Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1926-01-15
Women Who Work
Will Be Discussed at
Women's Conference

men 'tNElR AeihN w ANtH sAHANAR Ata
family viii be one of the chief topics
TO BE- discussed at the Women's ln-
dastiial Conference being held in
Washington January Is to Il under
the auspices of the Momen's Bureau
Of the L. 5. Department Of Labor.
Miss Mary Anderon. diiaxtor Of
the Women's Bureau announced to-
DAY that although this subject is not
especially uentoned on the program.
pecial arrangements have heea maue
fer its discussion under several dif.
| fereut aspects. The employment II
married women IN manufacturing and
mechanical industries has increased s.
: percent during the las, ten years, she
SAYS, and for this teason practically
every condition in iAduslls should be
considered from the Viewpoint net on
/ ly of women as wage eatnets. bot of
women aS wives and mothers.
/ Secretary of Labor Davis in his
opening address ON rMomen Workers
and the American Home" will out
line some of the personal and social
facts connected with the employment
of married women At later sessions
of the conference, when health pro-
blems and social problems are discus
sed in detail, and when representa-
| tives Of the wage-ealnlng women, the
consumer. the church aud the state and
national governments speak the con.
ditionS under which nearly two mil
lion married women are working will
be brought out.
The conference is being held TO
consider the current Industrial situa
tion in its relation to women work
ers, and the delegate @ill represent
/ practically every natinoal organiza
ton of women, OF With large pro
portion fwomen hembets. Dele
gates have been appointd also by
other organizations which deal espe-
elally with women in Industry,
The program of the conference COW
efs many different aspects of the in
dustrial field, TO be discussed by ex-
perts along various lines. The chief
topics of discussion will be: The de-
velopment and expansion of indus.
Try and its social Significance to the
employer. the worker and society;
problems of industrial relations To be
discussed from both theory and prac-
tice; social problems, with the empha-
sis ON the right of the worker to cit
izenship, education and recreation;
and health problems from the aspect
of the worker and Of the community.
There will also be a symposium on
the reasons for concern about the con-
ditions under which the wage-earning
woman lives and works.
The speakers at the conference in
clute: Honorable james J. Davis, sec
fetaIy of Labor; Mrs, John Jacob Ro-
gers, member of congress Srom Mas
sachusetts; Mrs. JULIUS Kahn, mem
Der Of congress- from S<lifofnia; John
E. dgerton, president National Asso-
citation of Manufacturers; William
Green, president American Fedora
ton of Labor; Miss Mary Van
kleeck, department of industrial stu
i dies, Russell Sage Foundation; Will
liam Leiserson, professor of labor
economies, Toledo university; Miss
Frances Perkins, member State In
dustrial Commission, New York; Miss
Agnes Nestor, president Chicago Wo-
mems Trade Union League; Henry !.
Kendall, president Kendall Mills, Inc;
Miss Rose Sehneiderman. Cloth Hat,
Cap and Millinery Workers lntefna-
tional Union; Miss Mollie Ray Car
roll, professor of economies, Goucher
college; Mrs. Robert Speer, president
National Board Young Womens
Christian Association DIR. Alice Ham
ilton, professor of industrial medicine,
Harvard Medical School; DIR. Hugh S.
Cummings, surgeon general, L. y,
Public Health Service; Miss Mary ko-
ken. silk Weaver from Pennsylvania;
Mrs. Percy Jackson, president, Con-
sumers' League of New York; Lew
Hahn, managing director and tfeasur-
er National Retail Dry Goods Asso-
ciation; Rev. Worth NJ. Tippy, execu-
tive secretary, Commission on Church
es and Soical Service; DIR. John NJ.
Cooper, Associate Professor of Sociol-
ogy, Catholic University, Washington
ID. c.; Mrs. Katherine Philips Edison,
executive commissioner Industria Wei
fare Commission Of California; Mrs.
Maud Wod Park, councillor on leg
islation. National League of Women
Voters; Mrs. Mabel Walker Willie
brandt, assistant attorney general Of
the United States; Mrs. Bessie Par
ker Bruggeman, chairman u. 5. En-
ployees Compensation Commission;
Miss Jessie Dell, member L. S. Ci'
vii Service Commission; Miss Grace
Abbott, chief Of Children's Bureau,
U. S. Department of Labor; and DR..
Louise Stanley, director Bureau OF
Home Economics, U. S. Department Of
Agriculture. 80.
The presiding officers at the DIFF
ferent sessions will be: Miss Mary An
derson, director Women's Bureau, U.
S. Department Of Labor; Honorable
Robe Carl White, assistant secretary
of labor; Mrs. Ella Boole, president
Women's Christian Temperance I'm
ion; Miss Belle 5herwin, president Ma
tional League Of Women Voters; Mrs.
John ID. Sherman, president General
Federation Of Women's Clubs; Mis-
Agnes Peterson, assistant director Of
the Womens Bureau, u. 5. Depart
ment of Labor; and Miss Mary Nc
Dowell, commissioner of public well
fare, Chicago.