Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-05-29
100 DELEGATES COMING
FOR TRADE CONVENTION
Women Here Next Week Will Rep
resent Every Industry in Which
They Are Employed

More than 100 delegates from all parts OF
the country, representing ali the various in
dustrics in which women participate, will
be in Philadelphia next week to attend the
seventh biennial convention of the National
Womcn's Trade Union League.
Mary II. Macarthur, English labor leader,
will attend as a delegate from the British
Womcn's Trade Union League. Margaret
Bondfcld, her cowoEkcr, and the appointed
delegate to the American Federation of
Labor convention, is also expected to take
part in the program. Mary Anderson and
Rose Schnciderman. who have just returned
from Paris, where they presented the Ma
tional Women's Trade Union Leagues re-
construction program to the labor section
of the Peace Conference, will tell of con-
diions in France. Belgium and Holland.
Questions involving every phase of the
labor problem facing women today will be
discussed in sessions continuing throughout
the week The convention will open with
a great mass meeting in Witherspoon Hall
next Monday evening" Mrs. Raymond Rob
y
Macarthur Rose Schnederman and James
Maurcr. president of the Pennsylvania State
Federation of Labor. will be the speakers
The daily sessions of the convention will be
held at 10 a. m. and p. m, in the First
Baptist Church, Seventeenth and SAMSON
streets.
Emma Stcghagen. of Chicago, is national
secretary, and the executive board includes
I,ln nf tbn Wnit
resses' Union of America Rose Schneider
man. president of the New York Women S
Trade Union League Julia O'COnner, presi-
dent Telephone Operators Union of Amer
lea Agnes NcstOr. president International
Glove Workers Union; Nellie Quick. of ST.
Louis Bindery Woinens Union. and Mabel
Gillespie secretary of the Boston Women s
Trade Union League.
Miss Pauline Newman, of the local
Women's Trade Union League, heads the
convention committee, which includes
Frieda Miller, Martha Davis. Marie +.
Kennedy. Mrs. Frcda NJ. Klaudcr, Fannie
Cochran, Florence Sanvillc, Katherine Col
lins, Becky Stein and Mrs. Edwin Gricc.
Miss Marie Kennedy heads the entertain
ment committee which has ,planned some
thing interesting for each day aside from
the discussion of problems. There will be ii
lawn supper for all delegates at the home
of Mrs. w. Woodward, in Germantown,
Tuesday evening. A trip to Valley Forge
has been planned for Wednesday; Thursday
evening the Y. w. c. A. will entertain the
visitors, and Friday evening there will be
open house at the Women's Trade Union
League of Philadelphia, 24S South Eighth
street.
Among the trades to be represented at
the convention are: Telephone operators,
ladies' garment workers boot and shoe
workers, laundry workers, bindery workers,
textile workers, bookkeepers, stenographers,
telegraphers, printers, librarians, white
goods workers, mem garment workers. fed
eral employees, all the international and cen
tral labor bodies and organizations such as
the Y. W. c. A., the Consumers League,
National Woman's Suffrage Association,
Church Federations and women's auxil-
iaries to railroad telegraphers.