The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-04
Business Women s
 Head GiZeS RebOrt

New York, Aug. 4-"The whole woman movement is under fire," Lena Madcsin Phillips of New York city,, president of the Inter- national Federation of Business and Professional Women, announce ed today upon her return from Europe where she has been at tending the international labour conference and two important congresses of women. And at many points women are losing ground" she added.
 "The economic depression has brought in its wake many en- croachments upon their position, and particularly upon the position of marUed women. In several Eu- ropean countries there have been determined efforts to oust women from both state and private em- p!oyment and in the Duchy of Louxembourg, so we were told, the employment of women, wheth- CT married of single, has for some time been subject to preliminary authorization by the government. Naturally the attitude of the pres- ent German government in att tempting to thrust its women back l lIlo tuc hitChSH anu lbS oNi is not without its harmful intlu- ence.
 But in the face of these diff culties women have not been al- together resourceless. Frequently they have aroused public opinion to point which has made govern ment authorities consider 1t wise to revoke edicts against the mar ried women. And interestingly enough, associations of profes- sional men have in several n stances joined in these protests, aroused by injustice to their fell low workers.
 But there Is no denying that these persistent attacks are danger signals, which all of us who are seriously interested in the prog ress of women must heed.
 'In fact the menace to the status of the married woman was considered so serious that we gave the greater part of a day to con- sideration of it in four-day meeting of the board of directors of the International Federation of Business and Professional Women in late June.
 Moreover at the meeting of the International Council of Women in Paris, which 1 attended later, the focus seemed to have swung away from world peace, which with that has always been a per- manent issue, to this new threat to feminine progress, and instead of staging a mass meeting in de- fense of the ideals of peace, the council held a great protest meet | i~. t., Snphnnnn in nfHrn1n, tion of women's rights to work and condemnation of any attempt to deprive them of 1t. So l am confi- dent we can count upon the sup port of the leisure group in our campaign to protect the interests of business and professional wom- en.
 But I believe that to safeguard those interests Is primarily our job and 1t will certainly be the prin- cipal phase of the program of our federation this year."
 Miss Phillips returned to an- nounce that the European head quarters of the International Fed eration will this year be moved from Geneva to London flor eco- homie reasons" and that Miss Dorothy A. Heneker, the executive director. will spend much of the year in the field. She will open the International Exposition of Fine Arts to be held in Warsaw in Oc- tober under the auspices of the International Federation, and will go on to Lithuania, Latvia, Estho- mia, Finland. Norway, Sweden and Denmark to do organization work.
 Frokon Mana With, founder Of the National Woman's Party Of Norway. who has done vigorous and able organization work Tor tho federation in her own coun. try, has been named internatlonni membership chairman, Miss Phii- lips said.
 Miss Dorothy Quincy Lawrence. daughter of MT and Mrs Effing- ham Lawrence and n descendant of early settlers in Western Long Island, was married to George Hoppcr Fitch. son of MT and Mrs Winchester Fitch of New York and Greenwich. Conn. yesterday after noon in Zion Episcopal church Douglaston. . The floral decorations in the church were simple. consisting ol palms in the chancel and vases oi white Iarkspur on the altar. The Rev Dr Lester l.. Riley. the rec tor, performed the ceremony.
 The bride entered the church with her father. who gave her ir marriage. Her gown of white satin was made on simple lines with an extremely long train. over which fell her veil of rose point lace. q family heirloom. She carried calia lilies.
 Miss Cordelia Gurnee of New York was maid of honor and there were two matrons of honor. Mrs Fitch Hall. sister of the bride groom. and Mrs Andrew Duncan Mcintosh. Jr, of Albany. cousin of the bride. Mrs Mcintosh Is the daughter-in-law of Mir and Mr' Andrew Mcintosh of Taft school They were gowned in green chif:. ion, with hats to correspond. and carried bouquets of white larkspur
 J. Hamilton Coulter of Westfield N. J., was best man. MT Fitch had for his ushers John Townsend Lindenberg. Herschel V. Williams Jr, Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr Thomas Wheeler Dewart. William T. Dewart Jr. all of New York and Herster Barres of Greenwich A small reception for members of the two families and n few close friends followed at the>Homestead