New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-06
SIJFFRACISTS YIELD
TO UNIONS DEMAND
w. p. U. StenOgraphers
Will Join Organized La
Dor Monday for Peace.
MRS. BLATCH CHARGED
WITH BAD FAITH
Snappy.Eyed Miss Hohmann De'
clares Women's Society Has
Been Running Open Shop.

Tho Rookkecpers. stenographers ana
Accountants Union yesterday re''er"'eu
Go cboree that tie Womens Political
,,.,o, e. "u,ilfuilv. maliciously and OBJ
stinately" running an open shoP' o
about that time the Women a.
Union headquarters announced 'no
staff would become unionlEeu
rto ,,ice-nresident OF the union ~ "iS'
,tar,ho tIobmanr. an earnest young Woii'-
an with Swapping black eyes nv
snapped considerably more tha' :, =.
.I -, ,bo office OF THE Survey al
.ho charities Building, where she Is en-
Moved. she read Mrs. Harriot o'a -",0,'
RIatch's statement of Thursday, III W..
NIrs Platch declared that TOT SIN
49,, ,vor,en,e Political Union had oee'
tr,.,r,, 70 get IT'S Office help into the ui''o"'
and had only met with oppositloh'
"a lior, Miss Hohmann exclaimed So
ing q big black pencil marx arou"u wv
statement. "a lie.'
I'VE took this matter up s"o ,as,
two weeks ago. fortnight as
Saturday Mrs. Florence Mauie 49,
executive secretary of the women
ltical Union, applied to our ui'iO'
. ,,oroeranber. We sent good one anu
h,,oht and early the following Monuay
ebo ronorted at the Womens fol''ea'
Irn,on beadouarters, at % West 4oth St
y,-I,i,o waiting in Mrs. Cooey's once sho
saw letter. signed by Mrs Blatch, o"
the desk. in which Mrs. Blatch 'oiu
Cooley that she had stenosraphei
caqed Later Mrs. Blatch came i"' "'
cave our Young woman TO uhuei
tbo+ the Women's Political Union nHu
rIortv ~ volunteer help, and wouioh
b,ra n slenographer. But there was '"C
letter on Mrs. Cooley's desk, ana we NM"
that the stenographer is engaged aha 10
not member Of the union.
! "It 20 ouitA true that James P. Boyle
u.bo Is president of the union anu
not its walking delegate, as Mrs bia'oi,
said. declared at a meeting OF the Cehli a.
Federated Union of New York, last De
cember, that admission to union mee.lne'
should be denied to Miss Katherine Mli'S'
W p. I. organizer, on the ground tha'
the w. p. L. is employing non-union help'
Mr. Rovle and Miss Mills are good friehds
and have talked this all over ana MISE
Mills SAYS Mr.. Boyle is right we've
kent at the w. P. L. right along ana
when Mrs. Cooley sent to us for ste-
nographer week before last was so glad'
for. as | said to Mr.. Boyle; AT last our
efforts are bearing fruit And when Mrs
Blatch turned down our union stenogra-
nber we were terribly disappointed.
What about the two members OF your
organization who called at the once OF
the w. p. L. and were cordially re-
ceived,' but went away and were never
heard from again." Miss Holman was
asked.
zone of them was Miss Helen Marot'
of the Women's Trade Union League
she said. They, like most Of us, are
volunteer workers, doing what they can
in their free hours, and can't always fol-
low a thing up. But they told the young
women at the W. p. |. enough at their
one call TO enable them to join
Miss Hohmann characterized as alb
surd" any suspicion that the family con-
nection between Miss Alice S. Bean, cor
responding secretary Of the Bookkeep-