The evening world. Newspaper, March 23, 1907, Page 8

‘ogecord! =f M anc the women working class. nif" was the _ told her Utue > She is the ob faster. .afe already in t : athing ts {dda thai Yes, that lyet these men ard of course your sours. Theor ha ; hpads:and the. 9 That's co) ) coming ©. *"More seric “gaate (cling inj the unskilled tra on the very member shat the. aa per we y he! as Mn "BOE ‘But the gain w Bidse da ‘ISS’ MARY.-R, MACARTHUR, woman who has attained distinction in the United : Kingdom on account ‘of her remarkable success in corgazizing and developing trades unions among women, is She is secretary of the Women's ‘Trade Union League of Great Britain and has an enyiable -a3 a lecturer and a writer on economic subjects.. f Miss MacArthur's story of the progress of the movement _ kew visiting New York. “Come, now, ‘on the formaulon ofa certain itis ‘iio of this object in ylew. hadenever before. “vphere tg nothing in thetr sex to prey { the women—I find you hive tt along at 2 THE EVENING WORLD, ef MOUS. ORGANIZER OF WOMEN’S “TRADE UNIONS TELLS OF HER W WO SATURDAY, | [spot where It-was blown open: ess Wade in Ameliorating the Condition of the Working Women-of Great- Britain—- Her Interesting Discussion with Miss Gertrude Barnum—How She Has Been League of America. BUILT UP IN GREAT BRITAIN. 188 MACARTHUR expressed vata as charmed with tL~ (ness and cospitality she had enjoyed in this country. young woman of great-personal magnetism and speak: with a de- eidod Scotch accent. ‘You are Scotch by dirth. That is plain at once,” I said, 1 An, yes,” xne replied, “I come from the vil-age of Ayr, which Burns | ZAuid_Ayr. wham ne'er_n toon surpasses, ‘oF honest men and bonnie lanes, merely bonnic. always be treated-whilo they’d ‘rather flattery than fair play.’ as evident at once {hic this labor tearer: was -not-born-in the next nalural question, ler us not talk ‘atout me,” tory, Went to Scoff, but Stayed to Pray. daughter of a Scottish manuf jon-meating swith achieved the success which ha e, isn’t It,” sald she, “this If people would spend half t moyen he trudes unions, Among the 11,000,000 000 are organizes; but men must remember that the movement to or the male workers had a half century's start of the women moyement. F years ago. too, there were fewer men at the general trades unior et Sheffield, England, than there are women {n our League to-day. Prevent Women Organizing. t‘in union there is strength eu years," T said, fg a rea are su nized to answer, One t here, Teachers’ Unior so far t rest iter for us. nurmbe: UW than the tho: the | It is herd to expeet anythin of our working women eek in nay—only, of course, Pg rah i neue : Loan org Lal dnowpa for 30,000 workers.’T Malt, 2dascene turer, and as a you sides. acting. as_secretary—{n_her father s_ office. she “often cON, she remained to pray, aod event a sunion and became Sts president. Later she was offered a journalistic ficain London; but on going up to that city she was prompUy pressed tothe service of the Women's Trade Union League by “Though the League had Deen in existence for fifteen years befor s attended {ts undertakings fp the six years since Miss MacArthur became Its executive head, at about twenty years of a. “Tt is all nonsens Succeasfully organized? , hunting up obstacles in overcoming them tne As it Is, out of 5,000,000 working women in ( sot the télegraph and telephone g iB onoush in of TS per cont —there were: oniy- abor BY GERTRUDE BARNUM. _ National Organizer of the Women’s Trade Union the young Scotch- and, iby appointment | met her to day, when we dis- a for The Evening World readers the movement ich'so many* million women are interested. Not-vera-fiattering tous, is 1t?—You-see, -he_called_the men honest Ah, but-that.is the way the lasses will “How did you havpen to decome interested fu the trades unton move- she protested, but she finally ally alk that women cannot b je workers: ent women from getting as you say it over here ut there is a pretty real obstacle in the fact that girls expect to re- +wnatn-in their trades but a but that {# true also about Jieaps of men, In either case the ‘not apt to aim al the greatest efficiency, and Yhat is truly a pity “What ao ydu pore iae the greatest obstacle to be overcome orkers in great obstacle {8 the feeling of caste among too, about as suft as with is tn your League, and so far we ris ‘la Our telephone operators are of getting out cf the trade or orced by shtckingly low wW of women who live of staryalion ond are utterly exhausted, You niust -ancmbaama!! Tada») jie mbm me in friendli- She is a! joln ‘Lionized’ by Society and the Toiler Since Her Arrival. cently about 18, 000 trades unionists in that city got a 10 per. cent. Saar ease, for at least 300,000 mill hands throughout New England. class wcomen in this co:intry?"' I “Well, now, isn’t {€ astonishin it?, It {s about the same with us. like Miss June Addanis, Miss Ma denl more to help the women in Weavers’ Union sent us $600, in is nothing more Muportant for t to get the women if. Your men “Do the fair employera in Ei “Ah, yes!) They take union! Cornelia de Bey and a few others, ® great inspiration—we have very-few like them across the water. Alerican women are splendid—some of them, “From what I learn, the Inbor men here in the States might do a great “Do you find much yiterest in women's trades unions ‘among mene enfeld, inquired, ng how few of them know anything about Bat, however, in Chicago I met women ry McDowell, Mrs. Raymond Robins, Dr. who were a revelation to me—they rere e organizing. Why, just before I came the England our lavor leader® believe there he improvement of industrial conditions, They.fee that it is a matter of Iife and death for the union movement are only just waking up to that." ngland realize that trides unionieém. is a) good thing for their business, by preventing their unscrupulous rivals from | getting labor at starvation wages?” ism for granted. Why, our government recognizes the unfon—for instance at the factories which make our sol- diers’ and sailors’ clothes the government deaJs directly with the unfon leaders, and we jhave the tailoresses organized there, of course; the same with the post-office clerks—as you call them. to preside at the Union Federaton meeting next time Our Postmaster-General is > fielped by Some Planufacturers: course since Lady Dilke died Sir “In what trade have you the “The textile trade. there are only 69,000 men in the women leaders among them—just “Oh, we are at the beginning “And: yet, do you know,” America. Our founder, Miss Pat over_thirty yfa daught~~ Knickerbockers, lin favor at a Brooklyn pink tea, the of-trides-umton-delegates!—Burely—t ne quto On the © vr never before e ecipient-of an Keir Hardie, le: dustrial campaigns, and whic kel had Influenced policies and shape “During her stay in Chicago, too, th 1 bedy to attend m meeting at whi am J. Dryan declared her one r movment Miss Mary Dr a Trade 1 A weries of 1 n Leaxye, and ons, dfimer * being a dinner or In. Brooklyn. nde School, at ternoon |GOWANBURN FLOATED, are | our Butt Repairs. ritish sleosmship Gowanby ich went ashore off Blue Point, on a | ch, Ina fox on-March A prompt ages: York Harbor, She was No shortly after remedy for ¥e- to-day, and came into port. \sbillousness and his entire crew, end stomach © nion of thirteen of The cargo had red and aoard, part bee: (he the boats deep wi will go into ‘ } for repairs at pene “Quite a Jot of manufacturers send us checks for the Jeague, three years old—tohile your league is thirty years old. she laughed, Visited Philadelphia_and Boston, Just think of it! a woman labor agitator belng lunched, dined ized alternately by excluslye aoclety women and representatives’ of ‘clerated Unfons—the sons and daughters of toll!—one hour basking r of the Labor party in the House of Cominons, that ¢ articularly ought to see and hear te No. 29 East Twenty-third COMES INTO PORT.. § | Steamer Stranded Off~Blue Point Will Go Into Dry-Dock for Jnese sailors who deserted, Nnal tux of the wreck he stranded vessel Into ‘stoaklng allebtly and of Charles Dilke kept right on helping us." largest number of tcomen organized?” There we have 96,000 women in unfons—while unions. And we are developing splendid as you are here.” of the climb here, I said, “We are only “we had to get-the-tdea from erson, attended a meeting in New York ago of the Female Umbrella and Parasol Makers, and there's whore nhe got her inspiration.”. “Doesn't that show,” I reflected, “that no good effort is ever wasted? That poor. little union died, but-not before giving birth to a great, dig, GREETING TO MISS MACARTHUR BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY. IS8-MACARTHUR haa just-returned froma trip-to-Chicage, where she he IMnots Industrial Congress, Thence she This week she ty being Monized by the next In earnest discussion with a committee Nis—tall, blue-eyed, Qufty-haired, slim-young antxea Americans! now -to-attention-end—honors——For-the tast_ate} Lady Dilke, of Landon, in bullding up the iyeat Britats, she was ionized in Bootland, of her departure for America whe was th aJovea Byer wOMmanieA Ciel stingestlon ot fant shoulder, through ma practical sense and w dy “In numerous im)o cme viion of ‘Labor adjourned tn ch she was to speak, and on that occasion of the most eloquent speakers he knew in MjoArthur Is to remain a week .n New Work, dividing her tine tn visit- of Brooklyn; Miss HetenMarnt, Secretary of the New York Mr/and Mrs. John Martin,:of Grymes Hin, sand receptions hak deen arranged in her and reception last evening at the beautiful rowhen she speaks at aireet, to-morrow af. i Janos Best Natural Laxative urn, Le, troubles. Ralf aglass on arising for at} ing | For. CONSTIPA’ the Before Looting the Strong ‘Box. f@oectal to The Brentne World.) WHITE PLAINS, N. March 23.— Burgtars, who Jt is beliey © rien bers of the same «ang that jooted Driftwood, the country mansion of Mra. Henry Biegel at Orfenta Point, forced @n entrance Into the hotei of Victor Fisher, at Unton Corners between Mount Vernon and Tuckahoe, early to- @ay and carted awey his 700 pound safe. This morning Mr. Fisher found his safe in the woods some distance | from the ‘botel with the door blown off. All hts valuable papers, including (deeds, mortwages, bonds and cas leepx on the second floor but he says he ‘ad the night. The burg] must have been at leas ny footprints a: Eround. eround. the note entrance through a window dining-room. hey unlocked the front door in the barroom and hauled, the placed on the floor, and mounted on wheels owas —then—piacet (és Dox nd drawn by @ team of horses to the rank some FLATBUSH AMATEURS FORM AN ORCHESTRA, Tlak-ah Orguwisation for Study of Superior Music and Will Later on Give a Concert. “A number df men of Flatbush who take keen enjoyment in orchestral mu- sic of s superior order have formed a substantial nucleus for a promising “grand orchestra” for amateurs. They are under the directorship of H. Kling- of No, 610 East Eighteenth street, Flatbush, who has been succesa+ ful in directing an amateur orchestra dt some renown at Toronto, Canada, and tho outlook is Very promising for a sim- lar success in Flatbush, Rehearsals ‘have been held, where the study of popular classics have been car- "| Fied on with much enthusiasm. brass for rehearsal has been aeer from the chapel of the English Lutheran Church, at Newkirk avenue and East Twenty-clghth treet, to thie meeting-room of Jnitarian Church, at the Church cd i@ station of the Brighton Bedch "“L," Church avenue and East Eighteenth street, the latter place betng more convenient for a ma- jority of the members. Any Chpdel mens who desires may come to the meeti: at Church avenue station, or write to Mr, Kingenfeld, at No. 61d East Eighteenth street, Flat- Push “rhe opchoutra mmecta nt Gee funlty” for players, on unity for inst ments to gain Waluable”foatra instruction tn orchestration from a competent instruc- tor, It ia ‘anticipated t that an eee tng-concert willbe given the season. “In Bony ways the orches- tra will prove a valuable and welcome ecouteltton to the social features) of MARCH 23, AOBBERS CART © ETO WOODS. AND SMASH Had a Good Time in Hotel | s|CAUGHT TWO WHO ie end of | 1907. ay CME CHL EA ~ SNORE OF FAMILY REIL | Ptomaine Poisoning from Codfish Cause. of | the Tragedy. The Jordan familly had codfish for dmnor last night at thelr home, N. im East One Hundred and Fourth strest, Besides the #!x members of ihe houssnotd, a little girl from next door ;Whe ied come for dinner of the fis. During the evening all seven be- cate Ill of cramps and vomiting spe! midnight most of them —wer To-day the mother, Mrs Jorda: found one of her children. Mary, waged Lorenz, of Bald the fit girl had led the night by Ptomaine poisoriitic, He decided that the poison must pave been contained inthe codfish, |= case was reported to the East One Hundred and Fourth street atn- tion and ad imyestigation has been ordered. ROBBED GROCERY. The manager, of a grocery store at Lenox avenue and One Hundred and Nineteenth atreet callel up the One HIndred and Twenty ttith street —sta— tlon to-day and anked if there was any chance of catching burglars who had robbed the store before daylight, “We've cazgat them dlready," ¢ the id you know we w ¢ manager queried. “We-didn't know It for certain,” wi we only lad thb burgiars’ was explained | that Policemen Dunne and Brawley liad seen two you | fellows “iottertng— rear tne store—t ene arrested them, At the station-nouse, the police say, they had confessed to having robbed ‘the grocery. They gave thelr names as Henry Boher, of No. 46 Weat One Hundred and Twenty-fourta aireet, and John Morrisey, of > soz West One Hundred ani Twenty- ‘A screwdriver and $i in sliver wna in thetr pockets, | JAMES McGREERY & C0. RUG DEPARTMENTS. On Monday Japanese Mat! Fine quality. 8.00, 12,00, 15.00 and 20.00 minster Rugs, 20.00 Wilton Rugs, Size 9 x 12 ft. signs. One piece Vel Size 9 x 12 ft, 23rd Strev-s Rugs and Carpets for Spring. 200 rolls plain Axminster and Wil- ton Carpets. New shades, Imported Linoleum ¢. fnlaid Tile and Hard Wood flooring, Plain tone, extra Smyrna’ and Ax- Size 9 x 12-ft. In Both Stores, Atarch the 25th 1.50 and 1.75 per yard representing 1,30 per yard former-ptice-4-75 ting.—Plain-and Inlaid; —_— per roll 40 yards » 35.00 and 40.00 each New Oriental de- 30.00 and 35,00 ‘each former prices 40.00 and 50.00 vet and Tapestry Rugs, 15.00 and 18,00 each o=ih direct. JAMES McGREERY & 60, ard Street. Gowns.and Wraps For Spring and Summer - * will be exhibited ‘ On Monday and Tuesday, March the 25th and 26th, Nineteen Hundred and Seven. 84th Street. 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