New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-09-13
SUFFRAGISTS TOLL
FOR UNION VOTES
TOWN TRENTON
Anneal Concentrated on
Workers Promises Vic
tory October 10.
FACTORIES STORMED
BY WOMEN SPEAKERS
abor leaders, Enthusiastic for
Cause-Bay State Detail
Wins Recruits.

This is the first Of series Of field
reports on the suffrage campaign og
Tribune representatives. The fol"
states Nc,r Jcrscy, Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts, and Netc York c'"
he corcrcd in detail. The FrSt
articles ,ciH deal Nth Ne'o Jersey
,rberc the issue is to be decided al
q spcciol election set for october y.
Bv ELEANOR BOOTH SIMMONS.
Trenton. Sept. Eff the sufrag's'
- this town can bag its 5'oVO un'o"
labor votes October 70, they don care
what the res; Of the electorate does.
No onc expccts a very large share oil
the male population TO get out at ,h'S
s,ecisl election. and Miss Lav'nia En-
GO, the pretty Southern girl loaned .!
~ National Woman Suffrage Associa-
,oD for manager ef the capital heau-
Quarters. told me to-day that II ie"
thousand Of the workingmen VIII s'Sno
nv them they can carry the town by
assault
81 am concentrating on the union
-,,r " she said. q reasoned that IN
.bo short time We have It is hopeless
m try 10 convert the whole Of Trenton.
7, is useless 10 scatter our fire. We
won't bring anybody down. ] decldea
70 take groups Of men, specialized
groups. and the union men are our best
friends. Yes. know the organized
labor Of New Jersey did give us slap
recently. but the very next day Ireh-
80, unions repudiated that action.
am speaking to union men almost
wholly. t,..or,.
Evenings talk at union mee.'' *
Every day we are working 10 get the
SIGNATURES OF working men. II IS lar
al away more satisfactory method
than lust taking the population any
aTbeIe is a wide field in Trenton
for this sort Of campaign WORK, lot
n has many factories and they are
st.orclv unionized. The capital OF New
Jersey makes more things Tor the resi-
Of the world than most people thlhh.
s lot Of the fine china we ouy Is h!aue
here The tubs in which many, OF Us
hattie come from Trenton. On all these
fsctories the sufragists have designs
but especially do they plan some hveIy
meetings near the huge rubber WORKS
oftbe Roeblings. Mrs. Karl g. Roebhng
being one Of the leading members OF
the New Jersey Association Opposed 10
Woman Suffrage.
Storm Citadel of Enemy.
at is a point Of pride" Miss Engel
SAWS. Ito win the votes OF al least V"O-
thirds Of the Roebling hands
l.. Socialists here, If promises go
for ANYTHING. are practically SOLID Tor
,uFrarc. talked with an officer Of the
Socialist party here. He told me that
there were 600 Socialists IN the town.
that b, knew the views of all OF them,
and that all but one said they would
yot, yves" October 10. Several So
cialist speakers are helping the sunra-
gists. ard they respect the desire OF
The latter that nothing snail be sara
about Socialism az their meetings
And how does the average working
man Of Trenton regard woman sui
,railed around yesterday with the
campaign party that came from me
Raw state 20 help New Jersey, Mrs.
pobort Gould Shaw. Mrs. Francis Pea
bodv Nacoun. Miss Margaret Foley
and Mr., Richard Y. FitzGerald. MISS
Foley is the labor mems own favorlte,
and she talked 20 big group OF them
last night al Front and Broad streets
though not as many as heard her al
IN, Singer Sewing Machine factory at
Elizabeth Friday. There She had an
d O. Il the noon
hour. and they came on, and stood
hacked i'm the great quadrangle formed
by the three sides Of the building, sur
rounding the Bay State automobile.
In every window Of the building, also
they were packed, ten and twelve 10
window, leaning out.
Suffrage Oratory Wins.
Most Of the Singer employees are
American. practically all of them are
voters. and they listened 20 Miss
Foley's trumpet voice hurting suffrage
arguments az them as If they honestly
lonecd 20 take her message IN. linen
the l o'clock whistle blew, and the
audience melted away. There was no
time for questions, there were no com
ments. but II eager, intelligent, earnest
attention means anything, Miss FoIeN
certainly had it that day.
The audiences IN trenton Yesterday
we're smaller. Of course. Mrs. Fitz-
Gerald was the speaker IN the after
noon. BAY State women claim that
Yrs. FitzGerald held the very first
open air suffrage meeting ever held IN
the United States. That was about
six years ago. in little Massachusetts
town. and she has been campaigning
for the vote ever since. though she has
FIVE children. IL was Mrs. FtzGerald's
small daughter who said TO her nurse,
as the latter was taking her 10 bed,