The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-09-04
WOMEN IN MEMS PLACES.

That is a striking list of occupations
IN which women are engaged, and
which Mrs. Gilman culls from the CEN
sus figures of 1900 for the benefit of
readers of the Woman's Journal. saws
the New York Tribune. According to
these, the weaker vessel is employed in
the following lines of activity, and to
the following numbers: Stock raisers
and drovers, 1.947; lumbermen, 100:
woodchoppers. 11S; civil engineers and
surveyors, 81; 'longshoremen, IS; stew
edores, 21: watchmen and policemen,
$40: boatmen and sailors, 1854: pilots,
.; carriage and hack drivers, AZ; black
smiths, 1856; railway baggagemen, 10;
hrakemen, 81; conductors, 7; switchmen
and yardmen. rs; ship carpenters, 6;
masons, 167; plumbers and filters, 1875;
fishermen and oystermen, 1906 and
miners and quarrymen, 1870.
The August number of the World TO-
day contains an article on woman's in
vasion of new industrial fields by Luke
Grant which furnishes food for
thought. Written in a distinctly less
jubilant vein than Mrs. Gilman's brief
editorial, il presents the industrial ac-
tivity of women less as the victorious
insidious inroads of a sneaky foe
| whose progress is blazed by the lower
ing of wages and the displacement of
labor.
Woman's industrial competition, says
| MIR. Grant, is a subject that has caused
leaders of organized labor much
thought in the last few years and is
| likely to become a still greater problem
| in the future. Even i'm the allied
! trades of butchering and packing (the
most unlikely fields for womens activ-
| ities) the competition is sufficient to
| have aroused the suspicious of organ
| lied labor
At the present time 1000 women are
| employed in the Chicago stockyards
the number having almost doubled in
] the last year. Women using knives
! and steels have always been denied
! membership in the Butchers Union
! but recently the union has gone fur
! Their and demanded that the women en-
! gagged in that occupation be replaced
! by mon.
Il have seen women standing in a
! pool of blood. with arms barred TO the
| elbows. cutting open hogs heads while
| the flesh was still quivering." a Kan
sas City butcher told Mr.. Grant. This
| spirit of commercialism is going too
| far when Il calls that womans work"
| he ADDED.
| Less than halt or the two thousand
women who find employment I'm the
| Chicago stockyards." Mr.. Grant says,
! ARE engaged in such revolving work,
however the majority being engaged I'm
painting and labelling cans. wrapping
! ana packing soap and butterine.
ITO such work the butchers make
no objection. But the number en-
gagged in the less pleasing occupation
Is gradually being increased Last sum-
mer the sausagemakers at the stock
yards went on strike. The strike was
not sanctioned by the national officers
~ the organization. and when the men
refused 20 return 10 work the packers
proceeded 10 ON their places with wom-
en- The men had struck without au-
thorty The women are az work to-
day nllinF. linking and trimming
sausage The men are seeking work.
what wages the women are being paid
ls known only 40 themselves and their
employers They are Lithuanian peas
ANT women. Few can speak the eng
llsh language. 20 organize them would
be practically impossible. even were
if advisable which the union 0flciala
40 mot believe. But at frequent in-
teryaiH q few men are laid on and a