The sun., 1908-11-08
BETTER TEAM GFACTORY JOB
ANNtE yCFANGED 70 HOTEL
WORK AND LIKES 70.


Appear 10 q working 6siFi-No
strikes. shoFter Henra ana Better
Living Accommodation Are Here.
sWhy did Igive up factory work TO
become .chambeTmaidf' Annie shook
her bced as she repeated the reporters
question. -For the same reason that I
took up factory work-to nakeR living.
sup 70 five years ago ! did make liv.
ing working in factory. I lived In
comfortable room With another girl
wore comfortable Clothes and In two years
put $500 In the bank. I didn't have any
cause TO complain and didn't complain.
I was doing fine.
sThen got to mixing up with these
unions. People told me Il was the right
thing for every worker. man, woman and
child to Join Q union. Well. I Joined and
In lees than year was out Of work.
Il never had besn out Of work day
before go when the order came for US
to strike / thought It would be Q fine
experiences and was one Of the leaders
in getting the others to walk out. What
was the trouble2 Oh. there wasn't any
trouble, that is, in our factory. It was
what they call sympathy for another
factory. lfN.ey a9E
aWhsn the time came for US all to 20
back the factory boss wouldn't take me,
He gave another excuse. but. we al knew
II was becaussI / had been one Of the lead
era In the movement for the strike.
y Aof cou So I got another job pretty
soon becauseiI was q skilled worker in
NV line. In less than three months
another strike was ordered and again
/ took hand In leading The workers out.
You See I had got: to believe myself q
Heroine. Il thought I was working In a
great cause. was doing what the walking
delegates call putting the general good
above self.
Il held to this idea for about two years,
until I had been forced to draw the last
dollar Of my savings out Of the bank.
That made me mink perhaps mad better
issst mil Io.,ld oet ~, nv saat cain
: s sp..a,s. r 80 -, INV isst doi,sr M.
Doau'o 80 "a, .y ..-,s 49, sSI "as
forced 70 take the nrst woFk tnat could
anv time during seven years had
vor,.ed nm TO one promotion and was
1870. sl.-s,., -, s,ss.,,.. !, g. ,,,,,ah
looktnH iorWafu 20 eettnB 10" much
needed garments Tor the coming winter
when in comes an order from the union
for n strike. ~
.Did help lead them outs Not much.
IL LOOK gooo many Wofee 70 convince
me that 1t was my duty to give up my bed
and hoard > moor az IL Was., because a lot
~ ,,er and ,porneo I'd naver olannad aves
-, @ hsd d.c,,,sSI thav vanted n,ors vass.
On naa uOoitieu snoy wu s,,,1 ane waseS'
had goe down 70 nilng up on oa-
and to wearing aboea had fsbed out OF
a. .sn car Tha e rad ,oanased to
"ai 80" ,,,, "
get ln oank iookeu as DIG as ini'hon
to me ana wasn't Wiling 70 put myself
where I'd be forced to draw It out.
.Tbev fnallx persuaded me that II was
my duty to 60 out; 4 was not willing
and instead Oh ieao,ns : was ne very
last to walk out Of the door OF that fac
tory.
sfhat nizht I thought over tho whole
sItuation 1 had heard that there was
always. demand FOR servnnts. The
prospect OF working . out didn't ssem e me-, en-
but Il was better than being forced to
draw out that precious S5 had saved up
in bank. The next morning registered
NJ an uptoNn empioymAnE bureau and
within ni,lf an hour had heen engaged as
10 this hotel. -
THAT " as moro than q year ago. Don't
I want 10 no back to factory work. Not
Ehile the unions can order me out and
make rue spend my hard earned savings
ret Sil month here, Q good bed in a
warm room, which I share with two other
chamb bermaide, and good food.
sOh. yes. I've heard plenty Of complaint
of the poor food furnished the help in
hotels, but for my part good Irish stew
With white potatoes, coffee or tea and
plenty Of bread and butter h much bet
Ter than bananas or cold food from spas-
try shop. Here we have three meals a
iay In q comfortable room, with an hour
70 eat. That Il better than I ever had
The whole time I was doing factory work.
we have q nice bathroom and closets
Lo hnnn our cluthes in. Ineyer was able
70 pay fo- such quartz when i wss work
lng IN the factory Here I'm living In
one OF the finest parts Of the oity instead
of In tenement, In the poorest and most
crowded auartor. ya
sYeS, there 10 difference In the hours,
but IL n In favor Of the hotel chamber
maid. In the factory our work began
1t ssn the morning and was supposed to
md at 9 In the evening. but In the rush
season I've worked many night until II
md after. Here we must be on the floor
at $50, and excepting ono day every two
weeks we are on at q. That cne day
sach fortnight we are on watch on the
parior floor until IL O'Clock.
"There is great difference between
Retting up In the morning and cooking
your own breakfast and simply having
10 70 down stairs and cit at a table and