The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-03
ON LOOKOUT FOR
GOOD WORKERS
Need Is General in City and
Fair Wages Are oFered-Plans
OF Christian Association, if
Carried Out, Mean Guaran- !
tee of Protection and
Safety in Richmond.
by r. s. w

inc industrial Section has been re-,
quested to get right in the l,meligbt
IN the movement to mako a. great b,s-
1oonS Women's Christian Associatio,
building. The dear. good woman n,ho
ea'iea the industrial Section up by
phone the other night was a utt,o
nu TINE. Already the financial END
OF the movement had been pracr,rai,,
fixed. or IL it was not the Inn,,s,ri,,
section Will siauiy unuer1ake TO mag.
UP the deficit on way or another
explained these things to the qood
iaus' put she was not satisfied with the
explanation. She said that about J.
year aso the Industrial Section had !.
column or more to say about the indus.
'r'ai END OF the Young Women's Chris
.iaH association ana she was of the
opinion that reproduction of that ar.
tlcle just at this time or somethJnr
IKE II would be a little informing To
the good men who are In the habit or
employing girls and boys and Other
xmas Of expert or common, everyday
workers.
A Businebs Iden,
nave had a hard time hnding tho
copy OF that article OF moro than n
year ago. In the meantime have mad
taik with man who employs very
many people. mostly girls and women.
VINO do light work and get right good
nay for It.
want to make just one quotation
from what he told me- Said he: ~
am going to make two subscriptions to
this y. w. c. A. fund. The first VIII
be my contribution. personally, as a
Christian, and the second will be nv
nrm contribution as business
| propositions.
In our business we need to-day nj
soodiy number more young women than
We have or can find. We are OFFERING.
good wages. but am told that the girls
and the young women who really
want work have an idea that Rich-
mond city is a kind of Sodom. OF
course you and I know that It Is not.
This Y. w. c. A, If 1t gets on its
pms, according to the plans now set
forth, VIII be a guarantee to the girls
and the young women In the town
villages and In all the country round
about that Richmond is going to furn-
lsh protection to the honest and good
girl or woman who comes here look.
ing for wages"
NOW that Is real commercial and
business end of the whole proposition
and that Is one reason why the bust
| ness men OF Richmond are so much In
terested In this movement and is one OF
the rea sons why they are subscribing
to the big fund that has been asked
| for.
Mind you. / am not in any way dis
counting tho religious or the senti-
| mental view OF any good man who has
contributed to this fund. but I do say
that there Is a whole lot of good bust
| ness and Industrial sense in the matter,
! and 1t Is a good thing that men, and
women, too, can look at 1t from
business standpoint.
From the Records.
But now, I am coming back to the
original proposition. the request to re-
produce an article of a year age. Hare
1t is after being curtailed and edited
| by one Of the best women In the world:
| There is an institution in Richmond
that is never thought of as an indus
trial venture, and. as a matter of fact
II is not just exactly that. but the
Young Women's Christian Association
! in Its work is looking to the better
mcnt OF industrial, commercial and So
cial conditions so far as they pertain
TO business women and selfsupportinE
| girls, and therefore the work is so
closely allied with every worthy phase
OF Richmond's business interest that
! II becomes. In a very important sense
an industrial enterprise, and most
worthy one II Is.
Woman has become factor In the
commercial and industrial advance
ment of Richmond, as well as OF other
| cities and towns all over this country.
and no business man can afford to
close his eyes to this fact It is true
that III certain circles we often hear
some people say woman's sphere Is al
| home: let her go back to the home
ITO the extent that she takes mans
place in the business world she lowers
| the mans ware, makes living more
, difficult for both, ana in a general way
demornlizes the business world"
The Condition Tint CoEfronfs us.
1t Is waste of time to argue those
| questions now, for a condition con-
| fronts us--n condition that the women
| folks themselves did not bring about
That woman Is in the business world
| and there TO remain, Is a fact, and Is
a condition that is the inevitable re-
! suit OF the onward march of civilize-
| ton In all OF the cities and towns OF
} this country girls and young women
are spending the most OF their tina
/ in industrial and commercial esta b.
! llshments IS operatives in factories,
| mills. laundries: as clerks In stores,
| banks. factories. newspaper officcs: az
cashiers. stenogFa pliers. hookkeepsrs,
and what not, doing work that used to
: be done only by men and boys, and
handling the commodities that uaed 10
be produced by women In their homes.
There are, according TO the lowest
F., estimate. 10000 of such women and
girls in Richmond, and more are com
Ing from the villages and the country
every dag seeking and. inding employ
/ ment. s fIS
So there Is nothing u be gained by 4
discussing the why's and the l.tyhpre~s
, torres of the condition: 'twers better