The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1915-12-18
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many hundreds Of women macbin-
ists and mechanics have been de-
veIoped In this and other American
| industrial centers since the Europe
On war boomed business and cut Of
| Immigration, that the American
woman's invasion Of the mechanical
| trades threatens to vie with the In
vasion Of the same field By women
/ in Europe
Thousands Of women have been
employed for years on light me-
chanical tasks in this country, bat
skilled women mechanics manipu-
lating giant steel lathes. punches,
drills, trimming presses and other
heavy machinery, is believed to be
an industrial innovation in Amert-
ca.
| This at least is true In Cleveland
+! which, with other cities IL riding
the crest OF the prosperity wave
started by huge war orders from the
allies. The cause is twofold: there
is a labor shortage and women are
more efficient in certain mechanical
work
Whether women will continue
their invasion of jobs formerly fili-
ed by men liz, many manufacturers
say, one OF the big factors to be
reckoned with after the war is over
1 Such is the belief expressed BY
Edgar Il. Adams. superintendent o!
a Cleveland hardware manufacture
ing company. one of the largest OF
| its kind in America. He declared to-
day that women mechanics have be-
gun a permanent invasion OF mems
places in factories
/ As women and girls have sup
planted men al typewritefs, behind
department store counters and IN
| the textile and canning industries,
/ so will they take mems places at all
machines where dexterity and con-
siderable muscle is needed, Adams
believes. At first these women
workers will be recruited mostly
| from those immigrant races. whose
women are accustomed to manual
labor in the fields.
Due to the labor shortage here.
where 3000 skilled mechanics are
needed and to the decrease in i'm
migration Adams declared he was
employing as fast as he can find
them, women constitutionally fitted
to operate machines: and that other
employers were doing the same.
At drilling, punching and trimming
presses, Adams company now en-
pioys 100 women. They are run
ming machines formerly operated by
men and doing better work. Adams
said.
These women. recruited from the
ranks of Polacks, Lithuanians,
Slavs and Hungarians. average ST.
IS per day for eight hours work
Some of them are married. their
husbands working in other parts of
the shops. Others get married and
keep on working. Their average
age is about rs.
Inspection of the rooms where the
women were employed showed good
light, heat and ventilation Fore
men were close by TO adjust any
machine that might get out of or
der.
Comparing conditions surround
ing the women employed at the
heavy machines, with hundred
stenographers in a nearby Office.
Adams said women trades workers
got a greater financial return for
their efforts because. unlike the
stenographers, they had no social
standard to maintain.
Every employer takes away a
part OF the wage he pays stenog-
rapher, because he requires her to
dress neatly and properly Adams
said. Eve don't care how our
women machinists dress. However,
they dress very we'll as a class, their
standard OF living is not low. and
many of them have very respectable
bank accounts
"Stenographers do Well to keep
clear of the credit man.
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