The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 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 so per cent
OF women teachers although the work Is the
same. Send women back into the home and
there Is not public School in the land that
would not have TO close its doors. ,,
In manufacture and mechanical industries"
there are i.S20.sS0 women. Mothers. and young
girls with the hope Of motherhood. MI the mills
ard 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 OF machinery, their backs
Bonded. eyes strained and lungs never free
from dust and Dirt and lint.
Two-thirds OF the workers in the cotton. silk
and wooden Industries are women.
One-th!rd OF the workers In the hat. suit and
overall industries are women.
One-half OF the textile workers are women.
One-ffth OF the tailors are women.
one-third OF the tollers in the shoe factories
are women.
Almost one-haif OF the electrical supplies that
minister to the convenience OF the world are
made by women.
one-half OF the workers in the printing and
publishing trades are women Even a one-day
strike would cripple the metropolitan dailies.
for there are 1861 women inotypers and com
positors in the United States.
In the chemical industries over "A per cent
OF the work Is done by women.
There Is no greater mockery than 70 learn
that even While Senators and congressmen
we're denying the vote TO women on the ground
that II would degrade American womanhood
thousands Of American queens were working
aIid the hhh Of fertilizng plants.
u Is the grim contrast between bitter fact
ana airy fancy that makes the ehivalry bun
cornbe OF the anttsuffragist so very nauseating
ara unbearahle. To enter a voting booth would
dehie women. yet II is all right for them to
world
Just as women are 10 be found in slaughter
houses, fertilizing plants and cranberry boys
50 are they TO be seen in the steel and iron
industries sweating and straining side by side
with men.
Miss Ida Tarbell. testifying before the 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 mans work but
5000 women are aiding in the manufacture OF
FIRE arms and ammunition. There are no
women in the list Of locomotive engineers but
1000 OF them drudge as 'laborers" in the en-
ploy OF the steam and street railroads Of the
country.
Along tho Atlantic seaboard and in the Gulf
Coast States, the women and children of the
canning Industry are housed as farmer would
not house his cattle. Dila pidated carriage
sheds. old chicken houses and battered out
buildings are the sites in which families huddIn.
even toilet facilities not being provided in the
majority OF cases. A journey through the
cotton mills IS as page torn from Dickens OF
hugo The ten or twelve hour day makes
woman old at forty. and TO watch the rickety
girls at work is TO despair for the children OF
tomorrow
II "woman's place is the home" then let the
stores OF the United States prepare to go out Of
business. for the aiority OF clerks are women.
Think OF the empty counters in the department.
stores II all the girls quit their Jobs?
There are 2633l5 women stenographers and
typewriters at work. Put them back In the
home. and there isn't an Office in the country