The evening world. Newspaper, March 10, 1913, Page 3

a HERESASTRIKE MENACING GIRLS’ AST ESE Makers of Garments for Chil- dren and Misses Walk Out of Shops in New Struggle. FEEL SURE OF VICTORY. Busy Spring Season Is On, and| They Declare Employers Can- not Break in Green Hands, A otrike was declared to-day by the Ghiéren and Misses’ Dressmakers’ Union, which is affiliated with the In- ternational Ladies’ Garment Workers Uaion. Sol Elstein of the International | ‘anion has the strike in charge. He sald to-day that conferences had been going | eu vetween representatives of the ‘anion and a secret organization of the manufacturers for nearly a month, but 1t had been impossible to reach an egreement. According to Bistel: » the girls and in holl- women demand # slight increase wages, a ffty-hour week, a thre en of tenement house work. “There are about 19,000 members of | the Childrens’ and Misses’ Dressmakers'| * Union,” said he. “Ninety per cent. of them are girls and women, and the demands come from them through the arent organization. They want to do way with work in dirty and unsani- tary tenements and they want to be free from the sub-contractors. There are | too many middlemen.” | @OME OF THE MANUFACTURERS | WHO ARE INVOLVED. ' The biggest manufacturers involved | @re Slemons, No. 14 West Twenty-| ninth street; Fel 0. 148 West Twen- ty-third street; rgenicht, Kornreich & Co., No, 1115 Broadway; Gus Lurie & Co., No. 1200 Broadway; Katz & Co, No. 157 West Twenty-third street, and A. M. Cerf Bros., No, 138 West Twenty- Afth street. Mr. Gerf declared that none of his employees had walked out and denied the existence of 4 secret organization among the manufacturers. Another manufacturer said some of his em- ployees had quit, but would not say how many. He also admitted that con- terences had been held to no purpose, Temporary headquarters for the strikes have n opened at No. 32! wicn square and at Fourteenth street | 4 Second avenue. Elstein that | | lite, THE EVENING WORLD, MONDAY, MAROE 10, 1913. — How Does She Live? What Does She Live On? While She Who Works | and Fails Deserves the Aid of Society, the Public Should Not Be Permitted to Lose Sight of the Girl Who Works and Wins. QNXOLA GREELEY SBTTH 5 violation of a social law, but that in be blamed for her dereliction. Wow, in view of the fact that i= Chicago, as in New York, there are thousands of girls who live on 96 and 68 9 week and maintain © moral rectitude which few queens have equalled, it seems tremes- Gously unfair to assume that any Woman earning less than $18 weekly is without moral indepes- Gence—that she must, in fact sup- plement ter income with the wager of sin, While the girl who works. and fails oriers had been issued forbidding vio- lence. | PEEL SURE MANUFACTURERS WILL HAVE TO YIELD, By noon 5,000 women and girls had gathered In Labor Temble at Fourteenth | Street and Second avenue. They kept | coming in from all directions, The walk- | out was general. {n Brooklyn the strik- | ers were holding meetings of their own. | Lavor leaders addressed the crowds at | the Temple in sev languages. | The women and girls all seemed sat- | iafied with the situation and felt sure | of a short fight and a sure victory. The meeting lusted an hour and a half. No arrangements were made for picketing the shops for the reason that there Is to be some time to-day a meeting of labor leaders and representatives of the man- ufactu: It 18 hoped that the strike will be settled at this conference. If not, | the pickets will go on to-morrow. j The manufacturers are in @ rather dif- fleult position, according to the strikers. ‘This is the busy season, making goods for the spring trade, and the strikers gay that it will be hard to break in green bands. | A big meeting of the strikers was held in the Labor Temple at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Other meetings were held in| West Twenty-first street, West Thirty- eighth, East One Hundred and Third Street and at Grand and Clinton streets, Girla who went out fram D, Lubin's at No. 152 West Twenty-fifth street taid an Evening World reporter that they had no complaint to make and were satie- fied with everything appertaining tb thelr work, “We are all sorry we had to Ko out,” ‘one of the girls said. “We work fifty- two hours a week and our apartments are sanitary and comfortable. We don't have to do any home work. But we went out through sympathy with the girls who have to work in the sweat- shops to help them with their fight.” New Well After Using deserves the sympathy an? the help which society in the last fe'y years has undertaken to give her, the public should not be permitted to lose sight of the girl who works and wins. DISCOURAGING NEWS FOR HON. EST GIRLS. If investigation into the conditions which produce the deserter from t) army of working women can benefit her without harming the little soldiers still in the ranks, so much the better. But it must certainly be discouraging to the girl who lives honestly on $6 a week to read that it {s impossible for a woman to maiftaln her moral indepen- dence on less than $12. Some rs ago a sensational novel called “Th House of Bondage” was published, which dealt with the white slave prob- lem. Many social reformers hailed the book tremendous revelation of t conditions affecting the working girl. Yet the only possible moral to be drawn from this novel—in fact, the the- 1s of the book—was that girls working for low wages escape the Minotaur of vice purely through the blind luck which enables them to marry or through some other adventitious occurrence not to be expected in the average life, Such a moral is disilusioning. Such a moral is weakening. And however false, it may constitute the determin- ing disaster in the lives of those Women who stand hesitatingly at the forked roads that lead to heaven and hell. Of course, I une heaven and hell in the sense that Omar xave them when he said: “Thou thyself art heaven and hell.” I believe that girls who stand at these crossroads would be more helped by stories of success than of failure; that the gir] who works and wins is most capable of giv- ing advice and encouragement to mall salary and to learn from her Just how she does it, or from any Eckman’s Alterative | one ramuiar with tue racte regard = — | tug her life. A Valuable Remedy for Throa! and Langs| Let it be granted, of course, thit i, wan ee many young women are frigitfully un- nakers of Eckman's Alterative.| dernaid, and that any commission to Tiven are continually In receioe of wouten. | establish a mi ne recoy t| has undertak: h the ui reports are al of this medi ve at the comma: ; and many of oume et and is one spect- cr what I did for them, Here ment 421 Second Avi “Gentlemen Aurora, Ili Pardon me for not writing would stay nt South I would surely die . Every winter I would be Pleurisy or had Hay have not anything of the All letters sent to me, -| strength of women than there are w | take advantage of their moral weak- theles: Chicago employer who said that the individual character of a girl has much more to do with what she makes of her Mfe than the wages she recelyou ‘There are more employers who profit by and exploit the goodness and t ness, I mean, there are more employ- ers who pay girls $6 and $6 a week, knowing that they WILL live on it are who pay less than a with the idea that they ‘will find ways of supplementing their 4 | income. A FEW QUESTIONS ON THE JECT BEFORE THE HOU | Of those persons who believe that the white slave traffic is the immediate Non, |Fesult of the low wages of working 4| women I would like to ask a few ques- tions, for instance: Tf girls have no choice as to their morality, when they are un- orpaid, why is it that the greater the insufficient wages paid to women and the temptations of an immoral He said many women gave economic pressure under all circumstances. On the other hand, working girls gave it as their opinion that the underpaid employee . {Labor establish the fact that the do- BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH. \ The Illinois Vice Commission {9 conducting an investigation of con- ditions affecting young women who work for a living in Chicago, with the idea of establishing a minimum and a living wage. To ascertain what this wage should be, the Vice Com- mission, which is headed by the Lieutenant-Governor of the State, | has summoned employers and women employees before it. Last week a merchant who em- ploys 817 girls told the commission: that forty-six of the number re- ceive $6 a week for their services, twenty-four get $4, twenty-three re- ceive $3.50 and six are paid $3. He admitted frankly that $8 a week is the smallest sum upon which a} young woman may support herself | in Chicago—other witnesses had, named $12 as the minimum—but he sald his firm endeavored to employ | girls who lived at home. An- other employer testified that he could see no direct relation between as their excuse for their his opinion a really good girl 1s good who takes the easiest way cannot number of recruits to the army of vice come from the class of do- moestic servants? Domestic service supply of workers. How can we reconcile the theory that low wages are alone responsible for the moral downfall of young women, |when reports of the Commissioner of mestic servant—invariably far better \paid than the factory worker or the shop girl—¥g represented in much larger numbe:t gong woinen of immoral) lives Examinations of young women de- by the New York Probation Society show that very few of these girls ure mentally normal. | LARGELY A MENTAL AND SPIR- | ITUAL PROBLEM. And that fact leads me to say that morality is in large measure a mental and spiritual problem; that a weak- minded girl might be still further weakened by low wages and lack of jdecent amusement, but that to the aver-| age, normal, balanced young woman it/ is Just as impossible to debate the pos- | sibility of an immoral life under any jcircumstances as it is to the average balanced normal young man to con- ler a career of housebreaking when ec loses his job. There ie, of course, i this difference, that society will cet tainly punish the young man's offen: while it will make Itself the silent. a complice of the young womua “4 per fectly natural point of view, so long as |property is held to be more sacred than womanhood, The Evening World would like to [hear from men and women who feel that they have something to say about the problem raised by the Hlinois Vice Commission, and very particularly from the girls who live on small wages the girls who work and win. Ratieat se) cae CHEF’S SKILL AN! a entn Vi -w Wo: Winner Pichenot, ART. Pat of Prise | The guests of the Plaza were to-day fnvited to look at an exhibit of th skill and ar ability of the chef of the hotel, M. vtherwise knowr t an exhibition Philanthropiqu . foot j long and five feet wide, and shows a wis- tarla grown terrace in which @ thought- | | may be seen, The whole i# softly light- etric bulba in globes of frosty the Delicious Famil lates the liver, promotes from a bad and disordered stomach. At All Druggists’, The 50c size is the most economical, sides a coupon worth 12!/2 cents. ‘BEANS BY AERIAL POST, | Harry M. Jone v: ~ Wise Mothers always keep in their homes a box of MAILED FROM BOSTON, GOT SOUR ON THE WAY Only Empty Crock Delivered to Postmaster Morgan—Many Mishaps tor Jones’s Airship. THE GIRL WHO WORKS AND WIN. Copyright, 1018, by The Press Publishing Co, (The New York Evening World.) oMclally designated , yy the Postmaster-General as ‘Mall Messenger, Route No. 604,003"—the first aerial mall carrier in the United States —arrived at the office of Postmaster morning carrying a twen dag of mail. Mr. Morgan, handed over his mail bag, and his commission as mail messenger automatically expired. ‘The aerial mail trip undertaken by Jones could hardly be called rapid trans- ve-pound portation, He left Boston on Jan, 13 with his sack of Uncle Sam's cargo, It) Was not until last night that he came) within striking distance of New York. Above Rye he met more of the hard luck | that followed him all along the jour- ney, ang the chain connecting his engine | with his propellers broke. He was 1,500 feet in the alr at the time, and was barely able to volplane safely to earth. As soon as his aeroplane had been stored safely in a barn he came into New York by train and put up at the Hotel McAlpin. He went to the Post- Office this morning on a prosale subway train, In the aerial mailbag were a dozen packages and sixty letters, All the mal! was specially designated “Via Aerial Route, Harry M. Jones, messenger.” Among the letters was one from a Yale professor to a fr New York, There also was a cro genuine Boston baked beans, despatched by Postmaster E. 8. Mansfield of Bos- ton to Postmaster Morgan of New York, During the long and t Journey the precious beai the aerial messenger dumped them out, bringing Mr, Morgan only the empty crock. ‘The Evening World veporter found Mr. Morgan gazing {nto the depths of the ler thiy aertal imi eporter asked a sorrowing w for #373,76; sitting in 8) reserved decision on the application ick Prentiss Forster to vavate tin favor of Mrs, Caroll: of No, 790 Riverside Drt York pi 1s being sued by Mrs, Fr: , charging the conversion o: of which he was In charge y Stomach Remedy Ex-Lax relieves constipation, regulates the stomach and bowels, stimu- digestion and prevents all ailments that come Good for young and old. One box is enough to convince any one. 10c, 25¢ and 50c, It contains 40 chocolates, be- Jones shooks hands with | tained in Waverly House and reported | award M. Morgan at half-past 11 this | First Article of a Series. id eiahac 7 § 2,996 DELICATESSENS KEPT OPEN ON SUNDAY. Police Kept Tabs, and, if Corpora- tion Counsel Says So, All Will Be Summoned to Court. Reports were made to Police Com- missioner Waldo to-day that 2,906 dell catessen stores scattered through the everal boroughs remained open after \10 A. M. yesterday despite the fact that Judge O'Sullivan in General Sessions 4 few days ago decided that such stores must close on Sundays at the hour mentioned. ‘The delicatessen store men insist that the law in regard to Sunday opening ts ambiguous. The Commissioner intends to put the matter up to the Corporation Counsel, if the opinion Is adverse to the catessen men those who were open beyond the specified time Sunday will be summoned to court. pe MOTHER SAVES HER BABY. Snatches im from Under «a Horse's Hoofe, George Lenberg’s mother to-day took him for an alring ip his new carriage. She left Georgie, two and a half yei old, outside of No, 566 Prospect avenue, Bronx, Intending to buy some groceri Standing at the curb was the horse and wagon of Max Brickstone, Baby George cooed and kicked, and with each move- ment the carriage moved @ few Inches. At length it started down the incline carriage struck the horse and baby George tumbled out, The frightened horse struck the baby with ‘a hoof, cutting a deep gash in his fore- Lenberg darted from the store d him from the trampling feet of the horse, An instant later t! imal dashed down the street. It w. im Of, Guillaume chief of the cabinet in the of the King of Belgium, The absence of Count d’ Arschot, household caused an adjournment until to-morrow when the contest of the will of Counte Gaston d'Arechot was called in Su roKa' Court to-d js & nephew of the dead Countess and one of the principal beneficiaries under the wil, which other relatives seek to break. From Thin to Plum Girls. i | © Che expressions of happiness and «rati- tude of several of his young lady patient for whom he prescribed, the ri censful flesh three grain hyp lated by a physi publications a the ordinary laymas throbs of distress which seams to a! so many J : Al ; now obtainable of the Apothecary shops in r ison CREDIT ‘omes Furnished Complete o Rooms at 98 4 « at $74.98 5 =§6at $124.98 Credit Terms £3.00 Down on $50 Worth £5.00 « $75 « $7.60 « $100 « Open Saterday Bvening Unt 10, J.MORRIS w.125 ST. FIRE IN A HOSPITAL | CAUSES NEAR-PANIC AMONG ITS PATIENTS Small Blaze in Har Moriah In- stitution Creates Lots of Excitement. A email fire in the Har Moriah Hos- 1, at Nos. 139-140 Second street, shortly before 9 o'clock this morning | created considerable excitement inaide and outside the building. Smoke swept into some of the wards and several pa- tents tried to get out. Nurses at their bedsides, however, controlled them and assured them there was no danger. & large crowd collected outside the building, which is a three- ind basement structure of brick. rowd, who had relatives attempted to force their way inside and were kept back by the police with di Mficulty. The Fire Depart: ment’s arrival only helped to increase the’ panioky feeling in the crowd. By the time the department reached ‘ scene, the fire was practically out. The fire was in the linen room on the third floor, between the two surgical wards. On this floor are eight women and six men patients. There are forty- two patients in the hospital. One of the men patients discovered smoke coming from the linen room and ve the alarm to @ woman nurse, of whom there are twenty in the building. She immediately turned in the house alarm, which summons all the doctors and nurses to the side of the patients, ready for action, if necessary. Supt. Spector and ten assistants made for the linen room and fought the fire, Two extinguishers were used with good effect and the rest of the work was comparatively easy. It is supposed the fire was caused by defective insu- lation, The damage was $200, fea Bh bon FIREMEN PROMOTED. Liew Rank by Co! Johnson, Fire Commiastoner Johnson announced at Fire Headquarters to-day eight pro- metions In the ranks of the men under him, They were: Capt. Gerhard E. Weber, be a battalion chief, with an incre: ary from $8,000 to $3,900 @ year; Li William L. Carley and Cornelius F. ran, to be c Neutenants they have been receiving $2,100, Fireman Bernard Conlon and Joseph Henry were made lieutenants; this brings their '¥ from $1,400 to $2,100; Fireman Peter A. 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