People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — Convention of Working Girls. [ARTICLE]

Convention of Working Girls.

New York, Dec. 20. —A national convention of working girls in the different branches of the linen industry will be held January 8. Delegates will bo present from Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, Troy, Lowell, Si. Louis, New York and Brooklyn, representing. it is said, about 15,000 working girls. Among the matters to be discussed are the enforcement of the factory and anti-sweating bills, the prison-labor bill, the immigration question and the best methods of inducing girls to join the union.