Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-04-20
PLAN REORGANIzATON
OF Y. W. C. A. HERR
Mass-Meeting Held Tonight "a
Discuss Conditions, De.
clared Impossible"
NATIONAL OFFICERS AIN
Heads of Institution Accused =,
Disregarding Interests Of
Working Girls

At mass-meetIng in yy,,nou.
Hall tonight to discuss proposod
organization OF the Y. w. G.. A nlao.-N.
honor Will be given girls Of the Kar.I,s
ton branch Of the association c.h.
led IN the tight 10 force a reorpa nj,o'ta.ve "ave
poth IN the personnel and adu,inis,ro,,'n1t
methods in force at the central orsS.t
zatlon' Eighteenth and Arch strse,a
rms meeting viii be addressed bv ~.
Kobert Speer, president Of the Na,ios.,
Y, w. {. A.; Mrs. Dave II. Morris ~.
John Meigs, Robert y. Dripng. forr...
director Of public safety. and the p".
Robert Hunter, OF Kensington ''"
n committee from the national =,
ganizatioh is expected to arrive in ~.
city this afternoon for conforosae ne
with the insurgent managers prlor ~
| the meeting
AS Il fororunner TO tonight's n,a,..
meeting Mrs. Henry Green. former nro.,
dent of the organization, issued ata,n.
ment declaring, from both financial ana
social standpoint, the present admins.
;ration is utterly Ineffective"
Formal Statement
Here is the statement:
instances have repeatedly come n
my attention and to the attention =,
other members Of the board Of Manages,
showing that the conditions at Eigh.
| teenth and Arch streets are absoIuts,y
| impossible. Since the managers hava
not acted It is TO be hoped that M
citizens of Philadelphia will act %,
them. for, after all, this is an organIzs.
tion which deals with welfare work ana
Is therefore, responsible to the cltzenrv
who put trust In IT,
81 deeply regret that Mrs. Fudson ha,
seen fit to refuse to answer the allera.
tlons which persons in responsible posl.
tlons have made that she has failed
properly to investigate the boarding.
houses on the Y. W. G. A. list This
is unbelievable and, II true, is Of ltsel,
sufficient ground for insisting that Mrs
Hudson aud those who support her m
permitting such condition imme-
dIately resign,
Interests of Girls Ignored
"There is conflrmatory evidence tha,
Mrs. Hudson has not the interests ot
working girls at heart When I was
| president of the Y w. c. 4. we estah.
| lshed on TwenHeth street special
home for the girls employed as walt
resses, cooks and Chambermaids in the
institution. Eighteen Of them were nut
in this home with a piano. books and
parlor where they could meet visitors.
A matron was in charge
Fourteen rooms which these girls
vacated were used for transients. Thus
the enterprise, besides giving the working
girls a special home for themselves, al.
most paid for itaelf. This home vas
discontinued by Mrs. Hudson when she
became president.
"Our committee Of admttance going
in pairs, regularly visited every house
on our list. 1t represented little extra
| work to the women on this committee,
but they did it cheerfuIly Since Mrs,
Albert S. Smith has been made chair.
man of this committee this apparently
has not been done. for no woman on
that commi;tee is so lacking in intelli-
gencc a. to send girls 60 the places that
some of them have described"
Mrs. Green described an att mpt 10
put her on a committee to change the
constitution OF the Y. W. c. a. Just be-
fore the KCnslngton girls announced
their intention Of voting at the meeting
OIL January 29.