The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-21
MARY SCULLY lS| APOSTLE OF THE| WORKING WOMEN ] Long Years of Hard Work In Factories Taught Her
 To Help Toilers. DOES WONDERFUL
 WORK IN THE CITY Energy Tn x ha U s t i bl e Prompts Her to Seeming
 ly Impossible Efforts.

'sThe conditions of the working Wo- men in Bridgeport are the poorest in the United States" was the remarka- ble statement made by Mary ScuIIy, American Federation of Labor. yes terday when asked for a concise statement of her opinion concerning the subject
 t-They are worse than those in New Jersey. = she continued which have always been considered about as bad as could be possible
 any means an easy thing, as you must catch her between meetings. She is always going to meeting as quick Iy as the union labeled jitney can convey her from hall to hall
 Who Is Mary Scully is being widely asked Mary Scully is the woman who when two weeks ago today she stepped off train at the station, neither knew, nor was known to any one in Bridgeport. Today she is easily the most popular Wor3an in this city and is probably known to more people than any other member of her sex of this vicinity.
 What do the people think of Mary SculIy7 The best answer to the question is to witness her entrance to a hall where are gathered some thousand or more men and women who desire just a little more money for the labor they give and just a couple Of hours less to work. No sooner does Mary Scully enter the door than wild applause breaks forth which continues until she gives the sign that she is ready to speak It's aa ovation which many an actress would give years of her life to gain and Mary Scu1ly has been here but two short weeks
 NFaT~x1 cSf.fT1 ly is energetica1ly working night and day in their efforts and they know it That's why they're for Mary ScuIly-
 Above all the popular organizer knows what she. is talkingNabout from practical experience.
 As the Jitney hurried between Eagles hall. where she had spoken to Sadler's hall where she was to speak yesterday afternoon, Miss Scul- 1y told about her self.
 For twenty years she worked in the garment faetortes starting in when very young. and working her way up through the various positions until f- na11y she became fore1ady in a shirt waist and dress factory in New York. citx She was known as one of the highest paid foreladies in the busi- ness But Mary Scu1iy had been ob- serving She knew the grinding au-.
  long hours the poor pay and the wrefched conditions under which the girls had to labor and although she had reached a position of authority /she had mot forgotten the things which for 20 years had been making their impressions. It was after the second unsuccessful strike of the girls in her. particular factory that she re- volted She could talk to the girls in their own terms and she soon had them all out on strike again. She then went to all the leading manufac- t1rers in that line and secured the protoco1 under which the charter of the International Ladies' Waist Ma kArs' Union local 25 of New York city as it now stands Is organized. There are 27yo0o girls working under this
 By this time Mary ScuIly was an or ganizers of the first order She went Z to Boston where she secured the pro tocaI under which 5000 girls now werks It took her six weeks to un- idnize the women workers of Boston In Newark, she organized 12s0O0 girls into unions
 Mary ScuIIy talks to thousands A meeting of several hundred is consid- cred is considered a small one
 A couple of weeks ago Samuel Gompers, president Of the American Federation of Labor, said to. Miss Scul1y:
 "Go up to Bridgeport and look things over See what the conditions are. there. Connectfcut is noted for the poor conditions of it's women in labor but I don't think that the Bridgeport women want organization However, see what you can do.''
 kSo Mary Scu1ly came to Bridgeport The public has been apprised of her arrival through the newspapers, but thought nothing of it. Miss Scu1Iy