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Show UNION BEING FORMED BY WORKING WOMEN PULUTH, Nov-. 3. Announcement is made today that the domestics, women cooks, waitresses, scrub girls, chambermaids, chamber-maids, and, in fact, all female servants of the city, are being organized into a union under the standard of the Industrial In-dustrial Workers of the World. A committee of seven I. W. W. is now out signing up the girls and women, for the purpose of calling a mass meeting meet-ing late next week, at which a schedule of wages will be adopted. "We already have secured 100 women workers in homes, hotels and restaurants, restau-rants, and expect to have several thousand thou-sand before next week, ' ' said Elizabeth Eliza-beth Gurley Flynn, I. W. W. organizer. She said that the women will demand wages which "will permit them to buy proper clothing, defray necessary expenses ex-penses and make regular bank deposits." |