MILLIONAIRE REFORMERS

Evening Star, Issue 12943, 5 May 1908, Page 1

MILLIONAIRE REFORMERS

Under the leadership of Miss Annie Morgau a daughter <rf Mr Pierpont Morgan, and ot Mrs B Harriman, a number of New loiks wealthiest women have determiend 1° prow to tlic world the falsity of tho Suffragettes taunts that they are mere buttermcs, mcajiablc of taking a serious interest in the grave.problems of the day. "If we do not care to agitate for tho vote,” they declare “we none the less have deeply at heart the social welfare of our poorer sistci's.” In proof of this they formed an organisation the members of which wall be drawn mainly from the ranks of the “ Four Hundred,” and who will go into factories, and eat, sleep, and work with the working girls, with the object of gaining first-hand information as to the way in which the existence of the latter can be rendered healthier and happier. Miss Annie Morgan has already spent much time maldng herself personally conversant with the conditions in glass factories, while Mrs Joseph Mcdill M'Cormick, of Chicago, has devoted her evenings this winter to acquainting herself with the manner in which women are forced to work at night time, Mrs Harriman slates that the efforts of the lady reformers, when they have acquired a practical knowledge of the problems they are about to investigate, will be directed, not to forcing fresh legislation, but to convincing the great employers of female labor of tho necessity of reforms. “We shall,” she observed, “bring each individual case to the personal notice of those responsible, and in thin way ensues that American .factories be raised to the highest possible standard of comfort.”