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UNION FOR OWN PROTECTION
Open Headquarters in Washington and Elect
Officers; May Soon Apply for Charter
in A. F. L.
Washington, March 29. Something
new in the labor union movement is the
National Association of Wage Earners
which women of the country have
formed primarily for domestic workerjg
Headquarters have been purchased in
this city and a practise house estab
lished, which has many of the features
of a school of domestic science.
Miss Nannie H. Burroughs of the
District of Columbia is president of
the association. The other officers are
Mrsv Mary Bethune of Florida, vice
president; Miss Minnie L. Bradley of
Connecticut, executive secretary; Mrs.
Maggie L. Walker of Virginia, treas
urer ; Miss Elizabeth C. Carter of
Massachuetts, chairman of the invest
ment board, and Mrs. Lizzie Fouse of
Kentucky, registrar.
The association is heralded as "a
labor organization with a' constructive
program." This program is set forth
categorically and strangely enough a
demand for "more pay and shorter
hours" does not appear as the first
fundamental object of the movement.
To develop and encourage efficient
workers, 1o assist women in finding
the kind of work for which they seem
best qualified, to elevate the migrant
class of workers and incorporate them
permanently in service of some kind
and to standardize living conditions are
the listed primary purposes of the
union of colored women. Then comes
the wage question which Is stated
merely as a desire to "secure a wage
that will enable women to live de
cently." Other ' objects enumerated are : To
assemble the multitude of grievances
of employers and employes into, a set
of common demands and strive mutu
ally t0 adjust them ; to enlighten
women as to the value of organization
to make and supply appropriate uni
forms for working women through a
profit-sharing enterprise and to influ
ence just legislation offecting women
wage earners.
There are three million Negro wo
men engaged in domestic and personal
service occupations in- the United
States. "Negro women wage' earnerjs
are the only large unprotected labor
group in Amrica," says the announce
ment of the formation of the new
union. Unorganized labor will be ex
ploited and mistreated. An organized
labor group gets fairer wages, better
living conditions, greater respect
economic justice. Then too, a labor
organization that functions properly
develops in the workers greater skill
and general efficiency, pride of occu
pation and improvement in general con
duct. The latter improvements are as
important ' as the former considera
tions." In one of the reports of the National
Woman's Trade Union League of
America the statement was made that
"of all the hard fates to be met, the
hardest that the American born child
can- face is to Te born a little colored
girl baby, and this sad truth is here
put into words that may be reserved in,
expression, but contain depths of suf
fering for our colored sisters."
Representatives of the Women in In
dustrial Service listed 156 establish-,
ments in the Middle West employing
over 16,000 Negro women, and reported
that general standards ' for this class
of workers were found to be some
what lower than the average and their
I industrial opportunities to be decidedly
I more restricted than those of other
women worker.
"In the face of these findings," says
the president of the new association,
"nothing has been done to help our
condition, and we are lacking in com
mon sense and constructive initiative
'if we sit down and wait for white wo
men to do for us what we can do for
ourselves. After reading this report
a few colored women talked the mat-
Jter over seriously and decided not to
stop until we have organized all Negro
working women into a labor union."
She adds that "what we want is help
to get this message over to white peo
ple who will get just as much benefit
out of it as the colored people per
haps more."
Emphasis is laid upon the statement
that domestic servants are the only
wage earners that are not improving
the quality of their service. House
wives put up with more slipshod
methods and harum-scarum work than
employers in any other field. The air
and the magazines are full of com
plaints, but complaints alone will not
stimulate in household workers a de
sire to give better service. It is also
pointed out that' people have been
keen to provide schools for the train
ing of workers in .stores and factories,
but the women who have the closest
personal contact v with the family are
picked green from the streets or greasy
from employment agencies."
It is upon the hypothesis that women
cannot do domestic work without train
ing and that nine tenths of such work
ers are in service by reason of neces
sity, therefore the work is distasteful
t0 them and they do not try to become
efficient, that the Domestic Service
Practise House has been established.
Short-cut courses, not from books, but
with the materials and problems they
are to handle in the homes, will be
given women who seek positions as
cooks, chambermaids, laundresses
waitresses, nurses or maids.
All who apply for work will be given
practical examinations or tryouts. It
a woman wants a place as cook she
will be given meat, vegetabes, read
and pastry to cok. If she seeks a
position as a. waitress, she will be re
quired to set a table, serve a meal and
tell what she knows about" serving and
caring for the dining room and it ap
purtenances. All applicants will be
given instructions in good manners and
general conduct and advised as to the
kind of clothes to wear for their par
ticular work. They will als0 be taught
how to care for their own rooms.
Applicants will be graded according
to the way they handle practical tests,
their general manner and their per
sonal appearance. Each woman will
be given a service and rating card, the
one to be kept at the service center and
the other to be sent to the employer.
Employers are asked to co-operate by
keeping the rating card accurately and
encouraging the workers by fair treat- j
ment.
Training in the habits of courtesy
and standards of conduct and improve
ment in personal cleanliness and care
of living quarters will be stressed, it is
said. In the matter of dress, an effort
will be made to popularize a dres.s of
which the domestic workers will be just
as proud as the nurse is of her uniform.
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THE CO-OPERATION
of PATRONS and EMPLOYEES
for the BETTERMENT of the
SERVICE is earnestly ; solicited.
The Connecticut Company
Textile Workers Ask
Coolidge toIntercede
Lawrence, Mass., March 29. :vTHe
local Dyers' and Finishers' union has
sent an open leFter to President Cool
idge,' asking that Congress pay jsome
attention to the condition of the New
England textile industry. The letter
says that "thousands of people who de
pend upon that industry for a liveli
hood are now out of employment, many
families and persons are in dire want
and the outlook js not encouraging."
"The people in the textile commu
nities look to Congress for help," the
letter adds. "They are greatly disap
pointed and disheartened in view of
the fact that this problem has been
overlooked."
Notices were posted today in the
Everett mills that the plant, normally
employing 1,800, would be idle all next
week. Recently it has been operating
on a four-day schedule.
GO FIRST TO
Sugenheimer's
Men's Furnishings,
Women's Vwt
15-19 CHURCH ST.
Free to Every Union Man
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We Will Give You a 4.00 Hat
FREE
With any Suit or Topcoat purchased during our
j Spring Opening Sale.
f Remember the New Address
SIMONS BUILDING
New Haven Wall Paper Co.
Wall Papers
Paper Hangers' Supplies
33 Crown Street
THE BOOTH & LAW COMPANY
"YALE SEAL" PAINTS, OILS & VARNISHES
and PAINTERS' SUPPLIES
35-37 CROWN ST. NEW HAVEN, CONN
SERVICE FIRST
The Southern New England Telephone JCompany
Telephone Building
114-126 Court St, New. Haven, Conn.
Church St
Cor. Center
ENTRANCE 39 CENTER STREET
2nd FLOOR ELEVATOR
PAGER'S
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Hats and Furnishings
The Right Quality at Popular
Prices.
6-8 CONGRESS AVE. .
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YOU can get stereotypes and
matrices, as well as' electrotypes,
.
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365 STATE ST.
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216 MEADOW ST.
New Haven,
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Kinds of
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Fountains Charged and Delivered t
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45 LIBERTY STREET,
New Haven, Conn.
Special Attention Given to Correct Fitting of
Trusses, Abdominal Suporters and
Elastic Stockings.
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PHYSICIANS AND H OSPITAL SUPPLIES
56 CHURCH ST., HARTFORD, CONN.
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