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Show BIG UNION OF WOMEN Effort to Be Made to Organize the Workers of New York. NEW YORK. March 20. To organize the working women of New York Into a union and inaugurate an aggressive campaign in their behalf Miss Gertrude Barnum, daughter of William Barnum, formerly a Judge in Chicago, and who spent some years in the settlement of Ilullhouse in that city, has opened headquarters on the lower East Side. As secretary of the Woman's Trade Union league. Miss Barnum has called a conference to be held next Sunday, when the problem of working women will be discussed by persons from all parts of the country, the general proposition propo-sition being that public opinion should support the unions In their effects to organize the working women. Miss Barnum declares that a quarter of a million working girls and women In New York suffer from every possible possi-ble industrial evil. They are, she says treated unfairly, work in unsanitary places, endure king hours and low-wages, low-wages, and there is a vast amount of irregular employment. |