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oem ee ee a, mas Pe tse | Fa an :. t WASHINGTON, \SH Wednesday. —I filled three gpeaking engagements in New York City yesterday. At l o'clock I spoke at the Cosmopolitan Club, and at 4 o'clock at the English Speaking Union, They have a busy workroom in their rooms at Rockefeller Center and they make very nice clothes for chil- dren and adults. I saw the results of their work in the storerooms in London ready for distribution. They read off a hist of hours which people had worked and I must say some of the women must be very proud. for Lhey have rolicd up as many as {wo or three thousand hours. Of course, they wanted to hear about my visit to their London headquarters. At the British headquarters they have a room where American officers are received and assigned 1o British officers. They take them around, show them the sights, Shop with them, or try to meet eny of the desires which an officer on leave, or an officer newly arrived and scarching how best m@ settle himself in a strange place, might have. In New York City the English Speaking Union has | wr rave! | have to continue im 1 OATO: ; tions on themselves. WAR IS. TO AID WORLD : “A great deal of the * workers,” she continued. ‘ Uplift lo Oar Standards Held know the conditions and know what they want they can get it done. You can't have peace with- You must be willing | Desirable by First Lady out justice. to co posing reatrik- hope k | the world will be decided by ¢ By SXanor Roosevelt officers’ club rooms where they try to gather in officers of all the United Nations. ~———————- I Jeft there a litile afler 5 and had two appoint- ments at my apartment, a very picasant dinner with a‘friend and then a meeting at Essex House where I spoke. I was surprised to find a crowd of women outside, and when I did get in, I dis- covered that this metting, called as a goint meeting of the auxiliaries of the AFL, the CIO and the railroad. brotherhoods, had reached unexpected proportions. Miss Mary Anderson, of the women's bureau of the Department of Labor spoke, and then Mrs. Aldrich, of the OCD, and Miss Rose Schneiderman, of the New York Women's Trade Union League, read greetings from the AFL and the ClO New York leaders. A program which the women were going to adopt as a working basis, was read and adopted, and then I talked for a time. o a *. I took the midnight train back to Washington and arrived three hours late, to find Mr. and Mrs. Thomas F. Sullivan, Admiral Woodward and sev- eral others awaiting me. opportunity to thank Mr. and Mrs. Sullivan, the father and mother who have given five sons to our country and who are stlll anxious to do more. . Sth ye "It they I was glad to have the|, Fifteen hundred women crowded|to work for justice or you can't into the ballroom of the Essex _House on Central Park South last ‘night to hear Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt discuss the part that the women of Great Britain are play- ‘ing in the war, She was the prin- Cipal speaker at a mecting spon- /sored jointly by the A. F. of J. and ~ I. O. Woinen's Committee on | Civilian Defense. jeauet pay with men for equal work. ; get anywhere Working for peace.” Mrs. Roosevelt said that for the first time in Britain women union leaders were beginning to expect | The first Jady declared that| ‘America must fight this war and win the peace “not for ourselves alone but for the world." If we loge for the world, she said, we iosé for ourselves. “We can't cut ourselves off from the reat of the world this time as lwe did last time,” Mra. Roosevelt said, “for it is self-preservation for us to aee that the rest of the world does not go under. It is a long view to take, but selfishly, it is better for us if the rest of the world can come up to our standards.” pointed out that many of the ravaged countries would need cn See Se re er | |