New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-21
.PLAN MORE SCHOOLS
! FOR FACTORY GIRLS
Clothing Manufacturers Pleased
/ at Progress Made Since Re-
cent White Goods Strike.
WILL END "RED FLAG" TALK
abraham S. Iserson Explains
Move to Educate Workers
at Luncheon Held at
Press Club.

we girls amt got nothink TO kick on
ar. Isorson. He is so goot 10 send us 10
school We got a nice teacher. She
llcarns us fne-rcadink and writink and
tookink va. wisht could 20 TO school
RAJ the time-its fine
Such is the testimony Of Minnie Good
swim, part time ironer I'm a white goods
FACTORY. part time student in tho \ L c
'Csss Of Public School 4
Minnies testimony is important. because
Bon II hangs the future Of the movement
Nor the education of working girls
, When half A dozen manufacturers dc
Nided after the strike among the white
lSoods workers last winter TO send some
luf their girls to school it was quite an
experiment. II has passed beyond that
Estate now. and so pleased arc the en-
lployers with the progress of their school
Girls that they want 20 encourage the Gus
Nom among all their brethren.
At a luncheon given yesterday at the
New York Press Club by Abraham 5.
IIscrson plans were made for an associs-
hion OF manufacturers and social workers
whose sole object should be 70 interest
bother manufacturers I'm the education OF
1heir employees. Mr. 1serson said after
tthe luncheon that no definite steps had
Fseen taken, but at a meeting in the near
tsuture officers would be elected and plans
laid for increasing the number of girls at
lschool.
There are sixteen in the special class
ltow," he said. but We hope TO start two
or three hundred in the fall. We are very
tnuch pleased already with the progress
Your girls have made.
They arc so happy in the school and
20 grateful for the opportunity 10 learn
that their pleasure 10 communicated to
TIE whole working force of the factory.
There is no more talk Of tho red flag
hand slave driving There is no more
letrikins II is only the disconnected and
Ignorant class who talk about industrial
slavery When a girl gets an education
and decent vase she realizes that this
is q glorious free country, where she can
rise to he the equal Of any Of her more
fortunate sisters II she tries. The edu-
csteI girl is not content 10 work in a
dull routine. She strives for advance
ment. That is what the firm wants. We
,prefer the clever girl who does the work
of two to the shiftless two who don't do
1.-THE work Of one
! we hope to educate all the employers
| TO see this. that a poor girl under mod
ern conditions has no chance for an cdu-
icaton. Take the case OF Minnie Goodwin
lShs is an hungarian and her mother died
when she was two years old. She had
Irc chance 10 go 10 school in the old
country because she had to DO the house.
work for her father. over here it was
,she same Now sne is tventy-four years
irld and can neither read nor write.
! Night school What chance has A
working girl 70 20 70 night school when
Ifhe has homework 20 do at night for her
,sister. stockings TO mend for her two
small neuhews and her own little dresses
land waists 10 make? \ girl who has
yuorked all day over hot ironing table
bs too tired 10 study At night Now. Min
,nie is At school all day long. She loves
i1t and is learning readily. At the end
tof the school week she is rested and
tready 10 take up her week of working with
fresh energy"