United labor bulletin., 1909-10-15
CURTIS ThEATER.

Though Theodore Kremer has prob
ably written and produced more success
full melo-draras than any other living
playwright of today, none have achieved
the success attained by his latest and
best effort, "A Fighting Chance" The
play has never been seen in the west,
as the owners of the original road pro-
duction of the play have been unable
to take the same out of the larger east
ern cities owing to its wonderful sue
cess, so through the efforts of the man
agement of the Curtis theater, the pro-
ducing rights to "A Fighting Chance"
were secured for one week for Denver
and patrons of the Curtis next week.
The play will be identically as given by
the original company in New York "A
Fighting Chance" is probably the great
est scenic melodrama now before the
American public and there is not mo-
ment in the two and one-hal fhours of
its presentation that thrills, exciting sit
uations, startling climaXes and clever
comedy are not intermingled with start
ling rapidity. All the old favorites of
the Curtis stock will be seen in the cast
as well as Mr. Mccullough, Miss Jeffray
and Miss Dalton, the new members OF
the clever company, who are this week
making their initial appearance "A
Fighting Chance" starts with the mat
inee performance Sunday afternoon next,
continuing all the coming week, with
the usual family bargain matinees on
Wednesday and Saturday afternoons.
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woMEN's TRADES UNloNIsTs.
Annual Convention in Chicago This
Week.
The National Womens Trades Union
league has been holding its annual con-
vention in Chicago this week. Mrs
RAYMOND Robbins is president. Among
those who are in attendance is Miss
Melinda Scott of New York, the leader
of the hat trmmers in New York and
New Jersey, who recently came out OF
strike. which lasted over eight months,
VIGOROUSLY.
When the hat manufacturers last
January locked out the members of the
United Hatters of America and deter
roIped to abandon the use of the union
label in mems hats, Miss Scott took
I'D the work of organizing the girls
who trim the hats. She was so sue
cessful that she was forbidden to enter
anv of the factories to speak to the
girls.
She set her heart on organizing the
girls in one large factory in New YORK
and succeeded in eluding the watchman
and entering the factory. She was told
not to talk to any of the girls and to
leave the place at once. Raising her
voice so that it could be heard all over
she said:
81 don't want to talk to the girls, but
do want them to know that the girl
hat trimmers will not trim hats made by
nonunion men"
The appeal was effective and the 300
girls in the place walked out after Miss
Scott and were organized in the union.
The strike ended about three weeks
ago. when the manufacturers agreed to
restore the union label and reinstate
all the workers who had been out for
eight months
The principal speaker at the con-
vention is Mrs Mary r. Macarthur of
London, England, who is attending the
convention as representative OF the
British working women. J1hr Mitch
ell. 'ex-president of the mine workers, al
so addressed the meeting.
1t was shown at the meeting that the
average wage of women workers in the
United States is less than S270 year
and that more than half of the women
engaged in gainful occupations are un-
der 81 years.
Mrs. Robbins declared that "the con-
ditions of work in many of the trades
nut such strain on the physical orga-
nization of women that in few years
it units them for motherhood"
1t is the aim of the league to remedy
these evils and to reduce the hours
of labor.
Smoke La Exploridad Havana cigars.