New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-24
WOMAN HURLS MAN
OUT OF MEETING
Masculine Talk AnnOyS
Unemployed as They
Discuss Woes.
FAIR CHAMPION
DOES QUICK WORK
Stories of Suffering and Dlsap-
pointments Told at w. ].
u. L. Gathering.

Persons who argue that woman hash l
the strength to back up her vote, and so
shouldn't have the vote, ought to nave
boen AT the meeting OF unemployed
women at the Women's Trade Union
League. No. 4S East 22d street, YESTERDAY
The neat and expeditions way IN whlch
Miss Margaret Hnchey. Suffrage speaho''
grabbed a man whose remarks oiu"
nlease her by the coat and carried nun
right out OF the meeting and down the
front steps to the street was one OF inc
hest arguments for sex equality that any
body has offered for some time.
Miss Hinchey is labor organizer anu
nember Of the I.aundresses' Union, as
vii &c q suffrarist. and that is why she
was at the meeting.
Carl Iecht, the man she eJected' mas
been out OF employment for two years
and felt like talking about 1t. lie began
10 talk at an early stage. imineuia'eiS
after Miss Mary Drier. head of the Wom-
en's Trade Union League. made briet
speech
81 met Miss Pauline Newman at the
Rand School. and she asked me TO come
because she liked me-" he explained.
Miss Newman arose in her scat, shak-
ing with rage you are lar," she in
formed Mr. Hecht.
There was more conversation, and then
Mr.. Hccht began an attack on the Wom-
ems Trade Union League.
put him OUT. cried the friends Of the
league. 1--WE call on the men here to put
him out"
The only men present were reporters
and they arose hastily and said they were
on afternoon papers and must go to their
Offices right away.
Mr.. Hecht talked on. The women kept
shouting put him out" and the chair
man. Miss Rose Axelrod, pounded her
gavel.
Then I'D rose Miss Hinchey, who occu-
pied a strategic point Immediately behinu
Mr.. Hecht 1t was beautiful TO see the
vav she put him out Five or six women
who apparently sympathlzed with him
harried her good deal in the process
but she kept right on, saying all the time
in a panied voice:
"Oh. wurra, wurra; I'll be in the papers
sure for this Tomorrow.
women had a chance to do some talk
ing and put their case.
MANY pitiful stories of unemployed were
told. One girl arose, crying, and SAID
she had been put out of her room De
cause she had no money and no work.
and she didn't know what she was TO DO.
A dressmaker said her daughter was dy-
ing of tuberculosis, and she couldn't get
work because everybody said she was too
old.
T." said Miss Axelrod. was cashier
six years, and / am out OF a Job. | went
TO answer an advertisement yesterday
and | stayed around there, and six nun
dred girls came to answer the advertise
ment that day. Many of them had bor-
rowed the carfare. and the man TOOK
none of them. lie would tell them all,
Come again.
4 frail looking young woman COM
planned that the bosses made one girl
do the work of two now. 81 used TO have
five machines to manage, and then the
boss said | should take ten. L could not
do it, so | had to leave
4 girl with an English accent declared
that young women who didn't need to
work took jobs away from those who
needed them.
Many suggestions were made, but notn-
Ing was decided except that there will be
a meeting of the unemployed at cooper
Union on Monday morning, TO hear Car
cnce barrow. and then arrange for
parade TO City Hall.