New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-03-28
WOMEN CALL MASS Meeting
To Demand Better enforcement
of Fire Laws by the City.

ems clubs OF All com3loNionS were '"o
tordav in their common 'n'eref' '" wv
subject the Nre in the Irians" ""'S'
tcrv on Saturdav. Three mass n'e'"'-S
have been arranged to demand he'te' 'd"'
and he,ter enforcement cf EXISTING laws ~
Guard against q similar Tragedy IN inc
>,u,a In ono " these mass meetings All
/ IT, srorore organizations Of the CITY WIZ
IT,. .rbe date is not fixed. but " VIII ho
soon.
.rh. <e, York CITY Federation Of WcW-
en.s C1uhs. throueh its public safety COM
,..oo ,ae cont on, , general invitation To
women and men too. to attend mee'ins
on the subject IN the Ho'el As'o' "'
aor q, II o'clock. And behind the hiack
drawings with which III" Women ''''
Union League has yelled its hu'd'ns' Nv
a. Fast ODD street. in memory of we w
,;n,s Miss Mary Dreier. head ~ Inc 'sds"e'
and her co-vorkArs were busy Nes'e'na'
morning as a special committee NJ t"'hN
five 10 arrange for big meeting 81 when
tho co operation of labor unions and ''''-
zers Vii, he asked for the protection Of
workers and the reform Of fire traps
| Tho league intends 70 have AZ least three
,housa,d union workers marching IN line
at the funeral ~ the victims and is send
ing ont through the Fast Side hnndreds ~
ran,rhlcte in many languages ASKING ~
wage earntrs. but especially women 70
march.
! Another measure set in motion NesterdaN
r., ,bis organization was the raising of
fund for tho survivor. aud the families of
tho victims Samuel J-rtermyer started "
With contribution If san. and II soon
swelled TO N,0no In al these Undertakings
Mrs n II r Polrcnt. who become in
,eres,ed I'm tho shirtTsist workers during
the strike last year. is cooperating WIN
Miss Dreler.
| Most important cf all. in Nh" esimanon
~ tho league is the effort II IS making 20
get at tho real conditions in factories. \
special complaint committee was organized
| Yesterday consisting Of Mrs. ". oUes-
hoimer. No. East 58th street: Mrs Charles
Beard. No 5Nl West l2lst street: MISS
I.eonora O Reilly. No sso1 Seventeenth ave
nue. Brooklyn. Mrs stephen Wise, No. .
West och street. and Miss Ida Rauh. No.
a East 22d street. to whom workers VIII no
urged 10 write descriptions OF the protec-
ton against fire. or the lack Of protection,
in the shops where they are employed.
"Of course" Miss Dreier said, "the
names ~ those who write will no re
carded as confidential. After the Newark
fire W. sent out a similar qucstionaire, ano
many Of the girls who wrote were AFRAID n
s:en their names-afraid Of losing their Jobs
| Arpsllng conditions were revealed IN some
| Of hose answers. one girl who was en-
rlcyed IN a Broome street factory said she
vSrkod on the fifth floor the two windows
on the floor " ore barred. all the doors were
ocked during working hours. there was
only one fire escape-outsde barred win
dow-and the one staircase was OF WOOD
and so narrow that not moro than one per
son could descend Al a time.
The women OF the Trade Union League
will urge the need Of more factory inspec'
tors. and especially more women inspectors
as they consider that women have beer
found more efficient and careful in this
work than men.
At a meeting OF the League for the civic
! Education Of Women. in the Waldorf yes
tcrday. where chief Magistrate McAdoc
talked ABOUT the municipal courts. a rcso
luton was addressed 10 the Mayor asking
the better enforcement Of fire laws. To
CAV a meeting of the womans auxiliary OF
the individual and Social Justice Leagu,
all consider protection against fire in laun
dries. Mrs. Julian Heath president Of thu
alyiliary. says that conditions in many
laundries are unsafe in this respect.