Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-10-26
Ten us. WOMEN
.IPARLEY DELEGATES
Will Sit in International Con-
/ gress, Which Begins Ses-
+ Si0nS Here Tuesday.

Ten delegates QeSlSnatco W tHo IVA
tional Trade Union League from wide
ly separated parts OF the United States
and from various trades and occupa-
lions will represent America In the
deliberations of the International Con-
gress of Working Women. which Is
now assembling here.
Boston, New York. Chicago and
Washington are the localities TO De
represented by the official American
delegates. and from Philadelphia and
Kansas City. in addition. will come
members of the executive board of the
National Women's Trade Union
League. among them trade unions OF
telephone operators, boot and shoe
workers, capmakers, glove workers
printers and federal employees
List Of Delegates.
Owing to important conferences in
Boston with officers OF the telephone
operators unions from the west coast.
Miss Julia O'Connor, president OF the
telephone operators department OF the
International Brotherhood of Elec-
trica1 Workers, will be the last of the
American delegates to arrive She Will
reach Washington tonight
OF the others Mrs Raymond Rob
3ns of Chicago, president of the Ma
tional Women's Trade Union League;
Miss Mary Anderson of the boot and
shoe workers, chairman OF the wash
1ngton branch of the league, and Mrs.
Lois b Rantoul of Boston of the
Federal Employee Union are already
an the city. Miss Rose Schn eidermann
Of the cap makers. Mrs. Maud Swartz
of the printers and Miss Leonora
O'Reilty Of the executive board OF the
New York Women's Trade Union
League, composing the New York dele
cation; Miss Agnes Nestor and Miss
Elizabeth Chrtstman. both glove
makers. coming from Chicago: Miss
Pauline Newman of Philadelphia of
The shtrf waist makers, and Mrs. Sarah
Green Of Kansas City, of the watt
resses. are expected early today.
At 10 o'clock tomorrow morning at
nue. near Thomas Circle. headQuar-
ters OF the delegates, the American
delegates will hold meeting of their
own to formulate proposals for the
International gathering. which viii open
Tuesday morning at the United States
National Museum auditorium.
Merely a Gateway. >,
This first women's international
congress. according to Miss Ethel NJ.
Smith, secretary Of the Washington
branch of the league. which will not
be large in point of numbers, is to be
the gateway through which women's
labor conference. 1t is to be a clear
5ng house of international thought on
such questions as children's night
employment. the application of the
principle of the eight-hour day, ma
ternity benefits and unemployment al
lowance.
While the congress will have no au-
thority to enforce it's findings or reso-
buttons. 1t may present these to the In
fernational labor conference. or it
al ~
dustry before the mems meeting by
means of technical advisers attached
TO the international conference. Pro-
vision has been made that at least
two of these technical advisers shall
be women to give counsel on the mat
IN. industry. Whatever theories and
ideals may be formulated in a definite
program by the women themselves
can be translated to the man dele
gates by these technical advisers.
Underlying the whole fabric of this
move to put labor women of the world
IN touch with one another is the fact
that the International labor confer
ence will have the power to recon-
mend legislative and other programs
TO the governments represented in its
assembly. The women are DESTROYS
OF whatever they deem progressive
and fine in labor legislation shall
have a, place in these recommends
lions.
League Paying Expenses.
The National women's Trade Union
League of America is paying the re-
ception and entertainment expenses
of the delegates to the congress dur
ing their stay in Washington.
Mrs. Raymond Robins, as president
OF the league, will open the congress.
The presiding chairman probably will
elected q