Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-10-15 | Page 14 | Women Clerks to Form Organization

1U CLEHKS TO FOAM OiHaiZflTl Miss Emma Lanphere Delivers Address With This End in View. Afiss Emma Lanphere, field secretary for the Retail Clerks- association, addressed ad-dressed tho members of tho local order at Federation of Labor hall "Wednesday "Wednes-day evening. ATis3 Lanphoro-s mission is to pro-molo pro-molo and establish organizations of retail re-tail saleswomen throughout tho country. coun-try. Tho national organization was launched in Detroit. Mich., some sixteen six-teen years ago, and since that timo has spread all over the country, bettering conditions wherevor it has been introduced. intro-duced. At the present timo thero is no organization for women in Salt Lake, and it is Miss Lanphero's purpose, with tho co-operation of the salesmen's order, or-der, to organize an order in Salt Lake. At the meeting last evening it was decided to assist tho field secretary in her efforts, and to this end another meeting was arranged for next Mph-duv Mph-duv night in tho Bamo hall, at which it is hoped a largo representation of young women clerks will bo present. Bosides tho principal speaker, remarks re-marks were made by Mrs. Agnes Win-zoil, Win-zoil, who talked along similar lines, and by Austin Davis, secretary of tho Utah Federation of Labor, Mr. Davis mado a stirring address in favor of union labor la-bor in general, and pointed out how tho retail clerks could work in co-operation with the other labor organizations. organiza-tions. After reciting the history of ,i?ho national na-tional organization, Miss Lanphere in her address made a strong plea for a local order. She gave figures showing that a girl who docs not board at homo cannot possibly live for less than $9.45 a week. This io for actual living expenses ex-penses and does not includo the plainest plain-est luxuries. After a thorough investigation she declares de-clares that a majority oi' Salt Lake's shop girls receivo considerably less than this amount. The result in many cases is easy to foretell. Iu conclusion, sho stated that this and other undesirable conditions could be remedied by the organization of a strong order in this city. Mis3 Lanphere will undertake to demonstrate dem-onstrate how i his may be dono at tho meeting next Monday evening.