The Washington times., 1923-01-10

Meet to Formulate Standards
For Welfare Of Workers in
U. S. Industries.
By GEORGE FRANKLIN.

1T tNKEORAIH EA9fA4NIAA4AASs
Interest on the part Of 9,000,-
900 women workers in the United
States will center in Washington
tomorrow when. the first Wom-
ems National Industrial Confer
ence sponsored by the Women,s
Bureau of the United States De.
partment. sof Labor conyenes for
it's opening session of three
days. convention in the New Ma
tionaI Museum auditorium. Rep
fesentatfpes Of approximately
sixty w0inenss organizations, num-
bering approximately 400 dele.
gates, and coming from all sec
ions of the country will be pres
Mt. President Harding, it is
Expected, ewin address the first
session.
Aims Of Bureau:
According ia Miss Mary Ander-
son, director of the Women 81 Blu
reau. the purpose OF the conference
Is ito formulate standards and.
policies which shall promote the
welfare of wage-earning Womens inn
prove their working conditions IN
crease their efficiency. and advance.
their opportunities for profits bic,
employment s.
While the statement is not sane
toned by officials of the Women 3.
Bureau. It Is understood that dur
ing the conference steps viii be
taken to organize q civic committee
representative of the allied Wonen's
organization which viii constitute
permanent working 6onnection,
between the Wornen's Bureau and.
women ss industrial organizat iopn In
carrying out such Recommendation
and policies as may be ind6rsed
during the conference.
Views oil j, j. Davis.
In q statement issued by SScres
tary of Labor James j. Davis, COW
ering the conference and its aims,
THE Facts of industry are what
oti1e public needs to know and Il is
TO get cooperation in bringing be-
fore the public the facts about the
employment Of women IN industry
that the conference was called.
Consider that except in, States that
have laws TO prevent, more than
one-haH of the women who work
for wages receive less than $12 q
+
laws to prevent most of the women
wage-eaFners work 8 to 10 hours a
day The lowest wages usually go
with the longest hours, and these
are the jobs which are in every,
way the d1slldgery jobs OF the world.
But that is not the worst. Very
many of these women are mothers.
In a typical industrial community
our investigators found that one
half of the adult women were work
ing for wages and one half of those
were mothers, many of them with
children less than five years old.
such facts are compelling. We
want the people of the United
states. and especially the women
of the country. to face them and
. study them. Something must be
ne about conditions which are SO
threatening to rour national Hfe.'
I'm bringing together not only
representatives Of all the leading
Fomen's organizations of the coun-
try. but of expert Industrial and
economic students IN a national
conference where the conditions ac-
eepted as detrimental tc4women in
Industrial life. can be freely dis
cuesed solutions to many of them.
It 10 believed, can be found and
made operative.
Acceptances received at the Wo-
mems Bureau from. organizations
and women's clubs of the invita-
ton to participate in the conference
promise, it is declared. that many
of the women most prominently
identified with the advancement of
womenfs interests throughout the
country will be included among
those attending and taking an ac-
tive part in the discussions.
Gratifying Response.
1.-The response has been so lib
eral that there is now every reason
for believing the conference will
aurpass in Importance and effec
tiveness the greatest hopes enter
tanned by those promoting it," said
Miss Anderson today. Similar ex
ufessions were INDUCED in by other
members of the bureau as well az
by numerous local women identi
fled with women's organizations and
eocieties.
At the headquarters of the Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs. 1924 \
street northwest, it was stated thai
the conference of directors now tT
progress would suspend its sessions
TO attend the sessions of the Won
Ell Conference "nSn IHe
latter convencs tomorrow.
Among the women nationally
known who will not participate IN
the conference is Miss Alice Paul
director of the Women's party
which, it il understood today. viii
not have delegates in attendance a,
the sessions. The failure of tn,
latter organization OF women I,
participate in the sessions, IL Il