Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1914 — Activities of Women. [ARTICLE]

Activities of Women.

.Ten thousand women engaged In the manufacture of children’s garments in New York have issued a strike ultimatum.

Allowing for losses in slack season, thrfce-quarters of the women workers in New York city receive less than S4OO a year. Miss Christie Holm-berg has been elected clerk id Santa Barbara, Cal„ by an overwhelming majority over her male opponent. The New York Housekeepers* league has engaged several women to act as inspectors in their crusade against cold storage food. '. The extensive Allen Dyeing Works in Philadelphia is conducted by Miss Katherine R. Alien, daughter of the founder of the business. Mrs. Clara 8. Butler of Cleveland, 0., has invented and patented a device which eliminates the harsh metallic sounds in a phonograph.