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?
Didst fancy life one summer holiday,
With lessons none to learn, and naught hut
play?
Go, get thee to thy task! Conquer or die!
H must be learned 1 Learn it, then, patiently.
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DR. J. F. KINCDELOE,
Conway, Ark.
The Centaur Company, TT Murray Street, New York City,
BOOTS AND SHOES.
A Large Stock of Boots, Shoes, Gaiters, Slippers, Etc. Also
HATS. CAPS and GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS of All Kinds.
A Special Line Suitable for This Season.
GOOD MATERIAL! LOW PRICES!
33TCTGHEC
Corner Centre and Walnut Sts., Freeland.
s. ]m:dfaviok,
Wholesale Dealer In
li.ijjQilcd Ihandy, Vine
And A!! Kinds Of
LIQUORS.
THE BEST
Bser,
Pcrtor,
Ale _A.;n.d.
Brown Stout.
Foreign and Domestic.
Cigars Kept 011 Hand.
S. RUDEWICK, 1
SOUTH HEBERTON.
PETER TIMONY,
BOTTLER.
And Dealer in all kinds of
Liquors, Beer and Porter,
Temperance Drinks,
Etc., Etc.
Geo.Ringler&Co.'s
Celebrated LAGER JiEElt put
in Patent Sealed Bottles here
on the premises. Goods de
livered in any quantity, and to
any part of the country.
FREELAND BOTTLING WORKS,
Cor. Centre and Carbon Sta., Freeland.
(Near Lehigh Valley Dei>otO
A. R'JOF.WICK,
GENERAL STORE.
SOUTH HEBERTON, PA.
Cluibry Groceries, Etc., Etc.
Agent for the sale of
PASSAGE TICKETS
j Vp.in all llie principal points in Europe
to all | < hits in the United States.
Agent for the transmission of
MONEY
i'n all parts of Europe. Checks, Grafts, |
: and Letters of Exchange on Foreign
Ranks cashed at reasonable rales.
Castoria.
" Castoria is so well adapted to children that
I recommend it as superior to any prescription
known to me."
H. A. ARCHER, M. D.,
11l So. Oxford St., Brooklyn, N. Y.
" Our physicians in tbo children's depart
ment have spoken highly of their experi
ence in their outside practice with Castoria,
and although wo only have among our
medical supplies what is known as regular
products, yet we are free to confess that the
merits of Castoria has won us to look with
favor upon it."
UNITED HOSPITAL AND DISPENSARY,
Boston, Mass.
ALLEN C. SMITH, Pres.,
E. M. GERITZ,
£1 years in Germany and America, opposite
M.e Central Hotel, Centre Street, Freclaeu. The
Cheapest Repairing Store in town.
Waicliec, Clocks and Jewelry.
Now Watches, Clocks and
Jewelry on hand for the Holi.
days; the lowest cash price in
town. Jewelry repaired in
short notice. All Watch Re
pairing guaranteed for one
year.
Eight Day Clocks from $3.00
to 81 *J.OO; New Watches from
$4.00 up.
E. M. GERITZ,
Opposite Central Hotel, Contre St., Fv iland.
GO TO
Fisher Bros.
Livery Stable
FOR
FIRST-CLASS TURNOUTS
At Short Notice, for Weddings, Parties and
Funerals. Front Street, two squares
below Freeland Opera House.
C. D. ROHRBACH,
Denier in——
Hardware, Paints, Varnish,
Oil, Wall Paper, Mining
Tools and mining Sup
plies of all kinds,
Lamps, Globes, Tinware, Etc.
Having purchased the stock
of Wm. J. Eckert and added a
considerable amount to the
present stock I am prepared to
sell at prices that defy compe
tition.
Don't forget to try my special
brand of MINING OIL.
Centre Street, Freeland Pa.
H. M. BRISLIN,
UNDERTAKER
AND