Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-11-12
l..inimum Wages
Subject Of Session
Here Tomorrow
Stute and Federal
Officials Seeking
Better Results

The Ninth Minimum Wage Con-
ference, sponsored by the Women's
Bureau of the Labor Department,
will be held here tomorrow and
Tuesday. with State and Federal
officials comforting on how to get
best results from this perennially
debated type of legislation.
Miss Mary Anderson, director of
the Women's Bureau. will preside at
the conference. largely consisting Of
round table discussion planned by
Miss Louise Stitt, director of the
bureaus Minimum Wage Division.
A joint session with the Sixth Ma
tional Conference on Labor Lesis-
lation, called by Secretary Perkins,
will be held Tuesday. Ofhcials con-
cerned with the wage-hour law. l
year old, will discuss administrative
techniques with State ofIicials who
have had years of experience in the
ED. Legislation of this variety is
'H the statute books Of rs States.
-rto Rico, Alaska and the District.
Extension to Be Considered.
lief speakers at this session will
Miss Frieda S. Miller, industrial
nmissioner of New York, and Miss
2ud SWEET, field director, Woman
ID Child Labor Division of the Wis
1sin Industrial Commission.
Among detectives of the confer
rnce are plans for more uniform
age standards and for extending
application of minimum wage laws
. women in industries not yet
"overed.
State officials attending are as
follows:
Arkansas-E. I. Mckinley, State
labor commissioner, and Mrs. Bess
Proctor, secretary Of the Industrial
Welfare Commission. California
Mrs. Marguerite Clark. chief of the
Industrial Welfare Division. Con.
necticut-Mrs. Christine G. Beck,
director of the division of minimum
wage. The District of Columbia
Mrs. William Ktttle, chairman Of
the Minimum Wage Board; Miss
Eunice Broyles, executive secretary,
and Miss Owen Coach, former ex-
ecutive secretary of the board, but
now child labor consultant with the
United States Children's Bureau.
1llinois-Miss Kate F. O'Connor,
chief of the division of women's and
children's employment, and her as
sistant, Miss Anne S. Davis. Ken
tucky-William c. Burrow, commits
sioner Of department of industrial
relations, and Clay Copeland, super
visor of the minimum wage law.
Louisiana-B. w. Cason, State labor
commissioner. observation-disclosures
Mary E. Meehan, assistant commits
sioner of labor and industries. New
Hampshire-John S. B. Davis, labor
commissioner. New York-Miss Kate
Papert, acting director, division of
women in industry and minimum
wage. Ohio-Mrs. James P. Walsh,
jr., superintendent, division of min
imum wage. Pennsylvania William
Rutter and Mrs. Louise Rutherford,
deputy attorneys general. Puerto
Hico-P. Rivera Martinez, labor COM
missioner. Rhode Island-Miss Mary
C7rtlett. chief, division of women
nd children.
Organizations Represented.
representatives of organizations
} will attend the conference in
.oie Miss Elisabeth Christman of
lie National Women's Trade Union
League, M SIS Elizabeth Eastman of
the Young Womens Christian As
ISOLATION, Mrs. Sadie Orr Dunbar
OF the General Federation of
Women's Clubs. Mrs. Lester Pollock
of the National Council of Jewish
Women, Miss Agnes Regain of the
National Council of Catholic
Women, DR.. Susan Kingsbury of the
American Association of University
Women, DR.. Minnie L. Maffet of the
National Federation of Business and
Professional Women's Clubs, Miss
Josephine Roche of the National
Consumers League. Miss Florence
Thorne of the American Federation
OF Labor, Miss Dorothy Bellanca of
the Congress Of Industrial Organiza-
tons, Miss Ethel johnson of the
International Labor Office and Miss
Dorothy Sells of the Maritime Labor
3oard.
Other experts invited from States
with minimum-wage laws include
State presidents or other officers of
the Consumers League. These are
Miss jeanette Studley of Connecti-
cut, Mrs. Anna Fl Settle ~ Kan.
lucky, Miss Margaret Wiesman Of
Massachusetts,, Mrs. Harrison Sim
mons OF New Jersey, Miss Mary
Dublin, Mrs. Helen Cans and Miss
Josephine Goldmark of New York,
Mrs. Lowell Hobart and Miss Eliza
beth Magee of Ohio and Mrs. Mar
garet Ackroyd of Rhode Island.