WOMEN AND UNIONS. ! WORKERS WHO SADLY NEED THE BENEFITS OF COMBINATION. Some of the Reasoni* Why Women Wage wnrkera Are Slow to Oreunlze —Failure of Ameliorative Mcaftiiret*—Cliicugo Girls Will Form IJuiong. [Special Correspondence.] The working girls of Chicago are awakening to a new enthusiasm for union and organization. Four hundred tele phone girls are about to organize a union and as many stenographers have ex pressed a willingness to unite in fraternal fellowship for the good of each and all. This is an important movement in the right direction; hitherto the few unions to which women belonged were of those trades in which men also work, and they have been organized, carried on and led by men, such as the eloakmakers, tailors, shoemakerft, etc. Aside from the wo man's branch of the Federation of Lal>or, which is a mixed assembly, I do not know of a single trades union in the city which is composed of, was instituted and is kept in running order by women alone. Women would scarcely be in tho unions at all but that they are an ac cepted and inevitable factor in produc- j tion today, and being so men who work in the same departments must in self defense induce and encourage them to : organize. The only trade peculiar to women is housework, and there has never been a serious attempt to organize girls in domestic service. Aside from a few witticisms on the situation should our hired girls happen to combine for their own interests, the subject lias never received any consideration worth mentioning, though why tliey would not be benefited it is difficult to say. This reluctancy on the part of women to organize and unite is due to several reasons. The first and principal one is that no woman starts out in life intend ing to work for wages all her days; vaguely, perhaps, she waits for some thing better to come. The "something better," though she may not even to herself acknowledge it, iB generally marriage and the great duties of worn- , anhood which do and ought to exempt ; her from the obligation to toil at so many pence a day. While pursuing a trade as a makeshift it is not, she con siders, worth while to become interest ed in her work as a branch of the whole industrial system, or in her sister work- ! women as a class. Another reason is that instinctive feeling every woman has of keeping her struggles, her pov erty, her little plans for making a re spectable appearance, to herself. She believes in a misty way that no other woman is so peculiarly placed as her self; she has no faith in the similarity of circumstances that exists in thou sands of cases or in the iK)ssible frater nity that would soften and share her burdens. Again—because of genera tions of seclusion-—woman has not at tained much of that quality we call "a business faculty," which leads men to analyze, organize, consult with each other and pursue a systematized course in regard to their relations with each other. But the fact that every year fewer and fewer women step from tho loom to tho household altar, that Wiver and few er find themselves exempt from various heavy burdens, has awakened in women something of that spirit which inspires workingmen who would he free and in dependent. Women havo not been rec ognized as a permanent olement in the labor field for more than twenty or twenty-five years. They havo only be gun to get in touch with tho rest of tho busy, working world. Once in the way of organizing, and soon not an occupa tion which women follow will be with out its union. Whatever tends to do away with "cheap labor" in any form cannot but benefit tho lulmring class as a whole, and miserably paid female and f child labor is as great a threat to the rights of skilled workers as convict, cooly or foreign labor. But there is a certain class of working women whom it seems impossible to reach by organization, and yet which needs the benefits of union more than any other—tho sewing women of tho sweater's dens. The trades assembly of this city has made public many of the abuses connected with this kind of work, been instrumental in establishing many improvements and in bringing to the notice of the congressional commit tee sent to investigate many startling facts that otherwise would never have been disclosed. Women make overalls, course shirts, pants, blouses and coats at a rate that compels them to run ma chines from daylight until a late bed time at lightning speed to earn the piti able sum of fifty cents; the less expert and young children work like slaves for (1.50, (1 or even 75 cents a week. They have the wis k in their own homes or in tho dirty basement shops near by. There are not many strong, young, single wom en among them; these usually find op portunities to do a better grade of work. The workers are generally middle aged women with sick husbands, drunk en husbands or no husbands at all and numbers of small children to support, or old women left destitute in their de clining years; women with feeble rela tives depending upon them whom they cannot leave; women so poor that they have no clothing fit to wear down town to the larger establishments where they might be better paid. These women could not pay car fare or dues or even take time to attend a meeting; they would not go in their rags, and better clothes are impossible. How are they to be helped out of the terrible slough of want, drudgery, ignorance to which they have sunk? It is a question not easily answered. Some of the shops in which these women worked have been closed by the influence of the assembly. Bud as they were they furnished a means of earning a pitiful living, and it was with a wail * of despair they went out from the fetid dens where they had been slowly dying, became of them? Heaven knows. Some found other "dens," some went to that blacker misery the street, some found ragbags and hunted the alley.l with them on their backs, some died. So incompletely do our piecemeal, ameliorative measures ameliorate. The Alliance papers say a great deal of late on the question and urge the miserably paid victim of the sweater's den to come to the country. It is claim ed that farmers' wives cannot get the assistance they need, that sewing girls need no pity, because they will not change when they have a chance. I certainly hope that every worn city woman who can get there and has strength to j>erform tho work of a farm will take the chance of pure air and good food she will find; but I doubt about the situatkms being so plentiful, since $1.50 a week is the most I have heard offered. I doubt if tanners' wives would accept the services of the pale, ragged women who most need the change, even if they could get to them. There is little possibility of their doing so with their families and pennilessness weighing them down. Those who could find homes in the country would scarce make the differ ence of a drop from the bucket. And at most farm drudgery at low wages isn't a great improvement on city drudgery at starvation rates. Farmers and farm laborers complain of poverty, I notice, as loudly as the rest of us, and they have the added grievance of isolation, dreari ness, lack of social and mental culture. Changing about from one occupation to another is no permanent relief. All kinds of work has to be done by some body, and the demand we should make is an equitable return for all useful labor performed, no matter what it is or by whom done. Poorly paid labor is an in justice anywhere and everywl* re. Chicago. LIZZIE M. HOLMES. Tlielr Spy Fooled Them. It is a common thing for capitalists, assisted by detective agencies, to try to purchase a member or members of a union on strike, so that the proceedings of tho strikers' meetings may be know? to their enemies, and that attempts of tho detectives to put up jobs for getting the leaders into trouble may be ma terially aided. The latest attempt in this line which has come to light was made in Chicago, and it is a pleasure to know that tho capitalists and detective agency were hoist with their own petard. William A. Beck, a ineml>er of the Chicago Waiters' union, which has been on strike against most of the restaurants and cafes in the city, made affidavit the other day to the effect that while sup posedly acting as an employee of the de tective agency he kept the strikers fully informed concerning the movements of their opponents. When approached by a detective and urged to act us a spy, on the advice of President Pomeroy, of the union, Beck agreed to report the proceedings of the strikers to the agency, for which he was paid nineteen dollars A week. Pomeroy wrote his reports for the agency. Beck swears that the detective agency and Steward Glennie, of the Union League club, tried to get through him informa tion that would justify the arrest of Pomeroy and the strikers' committee. Allee Samee Like Mellcan Man. The tailoring trade of London is greatly worked up over the competition of cheap foreign workmen, who have been swarming into tho country at such great rate recently. Employers and em ployees are agitating for some sort of protection. A London correspondent of a New York paper says on the subject: A majority of respectable tailors, British and foreign, strongly advocate the imposition of a poll tax of some kind upon foreign workmen landing 011 these shores coupled with the general regula tion of immigration on the American lines. A curious effect, by the way, of the drastic rules enforced in New York is felt in London. The knowledge of American severity has evidently spread throughout Europe, with the result that destitute aliens who in the old days would have gone direct to the United States now come first to England with the intention of earning enough monoy to qualify them to pass through Uncle Sam's jealously guarded portals. Coal Miners Will Protest. A recent dispatch dated Shamokin, Pa., says: The discontent among the miners of the entire anthracite coal region, including the Luzerne, Lehigh, Shamokin and Schuylkill fields, is now evolving itself into definite shape, which will take the form of an immense or ganized public protest against the con tinued and growing evils of short time, low wages and unjust dockage. The plan is to organize the miners and mine laborers into branch organiza tions of the United Mine Workers of America, of which John Mcßride, of Ohio, is president, and who is in close communication with the leaders of the proposed eastern Pennsylvania move ment. Saturday at a monster picnic held here a set of resolutions was passed which pledge the men to at once band them selves together and organize against the evils inflicted on them by their em ployers. Iu the I>ark and Doubtful. The New York Commercial, discuss ing the granite lockout strike, says: It is not always easy to get at the first causes for such a quarrel. Both sides want concessions and advantages. The workman's favorite motto, "A fair day's pay for a fair day's work," is too in definite to shed much light. On the other hand, when the employer pro claims his willingness, his anxiety, in deed, to do what is just and fair, and to mako only a legitimate profit and inter est on capitul, we know that these are words, only words, that may or may not lie trustworthy. It is riqsjrted that the new cotton reaper of the Southern Harvester com pany will be introduced in the south next season, and that it will displace 700,000 cclojpd workmen. Women Cjrclißts in Paris. Ladies in this country are keenly alive to the pleasures of cycling, and even young girls of birth and breeding aro taken to riding schools where they can compete in cycle races against lady pro fessionals. In the grounds of many chateaux there are long board alleys made on purpose for cycling racing, in which brothers and sisters are often rivals. Doctors order cycling as a holi day exercise for the >#nng people. The French neologism for the amusement is "veloce sport." The cyclist is a "veloce man," and the lady cyclist a "veloce woman." There are "veloce tailors," and, it may be added, "veloce dress makers" and "veloce hatters." It is agreed that tho last half of no matter what composite word relating to trade connection with cycling should be English. One can even say "veloce factory." In the fresh, early morning, when tho weather is good, one finds the broad alleys of the Bois de Boulogne alive with veloce men and veloce women. Ameri cans prevail among the latter. But young French married ladies, as well as professionals, are intent on tho sport. Most of them do full justice to the veloce tailors and hatters, and are at ease on their steel horses. A scarfy ar rangement of lace, technically known as "angels' wings," adds wonderfully tci tho impression of fleet, graceful motion of the veloce women. Nun's veiling, made up into a blouse and a short skirt, is just now the favorite material for the outer garments of the lady cyclist.— Mrs. Crawford's Paris Letter. Maine*!* Whistling Postmistress. The homo of Maine's sweet whistler, Miss Hattie E. Conners, is in Sullivan, county of Hancock, but she spends tlio greater part of her time in Sorrento (a growing rival of Bar Harbor), where she serves as postmistress. Her appearance and manner are thoso usually thought distinctive of an American woman. Miss Conners is twenty-eight years of age, and has exhibited since early child • hood a decided talent for music. She plays the piano, banjo and violin, and is not "slow" on the harmonica. She could also whistle at an early age, but did not exhibit that remarkable talent "before people" because she was so often re minded by older members of her family and other friends that— Whistling girt* and crowing hens Always come to some bad ends. One day while out driving with her brother they passed a little boy sitting by the roadside, whistling with his fin ger in his month, "Hattie, try that," said her brother. She did so and was delighted to find how much more power she had over her voice by so doing. From that timelier fame lias been stead ily growing. Miss Conners has been a student at the normal school in Castine, and a teacher of excellent repute, but during the past few years she has devoted her self to tho care of tho postofflce.—Lew iston Journal. A Chilli In tho Queen*. Scut. When Lady Henry Somerset was four or five years old a hall was given at Buckingham palace to bo attended by none except the first bom of peers. She went with her parents, the Earl and Countess of Somers. Being an inde pendent little tiling she strayed off from her guardians and went on a torn- of ob servation through the great hall, and finally when Queen Victoria and Prince Albert left to go to the banquet table sho seated herself on tho cushioned seat the queen hud vacated. She had on a white tulle dress, witli real daisies pinned on or fastened to it, and a wreatli of natural daisies rested 011 her chestnut brown hair. When Queen Victoria returned, behold the little girl was in her seat, whereat the queen seemed quite amused and said, "And this is little Isabel." Tho child answered with quite a toss of her head, "This is Lady Isabel." When Lady Ilenry was eighteen years of age she was presented at court and wore a white dress covered with natural flowers as before. The queen bent to kiss her fresh young cheek, as is the custom with the daugh ters of peers when thoy nro presented, and said, "Daisies again, Lady Isabel!" She had remembered the circumstance of the ballroom all those years in the midst of her greatly preoccupied life.— London Letter. ArkuiiHai*' W oman Delegate. Miss Kato Cunningham, editor of the Arkansas Woman's Chronicle, was a dolegato to tho national convention of the People's party at Omaha. Miss Cun ningham was elected by acclamation at the state convention. She said in re- i sponse: "The one woman delegate avails her self of this opportunity to thank the convention for the honor conferred her—not so much for the personal dis tinction (though that is not underrated) as for the precedent it establishes, and for the recognition it accords to women in general, that tho people gathered to gether at Omaha may know that there are women in Arkansas, and that tho men of the People's party there recog nize them as persons, and therefore in the scale of human beings, above the idiots, lunatics and criminals of their state." Of the eighteen men who composed the committee on platform, seventeen declared themselves during their work in the committee room to he personally in favor of the enfranchisement of women. KngliHli llaclielors unl Woman Suffrage. It is curious to note that it is the bach elors in the house of commons who interest themselves most persistently in the woman's suffrage questions. Sir Henry James is a confirmed bachelor of sixty-four, and Mr. Woodall, an equally confirmed bachelor, not quite so old, on the other side. Mr. Balfour is a bachelor of forty-four; and Mr. Haldane, the philosophic Radical who wants to give the vote to all women and make them tdigible for all offices, is also a bachelor, covering on the verge of forty.—Yankee Blade, GEMS IN VERSE. Grief. There are despairs which seem Co blast and kill. That darken day and rob the stars of light. That make the manliest weep as women might, That bend the valor of tho human will- Despairs which burn like hopeless love; and still Love can transfigure wl.ilo it seems to blight; Strong hearts feed nobly on their griel", despite A world whero hearts can ever thrive hut ill. Sweet love and laughter are tho dream of youth. And soft contentment is a golden bar Which shuts a life within its commonplace; Rut the old world grows wiser in the truth That sorrows fashion us to what we are And rouse the invincible genius of our race. —G. E. Montgomery. "Sleepy Hollow." O place of beauty, place of test! Above Theo high the mountains crest, the river rolls Beside, the peace of God broods over thee. Like benediction falls ids smile upon Thy face, Tis liko the gladness of the heart When work is done, like rest that follows toil. Like sleep "he giveth his beloved.'* When eartli and skies wore drear.and autumn winds Moaned shrill, and dark tho threatening river rushed Between its hanks all stript and hare, in dull November day a train of mourners, sad And slow, brought ono to theo nnd laid him down In his lost sleep. A good, great man was he. Of length of days. Honors he had, and friends. And that mysterious spell which men call fame Was his. A good, great man, whose unme will live. No wonder, then, that men like pilgrims coine To thee, seeking his resting place, as to A shrine. O stars, can you beam the livelong night? O flowers, can you open in morning light? O sails, can you fleck tho river white? O sun, can you blaze In sky so bright? O birds, can you sing your midday token When she lies dead and a heart is broken? O place of beauty, place of rests The good And great had made his bed with thee. And Not that enough? To fill thy hungry grave Must cruel death strike her. the young, the brave. The fair? Oh, she was faiir, nnd she was good As she was fair. And she had hope and love. 0 place of beauty, place of restl Cruel As beautiful thou art. 1 charge theo keep That which to thee was given that summer day— That early summer day whose sunshine struck Mo blind. Keep as a sweet and sacred trust That which to thee was given "until he come.' —Sarah De Wolf GamwelL Columbus. Columbus was, they toll us now. A man of flaw and fleck— A man who steered a pirate prow And trod a slaver's deck. In narrow, bigot blindness cui led. Cruel and vain was he— To such was given to lift a world From out the darkened sea. Though weak and cruel, vain, untrue. From ail earth's high and low God picked this man Ids work to do. Four hundred years ago. There in tiie distance slandelh he. Bound on Ids mighty quest. This rough old admiral of the sea Still pointing toward the west. There stands he on his westward prow, A man entirely strong; So grent, the bald truth spoken now Can never do him wrong. Though slaver, pirate ho might he. Ho had that gift of fate- That wise and sane iilsauity That makes the great man great. Letting Ills Soul Louf. 1 don't spond none o' niy good time In politicks an sich; I ain't a-mukin folks grow poor, an me a-gottin rich; I ain't a-pesterin any one -Jes' livln at my ease, A-huntinwhen 1 want to, an flshin when 1 please! Jes' let 'em take the offices an run 'em fur an high. I'd ruther have a violet from a girl's hand sweet and shy. Than run tho whole United Statcsl So, breth ren, let her roll, For a streak o' April sunshine is jes' lightin up my soul! Give mo birds a-singing In the sweet, salutin trees, A-lavin an a-wavln all their blossoms iu the breeze. Give mo my daisied meadows, Jes* a-smilin to the blue. An tho bend in trees above 'era Jes' a-bowtn "howdy-do!" An the country girls—God bless 'em, an dress 'em plain nu sweet. Jos' liko he does the violets that purple al their feet— Tho girls a-huntin honey in their bonnets an their curls— Oh, what Is all your money to the red lips of the girls? Sing sweet, O birds o' April! Sing sweet o'er bill an plain. While tho wonderin world is tangled in the sunlight an the rain! Wo ain't a-pesterin any one—Jes' livin at our A-huntin when wo want to, an flshin when \v plcasel —Frank L. Stanton. Average People. Tho genius sours far to the fountain That feeds the snowcap in the sky; But though our wings break in the flying, And though our souls faint in the trying. Our flight cannot follow BO high; And tho eagle swoops not from the mountain To answer tho ground bird's low cry. Tho world has a gay guerdon ready To hull the fleet foot in the race; But on tho dull highway of duty. Aloof from tiie pomp and tho beauty. The stir and the chanco of the chase, Are toilers, with steps true and stoady, Pursuing their wearisomo pace. Falso prowess and noisy insistence May capture tho garrulous throng. But the "average" father and brother, Tho home keeping sister and mother. Grown gentle and patient and strong. Shall learn In the fast Hearing distance Wherein life's awards havo beeu wrong. Then hero's to tho "average" people, Tho makers of home and its rest; To them the world turns for a blessing When life its hard burdens is pressing. For stay-at-home hearts are the best: Birds build if they will in tho steeple. But safer the eaves for a nest. —May Uiley Smith. The Essence of Life Is Divine. Space is as nothing to spirit, tho deed is out done by tho doing; Tho heart of tho wooer Is warm, but wanner tho heart of the wooing; And up from the pits where these shiver, and up from the heights where those shine, Twain voices and shadows swim starward, and the essence of life is divine. —Richard Reaif. What of That? Hard! Well, what of that? 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