New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-18
THOUGH DEAD, Her
INVITATION STANDS
Women UnionistS to Use
Y. w. c. A. Home as a
Gift of Miss Dodge.

Miss Grace II. Dodge, president Of
the National Young Women's Chris
tian Association, just before her death
wrote to Mrs. Raymond Robins, of Chi
cago, president Of the National Won
ems Trade Union League. inviting the
delegates to the convention the league
will hold in New York in June to be
the guests Of the association in their
big new building on Lexington Ave
nue..
The invitation stands. and Mrs. Rob
ms, who is in New York now, said yes
terday that the delegates would be
more sumptuously housed than they
ever were before.
ave are to sleep in the training
school. and each Of the seventy-hve
women will have a room to herself,
Mrs Robins said. we have been used
at our conventions TO camping on any
old mattress. for we are poor. We are
very grateful to the late leader of the
association for her thought of US"
The meetings of the convention,
which open on June 7. will be held at
the league headquarters. 43 East Twen-
ty-second Street. The only exception
is the mass meeting scheduled for
Cooper Union the evening of the open
ing day.
This is the first time the league has
ever convened in New York. II was or
gained in Boston in 1913 and has held
convention every two years since,
generally in Western cities. Although
the number of delegates 1t not large,
they will represent this year more than
100000 working women and at least
forty-four trades.
1--WE expect women from Kansas City,
Springfield, H., Chicago, Boston, Phila-
delphia, st. Louis and several cities"
Mrs. Robins said. Pm not sure about
the leagues in Denver and Los Angeles
and other points far West, because 1t
takes money to travel so far, and most
of our spare money has been used 10
help the women out of work. We never
have much money, and this year the
unemployment problem has made US
poorer than ever.
"But the working women must have
their own organization, for they aren't
represented IN that OF the men. Al the
last convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor. with which we are
affiliated, there were 500 delegates
and five of those were women. Amerl-
can workmcn don't seem 10 value the
view point of working women. lhey
are more conservative than English or
German workingmon in this respect
The delegates are almost ali women
right from the ranks, thus rctutng'
Mrs. Robins remarked, the charge that
the Women's Trade Union League Is
made up Of women who don't work.
4 delegate from Chicago Is Miss
&C.
international Glove Makers Union and
head of the local Women's Trade Union
League. She was appointed by Presi-
dent Wilson q member of the Noca-
tional Education Commission-the hrst
workingwoman, II Is said, ever APP
pointed by a President Of the United
States 10 serve on a commission. An
other Chicago delegate IS Miss Mary
Anderson, member of the international
Union Of Boot and Shoe Workers.
Miss Mary Butler, the first trade
uDionist TO be appointc' by the Chi
capo Board Of Education as teacher IN
the schools, is another Of the delegates
from that city. Miss Louise Mlttel-
stadt comes from Kansas City and rep
resents the Beer Bottlers' Union. All
sorts of queer trades will have their
innings at this convention. For exam
pie, Miss Myrtle Whitehead, Of Boston,
is sent by the Cork, Crown and Seal
/ Operators Union.
Miss Mary Dreier, Mrs. Robinss sis
ter. is chairman Of the New York COM
mittee on arrangements for the con-
vention, which will last one week. Sew
eral entertainments have been ar
ranged. Miss Lillian D. Wald has in
vited them to see play at the Neigh
borhood Playhouse, near the Henry
Street Settlement. The Woman SUI
frage party will give a tea and sight
seeing automobile tour. Mrs. Robins
saws that suffrage will be one OF the
chief TOPICS at the daily sessions.