Legal Protection For Working Women

The Working Women s Protective unlon, whieh has its office In Clinton place, was organized twenty five years ago It was named before the word "union" rneant what it does now, and Is. therefore, In some degree mlsleading It is not a union in the sense oí being a labor organizaticm otficered and directed by working people, bnt it Is a society of tbose who recogiiize that working women need Bomething they do not get. a society of helpful men and women. who by tbeir tnfluence, aid and capital protect their more fraü and hard working sisters against overbearing and brutal employers By making a complainl at the offices of theorganization. working women. with the exceptlon of those in hotisehold service, have their wrongs inquired into and their rights procured even if the law has to claim them. Statistics show that over 11.000 applications for help have been made during the last year. and claims upon unprincipled employers, even to the small smn of 1, have been wrung out .of them by means of the law These things are aocomplished without cost to the applicant. Lawyers and directors give their services to the cause, but there are many expenses connected with the organization which reach the sum of $5,000 a year. This is subscribed for In small amounts. Ten dollars makes the donor a member for one year. The payment of $50 during any one year makes the sttbserfber a member for life. It hardly seems credible that ladies In society, who live luxurionsly, drive out daily in their own carriages, and have attendants at their beek and eau to gratify every whim, can be oppressors to their own sex, bnt this has been proven over and over again by the books of the society and the actions of the la-wyers. These very wermen, perhaps only from thoughtlessness, certainly irom carelesBness, If not a more ungenerons pirit, turn away. or cause to be turned "way, the hard worked seamstress or the tired ont dressmaker with her bill nnpaid. -