The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1915-09-11

SHIP yet they put the education OF the citizens
OF the future entirely In the hands OF women.
As an average thing. the 20 per cent OF men
teachers get higher wages than the 80 per cent
OF women teachers, although the work 10 the
same. Send women back into the home and
there II not . public school in the land that
would not have to close its doors.
In manufacture and mechanical industries.
there are 1,S20,9S0 women. Mothers. and young
girls with the hope of motherhood. MI the mills
and factories Of the country. pouring health and
strength into the steel hoppers Of the industrial
machine. They work nine. ten. and even twelve
hours amid the roar Of machinery. their backs
bended. eyes strained and lungs never free
from dust and dirt and lint.
Two-thirds of the workers in the cotton. silk
and woolen industries are women.
Onethird Of the workers in the hat, suit and
overall industries women.
Onehaf Of the textile workers are women.
Oneffth Of the tailors are women.
Onethird Of the toilers in the shoe factories
are women.
minister to the convenience Of the world are
made by women.
onehalf Of the workers in the printing and
i. publishing trades are women. Even oneday
for there are 14,o5l women unotypers and com.
positors In the United States.
In the chemical industries. over - Dor cent
OF the work is done BY women.
= There Is no greater mockery than to learn
that even while Senators and Congressmen
were denying the vote to women on the ground
that 1t would degrade American womanhood,
thousands Of American queens were working
amid the Nth of fertilizing plants.
II 10 the grim contrast between bitter fact
ana airy fancy that makes the chivalry bun.
combe OF the anttsunragist 30 very nauseatine
ana unbearahle. To enter Q voting booth would
oenle women yet 1t Is all right for them to
world. ~-.. -.
Just as women are to be found In slaushter
nousess fert1l1zing plants and cranberry bogs
80 are they to be seen in the steel and iron
INDUSTRIES, sweating and straining side by side
with men.
Miss Ida TarbeI testifying before tho Com.
mission on Industrial Relations. admitted that
she had seen women stripped to the waist in
front OF the blast furnaces Of Pennsylvania
Soldering may be peculiarly q mans work. but
5000 women are aiding In the manufacture OF
fire arms and ammunition. There arc NO
women in the list Of locomotive engineers, but
1000 of them drudge as '1aborers" in the en-.
ploy Of the steam and street railroads of the
country.
Along the Atlantic seaboard ana IN the C3ulf
Coast States. the women and children OF the
canning industry are housed CO farmer would
not house his cattle. Dilapidated carriage
sheds old chicken houses and battered ont.
buildings are the sites In which families huddlo
even toilet facilities not being provided In the
majority OF cases. A journey through tho
cotton mills is as . page torn from Dickens or
woman old at forty, and to watch the rickety
girls at work Is to despair for the children OF
tomorrow.
If "woman's place is tho home" then let tho
stores Of the United States prepare to go out of
business. for the majority Of clerks are women.
Think of the empty counters In the department
stores If all the girls quit their jobs?
There are 263,315 women stenographers and
typewriters at work. Put them back in the
home. and there isn't an office In the country