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TO many Bostonians, the Women’s Educational and 
-* Industrial Union stands simply for the shop where 
“the most delicious cakes and candies in the city may be 
purchased, or for the lunch rooms where one may en- 
joy the finest of home cooking. The fact that these and 
the other industrial departments, the Handwork Shop, 
‘the Hat and Gown Shop, and the New England, Kitchen 
“are all part of an important educational movement comes 
as a surprise to many people who believe they are well 
acquainted with the Union. 
The business departments, in addition to assisting 
in the financial support, contribute directly to the educa- 
tional activities by providing an opportunity for properly 
“qualified students to secure practical experience under 
actual business conditions. In the present year, for in- 
tance, 95 young women, chiefly seniors from Simmons 
' College, are receiving such training in the Union’s Fin- 
‘ancial and Secretarial Officers, Appointment Bureau, 
~ Lunch Rooms, New England Kitchen and Food Shop. 
: The wide range of activities embraced can be better 
“understood from a description of actual work in some 
of the different departments. Perhaps the least familar 
to the throngs that daily pass the building at 264 Boyls- 
“ton street and pause to look at the tempting viands or 
 ~ the arts and crafts work displayed in the show case win- 
dows, is the Department of Research. Yet its work 's 
“recognized by social experts throughout the country as 
a vital contribution to the study of women in industrial 
Organized in 1906 as an attempt to arouse public 
opinion and securing legislation for the protection of 
women employed in factories in the state, it has become 
‘a school for training college graduates who wish to be- 
come investigators, as well as one of the leading agencies 
in the country for collecting data regarding conditions 
of women’s work. 
y As another phase of its educational work the Union 
‘in connection with Simmons College is conducting a nor- 
for trade and industrial 
‘schools. Courses in sewing with allied academic work 
are taken at the College while the Union gives trade ex- 
clothing, dress- 
making and millinery. Teachers who want to enter the 
field of industrial education and trade workers who de- 
sire to teach will find the course adapted to their needs. 
Quite distinct from the educational departments, yet 
_ doing important educational work along its own lines, 1s 
the Department of Law and Thrift. The original pur- 
pose of the department, the investigation of cases of in- 
justice done to women, has led to a study of protective 
measures, of principles of thrift and of institutions espec- 
cially adapted to promote the habit of saving, and of 
Hence the signifi- 
Free legal advice and aid is given to 
both working men and women. Four hundred and sixty- 
nine legal aid cases were handled by the department last 
year. These represented the most varied problems, such 
‘as assignment of wages, conditional sales, domestic re- 
lations, fraudulent advertising and the labor laws. This 
signer for this shop alone. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, May 21 
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No. 21 
Women Working for Women 
By ETHEL M. JOHNSON 
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department has done especially successful work in deal- 
ing with the small loans situation. 
A side of the Union’s social work is represented by 
the Room Registry, which is engaged in helping to solve 
the lodging house problem, by improving rooming stand- 
ards and securing safe and attractive lodgings for stu- 
dents and for business women. Still another is the work 
done in the befriending and placement of handicapped 
or untrained women. Nearly nineteen hundred cases of 
this sort were handled by the Social Service Agent last 
year. Many, of these applicants are elderly women who 
through the death of a relative or financial reverses have 
been thrown for the first time upon their own resources ; 
some are widows with young children; others are practi- 
cally incapacitated through physical infirmity ; nearly all 
are inexperienced as wage earners. A number of stu- 
dents who are trying to earn their own expenses while 
gaining an education are each year assisted in securing 
part-time employment. 
Representative of the business departments, at once 
industrial and educational in character, is the Handwork 
Shop and Sales Room, where most distinctive arts and 
crafts work is displayed; handwrought jewelry, metal 
work, pottery, baskets quaint and beautiful in design, 
furnishings for country houses, and toys for children. 
In the Baby Room are shown dainty hand-made frocks 
for children, outfits for infants and jaunty coats and 
hats for boys and girls, all made in one of the Union’s 
model work rooms where the best sanitary standards 
and labor conditions are maintained. The shop serves 
both to ‘train apprentices in the needle arts, and to afford 
laboratory practice for the students in the normal course 
for trade school teachers. The work is conducted on a 
business basis under the direction of an expert fore- 
woman. Every model is designed by the Union's de- 
Clean, attractive work-rooms 
with pay for over-time, paid holidays and vacations, sick 
benefit and steady employment throughout the year irre- 
spective of slack seasons,—these are the standards set by 
the Union for all the industrial departments. 
The students that come for training are required to 
conform to the working standards and thus acquaint 
themselves with actual trade conditions. In addition to 
the training offered in its work shop, the Handwork De- 
partment through its sales-room affords an opportunity 
for young women who are preparing to start an ex- 
change or gift shop. Other phases of the department’s 
educational work are shown in the annual exhibit con- 
ducted for the benefit of art school students, and the 
fellowship awarded to a young woman who is studying 
silversmithing. 
During the present year the Union has offered to the 
public a course of free lectures for students on profes- 
sional opportunities for women, and conducted a full 
time course for vocational counsellors which will be re- 
peated in 1915-1916. A summer course in Salesmanship 
is to be given in July and August in cooperation with 
Simmons College. 
