The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-09
WOMAN SPEAKER
ENTHUSES ORANGE
STRIKING HATTERS
Fight on and Well Remain
Loyal" Girl Tells Big
Crowd.
MISS KENNEDY'S SPIRITED
SPEECH WILDLY CHEERED
Promises That Trimmers' Union
Will Look Out for All Young
Women in Battle.

There was a crowd of union hatters,
hat trimmers and interested citizens in
the Bijou Theatre, Orange, this morn
ing, to listen to arguments favoring the
union stand for continuance of salts
factory labor conditions, including the
use of the union label in the hat fac
tories of the district. The meeting
was addressed by several speakers, In
GLIDING a Socialist orator.
One of the interesting talks of the
meeting was given by Miss Kate Ken
nedy, secretary of the hal trimmers'
union, who told in vigorous language
why she and her associates went out
of the factories following the with
drawal of the union label. She said:
eve walked out because we knew the
union Hangers a zone from the shops
n the hats could not be finished by
union men. There was a union label In
the hats and / think the bosses would
have been more honorable had they
torn out the labels in the hats we left
unfinished, instead of allowing non
union or scab trimmers to finish the
work, n then send the hats out to the
trade with the labels. I am also sur
prised to learn that over i'm New York,
where they have been getting instruc-
tions for the past two or three weeks
from a teacher, are some twenty-five
girls ready to be placed in the Orange
shops. 1 found that the bosses often
expressed dissatisfaction with the girls
who have qualified themselves for
work by ten or twelve years service,
yet here they are seeking the services
of girls who have but three weeks ex-
perience in trimming hats"
Miss Kennedy asked the men to re-
main loyal and promised the continued
cooperation Of the girl trimmers. She
warned the women that they must not
turn traitor, as there is no occasion
for d~isloyalty.
IF there is anyone in need she said.
"she may come to the union and re
ceive assistance. No girl need suffer
or want. l promise that. if necessary,
| will go before the public and plead
for them that they may have no cause
for poverty. If the traitor appears
among us-and l have no reason to
think there will be any traitor-let her
name be handed down to the future
generations. And let the future know
who the heroes are"
l., .. EDWARDS, or and
others spoke on the situation. Samuel
Botteril made an address urging loyalty
to the officers of the union. President
Moffitt explained that the Newark
STARS had been manifestly fair in
their attitude.
National President John A. Mof1itt
formally opened the meeting, after a
selection by an orchestra which had
volunteered the services of twenty men,
and he later gave a detailed statement
of the actual losses in men sustained
by the various unions, the total number
of non-union employees in the various
factories and told of the hatters' union
side of the arguments. Mr.. Moffitt
stated that the meeting had been de-
cided upon as a result of many mis-
statements as to the conditions in the
various districts, and also declared
there were in Eastern newspapers mis-
leading statements of conditions. The
local officers of the Orange district
therefore called the meeting at the adj
vice of the national officers.