| Show IQrll o1I f WeWs e Mb Council of Womens Clubs Some time since the question of the formation of a Consumers league In this city came up before the Council of Womens clubs and Mrs Georgia Snow Carlton vas appointed by the chair to Investigate the existing conditions and report them to Council oC Womens clubs Mrs Carlton made quite tr thorough thor-ough Investigation of the surroundings In tha stores wHere girls and women are employed also In the factories of the city and reported that nil In all they were to the credit of storekeepers rather than otherwise Th < Me were of course objectionable features in almost al-most very one of them and room for great Improvement In some all of the stores are provided with chairs for the employees but not one has a couch where a girl might recline for a few moments In CAse of Illness Only ono store in the city Is supplied with a good lunchroom and this one han tables and a gas stove where the girls may make a little tea when they desire The question of holidays also wan investigated by Mrs Carlton Some of the storekeepers allow each employee a weeks vacation with pay with the privilege of longer vacation If desired without compensation Some of the stores give a day each week during tho summer months to employees but some do not glo holidays of any kind The girls and women Interviewed all spoke in highest terms of the treatment received at the hands of those In charge of departments and had no complaint to make on that score I One thing which many of them did desire however was that the club women of the city would if possible bring about a change In the matter of the late closing hours on Saturday night Many of the girls with whom Mrs Carlton talked have not gone to church on Sunday morning since commencing com-mencing work In tho stores saying that they are so exhausted after their weeks work that they must rest on Sunday Eight oclock was suggested as the time for closing on Saturday nights and Mrs Carlton thought a sentiment favorable to this might be created bj the club women among tho consumers of the city The opinion was expressed that the consumers In a large measure were to blame for the late hours and overtime which tho employees em-ployees of stores arc obliged to work and that an appeal therefore should bo made to them to right the wrong The idea of asking the ministers of the city to preach a sermon upon the question Am I My Brothers Keeper dealing with this very question was also suggested sug-gested Mrs Carlton reported also that no place In the city can goods be purchased pur-chased bearing the Consumers league mark Rather all things offered for sale bear the stamp of union labor Action upon the report made by Mrs Carlton was doferred until tho next meeting of tho council Mrs Schiller who was appointed to confer with Chief Hilton regarding amore a-more rlgul enforcement of the curfew law reported that she had been Informed In-formed by that gentleman that It was being enforced Just as rigidly as was possible Mrs Schiller also reported that tho Council of Jewish Women and the Wo mans Press club had voted 5 each toward the maintenance of the Webster kindergarten Mrs Taylor chairman of the committee commit-tee appointed to see that the cigarette law was enforced reported that the only way this could be done would be by asking the aid of the police officers of the city In seeing that the law of the State Is observed Mrs Taylor had a letter from the Sheriff staling that If the ladles would report the name of any man selling cigarettes to minors he would have him arrested and punished pun-ished The nonobservance of the antiex pcctoratlon law was brought up by Mrs Nelden who said that conditions are as bad now as they ever were and moved that the health committee of the Council of Womens clubs take up the matter and see If something cannot can-not be done to have the law enforced The uncleanly condition of street cars was also discussed but It was stated that the cars are thoroughly cleaned and fumigated each night that work ingmcn who pay little attention to matters of sanitation ride upon the cars early In the morning and by 9 oclock they are In as bad state almost as when put into the barn on the previous pre-vious night The council then adjourned subject to the call of the president |
