The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-04
STUDIES LIFE OF
WORKING WOMEN
]. P. Morgan's Daughter Visits Chi
cago Stock Yards and Urges
Loyalty To Unionism,

NAAANA Avn AUTH "a halA hSNA
with MISS anna Morgan. daughter Of
j. PierpoEt Morgan. during her visit TO
this city. proved 20 me that her friend
ship for the striking shirtwaist work
cts OF New York and her interest IN
women workers unions generally, is
M rad She showed more interest IN
the organization OF working women
for better pay, shorter hours and gen.
orally better conditions. than the aver
age working woman does
Women should feel that organiza-
lion is part OF their lives she said.
II should give them sense OF soli-
0arity that should be- lasting. Once a
uniouist. always unionist, should be
their motto
IT a girl Who belongs 10 a union
marie cae should continue a member
.of her UNION IN spirit at least She
should stand in the same relation TO
the newer workers that college alumni
do 10 the undergraduates. She should
use her influence 10 keep her working
sisters alive 10 the cause that means
their well-being"
Miss Morgan was a guest OF Miss
Mary +. Mcdowell. the angel" OF the
Chicago stockyards. She was enter
tanned just where she wanted 10 be en-
.tertained. That was out in the south
end OF Chicago. where the elevated
trains run over block after block Of
pens for animals waiting TO be killed;
where the odor OF the slaughter pens
makes you wonder how people eau
stand IL all Of the time: where girls,
5000 or more OF them. make Clipped
beef, WELD a trimming knife in al zee
cold room, pickle meat In cold, wet
cellars and work among the sausage
castings for wages In many depart
ments under 81 a day.
II was 10 help these girls, hundreds
OF whom live herded together without
anyone TO protect them. that Miss Nc
Dowell went to live over feed store
Mcdowell came from fighting stock
Her father was Mai. Malcolm Nc
| Dowell, OF Columbus, o.
Miss Morgan Is a splendid type OF
American womanhood. She is tall
rerect. and OF the kind OF muscularty
that radiItes good health. Her DARK
ewes are clear aud direct. They look
straight at you when she talks, as ::
there wasn't anybody or anything
else in the world
! She was dressed in a slate blue. ughI
fitting travelling suit over a white liz
geTie waist. Her hat was a close
fitting black turban. When introduced
TO the eight young women who rep
resented Chicagos women trade
unions. her white gloved hand went
out with 4 real hand-grasp inside II.
AS she talked she sat on one arm OF
wooden rocking chair and leaned
back, arm prone on the other.
One OF the new ideas in unionism
Miss Morgan stands for is the giving
OF fund or dowry by the union u
any girl member who marries An
other is Tor the working together OF
mems AMI women's unions.
"All the foreign girls are accustomej
| to getting the linen ready for their
marriage from the time they can use
q needle" she said That is" with n
smiling acknowledgment OF her own
spinster condition. Il suppose girls
have no intention OF not marrying up
to the time they're IA. After that they
some times begin 10 change their
minds.
But anyway. the dowry idea is not
2 bad one. We have the same thing IN
another form in this country"
Much Of the time, however, Miss
Morgan was the student. She wanted
10 know Just how one went to Work
20 form a union.
How do you start one?" she asked
OF Miss Mary McEnerney, business
agent AMI organizer of the women S
bindery union, the strongest women ;
Union In Chicago. Miss McEnerney 5
Union won a strike eight years ago
that increased the girls wages 81
week. Later they won an eight-hour
day without strike. There are 1900
of them in Chicago.
Miss McEnerney told how she went
into a shop and asked the girls to join
The union. IF the employer objected
| reported TO the union authorities,
and the union label was taken away
from him. becauEe IL any department
of a business is non-union that can be
done" she said.
But what do you do when the en-
2ioyer didn't have any labels at ali?'
acked Miss Morgan, quickly.
II was Just the same when she met
Miss Alice Henry, kho came from Aus
tralia, and is now a Chicago worker
for women's unions. She didn't ask
about the climate or the topography
of the country.
How is unionism progressing out
there?" she asked, then followed vita
a quick fire OF questions about the way
che Australian women stand for or
ganization.
Il think the best way to have unions
for women succeed II for them 70 work
with the men, she SAIL THE best
results a-e always obtained when men
and women work together
Miss Morgan Is on her way TO Gail
forn!a. She spent all OF the time with
Miss Mcdowell, whom she admire5
greatly.
Before reaching the settlement Miss
Mcdowell took her 10 drive through
the little parks OF the city. as she
y.anted TO see ire peoples breathing
s0ots. not the bculevards OF the rich.
tntlno. DANQ Q1OO