TESTIMONY TAKEN BY THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON THE TARIFF OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON FINANCE IN CONNECTION WITH THE BILL H. R. 9051, TO REDUCE TAXATION AND IN FOUR PARTS. PART III. WASHINGTON : GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. 1888. TUESDAY, September 18, 1888. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster appeared before the subcommittee, accompanied by the following women wage-workers: Miss Miunie Dempwolff and Miss Hannah Gallagher, from Browning, King & Co., manufacturers of men's clothing, New York City; Mrs. Mary Studd, Miss Jennie Cheever, and Miss Mary Clark, from the Otis Company, of Ware, Mass., manufacturers of cotton and knit underwear, etc.; Mrs. Bahher, Miss J. White, Miss Pitts, and Mrs. Stanfield, from the mills at Rockville, Conn., of John T. Plummer & Co., of New York. its STATEMENT OF MRS. J. ELLEN FOSTER. The CHAIRMAN. We will hear what you have to say, Mrs. Foster. Mrs. FOSTER. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of the committee, I have Sought this opportunity of presenting to you, as representing the Senate of the United States, some matters which concern, it seems to me, the women wage workers of the country. I have been for years con. nected with philanthropic and Christian work, which has included in scope the relation of women to the home, to the charities, to industrial conditions, and to political relations. I am at this time president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union of the State of Iowa. The organization has under its care an institution-a home for unfortunate Women who need protection and care--and in connection with that, as well as with other philanthropies, I have come to feel very much the needs of women of a great class of women-who are outside the proteation of homes. They are dependent upon their own individual labor for their daily bread; not protected by husband or brother, they must rely upon their own efforts for sustenance, |