The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1943-02-11

On that day the largest Union of skill
ed operatives, which for nearly hun
dred years has been exclusively an
organization of male workers, received
| into full membership a large number
of women operatives in the engineering
and allied trades. The Unions scheme
of organization for these women mem
berS came into operation on the same
day.
The event is of wider significance
than appears at first sight. There have
been women workers in the engineering
trades admitted to Trade Union mem
bership before this, and two big gen
eral labor unions have quite large
woman membership, many recruited
in this group of trades. But the Anal
gamated Engineering Union, which has
now thrown open it's doors to women
workers, has affirmed more clearly
than any other Union the principle Of
equality-nOt only in respect of equal
pay for equal work, but in Union
organization too.
No Separate Branches Yet
When I talked to officers of the
Union they were insistent upon this
principle of equality. They recognize,
Of course, that application Of the prin-
ciple must be gradual--their scheme
does not, for example, require the new
woman entrant to the Union to pay
the same dues as the men, Women are
admitted into any of the Unions estab-
lished branches from the age Of IA,
trade, and they will pay weekly con-
trbutiOns of threepence for those
under the age of IS, and siXpence for
those over that age, without entrance
fee in either case Provision is made
for girls on reaching the age of Is to
be transferred to the higher cOntribu-
tory sections Of the Union.
For these dues liberal scale of
benefits has been framed by the Union.
These include unemployment allow
ances, accident, dispute, legal assist
ance and funeral benerits, subject to
the same conditions as those for men.
Regulations have reached the union
branches providing for the good gov
ernment of the Women's Section and
the Union does not as present contem-
plate that separate branches will be
opened exclusively for women. Union
officers who talked to me about the
scheme were emphatic in saying that
there are good reasons for not Segre-
eating the new women members from
the general body of the Union meni-
bership in branches.
In pursuit of the principle of equal
ity the Union has provided for repre-
sentation of women members in the
administration of the Union and is to
enable them to elect their own shop
stewards These will act in cOOpera-
ton with men shop stewards with
No. 175. - Sanitary, Trenton, N. j
Maurice RizziellO, 253 Elmer st. Meets
CaStlermini hall, Clinton and Mott SITS
No. 176. Porcelain, Macomb, Ill
Mildred Cunningham, 434 n. Monroe
st. Meets first and third Thursday in
Lyons building, Washington st.
No. III. - Sanitary, Robinson, Ill
Lloyd Darnold, =. o. Box 26. Meets
every Thursday in Labor Temple.
No. 17S. -Artware, Sebring, Ohio
Betty Nestor, 323 w. Oregon Ave
Meets second and fourth Wednesday
in X. of Z. hall.
No. 18O.-Artware, Huntington Park
Calf. Alice Marrs, 1929 f. Watcher
i, D,Il v, rnff NTnntS SnannC
Tuesday in Efell Club House, 25O1
Clarendon Ave.
No. 131. Tile, Porcelain and Art
ware, Trenton, N. j. James Fraser, AIS
N. Clinton Ave. Meets first and third
Tuesday in Falcon hall, N. Olden Ave
No. S3.-Generalware Los Angeles
Calf Lillian Weigand, 1916 Linda
Rose st. Meets first and third Wednes
55, Los Angeles.
No. 1S4.-Chinaware Trenton, N. J
Walter II. Smith, 666 Princeton Ave
Meets second and fourth Monday i1
Polish Falcons halls, Brunswick anG
Indiana Ave.
No. 1S5. = Porcelain, Trenton, N. J
Louisa Johnstone, 35S Brunswick ave.
second floor. Meets third Monday, cor
| 1eI odlllouu anu LIZ IdlH ClS.
No. 1S6.-China and Artware, Los
Angeles, Calf. James e. Doyle, 1877!
Armadale Ave-, Los Angeles, Calf
Meets first and third Monday at 220e
n. Broadway.
No. 1S7. Porcelain, Trenton, N. J
: Anne Scalemere, 80 Kelsey Ave. Meets
second Thursday in Polish hall, NORTH
Olden and Bruieng Ave.
No. 1S9. Feldspar, Erwin, Tenn
t L. G. Stephens, r. ID. No. !, Box 400
Meets second and fourth Monda!
nights, 107 S. Main st.
No. 19O.-Porceain, East Liverpool
Elizabeth Mumaw, 1905 Ohio Ave
Meets first and third Friday in N. B
of O. p. banquet hall.
. No. 191.--General and China Ware
| Hamilton, Ont, Canada. w. A. Gras
ley, Al Biggar Ave-, Hamilton, Ont
Canada.
No. 1872. &C Generalware, Warehouse
men, Packers, Decorating Kilnmen, Sc
bring, O. Arthur H. Greene, 395 Ore
gon Ave-, Sebring, Ohio.
No. 193.-Sanitary, Trenton, N. J
John Halliday, 7G3 Second st. Meets
first Tuesday, 725 n. Clinton Ave.