The Day Book

HERE'S A BULLY CHANCE FOR HOUSEHOLD WORKERS

There is a clubroom on the top floor of a building at 320 South Wabash avenue which is being used by the Women's Trade Union League for an excellent purpose. It is open to household workers every Thursday afternoon from 4:30 until 10 o'clock at night. Refreshments are served, followed by an entertainment in the evening.

The plan has been worked out by Miss Mary Anderson of the league and, interviewed by a Day Book reporter, she outlined the ambition back of the movement.

"There is surely no class of girls who have less freedom than the household workers," she said, "and it is therefore our desire that they may have one place to come where they will be away from the environment of 'pots and pans' and the watchful eyes of some tyrannical mistress.

"Household workers are hedged about and almost stifled by their environment. Unlike women workers in any other field, they cannot have hours of forgetfulness of the drudgery of life because they are always where they must be confronted with it."

"They spend their days and their evenings in the kitchen and then go to a room especially furnished for them. On the one afternoon a week that they are free they may visit a friend in some other household or go down to the stores, but they have no place they can call their very own.

"We opened this clubroom to give them that. We hope a little later to have the place open every day in the week, and that eventually we may go still further and have a house where the girl who is out of work may stay until she gets another position."

All household workers are cordially invited to take part in the social afternoons and evenings.