rther legislation in this
direction.

3. To work for the abolition of tenement-house manufacture,
especially in the cigar and clothing trades.

4. To investigate all reported cases of cruel treatment on the part
of employers and their managers to their women and children
employees, in withholding money due, in imposing fines, or in
docking wages without sufficient reason.

5. To found a labor bureau for the purpose of facilitating the
exchanging of labor between city and country, thus relieving the
over-crowded occupations now filled by women.

6. To publish a journal in the interests of working-women.

7. To secure equal pay for both sexes for equal work.

These points are the same as those made by the few clubs which have
taken up the question of woman's work and wages; but thus far only this
society has formulated them definitely. Working-girls' clubs, friendly
societies, and guilds are giving to the worker new thoughts and new
purposes. The Convention of Working-Girls' Clubs held in New York in
April, 1890, showed the wide-reaching influence they had attained, and
the new ideals opening before the worker. It showed also with equal
force the roused sense of responsibility toward them, and the eager
interest and desire for their betterment in all ways. Where they
themselves touched upon their needs, there were direct statements in the
same line as many already quoted, which called for better pay, better
conditions, shorter hours, and fewer fines.

Following the points given above came another presentation, the result
of still further and long-continued investigation; and as the methods of
the search and its results are practicable for all towns and cities
where women are at work, the statement prepared for the Society is given
in full:--

"We would call your attention to the condition of the women and
children in the large retail houses in this city,--conditions which
tend to injure both physically and morally, not only these women
and children, but working-women in general. The general idea is
that saleswomen are employed from eight A.M. to six P.M., but they
are really engaged in the majority of stores for such a time as the
firm requires them; which means in the Grand Street stores, until
ten, eleven, and twelve o'clock on Saturday night _all the year
round_, the Saturday half-holiday not being observed