The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-06-28

Cooperation was the keynote OF the
| initial session OF the first annual con-
vention OF the State Federation of
Business and Professional woman's
clubs. which convened in the Jeffer-
son hotAi yesterday The first day
or the conference was marked by sew
eral interesting addresses by promi-
| nent women OF the city and state.
The meeting got dowE TO work in
earnest yesterday afternoon.
The first session was held in the
Flemish room at luncheon at 1880
o'clock. At which Mrs. Sally Nelson
Robins presided.ss Discussion was had
OF the subject. Women Pioneers in
Business and the Profession in vir-
Rinia."
Ths speakers wsrs Mr.. Robins. DR..
Emily HIny0n. Ara. =. n. Lipscon1b b,
Miss Grace Sickei, Mrs. c. c. Ellis,
Mss Harriet crinSam. Miss Eliza
beth O. Price. Mrs. Horace Wexford
Jones was chairman OF the commit
toe on arrangements. &.
Adjournment was taken until 4
o'clock, when the delegates again
gathered and heard several short, but
interesting talks on "A State Organs
cation of Business and Professional
Women"
Among the speakers were Miss 3.
Price. Mrs. Eudora Ramsay Richard
son, Miss Minnie Jones. Miss Ella T.
Agnew. Contributing to the discus
sion were Miss Josephine Mcleod,
Mrs Thomas H. Digger. Mrs Glover
and Alvin n. Smith,
Cooperation Live Subject
Mr., Smith said that II was the f.rst
time he had ever talked to ladies In
business He took a. his subject,
What Business Women Might Wisely
Seek Through Cooperation"
Cooperation. he said. has hecome
the Invest subject In the world to-
day. The underlying thought OF the
conference. he assumed. is co-opera-
ton. Without cooperation, he said,
no business is worth while. No con-
ventton. without cooperation, can be
successful. He pointed to the league
OF nations ~ one result OF co-opera-
ton, and took occasion to defend
President Wilson from the criticism
and attacks OF certain ones in this
country who seek to block the peace
deliberations and embarass the ma
tons chief executive" Tho league.
he said. is a cooperative scheme
which should have the endorsement
and support of every man, woman and
child In the world.
Cooperation. he said. was nrst
found ia Biblical times. when the chill
dren OF Israel. under the leadership Of
Moses. were led out Of the wilderness
into the promised land. out OF dark
ness into light
He does not feel kindly disposed to
the kind Of cooperation existing
among most labor organizations and
WAS most plimentAry In his
references to President Gompers. Of the
American Federation Of Labor. He
does not believe in An autocratic form
OF dictation. such ~ 10 practiced. he
said. by Gompers and other labor lead
efs.
/. Business and manufacturing and In
dustrial institutions. he said. and the
most trouble from lack Of co-opera-
ton from what he termed "nappers,"
the sort Of young woman the extent
Of whose interest in her employers
business 10 in watching the clock and
locking for payday.
WILL WELCOME WOMEN.
He said the industrial establish
ments Of Richmond would welcome q
visit from the proposed federation OF
business ana professional women and
survey Of their women workers with
view Of lettering the conditions OF
all concerned.
The time has come. he said. when 4
oman worker shall be expected to
render . days work for = days pay.
Sentiment In business among women
ro longer counts. and the war brought
this about, he said. The speaker
brought ripple Of applause when he
declared his belief in suffrage,
He told his hearers not TO light the
organization which would not come
into the federation. but use. instead.
persuasion. He told them that they
would get anything they sought II
they Justly were entitled to II. He
told them to be broad. not narrow. and
cooperate. The business men Of Rich
mond and Of the state. he believed.
would cooperate with them. In con =
clustoH he reviewed briefly woman's
share In the world war.
Mrs. Richardson told Of the necss-
atty for = state federation OF bust
ress and professionAl women. In re-
viewing woman'A part In tho recent