The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-07
DAVIS open
WOMAN LABOR
MEETING HERE
! National Industrial Conference
win Be Held in City from
Thursday Through Saturday
SEEK EQUALITY WITH MEN
Wages and Legislation Are
on Program for Discussion
on Last Day Of Convention

With more than one hundred
Washington women, representing
rs many national civic, industrial
and political organizations, in at
tendance, the national industrial
conference for women will be open
cd by Secretary Of Labor James ].
Davis next Thursday morning.
Sessions will be held twice daily.
The conference will close with q
banquet Saturday night.
Industrial Equality.
The problem of industrial equality
Tor women and men will be one of
the most important to come up for
discussion at the gathering. which
has been arranged by the Women
Bureau or the Labor Department.
A general discussion of Women g
Wages and Labor Legislation for
Women" win fill the final days pro-
gram.
Miss Mary Anderson, director of
the WomeI1,s Bureau, emphasized
the need of better legislation for
working women in q statement yes
terdaJ.
List Of Delegates.
Washington women who win at
tend the meetings are:
Miss Grace Abbott, chief Chi.
dren's Bureau; Mrs. Kate Trenholm
Abrams, Mrs. George r. Authier.
y. A. r.; Miss Ethel BagIey, Federal
Council of Churches of Christ in
America; Miss Isabel Warren Ball,
Woman's Relief Corps; Mrs. Regi.
nald x. Bailey, Kansas president,
Woman's Relief Corps; Mrs. Blair
Banister, Democratic National Com
mittee; DIR. Kate w. Barrett, Ma
tional Florence Crittendon Mission;
Mrs. Frances Fsenton Bernard. Amer
lean Association of University Wo.
men; Mrs. Harry s. Berry. American
Legion Auxiliary; Mrs. F. E. Bigelow
The Congregational Woman,s Home
Missionary Federation: Mrs. Emily
Newell Blair Democratic National
Committees Mrs H L Bolton, Girls
Friendly Society: Miss Gertrude
Bowling, superintendent Instructive
District Nursing Association OF
Washington. National Organization
Tor Public Health Nursing; Miss Eliz-
9beth Brandeis. secretary Minimum
Wage Board, District OF Columbia;
Mrs. Bessie Brueggeman. United
States Employees Compensation Com
mission; Mrs. Annie L. Burdick, Fed
eral Board for Vocational Education;
Miss Mamie II. Burroughs. super
tntendent National Training School
Tor Girls Representing PennsyI.
Hania Federation of Colored Women's
elnbsl; Miss Maud Cavanaugh. Rock.
lord College Alumnae Association.
Mrs. w. e. Chamberlain, Congre-
gational Woman's Home Missionary
Federation; Miss Cleo Cheek, the
Praetorians: Miss Inez Cook, Ma
tional Federation of Federal EN-
ployes; Mrs. Katherine NJ Cook,
specialist in rural educat ton, De-
partment of Interior; Mrs Mamie
Eopes, grand chapter Order of the
Eastern Star OF the District of
Columbia: Miss Tracy Copp, Federal
board for Vocational Education (rep-
resenting Wisconsin. Industrial Com
missionl; Mrs. Ellsworth A. Cor
bett, New Jersey Society of 1872:
Mrs. z. p. Costigan, National
League Of Women Voters; Miss
; Mary r. CQyington, Bureau of
Labor Statistics; Miss Minnie Fisher
Cunningham, National League of
Women Voters: Mrs. L. J.. Dickin-
the Eastern Star of Iowa: Miss
Emily W. Dinwiddie. ex-secretary
American Red Cross; Mrs. Amos G..
Draper, National Society Daughters
of 1872; Mrs. Duncan %. Fisher,
National Society Of d. A. R.; Mrs.
Rose Yates Forester, Brotherhood
I. Railway and Steamship Clerks; Mrs.
n. s.. France, Home Mission Coun-
ell: Mrs. Helen Gardener, commits
sioner United States Civil Service
Commission; Miss Laura ]. Grad
Bookbinders; Mrs. Charles r. Gran
field, District of Columbia Fedora
-tion of Women's Clubs.
Mrs. Evelyn Harris, National
Board of Farm Organizations; Miss
Harlean James, secretary American
Civic Association; Mrs. Ben Johnson,
National Society, d. A. r.: Mrs. Min
ME Evans Keys, Order of the East
ern Star; Miss Matilda Lindsay,
secretary Washington COMMITTEES
Women's Trade Union League;
Miss Myrtle May Leosack. pres.
ident women's Relief Corps, Dis
triet of the Potomac; Miss Mary
A. Lindsey, managing director
Grace Dodge Hotel; Mrs. Charlotte
Stone MacDougal, president Ameri'
can Association of University Wom-
en-; Mrs. Basil Manly, National
League Of Women Voters; Miss
Agnes Mae Melting, National Coun.
ell of Catholic Women; Mrs. Flour.
ney Menefee, chairman Industrial
and Social Department, General Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs; Miss Lucy
Minnigerode, superintendent OF
nurses. United States Public Health
Service; Mrs. Raymond B. Morgan
American Association of University
Women: Miss Bertha z. Nienburg
Miss Marie Obenauer! Mrs. Frank
O'Hara, Mrs. e. G.. Paul, American
Federation Of Teachers: Mrs Maud
Wood Park, National League OF
Women Voters; Miss Marian Park
hurst, Congressional secretary
League of Women Voters: Mis-,
Anita e. Phipps, Government serv
fee, director woman's relations: Alic,
Thacher Post, Mrs. G. s. Rafter
president District Congress of Moth
ers and Parent-Teachers; Miss Agne,
G. Regain. National Council of Cafho
lie Women; Miss Mary v. Robinson
AIumnae Association of Goucher Col
tege.
MRS. C6WNE GETS DIVORCE