The Cordova daily times., 1923-01-11
WOMEN TOILERS IN INDUSTRIAL
 CONFERENCE

WASHINGTON, Jan. I1.-Women
 employment managers and women workers, manufacturers and factory
 inspectors, public health experts, in- dustrial statsticians, economists and Government administrators, will ap- pear on the program of the Wo- mems Industrial Conference called by the Women's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor, which convened in this city today. More than 100 national organizations of
 women have been invited to send delegates to the conference and ac- ceptances already received indicate an attendance of representative wo- men from all over the United States.
 This, the third Governmental con- ministration to consider questions of public importance, and was officially opened by the Secretary of Labor, the Honorable James J. Davis, and the first session was presided over by the Assistant Secretary of Labor, the Honorable Edward J. Henning. The gathering is under the manage ment of the Women's Bureau of the Labor Department, of which Miss Mary Anderson is director.
 The opening addresses of the Government officials at this morn afternoon session by the presentation of the general subject matter on the conference Charles Cheney of South Manchester, Connecticut, represent ing the National Association of Man ufacturers, and Miss Mary Gilson, Employment Manager of the Joseph and Feiss Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, spoke on What Women Work CTS Mean to Industry" On the con- verse of this subject, What Indus try Means to Women Workers" the speakers were Miss Mary Van Kleeck 
 partment of Industrial Studies of the Russell Sage Foundation, and Mrs. Raymond Robins of Chicago, Presi- dent of the International Federation of Working Women.
 Health Standards for Women in Industry" will be discussed by Dr. R. A. Spaeth, of the School of Fly giene and Public Health of Johns Hopkins University. Mrs. Florence Kelley of New York, General Secre- tary of the National Consumers League, will then speak on "Home Work"
 The subject of "Women's Wages" has been scheduled for an entire afternoons discussion, following ad- dresses by Mrs. Maud Swartz, of New York, President of the National Women's Trade Union League, and Miss Sophonisba T. Breckinridge. Dean of Women at the University of Chicago.
 The last morning of the conference will be devoted to a discussion of "Labor Legislation for Women' On this subject the opening speaker will be Miss Melinda Scott, of New York, of the United Textile Workers of America, and Miss Merica F. Heag- land, Employment Manager for the Diamond Chain Company, of Indian apolis, Indiana.
 The conference will be concluded with a dinner on the evening of January 18th. "The Need for Women to Enforce Women's Labor Laws" is the topic assigned to speakers at this dinner, who are Miss Tracy Copp, Special Agent of the Federal Board for Vocational Education and former head of the WOmen's Bur eau of the Wisconsin State Industrial
 Commission; Miss Agnes Nestor of Chicago, Vice President of the Ma
 tional Glove Workers Union of America; Mrs. James J. Dewitt, Chairman of the Department of So- cial and Industrial Relations of the Iowa Federation of Women's Clubs; and Miss Mary Mcdowell of the University Settlement in Chicago. | The toastmistress will be Miss Julia | Lathrop, former chief of the Chil- dren's Bureau of the Department of
 Labor. The conference is being held
 in the auditorium of the New Ma tional Museum in Washington.