Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1909-08-27
CELEBRATE
LABOR DAY
IN CHICAGO
High Prices Of Milk and Ice
Cause Terrible Death List
Among the Ghetto
Babies.

6, as representatives of "a organized
bodies of Chicago women workers, in
occupations ranging from vaudeville
artists and corset makers to teachers,
stenographers and horse nail makers,
and will embody flesh and blood
plea for motherhood and homes, for
babies, and for the protection OF wo-
men. Earnestness of purpose of these
girls and women finds no possible
wet blanket in the probable prospect
of walking over the purposed route
OF four miles because of the scarcity
of union teamsters and the difficulty
and expense OF securing automobiles.
Mrs. Raymond Robins, president OF
the Woman's National Trades Union
League and also president OF the Wo-
mems Trades Union League of Chi
cago; Miss Mary e. Mcdowell OF the
University Of Chicago settlement
house and the vice president Of the
Chicago branch Miss Emma Steg-
hagen, the secretary, and Miss Agnes
Nestor, the treasurer, Will direct the
woman's section-of a parade that will
comprise over $4,000 men and will
add a high light with It's pennants OF
white and gold and It's bright-eyed
girls to the grim phalanxes of the
tollers. The picturesque May-pole of
last year in which dozens OF white
garbed women mounted in a tallyho
held the ends OF canopy OF vari-
colored streamers bearing such mot
toes as Equal Pay for Equal Work. "
mo Child Labor" Educate. Agitate.
Organize" will be repeated with an
additional cry Fellowship is Life"
supplementing the eight aphorisms
fast year.
The Chicago league founded In
1904 by Miss Jane Adams. Mrs.
Charles Henrotin, Miss Mary Il. Me
Dowell and other pioneer champions
OF the woman who works, Is but ~
months the junior OF the national
body which made It's debut In 1903
under the guidance of two delegates
from Great Britain. To the crusades
waged by this organization is largely
due the progress OF Industrial eman-
cipation for women In Illinois. Fair
wages, decent working conditions and
shorter hours, above all the eight
hour day, are the present demands
OF the league which even now Is pre-
pairing for another onslaught upon
the Illinois state legislature arguing
the 4S-hour week for women work
ers. Adequate protection OF machln-
cry and the employment OF steam
and electric power whenever possible
are further subjects for agitation
with surgical statistics ably recruited
as forcible campaign lever, EX-
animation of medical reports and
summarys reveals an appallingly high |
registration OF girls and women un-
fitted for wife and motherhood and |
home-making. and permanently brok-
On in health as a consequence OF va |
rious criminally exhaustive indus
trial occupations carried on under |
conditions that should be judiciany |
termed illegal
Hitting the ice trust between the |
eyes with the brass knuckles OF ap- |
piled scientific invention, and saving /
Chicago's slum babies In the face OF |
the unequalled advances in the price |
of Ice and the milk rise this season.
and consequent forced economies aud
un-iced and soured milk for many |
babies, has been successfully accom-
plished through the use OF thermOs
or vacuum bottles as ice eliminators.
In the day nursery OF the EstheI
FalkensteiR Settlement House. locat-
ed In the pitiably poor Ghetto dis
trict This is the section OF the city
where az per cent OF the infantiie
deaths in July occurred this year as
against 81 per cent last year. though
Sut 81 per cent OF the oity's popula-
tion dwells there. During the second
week In August in this district the
baby death toll leaped to 1874 as
against i42 on the preceding week,
an Increase even above the heavy
mortality record of the same period