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New-York tribune., 1919-10-12

n OLL1 LlFSdl1L, Secre-
wi tary Of the White Goods
Workers Union and a
product Of the Trade Union
League training school, said last
week, in speaking Of the organi-
zation:
IL wish l could tell every girl
who works what the Women's
Trade Union League has meant to
me. | am a Russian from Odessa.
| came here little stranger and
went to work in q white goods
factory. And | felt so alone.
After l joined the league Amer
ica seemed so different, because
had friends and love. Through
the league l came to know older
girls. They taught me how to get
an education-to understand
American government, and just
how | could do my part to help
get good and wise laws. l am for
America. We can make it the
most beautiful country in the
world, if we only work hard
enough"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Good Teachers
Helped the Cirls

The members Of the league them
seives are women who have learned
shelr lessons In the world Of expe-
nence," continued Mrs. Robins, in
speaking Of the development Of the
ieague. "Many of them started TO
work when they were so young that
'ney were really breaking the law.
Zach one has story TO tell, a meg
ssye 10 give. And 40 one of the
bfst demands In the old days when
We we're simply reading poetry was
ior ciasses in public speaking.
Some Of the best teachers in pub
pe speaking have held classes for
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Lillian Wald, Ida Tarbell
and Gertrude Barnum
Represent Public; Sara
Conbov, Labor Women
Women Segregated
AS Separate Unit
Political and Labor Lead
ers Show Keen Interest
From the Sidelines
Ne,r York Tribune
Wash ,noton Bureau

Wash hnoton Bureau
!" HE woman" side OF the in
dustrial conference called by
President Wilson last Monday
for an indefinite period, to outline the
future course Of industry was largely
unofficial and personal. While wom-
en- were named by President Wilson
for the publics representatives and
by Samuel Gompers. of the American
Federation of Labor, for the labor
group, they did not play a conspicu-
Gus part in the earlier days Of the
session.
The first day of the conference
the women named by the President
were grouped separately as repre-
senting women. 1t had been an
nounced originally that these women
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait, Ida
Tarbell and Gertrude Barnum-
would be in the public section. On
the lists distributed on Monday to
the press, the women were grouped
by themselves as belonging to
separate unit. The labor woman.
Mrs. Sara Conboy, was retained in
the labor delegation. The women's
group worked with the public Sec
ton, however.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
What the Public
Owes to Them

All this has but little to do with
the luncheon which Mrs. James
Speyer and Mrs. Helen Hartley
Jenkins attended several days ago
at the Lyceum Theatre as the guests
of Daniel Frohman.
Mrs. Speyer and Mrs. Jenkins met
with Mr.. Frohman to form women's
committees for the national memo
rial day of the Actors Fund of
America, not because of what the
stage has done for women, but be-
cause Of what the public at large
owes to actors and actresses.
Actors national memorial day will
be December S. On that day 105
theatres in New York City and every
theatre in almost every other city
in the country will give a benefit
performance, the money from which
will be used to endow the Actors
Fund.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12

our girls. In Chicago and in other
cities as we'll we have had the ad-
vantage Of instruction from the
most efficient teachers. Parlia-
mentary law was another subject
the girls wanted to study and did,
and English grammar and letter
writing. Later the girls took up the
study Of their own work and it's
history. They worked at industrial
history, learned the meaning of
trade agreements and had the ad-
vantage of the best college instruc-
ton along these lines as we'll. After
the start made in the league the
girls had the ideas and sought their
training themselves.
"The classes in public speaking
were among those of most interest
to me. After the girls learned to
speak so that they could be heard, a
thing all public speakers have to
learn, the great difficulty was to
teach them to translate the Ian
guage of their trades into everyday
American speech. They could draw
wonderful pictures and make vivid
comparisons for an audience of their
own companion workers. But the
expressions they used and the words
employed in making their compari-
sons were not known to any except
persons of that trade"
The enlargement Of the classes of
the women Of the league attracted
the attention of the workingmen.
Now in many cities the league has
educational councils, with the CEN
tral labor body Of men. They deter
mine the studies for certain classes
and the lessons needed by both the
men and the women. In many places
they have classes in the public
schools.
The Trade Union College was
opened recently in Boston as an
outgrowth Of this educational work
of the league and the mems labor
body. 1t is open to all trade union
lists, members of the American Fed
Grafton Of Labor, and to the men,
bers Of their immediate families. A
committee Of trade unionists and
college men has full charge and
made all arrangements for the col
lege.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
College Men and
Trade Unionists

Roscoe Pound, dean Of the Har-
ward Law School; Professor Will
lam z. Ripley, of the Harvard De-
partment of Economics, and Pro
fessor Irving Fisher, Of Yale, are
the instructors heading the list.
Fourteen courses are offered and
the college is open six nights a
week. The courses are in English,
labor organization, law, government,
economics and science.
Besides the establishment Of
classes there is another feature Of
the educational work Of the Ma
tional Women's Trade Union
League, j. e., the school for active
union workers in Chicago. These or
ganizers are trained and leaders
taught how to go to weak points in
the trade union organization and
build them up. The training course
lasts for from three months to one
year. All Of the girls who attend
have TO have scholarships, consist
ing Of SIS week, to cover the cost
Of their living. Women's clubs and
other organizations throughout the
country have given scholarships to
this school
Julia O'Connor, the Boston girl
who organized the telephone opcr-
ators, and Agnes Burns, another
Boston girl, who helped in the work,
are two of the products Of this
training school Of the National
Wonlen's Trade Union League.
The educational and spiritual
awakening which has been felt IN
the world Of working women OF late
il claimed to be an outcome or the
league and its programme OF edu
cation.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Notables on
The Side Lines

Flora Wilson, daughter Of Secre-
tary Of Labor Wilson, spoke on be-
half of President Wilson, who could
not be present because of illness.
She was accompanied by Mrs. Mar
garetta Neale. of the Federal en-
ployment system. Miss Thorne, of
the staff of the American Federation
of Labor, was present. Mrs. Clara
Sears Taylor. formerly head of the
information and education division
of the Labor Department had the
task Of attending to the publicity.
Mrs. George Bass, of the National
Democratic Committee; Mrs. Emily
Newell Blair, Of the former woman's
committee of the Council Of National
Defence. and Miss Mary Anderson.
Of the Womcn's Bureau Of the Labor
Department, were among those at
tending the first meeting of the COM
ference.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Outscalping
The Scalpers

A woman's committee was formed,
consisting of Mrs. Courtlandt D.
Barnes, Miss Alice Carpenter, Miss
Alice Kauser, play broker;~ Miss
Harriet B. Lowenstein, Mrs. Chris
topher J. Marks, president of the
Theatre Club; Mrs. John Purroy
Mitchell, Mrs. E. G. Potter, Mrs.
John T. Pratt, Mrs. Louis Slade,
Mrs. E. H. Hartman and Mrs. Ed
win Arden. These women, repre-
senting business women, society,
club, literary, dramatic and politi-
cal worlds, will take over the sell
ing Of seats for benefit per-
formances on December S.
No contributions as such are to be
sought. Tickets will be sold at sums
that will make spectators prices
look insignificant. Already a num-
Der of seats have been sold at $4,000
each to men, and it is expected by
the women that they will at least
equal the mems munificence in pur-
chasing.
New York City has been divided
theatrically according to trades and
industries for the day of the memo
rial. Each industry or group of in
dustrics has been assigned to a spe-
cial theatre. The business women's
committee will see the performance
at the Morosco Theatre; women's
clubs will be present at the Standard
Theatre. The butcher, the baker,
the candlestick maker, the banker,
the philanthropist and the politician,
all will convene in the theatre to
which they and their conferrees
have been assigned.
"a large part Of the money that
comes in from the sale Of these
tickets will go to the women Of the
STAGE" said Mr.. Frohman at the
luncheon. "Stage life is precarious
financially at best, because Of its
irregularity. A woman who is
starred and aff|uent to-day may be
forgotten and in poverty ten years
hence. She may be rich and popular
when she is young. 1t is difficult for
her to save money for several rea
sons. For aged actresses, for the
sick and the destitute, this money is
to be collected. And it is also for
the widows and orphans Of the men
who went over there and never re-
turned that the dramatic profession
is asking the thcatrcgoing public to
be generous in it's theatre ticket pur-
chasing for December g."
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12

"A into the United States SEN
ate by Senator Morris Shep-
pard, of Texas, providing coopera-
tive aid for the states on maternity
and infant hygiene. This bill, if
passed, would make available in
struction for mothers on the care
of themselves and their children,
and attention as we'll.
Beginning with the fiscal year
July 1, 1920, under this measure
Uncle Sam would set aside $1,000
600 year for saving mothers and
babies. Each year thereafter, in
cluding 1925, 100000 would be
added to the annual appropriation.
BY 1926 the annual sum would be
S2,000,000 and it would remain at
this point for each year thereafter.
No payment Of this money is to be
made to any state until the legis-
lature has appropriated an equal
amount.
The method proposed by Senator
Sheppard for financing the mater
nifty act is called the fifty-fifty plan.
The government now purposes to
do for mothers and babies what it
has been doing for farm animals
for many years.
Minute details as to just what is
meant by the facilities provided
for in the proposed measure are not
given. The state boards of ma
ternity and infant hygiene may
charge the recipients fee for serv-
ice rendered by these Facilities.
Any person receiving aid under the
act shall not be regarded as receiv-
ing charity nor be unfavorably af-
fected by this relief, in SO far as
her legal status is concerned. Such
provision was possibly made to
avoid any conflict between the
operations of this law and the ma
ternity benefit or mothers pension
statutes of the several states.
The bill is proposed ''to encour-
age instruction in the hygiene of
maternity and infancy and to aid in
extending proper care for maternity
and infancy and to provide for CO.
operation with the states in the pro-
motion of such instruction and
care" The chief of the Children's
Bureau is designated as the admin
istrator of the proposed act, with
the approval Of the Secretary of
Labor. Each state is to be author
lied to create a board of maternity
aid and infant hygiene, composed of
the Governor as ex-officio member
and chairman, a physician from the
State Board of Health, graduate
nurse and a teacher from the.
faculty of the state university or
college of agriculture. The Gov
ernor appoints these members.
Each state is to submit to the
Secretary of Labor its plans for
out the provisions Of the
act through public health nursing.
centres, medical and
nursing care for mothers and chill /
dren at homes or at hospital when
necessary, especially in remote
areas. If these plans conform with .
the spirit of law as enacted, they
will be approved by the Children's
Bureau and an order issued on the
Treasury for that states share Of
The Federal money
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Two Delegates Not
At First Meeting

Ida Tarbell was the only woman
present for the public on the first
day. Gertrude Barnum, who was
assistant to the chief of the inspec-
ton and investigation division of
the labor department, had to come
from California and did not arrive
until the second day. Lillian y.
Wald, of New York, was appointed
IN the place of Mrs. Gait, who de-
cllned because of pressure Of busi
ness elsewhere.
Miss Tarbell shared honors on the
first day with Mrs. Sara Conbov.
the international secretary-treasurer
of the United Textile Workers of
America, who was named by Presi-
dent Samuel Gompers OF the Amer
lean Federation of Labor in his of.
fetal delegation to the conference
Mrs. Conboy said she believed thai
the woman in industry will be great,
ly benefited by this conference if the
elght-hour day and the principle of
equal pay for equal work become ad-
vanced to any degree through the
deliberations results. That the
women in industry are not to be
considered entirely separately from
the men Is her belief also, and she
hopes that as conditions are i'm
proved for the men workers the
women workers will be taken
along the path of betterment.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
National Memorial Day
To Be Observed Here
December 5 i'm More
Th an 100 Theatres
No Contributions:
Only Ticket Sales
Committees of Women
Assigned to Theatres
by Trade Organizations
By DORIS E. FLEISCHMAN

\ N ACTRESS is comparatively
~ anew being. You remember
that the Greeks never ad-
mitted women to their stage. And
you remember that Julia Marlowe's
prototype in Shakespeare's day must
have been mincing masculine
Viola. Women were taboo on stage.
To-day the stage belongs to the
actress. Most of the stars are
women. Choruses, except in a few
unhappy contingencies, are feminine.
And Pierrot is oftener a woman than
man.
In fact, the stage has played
great part in the education and
emancipation of women. Starting
with "The Trojan Women" Of Eu-
ripides, the drama has played the
role Of mirror to the woman. It has
shown her her foibles and preached
righteousness and intellectual bal
ance. 1t has eXhorted her to think
for herself and to "come out of the
Kitchen"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12


self the world in general is taking
notice and giving her her due.
There is one organization which
was started for the working girl
and which has helped in her devel-
cpment, spiritual and mental. 1t is
the National Women's Trade Union
League, which began it's work in
Chicago a number Of years ago.
Now it will play hostess to the
working women of the world, who
are coming to America this month.
Mrs. Raymond Robins, president
of the Trade Union League, was in
New York last week making prepa-
Tations for the conference which be-
gins in Washington, October 23
Her description of the growth of the
league was veritably' a graphic,
illustrating that "Great oaks from
little acorns grow"
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Poetry a Step
Toward Politics

Several years ago we started a
little class In poetry among some Of
the working girls Of Chicago" said
Mrs. Robins last week. eve read
'Evangelne' and Mrs. Browning
and others. After the reading Of the
poetry the girls discussed what they
had heard. Poetry was the first
study because the league believed
that the first need of these girls was
the awakening of their imagination
and sense of beauty. The dulness
and monotony of factory life had
starved them in the very essentials
OF young girls life"
Out Of these poetry readings has
grown ar organization Of women
which has definite place in the
problems and politics of labor. Some
OF the members of the league as in
dividuals are not in perfect accord
with the American Federation of
Labor. In the conference Of capital,
labor and public interests which is
being held in Washington the Ma
tional Women's Trade Union League
is conspicuous by it's absence. None
OF it's leaders was invited to the
council table. They will 90 on with
their own conference in another
week, however, as If nothing had
happened in the world Of labor af-
fecting them.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Mrs. Raymond Robins
Tells Growth of League
in Many Healthful and
He Up f ul Directions
"More Money" Not
Leagues Main Aim
Public Speaking Taught
That These Girls May
Deliver Their Message
Bv HANNAH MITCHELL

By HANNAH MITCHELL
"HE WORKING GIRL is the
person Of the hour. She
Il got along for many years
without attracting much at
tention or arousing much interest.
In few days she will come from the
corners of the earth to hold her
conference, and now that she is
pretty we'll able to take care of her
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
By ISHBEL ROSS

CURIOSITY was possibly the DOM
inant emotion in the breasts of
the thousands of people who looked
at the King and Queen of Belgium
from every vantage point in the city.
Albert was all and more than people
expected. Elizabeth, quiet and gen.
tie, was less impressive figure, but
she left radiant trail behind her.
The coming of a queen brought a
touch of romance into the life Of a
city so hard pressed for time that it
does not reckon on some of the
things enjoyed by a slower, quieter
civilization. People rubbed the dust
out Of their eyes and took a long,
hard look and decided that a queen
was charming, no doubt, but quite
like other women.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Simplicity
In Dress

The Queens dress was distinctive
and RATHER odd. Every American
woman who saw her remarked this.
When she landed she was dressed all
in white and heavily veiled. On her
last day in New York, when she Wis
tied hospitals, libraries and mu-
seums, she appeared in a blaze of
color. She departed all in gray, as
simply garbed as Il sister Of mercy.
To the disappointment of the chill
dren of New York. she did not wear
a jaunty crown, nor rings on her
fingers nor bells on her toes" as
queens are supposed to do. A single
rope of pearls encircled her throat
and she had matter-of- wrist
watch over her long, wrinkly
gloves.
Elizabeth Stunned publicity Twice
she refused to ride in gayly deco
rated motor car and ordered closed
limousine instead. On her first
night in New York she slipped out
on Broadway incognito. humping
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Her Splendid
Spirit

Beside her gigantic husband she
looked frail indeed. 1t was all the
more surprising, then, to recall the
vigor with which she fought the war
of her people; how she turned her
palace near Brussels into Red
Cross hospital and personally direct
ed it.; how she was under fire time
and again.
"If need be I shall shoulder a rifle
and fight, and the Belgian women
will fight with me-" she is quoted as
having said.
1t was easy to understand these
words after watching her during
her brief stay In New York. She
is clearly a spirited woman, with
strong will, stiff upper lip and
much strength of character. She
photographs badly. Only those
who have seen her can pos
sibly have an accurate idea Of her
appearance and personality. The
first impression is one Of poise and
dignity. There is a suggestion of
something rigid in her bow Her
features are irregular and her face
bears the same traces of strain and
anxiety that are noticeable in her
husband. The Queens eyes are
clear and farseeing, of vivid blue,
very wideawake and intelligent.
She has the high cheekbones pecu-
liar to European royalties and
wide, generous mouth. When the
right chord is struck she becomes
animated. At other times there is a
stiffness about her that seems to set
her apart from her fellows. She is
slender to fa1It
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Federal Maternity
Bill Gives Aid to
Welfare Work
States to Go Fifty-Fifty
on Giving to Mothers and
Children Same Care as
to Their Farm Animals
Ne11 York Tribune

1NeW I OTh IWUUc
Washington Bureau
BILL has been introduced
into the United States SEN
ate by Senator Morris Shep-
New-York tribune., 1919-10-12
Educational Side of
Women's Trade Uni0nism
The League and
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