TGI 1918-13 MEMBERSHIP ANY person, man or woman, is eligible to membership on payment of $1 for annual membership, $5 for subscription membership, or $25 for life membership. The opportunity of Union membership is an expression of sympathy and support for what the Union does and believes. Conveniences of membership are: Use of Members' Lunch and Rest Rooms, Special Membership Lectures, Members' Checking Station for parcels. Members: Annual, 3,882; Subscription, 110; Life, 276; Total, 4,268. INDUSTRIAL UNION ORGANIZED 1877 INCORPORATED 1880 PURPOSE: To promote the educational, industrial and social advancement of women. HISTORY Cultural classes:-- history, literature and languages Business agency for efficient workers in employ- Standing committees on hospitality and social affairs Food sales and handwork departments:-exchange for sale of women's work 1877 Protective committee:-free legal advice for women; arousing of public sentiment against cases of injustice done to women 1878 Befriending committee 1884 Domestic Employment Bureau 1885 Reorganized as the Domestic Reform League, 1897 Lunch rooms started 1886 Providence Street:-luncheons for working women Members' Lunch Rooms, 1903 Afternoon tea and supper room, 1905 Industrial classes in dressmaking and millinery introduced 1895 School of housekeeping:—to train employers to keep 1897 1900 Three trade school shops: -dréssmaking, millinery and children's clothing, offering apprentice training for girls from the Boston Trade School 1905 School of Salesmanship:-vocational training for sales women New England Kitchen, under the management of the Union; serving luncheons in high schools of the city Food Shop put on business basis:-all food bought outright Appointment Bureau:-business agency reorganized to offer vocational advice to women and to place trained women in positions other than academic teaching Cooperation with Simmons College:-practice training for vocational teachers and institutional managers Agreement providing for laboratory use of Union's departments by Simmons students *See pages 4 and 5 1905 1906 1908 1910 1910 1913 170456 |