
lower class. and said that some Of the grandest
characters she knew had the workshop for their
alma mater and the trade unions for d post
graduate course.
The report of the committee industrial prob
lens affecting women and children given by
Florence Kelley of New York. She said, IN part:
Votes for working women mean shorter hours.
limited hours for women-such is our practice
day in Increasing number of states Eight
hours for all workers would do reduce
tuberculosis than all the Crusades against II that
are going In the world to-day, for overWork
IS the chief predisposug cause of the disease.
hours only in the four states in which they vote
Colorado. Idaho. Utah and Wyoming Here in
New York women cannot be deprived OF the sacred
is the decision Of the Court Of Appeals In the
recent case of Williams sgt. the People
On the contrary. the same Court OF Appeals has
within a week held that the law IS constitutional
which restricts TO eight hours the work of
employed by the state the county or the city.