Great Meeting OF the Female Industry AssO


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Yesterday afternoon there was a mass meeting
Of the Young Women's Industry Association, in
the Supreme Court room, City Hall.


AT four O'Clock, according TO notice, about one
thousand working ladies', attached to the different
trades, assembled in the Supreme Court room, for
the purpose OF demonstrating against the Injustice
heaped upon them by their employers. On motion
Of Mrs Eliza Hone, Miss ELIZABETH GRAY was
called to the chair. This young lady made beau
ful appeal to her sex, respecting the oppression OF
the southern employers, whose agents in this city
had hardly paid them sufficient for bare subsis-
teDce having had to work at the rate Of dollar
and fifty cents to two dollars per week She said
the time had arrived for the working women of all
trades to strike for their rights and teach their op
pressors that though women, they could show that
spirit which became the daughters of the patriots
Of '76.


On motion of Miss SUSAN HOFFMAN, it was
Resolved That member attached to each trade should
get list Of their employers who refuse to pay them the
scale Of prices down by the association and present
the same at the next meeting.


Miss HENRIETTA ADAMS offered the following
resolution


Resolved, That any laborng young woman who shall
20 to work for boss who has refused pay the prices
shall not be deemed fit member Of the association and
that will not work with her hereafter in any estab
lishment


These resolutions having passed unanimously,
the President arose and offered the following
lutions


Resolved, That we return our thanks to Aldermen
Scheer Dickinson and Hasbrouck for their kindness in
granting us the use of this room for meeting.


Resolved, That also return thanks 10 the gentle
of the press who have aided us in this matter.
Resolved, That adjourn to meet again
Thursday afternoon o'clock, in the Superior Court
room. the CITY Hall.