Omaha daily bee., 1916-04-24
WOMEN DO BEULIN'S WORK
Members Of Fair Sex Swarm Into
Every Field Of Activity in
German Capital.
AFTERMATH IS A PROBLEM

Correspondence Of The Associated Press1
BERLIN. March 81 Nearly ao,cc9
women ere now at one kind Of work OF
another in Berlin They have swarmed
into almost every field N activity. no
matter how difficult they are earning
more money than they ever had before,
many have lost their own bread winners
and are for al time dependent upon their
own efforts The probable unwillngness
OF the women 10 go back TO their homes
after the war IL being more and more
anticipated BY the labor leaders who say
the women must 60 In favor Of the men
when the time comes
ny far the largest proportion OF the
women now employed In Berlin are I'M.
skilled workers perhaps 10000 ~ the
10000 Of the remaining 1000 skilled
workers, only small part are custom
arly 30 employed. They have done won
dorfully we'll. even In such difficult and
strenuous occupations ~ metal workers,
but they, are not, because Of physical
hand caps the equal Of their male prede.
cessors
Many War widows.
Just how large will be the number Of
widows. or ~ women left with crippled
husbands, after the war. the labor lead
ers as yet 10 estimate These on the
ono hand, constitute. however, but part
~ The problem. Fully M puEgling IN the
question OF what 10 do with those women
who, though they later VIII have other
means Of support. are expected deliber.
ately 70 balk " retiring 10 non.pros
ductiVe life again
The employer who Ia able 10 hire women
more cheaply than men Will he loath 20
change 70 the old method. and FOR n time
IA not going 10 be Hbe 10 afford Il. A not
uncomfortable degree " diplomacy. com
blned with judicial use Of compilation
IN going 10 be- necessary, labor leaders
feel. before the problem can be adjusted
There Ia hardly an occupation into
which women have not crowded during
the last year The employment Of women
as street car conductors Ii already an old
and familiar condition. and women mo.
toImenf have become more or less famil.
Jar sights even IN the busy downtown
streets OF Berlin
The first woman taxcab chauffeur was
noted early last summer aud she has
multiplied somewhat since then The
construction COMPANY building the new
tube under the Friedrich straase connect.
Ing the northern and southern sections Of
the city has for months employed femi-
nine hlskIea' young and old. in shoyeis
Ink out the sandy underpInning Of the
street
Two years ago the streets Of the capital
were cleaned by men Of military age.
Their places were taken by boys, and now
women are being introduced ne fast ne
the youths grow up 10 military age and
enter the army II IL common sight on
any street 70 see coal being carried Into
residences from teams by women instead
OF men
The underground railway companies Of
Berlin months ago Installed women AZ
ticket choppers, and then introduced them
% guards. When II WAS found that their
dresses frequently got caught IN doors
the companies did not go back 10 male
help, hut ordered the women 20 don
boomers and today there are more Of
them TO be seen than men.
Few Of the trades are harder or more
strenuous thsn metal work which. just
now, OF course, IL booming because Of the
need Of ammunition Yet there are tho1.
sands Of women thus employed today,
who do not seem 10 mind the heavy work,
and who are earning relatively great
deal OF money.