Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-02-03

IiShmclt of the loague'S proposed indus
trial training school and manufacturing
plant. and that if the relief fund is 10
he y sced in the hands of q large com
mittee, TO be distributed as temporary re
lief and Tor the support of refugees and
missions. the subscribers do not feel
called upon to contribute.
Mr.. Finch emphatically stated that the
broad general plans of the organization
of which he is the directing head Will not
be changed in the least and that the
project of the league for the establish
inent of an industrial training school and
factory will be carried out. That the in
stitution will not be located in Washing
ton was the equally emphatic declaration
of Mr. Finch.
More than six months ago he stated,
Il had practically completed arrange
ments for the establishment here of an
industrial training school. somewhat
along the line of similar institutions at
the Washington high schools and other
places where girls and boys are taught
to work with their hands and brains.
The branches which. it was contempla ted.
would be taught in this institution includ-
ed garment making. such as the manu-
faeeure of mems and wemen's clothing,
underwear and the like: the manufacture
of toys and building blocks; millinery,
model making, and, in fact, a broad range
of higher manual training
ArrangeS for Lease of Building.
IN the furtherance OF this plan 1 had
arranged for the lease OF building in
Washington. containing 2o.0oo square feet
of floor space. well lighted and ventilated.
to be used as manufacturing plant. The
project had. and still has, the backing OF
big manufacturers in other cities-whose
names must, for several reasons, be kept
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build up corps of trained workmen for
employment in their factories in other
cities.
The plan contemplated the establish
ment of we'll regulated and home1ike
dormitories and boarding houses for
the use of the girls. who would be sur
rounded with only the best influences.
and who would be required to pay a
maximum of 81 a week for board and
room. The minimum wage. as has
been stated many times. is TO be IS
a week. and girls who are worm mere
than that amount will be paid more
.'The enactment. sooner than was ex-
pected, of the Kenyon bill. c.catea an
emergency here, which the advisory
board of the league, on the urgent
ment departments. endeavored to meet.
Conflict of ideas as to the proper
method of coping with the situation.
however. and opposition to the estab-
AiShiiSht Aicic VI d diHiHS SCHULZ anu
plant in which to teach and employ
girls from the division" have c3m-
PEELED the abandonment of the plan So
tar as Washington is concerned
Promises to Be Kopt.
Il want it definitely understood, how
ever" Mr.. Finch continued, that each
and every girl or woman who has ap-
Piled to us for employment, or who may
do SO will be cared for. 1t will be
necessary, under the circumstances, to
send such girls away from Washington
But the work, at s. a week, with the
other features which have been promis-
ed. will be furnished. The National So
cial Welfare League is not going to stop
its work simply because of the embar-
RAISING situation that has been created
here in Washington over the emergency
question of dealing with the women and
girls of the red light district.
The league is organized in five states
and the District of Columbia: it has the
backing of men worth millions of dol
lars, besides the active support and in
tiuence of men and women of every creed
and phase of religious belief, from Car
dinal Gibbons to men who are frankly
agnostics, but who are anxious to do
something to aid in the Improvement Of
factory conditions. and to make life
easier for women and girls who are COM
PEELED by economic conditions to earn
their own livings-"