Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-10-25
WOMEN SUFFER
HEAVILY FROM
WAR IN EUROPE
Wage Farmers Thrown Out Of
Employment in Large Num-
bers in London and Distress
Is Acute,

London, Oct 2f.-~The economic
results Of war have fallen heavily on
the women wage earnefs Of London.
nf whom over 10000 have been dis
h8rged from employment since Au-
gust !. In the single district of Is
lington. SEQ were discharged the past
week by two hottling works, which
were forced 10 close down because
their supply 81 bottles from Germany
had been cut off While the ponder
Gus machinery Of Queen Mary's fund
to give work 10 women is slowly maxi
ing ready, the Society Of American
Women in London has started small
knitting factory Of It's own in this
populous district.
Mrs. Joseph Wilcox jenkins start
ed the factory She walked one day
into "a labor exchange whore 600
women were registered and asked
for those who could knit. They were
then put "a work knitting by hand
socks and comforters and paid on
the union scale OF three pence an
hour This insures a weekly wage Of
$3.50 for forty hours work.
Funds for running the factory are
obtained by the sale Of socks, caps
ana helts, which are knitted express
" for the soldiers and sailors. The
purchaser is expected to present the
same to the men at the front. other
funds are obtained by contributions.
one Of the employees in the Ameri-
can factory IL woman with a hus-
band out Of work. a paralyzcd sister
to care for ana seven children rang
ing in age from three ia sixtern years.
Her eldest. a girl. earns 90 cents a
week in shop. and the war relief
fund gives seven shlllings week to
the family. Since getting a place in
the American knitting factory the
mother has brought the family in
come up to si.S5 a week
a delicate girl Of 22 years, a typist
out of work is the sole support OF
her mother and invalid sister In ad-
dition to her earnings, she gets five
shillings week from the war relief
fund which helps defray her weekly
rent Of $1.S5.
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girl, for whom arrangements have
been made 70 buy new glass eye, as
the enamel had worn off the old one
II has been brought to the notice
OF Mrs Jenkins that there is great
suffering among middle class women
engaged in the arts A music teacher
said she had earned but sl.l0 in q
week
As soon as permanent quarters are
found The committee expects 10
branch out Meals at two pence will
be furnished and nursery for child
rem Already the homes Of the work
ers are visited and secondhand
clothing given according to the needs
The American women have won
the gratitude Of many families in
lslington By their prompt methods.
Queen Mary's fund is eduipping a fac
tory with machinery out Of its co.
600. but its members do not seem TO
understand that what is needed is aid
right now, and not when the war is
over. Recently the ladies of Green
wich raised a fund 10 equip a fac
tory, and unable to obtain financial
assistance from the queens fund,
turned to the American Women's War
Relief society, which straiehtway
agreed TO $75 a week for wages. The
factory is now running
The resident American women
backing the American factory are
Nc sdames Jenkins, T.. Richard Curtis /
Brown. G. Mower, Arthur Fay. Rob- |
ert Mcclellan, G. IT, Short, Reed viii T
Hams. Lorin Woodruff, T. C. Darling (
James Mitchell G. A. knight. H. l. +
keene and r. W. Wilcox