The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-08-24
ASK WOMEN VOTERS
TO DENOUNCE BILL
Suffragists land Others Open
Fight on Bill to Deprive
Girls Of Homes.
SEE REAL ESTATE PLOT
Measure Would Turn Govern.
ment Hotels in Capital Into
Office Buildings.

The National Woman Suffrage Associa-
ton, the National Consumers League
and many other organizations which are
interested in right conditions for women
workers are earnestly requesting women
In all parts of the country to write TO
their respective Representatives in Con-
gress urging the defeat of House of Rep
resentatives bill $3.50, which calls for
the abolition of the United States Hous-
ing Corporation and provides that all
Government hotels be turned over to the
Public Buildings Commission.
Through Its organ, the Woman Citi-
zen, the N. w. S. A. publishes facts and
figures to prove that this bill II It be-
comes a law will deprive 1900 girl
workers In Washington departments OF
the comfortable homes Uncle Sam built
and maintains for them at reasonable
rates which permit fair Interest on his
investment, and that the country will be
the loser in that the equipment of these
hotels will be loss II they are turned
into Government buildings, as certain
members of Congress propose.
Blames Real Estate Men.
Miss Jessie r. Haver, who represented
formed little more than n year ago by
the Women's Committee of the Council
of National Defence to advise with the
United States Housing Corporation on
plans for girls hotels, lays the fight on
the hotels to Washington real estate
dealers.
They have their ideas as to the sort
of room girl worker should pass her
leisure time in," says Miss Haver. "Its
usually a small room, with one or two
roommates, Sans parlor. sans telephone
They don't like the sort OF competition
Uncle Sam has been giving them.
I'VE don't contend that the Govern
ment should go into the business of hotel
keeping. But we do say these places
being built and gladly patronized by CIR
workers and Washington being faced
with a serious shortage Of houses for
next winter. when with the proposed
labor conferences and League OF Ma
tions conferences the city is bound to be
filled far beyond capacity. 1t would be
crime to turn these 1900 young
women out.
ut has been struggle to get the
hotels running and under fit manage
ment, for Congress has never ceased to
NEEDLE In a harmful way. The build
ings were completed last December
tration buildings containing the restau-
rants and kitchens, heating plant. a
cold storage plant, laundry and infirm-
airy with fourteen beds. We got the
rooms prettily II inexpensively furnished
pleasant, tasteful rooms. where a girl
far from home can learn to forget that
she is in a strange place.
There are libraries and living rooms
telephone exchanges. an auditorium
laundries down stairs where a girl car
do up her own clothes, plenty of bath
rooms-and the charge. with two square
meals a day served by colored mattresses
in neat white uniforms, Is s45 a month.
This excited the ire of Senator Reed
of Missouri, Representative Frank CLARK
of Florida and other ardent advocates
of woman in the home and they be-
came almost as strenuous against these
hotels as they have been against the
woman suffrage amendment. Ten days
after the armistice was signed Senator
Reed introduced a bill calling for the
cessation OF all work in Washington and