Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-02
3DUWOMEKLEADERS
OF LABOR ARRIVE
Trade Union League Opens Bi-
enniaI Convention at First
Baptist Church :
MAss-MEETINe TONIGHT

Leaders OF woman labor of world
wide prominence arrived here today and
various parts of the United States and
England to attend the biennial con
vention Of the National Women's Trade
Union League.
Miss Katherine Collins, president of
Y the Philadelphia Women's Trade Union
League, formally opened the meeting
this morning in the First Baptist
Church, Seventeenth and SAMSON
streets, Mrs. Raymond Robins, ma
tional president, will preside over sue
ceeding sessions
More than 100 delegates are present.
At the initial session today. the Chi
cago delegation greeted the hostess
league in song Mrs. Laura Elliott,
of New York, led the convention in sing
ing.
British Leader to Speak
Miss Mary Macarthur. secretary of
the British Women's Trade Union
League. will be one Of the speakers this
afternoon. Miss Macarthur also will
appear at WithcrspoOn Hall tonight
with Miss Rose Schneiderman. presi-
dent of the New York league. to ad q
dress mass meeting.
This afternoon Miss Schneidermau
and Miss Mary Anderson. assistant chief
of the women in industry service Of the
Department of Labor. will relate their
experiences as labor delegates to the
Peace Conference.
Tomorrow afternoon at O'clock at
the First Baptist Church. Miss Mar
garet Bondteld, the only woman mem p
ber of the parliamentary committee OF
the British Trade Inion Congress and
the first woman delegate from the Brit
ish Federation of Labor to the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. will be a
speaker with Miss Anderson.
Questions of National Import
Another English woman of prom
nence in the labor movement who is OK
pected to attend the convention is Mis-,
Eleanor Barton. of Sheffield, England
representing the British Women's Co.
operative Guild.
Questions of national importance t,
women in these days of reconstruction
will be discussed at the convention
Delegates have come to Philadelphia Il
attend them from various central labor
bodies. state federations and union or.
ganizations in all parts of the country
Meetings will be held at the FRS
Baptist Church every day this week
from 8 O'Clock in the morning until :
O'Clock in the afternoon. One of tn,
ssmost important events in connection
with the convention will be the meetin.
this evening.
Official headquarters of the conven
lion will be at the Lincoln, Thirteenth
and Locust streets, where the dele
gates will stay during their visit.
War Problems Are Great
One of the questions of popular inter
est which is TO be threshed out at tn
convention is that of the reorganization
of the American household to put do
mestic service on footing tolerable t.
: the working woman. A resolution t
this effect viii be introduced by Mrs
Raymond Robins, national president o
the organization.
In speaking of the proposed resolution
Mrs. Robins said: Under present con
ditions the working woman resists tn
suggestion that she seek domestic servic
as means of livelihood, and resent
the efforts TO draw or force her into it
She is tired having this i'll paid. tryin
form of manual labor urged upon he
as pre- eminently womans field an,
proper choice, when she knows tha
in almost any other calling a woman re
ceives not only better pay but NOR
consideration as a human being. and ha
perhaps chance of advancement.
Resents Squeezing Out
"Above all, the working woman bit
terly resents what she sees as ten
dency to squeeze her out of the better
paid jobs where she is competing fairl,
with men in order to force her to re
sort to the kitchen for a livelihood
When despairing householders cry
What is to become of the America
( home if we can get no servants?' tn
',ssworking woman demands to know
Whose home-yours or miue:' For
4 after all, the working women are NOR
numerous than their well to- do sis
ters whose plants are heard in club
and in the newspapers. And domes
g tice service means no home at all TO
the domestic worker"