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Maryland State Archives Maryland Suffrage News Collection MSA SC 3286 msa_sc3286_scm7805-0029 Enlarge and print image (1M) |
| 214 MARYLAND SUFFRAGE NEWS [October 3, 1914. savings per vcar; ytt to allow it wo shuiiM rare In double the vacation and savings item. In addition to tlic-c iij^iiivs the writer is aware of another lurjje class of workers in Kaltimorv almost unbelievably swealeil. The following are mere individual* in a group, "home-workers," about wboin we must soon know more. < hw woman is earning u cents a piece for ffafehlag men's coat-. She does Utrce a day with difficulty. Another makes tailored shirt- waists complete •*> cents a dozen—5 cents apiece. Another does the lartft,*! part of tbe work <>u men's shirts for J4 ecu's a dozen—J cents apiece! Another, children's rompers, complete, 50 cents a dozen. That such tbingl exist with us is only tolerable when we believe that, in spite of it. there is also \\ ith us "a growing sense of the value of human life—a grow tag e<»n\ iction that human life is too valuable to be the shut- lle-eocU in the game of money-making and conipetition ; a growing re- solve that the injurious strain of the contest shall, so far as possible, be shifted from tlu- human instruments." liim.lilCKAl'IlY. \ Living Wage. Phillip Snowden, M. P, Can he ordered through the Norman-Remington Co, in paper covers fur sj i-fiits. A Living Wage. John A. Ryan, I).l). The Maanilhin L'o. A Brief prepared by Lasts I>r:mclc*is ami Josephine (ioldtnark io de- fend the Oregon Minimum Wage Board*' legislation. National Con- sumers' League, lofi !•'.. 19th street, New York city. $1. Minimum Wag* Legislation, Irene • isgood Andrews. A report pre- pared fur tin- New York Factory Investigating Commission. Statement ami Decree concerning the Wages of Women in the i'.rusli Industry in Massachusetts, The la.-i bulletin of the Massachusetts Mini- mum Wage Commission. Can tlie Minimum Wane he Safely Legalized? Margaret Tnwnscnd ( any. ( i.tisumcr-' I .caguc of Maryland, 7 I',. Mullierry street. 10 cents. The references here given are only the most general ones and those easiest of access. The writer will he glad to suggest a more complete list to anyone who desires it. ITEMS OK INTEREST KKOM EtJl'AI. SUFFRAGE STATES Probing the Causes of Unrest. NIL ( The twelfth of a series of interpretations of the hearings, before the federal Industrial Relations Commission, by a staff representative of The Surrey.) A- might be expeeied. there was considerable curiosity on the part of the commission about ( "regon's minimum wage law. Father O'Hara, chairman of the Industrial Welfare Commission; Annadce Smith, a member, ami Caroline J. (ileason, secretary nf the commfsskm, testified regarding the operation of the law. Father I I'l lara Slid that in 1913 a law was passed prohibiting the em- ployment of women and children for more than a reasonable number of hours a day or at less than an adequate wage. The same law created a commission to determine standards of reasonableness and adequacy. In making it^ findings the commission has depended on coniuiiliees representing employers, employes and the general public. These coninn:- Ucs have made recommendations which the commission has |iower, after public hearings, to reject or approve. So far it has approved of all tecomiuendatiotis made. The standards that have been set are as follows: In Portland in the mercantile business the minimum weekly wage i- $9,35 for experienced adult workers and the weekly hours of labor fifty, with prohibition of all work after 6 1*. M. The same standard was fixed for office work, while the minimum for factories was placed at £8*64 a week of liity-four hours. It was ibe latter ruling that brought the law Into the courts. It has been sustained in the Oregon Supreme Court and is now before the Supreme Court of the I'nited States. For occcupatioiis outside of Portland the minimum is S8.JJ. and night work is prohibited after 8,30 1'. M. Miss (ilea-on described conditions prior to the passage of the law as "not so bad as in the East," but bad enough. Women were found who diil not have enough to eat. One girl was discovered who spent her last cent 011 Saturday and expected to fast until Monday, which would be pay day. The minimum wage law is supposed to put an end to such conditions. No evidence has come to light either that any appreciable number of women have been di-charged as incapable of earning the minimum or that the apprenticeship clause is being taken advantage of by employers. Ibe latter contingency is safeguarded, acording to Miss (ileason, by the fact that a woman who is paid less than the minimum can collect back pay by legal process. SUFFRAGE BAZAAR LUNCHEON. Tuesday, October 6th, 1 P. M, Woman's City Club, 17 W. Saratoga Street. Subscription, 25 Cents. GBSERJL /(.//././/<¦ COMMITTER UliETIXC, AT 2 I'. M. Admission Free. NEWS FROM CONNECTICUT Mass Meeting to Be Held In Hertford to Protest Against War. The annual convention of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Asso- ciation is to be held in Hartford on Thursday and Friday, October 22 and 23. The sessions of the convention will begin at MM on Thursday, when the delegates will assemble for the aptioiutnicut of committees ami oilier preliminary work. In the afternoon the chief part of the work will lie the reading of reports by the officers of the association, by the county chairmen and by the presidents of the local leagues. The great number of rc)>orts that must lie made to the convention makes it neces- sary to have a rule that county chairmen be limited to ten minutes ami presidents of local leagues to live minutes. At 6.30 in the evening a dinner will be held at the Hotel Bond, which will be attended by tin delegates and their friends. At this dinner representatives of the vari- ous political parties will lie invited to reply to toasts. It is worthy of remark that only one political party in Connecticut—the Republican— has failed to insert a suffrage plank in its platform, anil that many mem- bers of the Republican party are individually in favor of passing the measure for a suffrage amendment lo be submitted to the voters of Connecticut. On Thursday evening, taking advantage of the presence in Hartford of so many women from all parts of the State, it is planned to hold a mass-meeting of protest against war. This meeting will be held in Par- sons Theater, and it is planned to have representative men of national fame to address the meeting. To this meeting an invitation will be ex- tended to all lovers of peace whatever their views in regard to woman suffrage. It will lie a peace meeting, not a suffrage meeting, and its object will be to express the women's point of view in regard to Ibe war which is devastating Kurope. MAKING THEM THINK Suffrage Posters and Leaflets In Motor 'Bus Brings Cause Directly to Passen- gers' Attention. "In the Adirondack*," says Mrs. Raymond Brown, president of the New York State Woman Suffrage Association, "is a woman of wealth who sends her own motor bus to meet trains and convey travelers wher- ever they wish to go. Inside the bus arc posters and leaflets on 'Votes for Women.' Kvcry passenger feels that out of courtesy at least he is bound to think of the subject so cleverly placed before him." CAMPBELL Hopper, McGaw & Co. Importers and Grocers Florist 321 N. Howard St. Phone, Ml. Vernon 1564. C. J. BENSON & CO. INTERIOR DECORATIONS Furniture., Wooaworhi, LaatJafl Olaaa Penary. Wall "iNn, Draitary. Utshalatary fJiuffa 501-3-6 N.Charlea St. At Franklin BALTIMORE, MO 3U anil 346 IN. Charles St. BALTIMORE, MD. CAP Phone, si. Paul 1775. DUNN, HEUISLER & STIRLING PRINTERS 418-424 E. Pratt at. Baltimore Fleet-McGinley Co. PRINTERS SOl'TH and WATER STREETS Baltimore's Biggest Best Store High Grade Merchandise at Popular Prices Everything for Pertonil Wnr ind Hstiutaold Utt HELP TH« CAUK.-M.ntlon th. Maryland Suffrag. N.wi Whan Patronlilng Our Advertlsers. |