The Washington times., 1914-02-01
WORKERS ARRIVE
TO SEE WILSON
Continued from First Page


Greaser. of Garment Workers Union,
No. 257, came in on the Norfolk boat
and were taken to quarters that had
been reserved for them.
Fully 200 delegates are expected on
the special train, and ample provision
has been made by the Congressional
Union for fittingly receiving them.
Automobiles will be provided in which
the visitors will be escorted to the
Brighton Hotel
Large Connecticut Delegation.
The Massachusetts, delegation is un-
der the leadership Of Mrs. Glendower
Evans, who for years has been a promi-
nent worker in matters pertaining to
the advancement of woman. Assisting
her in the ufarshaling of the delegates
will be Miss Marion Hanford, Of the
Boston Street Garments Union; and
Miss May Matthews, of the Boston Tel
ephone Operators Union. From fitteen
to twenty delegates are expected from
the Bay State.
A larger delegation is coming from
Connecticut, representing shirt WalSL
makers, millinerS, corset makers anu
others. The delegations from the VI
cinity Of New Haven are headed 4y
Miss Deborah Gross and Miss Juila
Scanlon; while two sisters, Elsie May
and Maybelle Casey, are in charge OF
those from the Bridgeport district.
Between forty and fifty delegates are
in the New York party, which includee
many women workers who are Wloely
prominent. There are Rose Schneld,
ermann, vice president Of the National
Woman's Trade Union League; Rose
Winslow, a former weaver whose ac-
tivities were stopped by the develop
merit of tuberculosis, but whose appeal
to the convention of the National Wo,
man Suffrage Association, recently IT
session here, was the sensation of the
| meeting: Margaret Hlnchey, another
gifted speaker, and others.
There will be about fifty delegates
| from Pennsylvania. With them will be
Reba Freeden. of the .Cigarmakers
| Union; Rebecca Stein, of the Cloth Fin.
ishers' Union, and Miss H. Brosius, oi
| the shirt waist makers.
More Due Tomorrow.
The Maryland delegation will not ar
rive until tomorrow morning, but witt
them will come q number of the mem
bers of the Just Government League OF
MARYLAND The silk weaverS OF Pater'
| son and Newark will be represented II
the New Jersey visitors.
The program at the Brighton EIote
/ this afternoon will start about O'Clock
or as soon thereafter as the passenger
| on the suffrage SpeCldl Chll DG tLsLiS'
ported from the Union Station. Speeche:
viii be made by Congressman McDon.
aid, of Michigan Mrs. Charles Edward
| Russell, Of New York; Miss Nargarel
| Hinchey, Miss Rose Schneider1nsnn, oi
| New York, and Miss Dorothy Miller anc
Mrs. F. H. Cothron, of Brooklyn. =
| Tomorrow morning at 10 80 oclocF
| the labor mass meeting at the Pup1i'
Library will be addressed by Miss Ros'
Winslow, Miss Melinda Scott, Miss Ha
nav, OF Maryland, and Mrs. GlencoWel
Evans, of Boston
| Promptly at noon the line Of marcl
will be taken up from the library, and
headed by a brass band and with ban
ners flying, the delegates will marci
upon the White House, where Presiden
| Woodrow Wilson will receive them a
ll2:45. But four speakers will addres
the President, and they are to be brief
Tho spokesmen Will be the Misses Me
linde Scott, Margaret Hinchcy, Ros
lWinslow, and Rose Schneidermann.
Their efforts will be designed to oral
from the President q declaration OF hi
attitude toward the cause Of suffrage
They will endeavor to convince him tina
the causes he Is espousing today ar
trivial in comparison with the grea
question of human liberty that Is knock
ing at his door.
| Want House Committee.
They will demonstrate to him tha
it is un-Democratic to permit fiv