Evening star., 1914-01-28
EMPLOYMENT READY
FOR EV|CTED GIRLS
Welfare League Plans to Aid
Inmates of 0utIawed Seq
regated District.
So A WEEK Minimum
WAGE TO BE OFFERED
Headquarters Opened and Already
Several Applications for Assist
ance Have Been Received.

National headquarters Of the National
Social Welfare League were opened In
the Woodward building this afternoon
commissioner Stanley w Finch. special
agent of the Department of Justice who
Is serving as the organizing head of the
| league. announced this afternoon that a
SUITE of rooms had been leased on the
third floor of the Woodward building.
where women and girls from the sesre-
gated district of Washington could apply
Tor assistance.
Applications from eight girls were on
hand to be acted on when the new head
quarters opened. and fifteen additional
girls have asked to be given work Their
appications will be given immediate
attention.
Mr.. Finch addressed a meeting at the
= NJ e A. this afternoon, the object
OF the gathering beng to raise an emer-
gency fund of $4,000 with which to
hnance the rehabilitation work so sud
oehiy thfown upon the league through
the prospective immediate abolition Of
"ashinSton's segregated district
Industrial Employment Open.
We have facilities for giving indus
trial employment to from 1Jo TO aoo
women and girls within the next ten
Gays. said Mr.. Finch this afternoon
ms work Will pay minimum weekly
wage or ". and any girl who is worth
more than that amount will receive what
sne earns. Arrangements have been com
pieted with concern that will give thes,.
girls employment paying them living
wages. and the league will be able to
take care OF at least this number ia
! Washington with facilities for eivin..
employment to many more at Baltimore
| Inc mass meeting which was to
@ nave been held at the Y. NJ. c. a. to-
stating the meeting probably win be
| held tomorrow night.
The plan of the National Social Well
@ Iare League as outlined contemplates
the establishment of an Industrial
! school where girls may be taught
garment making, housework cookery,
secretarial work. such as stenography
and typewriting. and the like
Protest Against League.
Mrs Kate Waller Barrett. president of
the Florence Crittenton Mission, accom-
! panied by Mrs f. L. Robertson, secre-
tary OF the mission in Washington; Mrs
w s Corby, Mrs. Ralph Barnard and
Mrs. Byron r. Newton, wife of the as-
sistant secretary of the Treasury, called
at the Department of Justice simultane-
ously with the visit of Mr.. Finch and
| District Attorney Clarence r. Wilson, to
protest against any official recognition
of the proposed national social welfare
league by the department.
| Mrs. Barrett voiced a further protest
| against the organization of the league
| and the establishment of the proposed
| industrial school for the reason. as She
stated. that no necessity exists for sucn
an organization.
| Mrs. Barrett asked that the enforce
ment of the Kenyon measure be delayed
| as much as possible, as to give more
| time in which to prepare to aid the
women who will be affected by the meas
cation afterward called on President
Wilson to ask that he defer signing the
| bill as long possible.
President to See Request.
The delegation was received by Secre-
| tary Tumulty, who promised to lay their
request before the President Accord
| ing to law. the bill must be signed with
in ten days after its passage. otherwise
| becoming a law without the signature
of the President. A delay of at least
a few days in attaching his signature to
/, the bill was urged.
| At a meeting of the Washington Con-
| greSs of Mothers at the Raleigh Hotel
| last night, committee composed of Mrs
Fred I. Dubois, Mrs. Frank p. Wilcox
| and Mrs. Bertha Byrne was named to
! confer WIN NAL sylvester. superintendent
/ of police. as TO methods for helping the
evicted women and girls of the District
1t decided that representatives OF
the Congress of Mothers, escorted by
| policemen, shall visit the houses. talk
/ with the inmates, and afford any as
sistance possible in finding work for SUCH
OF the women and girls desire to avail
themselves of til. offer. DR.. Elnora
Folkmar of the women's clinic stated
that the clinic stands ready to give any
assistance in its power to any of the
women or girls in need of aid.
Police Already at Work
! Maj. Sylvester. chief OF police. this
morning stated that the police will get
1 becomes a law. He stated that members
of his command today are gathering h-
/ formation TO indicate what most of tn.
women affected by the measure intend 10
do when the President signs the bill. Re
ports will be made to headquarters, he
stated. probably late today tomorrow
| reporter. Maj. sylvester said he sup
posed many of the women will leave
/ this city and go elsewhere. some to
abandon their past mode OF living and
others TO continue il.
l Ii was said IN police circles today that
a number of inmates of houses affected
br the measure already have left the
to send them from their present homes,
some to storage houses and others tu
their future homes in this other
jurisdictions.
ClubWomen to Aid.