Bisbee daily review., 1909-09-23
WOMEN WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES

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 IN THE UNITED STATES.
 There are 4,SS5, GSO women work CTS in the United States. Think Of it. generation ago none would have predicted such a change. Nearly half Of these are young women, 44.2 per cent are under g and 22.6 per cent are under zI. '-Of the 303 occupa- tions in which bread winners of the country are engaged, women nave pre-empted a place in ali but nine. in the list of unusual pursuits a. dopted i've are pilots, ten baggage women on steam railroads, 31 brake women and 26 switchwomen, yard women and fire women;, 43 are car riage and hack drivers and 5US ma chlnists. Besides 100 architects. there are 10 women builders and contractors in the United States, 1Z5 women masons. 545 women carpen- ters, 45 women pIasterers, 172S wo- men painters, glaciers and yarnish- CTS, 126 women plumbers, 241 women paper hangers, and two women slat- ters and roofers."
 The suffrageIte movement is not feminine vagary. Women have come to want to vote because they work and they understand with their quick intuition what many men have not been able to reason out after many years of experience, that bad busI- ness and politics are closely allied and that a thorough political house cleaning would improve business conditions.
 Tn Russia, which we are accustom- ed to think of as very backward and barbarous, the women are more en- ancipated than in many countries that think themselves more civilized. There are women technical students and they go out to government shops and railways At the Nikolaensk ship building works, the Perm rail way and the Sevastopol electric sta tion women are employed in large numbers. A woman engineer is su' pervising the big steel army and na- " stores building in St. Petersburg.
 Gradually" says an informative article in the Seattle Post Intelligent cer, Russian women are taking up all caIIings monopoiized by men Though they are not yet allowed to practice as lawyers, they feel so sure of being able to do so before long that several hundred of them are now studying for that profession at the coveted permission is given some 6U will begin to practice at once, as they are ready now. The postoft1ce authorities prefer to employ women. and are gradually weeding out their men clerks. They are more timid and, therefore. less inclined to steal was the verdict of one postmaster Here, however, a woman clerk gets a lower salary than a man both Fl the government offices and the Dig St Petersburg banks, but women en. gineers are quite as well paid as the men and some women doctors take higher fees than their male eoIlea gUes. The Rusrta medicine wo man is rather a type"
 In many other countries the cause Of the emancipation of women has made rapid strides. The great eco homie law of supply and demand op crates. The labor of women, Dott skilled and unskilled, is needed ana it is forthcoming. If every woman were sure of a good husband whC would take care of her and her chil dren, the arguments of the advocates Of the old order would have yery much the best of it. EarthIier hap pier Is the rose distilled" wrote Shak espeare. The women who marry wei are happiest And certainly thu claims of the race are entitled t' consideration. But when there ar, not enough men to go around ant when, on account of the compleI wants and heavy expense of life il modern clvilzauon. many men ar' forced to remain bachelors. why wo men, who have not Independent for tunes or relatives able and wilIinl to take care of them just have t' gOrK. But marriages will continul to be made. both among women work CTS and those who have never ha'