New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-02
WHAT WOMEN SAY AND DO
CAMILLE BELIL0NS INDICTMENT OF A
CERTAIN FRENCH LAW
UNDER PLEA OF PROTECTING THE WEAKER
SEX GALLO LEGISLATORS HAVE BARRED
WOMEN FROM PROFITABLE WAGE
EARNING FIELDS
EARNING FIELDS.

The unfortunate situation that confronts women
wage earners in France is brought out strongly in
an article furnished to The Tribune by Camille
Belilon. She writes as follows:
on THE EMPLOYMENT OF WOMEN.
I'VE declare that man in all classes of the com
munity is striving to keep work away from women;
that is TO say, remunerative work. In France we
have constant proof Of this. a well known in
stance the declaration Of the order of Advocates
refusing TO admit Nile. Jeanne Chauvin
Der OF the bar in spite Of the fact that she had
passed he- examinations and obtained all the de-
grees which confer the right OF pleading. The
women medical students are still regarded with
much Ill feeling; and this ant-woman spirit obtains
with equal intensity in commercial life. The Con-
fectioners' Union has declared that It protests
vehenently against the admission Of women into
every industry; the Union Of Designers on Ma
terials has boycOtted those houses that dared
20 employ women; the Printers Union has for
number Of years been waging more or less chvaI-
against the feminine element which they
desire TO exclude altogether from the printing
offices.
THE law Of 1892 which regulates the hours
Of day labor for and prohibits their
working night has had the desired effect. Those
who had regular night employment have had 70 be
dismissed and replaced by men. AS for the rest.
their employers were disguised having 10 draw
up reports and To pay fines soon as pressing
order obliged them keep their female en-
ployes after regulation hours and have also dis
strong
They have talked about hygiene. infant mortal
fly. depopulation They have worked on patriotic
sentiments. Oh, yes, What phrases, what state
ments we have heard, 1t should be noticed that
those who pretend thus to manifest their solicit
tUde for the future Of the do fight against
fntemperance. This fact was noted a the last
Anti-AlcohoI Congress held at Paris. In the work
mems congresses. where they thunder against
women's work there is discussion Of this social
evil Still every one knows how fatal alcoholism IS
TO the race. Well, as a remedy against the evil We
hear constant proposals to prevent women from
eating. but not to keep from drinking.
In the printing offices the women who used
set type on the evening papers have been dismissed
among @rler Iallsian printing Offices may name
Manufactures. which used to employ than
two hundred female cCmpositors. and at the pres
where the Journal des Femmes' is printed has also
been obliged 10 substitute male for all its female
In the same offices whore she has been driven
IRON the composltorS rooms women may. in
you will saw Why because fa6inr, l. YER, " ny ~,
remunerative and is therefore not coveted by man
30 woman may do il. That awful dread Of seeing
her exhaust her strength has suddenly disappearr5
THE text which declares that this law Shall Lc
applicable to commercial houses specifies that II
shah be lawful for female employees IN restaurants
because the work there is more healthy? And does
no one see any danger 10 the health Of the nation
or the future Of the country such places
IF the partisans Of the act regulating yornen,s
work are angry with women for not refusing an
poor wages az not TO compete unfairly with men
why do they not feel indignant with the male
workers Tor taking the places OF those females who
were dismissed in consequence Of the act inspired
Dy thelr male Would-be protectors But they were
~ q an indignant sun, mad they been logical
the male unions would have decided 10 refuse tba
HoTk oHered under such conditions Then pro
IIsscuoh, as Ii Is called, would not he mere irony
Women could be thrown oat Of emnJoVme51f
h p mace TO sdfer starvation under pretext Of rest
p ehs gwen TO ITEM lastly in accustoming their
business connections 10 the requirements Of the