Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-27
BY CoRINNE FRAZIER.

speak on "Woman's Part In Rural Life
during the National Woman's Party
radio hour Wednesday evening of this
week broadcast over a Nationwide
fook-up by the National Broadcasting
Co. Senator Capper's address will be
the fourth Of the series of wednesday
evening programs inaugurated this sea-
son by the feminists.
Mrs Frances Roberts, a New York
restaurant worker, spoke this past We'd
nesday on the existing welfare laws for
women. attacking them on the ground
that they cut women out of jobs, pre-
vent them from getting better jobs and
compel them to take lower wages" She
declared that these laws have been
passed through the efforts of represen-
tatives of organized labor. men and
women who are not affected by the
laws and social workers who do not
understand the needs Of working
women.
Mrs. Roberts is vice chairman OF the
Industrial Council Of the National
Woman'S Party, composed of wage
earning women who hold that all
industrial legislation should be based
upon the nature of the work and not on
the sex of the worker. In her radio
talk Mrs. Roberts said that she knows
from her own experience as a waitress
the handicaps of labor laws applying to
women only.
when the law was passed in New
York forbidding women TO work in GER
tain occupations between 10 pm. and
6 am, women in restaurants, drug
stores, candy stores, transportation COM
panies, newspaper Offices, and other oc-
equations, were thrown out of work, y
Mrs. Roberts said. In the restaurant
where I am employed we had to teach
men our work and see them take over
our Jobs because It was necessary to
start the baking before in the morn
ing and the law would not allow women
to work before this hour.
THE women affected Immediately be-
gan fight against the law. Women
printers, pharmacists, railroad workers
except conductors and guards, women
writer's and reporters in newspaper Of
fees have succeeded In securing exemp-
ton from this restriction. The women
restaurant workers are making a yigor-
our fight but our opponents, chief
among them the American Federation
of Labor, declare that our health and
morals would be endangered by such
exemption. ,--
There is no protest by organized la
Dor against q IL or "a hour day for the
woman nurse, the housewife, or the
woman domestic. There is no rush for
q law forbidding a woman scrubbing
of1ces between the hours OF 10 pm. and
6 am. or demanding that the woman
attendant in courtroom be sent of
duty early in the evening. It is notice.
able that the concern for health and
morals Of woman workers Is greatest in
those fields where the competition be-
tween men and women is keenest.
We are not opposed to organized
labor. We are not opposed to protective
legislation provided it applies to men
and women alike. AL we ask is a fifty
fifty break"
Miss Belle Sherwin, who nine years
ago as chairman of the Cleveland
League Of Women Voters attended it's
first prediction luncheon, at which
the issues of the approaching local cleo
ton were presented, will be the guest
OF honor at this years luncheon, to be
held in Cleveland Tuesday afternoon.
attending In the capacity of president
Of the National League of Women
Voters. Since 1924, when she took up
o6dcial duties in Washington, Miss
Sherwtn has been unable to take an
active part In the community projects
which have made the Cleveland league
famous throughout the country. At
this years meeting there ill be dis
cussion Of how the city manager char
ter may be made more effective. Four
attacks against it in six years have been
REFUSED by campaigns in which the
league has been the most active If not
the prime mover.
MISS Elizabeth j. HauSer, whose vol
unteer service as the fourth vice presi-
dent OF the National League Of Women
Voters Is combined with q professional
position as special writer for the War
rem, Ohio, Tribune Chronicle, has been
devoting several days at the Washing
ton headquarters of the league to the
work Of the department of efficiency
N government Of which she Is the head
She leaves Washington today for Biz
mingham, where she will speak at a
conference OF league members in nine
Southern States.
On Friday Miss Hauser with Miss
katharine Frederic, the secretary of
the department, met with selected State
groups in Wilmington to plan study
courses to be carried on during the
Winter on efficiency In government and
on education. Among the topics con-
eidered was the Lame Duck" amend
ment, which the league supports. The
meetings were held at the home of Mrs
OF the Delaware League of Women
Voters.
Miss Gladys Harrison of Washington
prominent member of the League of
Women Voters, and Mrs. Reba Barrett
smith, acting president of the Alexan-
dr1a league, have been invited to serve
on the official committee for the annual
governors ball, to be revived by the
Virginia League Of Women Voters, on
Friday evening, November /, at the
John Marshall Hotel in Richmond.
Miss Harrison will serve as a patroness,
while Mrs. Smith will be one of the
hostesses.
The league has reversed the old or
DER OF the occasion-a ball given by the
governor, and are making their ball an
honor paid to the governor by the
citizens.
The honor guests will be Gov. and
mrs. Harry Flood Byrd and the five
former living governors and their wives.
IneSe former governors are E. Lee
Tr1nkle, Westmoreland Davis, Henry
Carter Stuart, Claude A. Swanson and
Andrew jackson Montague. Mr.. Swan
son is now United States Senator and
Virginia.
Both nominees for governor have
been invited as honor guests, DR.. John
Garland Pollard and DR.. William Roseley
Brown. Invitations have been sent to
governors of all the States and accep-
lance has been received from as far
away as Wisconsin by Gov. Walter J.
Kohler. Comdr. Richard Byrd was sent
q special invitation to this ball in honor
OF his brother. Thu committee plans to
have the program broadcast so that
Comdr. Byrd's party may join in the
festivities.
A brilliant program is being planned
Following the grand march, to be led
by Gov. and Mrs. Byrd, there will be
dancing of the "Minuet" by this sea-
sons debutantes of Richmond. A fea-
ture dance Symbolizing an achievement
by Virginia is also planned. A New