Evening Star Newspaper, May 9, 1929, Page 28

28 THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON. D €, THURNDAY, g9 1929, IMMIGRANT GIRL NOW HEADS UNION Rose Schneiderman Rises to Post From Humble Job | in Department Store. | BY GRETCHEN SMITH. | Facing the reality of life as an er- rand girl in one of New York's large department stores, when but 13 et age, receiving & salary of $212 a| week, was the beginning of the liberal education received by Miss Rose Schnei- derman, president of the National Wom- en’s Trade Union League of America. Miss Schneiderman is amply qualified | to work for the betterment of indus-| trial conditions among women, as through personal experience she has | suffered the grinding toil of an 11-hour | working day, receiving barely a living | wage in stores and shops, which made | no pretence toward offering employes | physical comforts which might have made existence a trifie more bearable. i Accompanying her parents to this| country from Russia, when a child of seven, not speaking & word of English at the time, Miss Schneiderman was | obliged to go 1o work six years later upon the death of her father, and help | her widowed mother support, the family, which consisted of herself and three | younger children. Went to Work as Child. “I found work in one department | store,” Miss Schneiderman relates, | “starting at $2.12 a week. The 12 ccnts‘ was for the washing of an ugly blue | apron that the errand girls were obliged | to wear. At that time, my lunch al- | lowance was 6 cents a day. I was 13 years old and all I permitted myself for junch was a 5-cent sandwich and an | apple or orange for which I paid a | penny. I started work at 8 o'clock in | the morning and worked until 6 o'clock, | =xcept on Saturdays and Christmas eves, when I stayed in_the store until 11 o'clock. At times I was so tired as a child that I could scarcely drag myself | home at night Looking at the tiny woman, not five | feet. tall, with a gentle expression un- touched 'by the bitterness of her ex- | perience, one is forced to marvel at | the spirit lying behind the personality which has so bravely conquered un- believable hardships of life. Listening | to her tell her story in a well modu- | lated voice, using a choice of words | which bespeaks a scholarly command | of the English lanaguage, the question | was asked, “When and_ where did you | receive your education?” “Principally _from books” _ Miss Schneiderman replied. “When I was | a child, reading was about the only recreation offered to children. I read all the time—in fact, so_much so, that | my mother told me if I did not stop | reading when I was at home, she would burn my bgooks some day.” Experience in Work. “In addition to books,” she continued, ||| “I have received a marvelous experi- ence in the labor movement, helping women and men to live decent lives and do away with some of the evils of | their lives.” Miss Schneiderman worked three years in the New York department store, receiving a raise from the original $2.12 a week to $2.75 a week, when promoted to the position of salesgirl. | Realizing there were no future possibili- | ties of advancement, she left the store and entered a factory, which manu- factured men's cloth caps. They were | paid by the piece in this factory, and were obliged to buy their own ma- chines; as well as furnish the thread. But despite this fact, the girls were able to earn at least $5 a week, which was an improvement over the wages received as a salesgirl. One of the tragic circumstances sur- rounding the life of the factory worker g’.;hlt day is told by Miss Schneider- “I had worked in the factory two | years when the shop burned down and | || we all lost our machines which most | of us had just paid for. The head of | the concern recelved over half a million | dollars’ insurance, but the laborers did | not receive one cent and were obliged ||| to buy new machines in order to con- tinue working.” Began Organization. It was while working in the cap fac- tory that Miss Schneiderman first con- ceived the idea of organizing the wom- en workers of the industry. “We were doing exactly the same ‘work as the men, who were organized,” | she said, “but our wages were much smaller and our hours much longer. On Saturdays, when the men had but a half day of work, we were obliged to stay all day. Every time an increase in | ‘wages would be given the men, our ‘wages were cut accordingl; i It took but a few months to organize the first union among the women and the result of the organization was ap- | preciated immediately by women re- | ceiving a compliance to their demand for half-Saturday work. From that beginning has grown and | spread the National Women's Trade Union League of America, which has brought benefits to woman industrial | Washington Bud Loves A|New Wonderful | MELLO-GLO | Beautiful Dorothy Dial is the || daughter of Senator and Mrs. | Nathaniel B. Dial of South Carolina. | For her magnolia-smooth skin, Miss Dial prefers MELLO-GLO Face | Powder. It effaces ugly shine and produces a youthful bloom. Pure MELLO-GLO Face Powder spreads more smoothly and stays on longer. Its new French process prevents large pores, pastiness, flakiness and irritation. Try ‘MELLO-GLO Face Powder today.—Advertisement workers of the country, particularly in the North. It is the desire of th: league to_accomplish for the woman workers of the South what it has for | those in the factories and industries of | the North—shorter hours and greater | compensation—so_that these women, | some of whom are working under most severe conditions, may be permitted to | raise their standards of Iviing. As sur- | veyed by the league, it is found that | in at least four of the largest States in the South, women are now working} from 55 to 60 hours a week. Miss Schneiderman has_ not only worked herself from the position of litle Russian emigrant girl to the presi- dency of the National Women’s Trade Union League of America, but she has educated her younger sister and her tw brothers and tells with justifiable pride and _satisfaction that “both of mv brothers have graduated from college | and are the holders of academic de- | grees.” . Man Hurt in Crash Dies. | | Special Dispatch to Tne Star. | FROSTBURG, Md., May 9.—John | Lapp, 45, died Tuesday night at Miners Hospital from a fractured | skull re- | | ceived at Midlothian Mine, Pledmont & | Province of British Columbia, Georges Creek Coal Co., in an electric motor crash. His wife and seven chil- dren survive. 1219 F St. CANADA SEES TARIFF BLOW TO MILK MEN Greatest Effect if American Bill Passes on Producers of Eastern Provinces, Leaders Say. ! By the Associated Press. | | flax seed and other grains, explaining that these products are sold on a world market basis and the prices would not be affected by the United States tariff. URGES “U. S. OF EUROPE.” Economic Co-operation Advocated Before League Committee. GENEVA, May 9 (#).—Formation of an united states of Europe in an economic sense wds recommended gbelure the consultative economic wm-‘ mittee of the League of Nations. Mr. Loucheur soid that Europe is disorganized economically and needs | unity. though not political unity. He remarked that on this very day a bill | was being intrcduced in the American | ! Congress to increase tariffs. which are ' such a menace to Europe. He believed | that an economically unitel Europe could evolve improved methods of pro- duction along American lines and bring | higher wages as in the United States. | Driving of the last spike in the new OTTAWA, May 9—Canadian Par- |Tuesday by Louls Loucheau, French|pudson Bay Railway in Canada is to be jament leaders yesterday said the milk | minister of public works, in an address ! celebrated next September. | and cream producers of the Eastern | | provinces probably would feel the great- | est effect of the new United States tar- | iff_bill now before Congress. 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