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Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-18

Lowden. of that state, was strongly endorsed.
 Reduction of the Chinese army and reforms in system of tax collections were proposed by the President of China in an effort to relieve the fin ancial embarrassment
 ] Chief Magistrate William McAdoo refused the suggestion of District At l torney Swann that there be an open court inquiry into alleged wrongdo- | ings of city officials
 | A petition was sent by the board of | directors of the Merchants Associa- 1 ton of New York to President Will son and the Senate asking for action upon the treaty with Germany.
 Nearly 5000 barrels of potatoes. | having an estimated value of $20 000, were destroyed when the potaloe house of B. s. Green Brothers Co., was burned at Houlton, Maine.
 Governor Coolidge sent to the Mas sachusetts legislature recommenda- tions for an issue of s3,000,O0O state bonds, to meet expenses of the State Guard during the police strike.
 The British Government in sup pression If UuL.in's FreeIpans Julr-
 nal shows letermiuauon if the au- thorities to rar'-' iHa policy of en- I rcing th.:r directions to every point neCas5-trN.
 Re- election of all officers of the war
 finance corporation was announced
 yesterday. They are: Eugene Never
 Jr managing director; Louis B
 Wehle, general counsel, and R. Key
 burn Burklin, secretary -treasurcr.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-18

The maiden band of hope is a hus-
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-18
Condensed IeTegrams

All ships from Europe are. overdue because of storms.
 Lecointe, French aviator, in official test, attained 226 miles an hour.
 Secretary Glass will take his seat in the Senate after Christmas recess.
 Thirteen hundred British troops were massacrcd in Persia by the tribesmen.
 It is reported the United States will st nough Grman dyes shortly to relieve the shortage.
 BoIsheviki report capture of Novo Nikolaesk, on the Trans Siberian Railroad, on Dec. IA.
 The Anglo American Oil Co. de- clared an interim dividend of 3 shill- ing share, tax free.
 American Sugar Refining Go. will build one of the largest refneries in the world at Baltimore.
 Civilian employees of navy yards cannot purchase sugar from the navy stores after December 20.
 Strikes in Massachusetts cost em- ployes $7,274,964 during the first nine months of this year.
 Four thousand of chcaso's sa- looms will close their doors or go in- to other business January l..
 St. Paul Railroad has placed ar am ol1.ar- oil iais ltS- pedite the movenent of coal.
 An American named Smith bought SS Eliabethan ballads rom the Hebe! collection in London for e6,400.
 Great Britain has 675 ships under vessels are for British account, an. the remainder for foreign owners.
 A report from Brussels says more than 40000 miners in the 4Charlero district struck for advances in wages
 Seven hundred pints of conhscatee whiskey were stolen from lockers 1T the State House at Charleston, W. Va
 Bar silver touched new high re. cord at 79 Is pence an ounce in Lon uOn. compared Wltn Sl.5o I-z III New { York.
 Damage estinate1 at $1,oo0,eco wa. caused by the burning of the naii plant of &he Miburn Wagon Co. a Toledo.
 1 According to the Paris Matin l French and British command dis cussed measures for peace time organ ization.
 The dollar dropped to 10 francs centimes, compared with II franc 13 12 centimes the day before, il l Paris.
 President Wilson spent more tha an hour on the south portico of tin White House yesterday, despite tn cold weather.
Norwich bulletin., 1919-12-18

St. Paul Railroad has placed ar embargo on all non essentials to cx- pedite the move.nent of coal.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

lyn where all employees are working eiob,
hours day, yet the men and wome,
are not receiving anything like the San,o
pay. The girls get from S12 ana s1a
to $40 a week, while the men receive
from $50 to $50 a week for exactly t,o
same work
In report made by Miss Mary Va,
kleeck, on conditions in factories where
chemicals are used or prepared. sba
points out that, whereas these chemical,
are bad for the health of men workers
they are much worse for women. Women
are made sterile in these occupations
and children are born dead of motbers
who had worked in these factories
1t is ridiculous for Mrs. Blatcb 70
assume that the Women's JOINT Legisla.
tive Conference feels ut is quite rich,
for men to inhale poisonous gases and
work under unsanitary conditions of ANY
kind" Working men are demanding bet.
ter conditions for themselves and will
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

O'clock as she must reach the Office at
lO a. m. a tiye-minutc walk and She is
In the subway, waiting her chance to be
literally pitched into q car already
jammed with every condition of human
ity-rich and poor, clean and unclean.
healthy and ILL., Breathing the fetid air
and enduring shocking physical contact
Mary is borne officeward.
Arrived, she vanishes into room
where artificial light, nine times out of
ten, is necessary, and here she remains
with thirty or forty minutes for lunch
In crowded restaurant, until 80 or
p. m. The experience of the morning is
then repeated, and Mary arrives at
home in d dishevelled condition, out
Wardly, at least; but who can saw what
irreparable damage has been done her
finer instincts?
But as Mary is young she Graves
amusement, and where can she find that
except in the street, at a movie or the
theatre? This is true picture of the
average working girls life-no outdoor
exercise whatever; the marvels of our
parks, the woods about New York, our
glorious Avenue in the sunny after
noons-all are lost to her.
The girl who works at night leaves
for her task, after an afternoon spent in
the open air (for the temptation to en-
ter a movie or theatre is not so great
when every ray of the sun calls one to
bask in it), on q subway train prac-
tically empty Seats are PLENTIFUL and
there is no invasion of her personal pri-
vacy. She arrives at the office at Z
p. m., goes into a room artihcially light
cd, as is that of the day shift work
er's, and performs her allotted task
When homegoing time arrives, at
o'clock an uncrowded train again
awaits her; her five-minute walk from
subway to house is in brightly lighted,
we'll policcd streets. Arrived at her
home, she rctires. and at noon, after
eight hours Of sleep (Which the day shi
worker can obtain only at the sac
riice Of social lifc), She has the whole
afternoon to spend in the open air; like
having half-holiday every day
Working on night shift is no more
unnatural than working indoors, or, IN
deed, staying awake after the sun god
has departed and night arrncd
ADA r. WOLFF.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
Midnight on the 3. r L.

n T WAS midnight on the B. r. t.
1 no crowd, no hurry-everything as
calm and peaceful as Nantucket.
The newspaper woman had been on the
job since a. M, with intervals for such
nourishment as was to be painfully eX-
tracted from Park Row with the walters
all on strike. She ran for the wrong
car and caught it, but took it grimly,
thinking that Fate must have some de
signs.
Fate had. The conductorette at first
glance proved to be a person worth
knowing, and when the fares were col
lected the Park Row woman stood her
sealsllin chummily up alongside of the
blue uniform and queried, How do you
like this run?' 81 like it fine said the
conductorette. mo grouches on the
night run and no crowd And go home
and sleep like log and don't have to get
up early in the morning. It's the life,
and certainly beats getting to work at
z :45 in the morning.
But do you get enough sleep?
Doesn't the daylight tempt you to do too
much?'
NO. dearie; if l was to home I'd be
sitting up reading till or o'clock. any
way My man was bartender and
never got home till three, and got the
habit
'That's So" said the Other Workin-
Woman musingly; seems to me | have
heard OF women being kept up nights
before they went into industry. Come
to think of it, my mother, who had four
others besides me, and never did stroke
OF work outside the home, sleeps with
one eye open and light in her room at
the age OF seventy because she got so in
the habit during the ten wears that the
children were little that she could not
sleep any other way"
Just then Fate intervened again. The
regulation drunken man said to infas+
the midnight cars to the undoing of all
conductorettes lurched into the scene
He wore the traditional "threedav stub-
bic that all real drunkards should nos
sess and he was very unsteady. F;rml
but gently the stalwart blond put her
hand in the middle of the old mans back
and eased him to a seat.
Look out for the step, Pop" she said
encouraglngly. land don't sit in the
lady's lap" she added as the old man
'urched toward the girl in the corner.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

Yes, ! understand you want to change
at Blank Street. and the intoxicated
fare lapsed happily into an untroubled
slumber. The conversation was resumed
without a ripple "Drunks7 seemed to
be all in the nights work. and perhaps
easier to handle in a streetcar than
within the sheltered home.
There is some talk about laws to
prevent night work for women vent
ured Park Row.
"Who wants Them snapped The
Uniform. u suppose these ladies' with
no jobs of their own must be pegging
away on something, so they pick on Us.
VIII they come around with pay check
when we lose our Jobs, that's what I'm
Wondering? It's hard work. but lot
easier than standing over washtub all
day"
Just here a well groomed young man
with two girls made a run for the car.
but one of the girls fell far behind. The
conductorette stood poised with her
hand on the fateful rope, but held the
car until the laggard caught up. and the
whole party was reunited on the md
night train The young man bowed
courteously to the conductoretto and
said Il thank YOU as he ioined his
partners in the car Memorios rose ~
before one of the numberless times when
the bell had been brisNy rung in The
face of eager would-be patrons Of the
car, arriving breathlcss Just i'm time to
have the car slip neatly out from un-
derfoot
Suddenly The Observer. wrapped e
the adventures and philosophy ,f tne
conductorette, discovered that she Nas
rolling gayly away into the Wllds OF
Brooklyn and dropped hastily of the
car, starting back on brisk cross
countcy walk toward home and the
classic shades of Borough Hall
ihe air was soft and velvety. and
dellclous fragrance was issuing forth
from bakeries where humans, male or
female, always have to work at night
1t was good old world" apparently
at peace, and The Observer ambled on
with lungs full of ozone. heart full OF
N00P ,oh'ehC ana mind nlled WIN '"'
conviction that the American woman can
work when and where she pleases with
profit and efficiency, and no one has a
right to say her nay. Working out your
own salvation is an inahenablc right,
bearing Biblical sanction, and as the
conductorette said. "Why don't they let
us settle 1T? Amt it our job?"
ANA when you come to think OF 1t,
"Ain't it?"
ANNE LEWIS PIERCE
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

ing and clothing the children and keep
ing the house clean, in addition to their
work outside the house They do this at
the expense of their health, and, to look
on the other side of the question for
moment, they do it also at the expense
of efficiency in their work.
THE only handicap which skilled
women will have by reason of these bills
is in the prohibition of night work.
There are comparatively few industries
that are in operation both day and night.
The only opposition before the State
Factory Investigating Commission, at
whose instigation prohibition of night
work for women in factories became a
law in 1913, came from women printers,
of whom at that time only $50 worked
at night 1t was too bad that these
women should have been affected ad-
versely by bill prohibiting night work.
Yet to refrain from passing a law for
the protection of thousands of women
workers merely because $50 women had
to seek daytime employment would have
been shortsighted and unfair policy,
and one which we could not consider.
Ever since that time some few of the
women printers who had worked at night
have sought to get exemption for them
selves in spite of the fact that the Typo
graphical Union refuses to support them
in this demand
Mrs. Maud Swartz, secretary Of the
Women's Trade Union League and
printer by trade, says:
"One of the most valuable results
from the eight-hour law for women in
the past has been to bring about the
eight-hour day for men. In states where
the fifty-four hour law for women is in
effect manufacturers have found it un-
profitable to maintain light and power
for keeping men at work after women
employees leave for the day Women are
needed in industry. Laws for their pro-
lection will not throw them out of work.
And where we obtain good conditions
for women workers. laboring men also
receive the full benefit Of these laws.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
The Subway Day Shift

~ T lTH the not overclean hand of
w burly man resting ON one
shoulder, the other weighed
down by the sharp elbow of tall, dissi-
rated Youth reeking with cigarette
fumes; faced by a short, chunky, ga
he-breathing male whose every lurch
sends Mary back into the embrace of
negro stevedore--
No; this is not tale of panic IN
burning building or on board a sinking
vessel 1t Is realistic description of
conditions on the a. the subway, the
surface car, morning and night in which
your Mary and my Kate must travel be-
tween home and office, factory or store
Norritied, you determine that your
Mary shall not leave on an early train
hereafter; she can secure a position with
shorter hours-10 to 6, which calls for
only seven and one-half hours work. SO
Mary finds the ideal place'-and her
travel conditions remain UNCHANGED. ex
cept that the negro stevedore's embrace
Is exchanged for that of leerng "of
fec lizard"
The horrors of TRANSFORMATION cannot
be alleviated by such sinnle exned;en+
aS leaving for the office an hour later
ana coming home an hour earlier. for
thousands OF workers thought of that
00"eme years ago; the overcrowding
cannot De ended by the building of more
sUo"ays' for of their building there is
IL end yet the opening of each new
artery Of traffic finds the came mass &c
humanity waiting to overcrowd it's cars
Segregation of the sexes has been suv-
Rested as partial remedy, but-do YOU
notice the large number of males occu-
pying seats in the ladies cabins Of
fcrryboats?
There is but one remedy for the truly
shocking transportation state into which
Manhattan Islands shape and the dec-
SIN Of Business to remain at its south
ern end have brought us: three eight
noar shifts IN every trad, and business
which would prosper nnder continuous
operation. And the two shifts the
hours Of which would bring them within
the night-work classification should be
open TO women. who suffer more from
transportation evils than do men.
Revolutionary as this may seem, the
suggestion IS based on sound common
sense Cougider the case of your Mary.
Tor instance She leaves the house at 8
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
Women Sacrifice Health
To Duty

1.-The working girls who express their
approval of these bills have more IN
telligepce than Mrs Batch gives them
credit for having. Mrs. Blatch says that
the poor little working girl is duped by
the promise that things will be made
right for her-that all the hard work will
be done by men, and yet that she is
to receive as much pay as the men
workers. These girls know very we'll
what they are about They have worked
under the conditions of no protection
and inadequate protection and they have
not been lured with false promises by
any one in the approval of this legis-
lation
Mrs. Blatch seems to forget that
working women have home duties and
cares which working men do not have
and therefore, for the welfare of their
children they require special protection.
Women who work at night and MANY
a working woman does prefer to work
at night because of her family duties.
overwork themselves because they attempt
to take the entire responsibility of feed
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

not only to the working men and women
themselves, but result in greater indus
trial efficiency and betterment of the
race Corporations which have been
forced to adopt the eight-hou day, or
have done so voluntarily, have discov-
cred that they obtain more and better
work in eight hours than they formerly
obtained in ten hours
"The last thing that working men or
women want is competition between the
sexes. What labor has been suffering
from is too much competition: women
Such competition lowers standards and
Injuries all alike. The laboring people
of this country, as we'll as of the state,
are standing together for equal oppor-
tunity for men and women and for paw
to be based, not on sex, but on the needs
of life for the worker.
'No one can question the fact that
this programme is the official legislative
programme Of the organized labor of
the state, which also represents the
masses of unorganized labor which has
no spokesman to voice its demands"
Miss Mary E. Dreier, chairman of the
Women's Joint Legislative Conference,
in answer to Mrs. Blatch, says:
Ever since women entered industry
they have been paid less than men for
the same work. Since the war, women
have entered industry in great numbers.
Because Of the necessity of increasing
production during the war, the trade
union men who control these industries
permitted the women to work with them
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

without joining the union. Most of these
women did as much work as the men
beside whom they toiled The output of
many of them was even greater than
that Of the men, yet most of the women
workers got from 2 cents to 10 cents
an hour less than the men were paid
for the same work
because women workers are made
quately organized, they have been a prey
to exploitation. They have been forced
into unfair competition with the men,
working longer hours for less pay and
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

the Elght-Hour Day. Health Insurance
and three bills for the protection of
women transportation workers, elevator
operators and Office workers.
Tn reply to an interview with Mrs.
Blatch in The Tribune of january -,
the conference maintains that:
T. Working women want the laws.
The bills were drawn up by the
Womon's Trade Union League. repre-
scnting women workers.
>. Working men want the laws. The
bills are backed by the State Federation
of Labor and endorsed by the newly
formed Labor party.
g. The state needs the laws to protect
the coming generation.
T. The Womcn's Joint Legislative
Conference, including the Women's
Trade Union League, the Consumers
League of the city and state, the New
J orh League of Women Workers, the
:. W. c. A., the New York State Suf
frase party and the State Federation
Of Women's Clubs. has undertaken to
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

ultimately obtain them through their
unions and through legislation But if
we wish the health of the coming gener-
alton to be unimpaired, the state must
step in now at this juncture, and provide
sanitary working conditions for women,
shorter hours for women and such other
protection as may be necessary 1t is
because we are taking broad, human
point of view on these questions that
we have sponsored this legislation and
wish to get it now, before the health
of the mothers Of the race suffer beyond
repair.
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26

the Baksa girl who rented the room and
left in it the clothes described; but that
little hat played an absurdly prominent
part in the evidence and had no place
there for weight.
Every man who heard the evidence
looked greatly mpressed-surely there
was no doubt about it, the Baksa girl
had owned cheap little Tam OShanter
hat, and that was the kind of hat aban-
doned in the room few blocks from
where the murder was committed
But every woman who heard the evi-
dence knew that that little hat was of
the manufactured kind, and that
thousands of the same sort had been
sold i'll New York to all kinds of girls.
10 women it proved nothing.
Old Tricks Must Go
There was a lot of attention paid, also.
to the number on pain of old shoes and
the number on a new pair, when every
woman knows that a foot clothed in q
narrow last No. shoe may be comfort
ably slowed into a wide last No. 3.
In the case of woman tried on a
charge of arson in another state a great
appeal was made to the jury because the
woman had suffered so from S'an accusa-
ton cruelty false that her hair turned
entirely white' in the three months She
spent In Jail before her trial But every
woman IN the courtroom knew that the
color previously used on the hair had not
been fast and that Time, unassisted
by Injustice, had worked the change to
be expected.
1t is conceded there are many things
men know which women will never get
acquainted WITH but there are also LONG
depended on lines of argument which will
now 90 into the discard if women serve
on juries. There will have to be a read
Justment of plans and specifications
when it becomes correct to address the
ladies Of the jury
While the accusation of too much
"maudlln sentiment" has ALWAYS been
made against women, there stand out in
the record of events certain trials where
the verdict set at liberty very handsome
and charming women accused of violent
crime and it has to be conceded that the
altman jury was unduly influenced bv
the aforesaid charm and loveliness of the
accused. SO it would seem that iurv
women may not be more sentimentallv
emotional than men. And if they are to
serve as check upon the male weakness
tor beauty what will poor lawyer do to
earn million or two fee in certain SEN
sational cases?
Perhaps there has never beer real ap-
preclatlon of the development Of the
judicial instinct in women. who have had
to Judge every day the little folks who
are to be the citizens of tomorrow; the
call upon every mother and every teach
er to learn to be fair and to judge only
after full understanding of all sides of
case. and to look for that intent"
winch IS so important in the legal def
milton of crimes
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
Calls This a Half Loaf
For Women

"If we cannot yet have an eight-hour
day for all workers, we should at least
insist upon the half loaf for women.
upon whom long hours lay the heaviest
penalty in lost health and vitality.
employers do not pay women less
money because they work less hours or
because they do inferior work, but
merely because they are women, without
the power of organization behind them.
II know a big machine shop in Brook
New-York tribune., 1919-01-26
What Rose Schneidernann
Says About 1t

The following statement was made by
Miss Rose Schneidermann, president Of
the Women's Trade Union League:
"The legislative programme Of the
w r. U. l.. was formulated at the legis-
lative conference called by the league
in New York, June 7, 1913. At this con-
ference were representatives from all
the women's trade unions in the city,
comprising 10000 working women.
These unions were:
''The Ladies Waist and Dressmakers
of New York City, Local 25.
"The Packers, Turner's and Boxers
Union
''The Neckwear Tackers Union.
"The Neckwear Makers Union
'The White Goods Workers Union.
"The Wrapper and Kimono Makers
Union.
"The Typographical Union No. 6.
"The Fancy Feather and Flower
Workers Union.
''The Library Employees Union.
The Costume Dressmakers Union
"The Teachers Union.
"The Woman Upholsterers Union.
"The Bookkeepers, Stenographcrs and
Accountants Union.
"The Central Federated Union of New
York City and the Central Federated
Union of Brooklyn, both of which in
clude women and men in their member
ship.
''The programme which the working
women drew up at that time was en-
dorsed by the State Federation of Labor
at its convention in Rochester, last
August, and WAS included in Labor's Bill
of Rights
AT the conference of the Womens
Trade Union League the questions of
night work for women and long hours,
with consequent fatigue and breaking
down of health, were thoroughly dis
cussed 1t was recognized that laws
limiting the hours of womens labor
might njure few, yet the benefit which
such limitation would give the vast
majority of workers., and the betterment
of general social conditions which the
passage of these bill, would effect would
far outbaance the hardships which a
few women would undergo as a result
of being thrown out Of employment be
cause of these laws
Corporations Favor
Such Changes
'Ihe benefits of the shorter day come