The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-18
Packers To Use Feminine La
Dor in All Departments.
Railroads Fill War Vacancies
With Women Workers.
use ALL BOYS We CAN GET
Intensive Training for Lads at
Big Packing Houses.
No Dearth in Farm Labor Re-
ported Except in Dakota.

Chicago. July 1S.--Railroads. meat
packers and the farmers have appeal
ed to the American woman 10 aid
them in relieving men for war service.
Plans were started today by several
of the big Chicago stock yards pack
ers to fill the places of men employed
as butchers, foremen, clerks. skilled
laborers and department heads.
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
railroad sent out notices to all its
branches fnstructing agents and shop
men that women would be employed
to fill any jobs where they are able
to do the work Among the positions
which the railroad is DESTROYS to OBJ
tain women to fill are: Upholsterers.
station agents, telegraphers and clerks.
Train Boys for Butchers, Too.
I'VE have prepared the way to use
women in any capacity in which they
are able to work" said w. B. Farris.
superintendent of the Morris & Co.
meat packing plant I'VE will also
use all the boys we can get. We will
use them at almost anything except
the heavy butchering. Women will
be employed in the butchery depart
ment to do skinning and washing
of carcasses. We have already started
to fill the offices with women in place
of those who have enlisted. We will
put the boys thru an intensive train
ing in butchering."
Women will be employed to good
advantage" said an official of the
Burlington road, which employs fifty
thousand people. Notices were sent
out today stating to the public that
we would use women to fill any job
they are capable of filling" The road
has already begun to fill its offices
with women.
At Armour & Co.. it was said that
they have begun to hire women to
fill mems jobs in the offices. 1t is
efi tor hal
quit to go to war. AT the packing
plant it was said they would use wom-
en- wherever possible. The same state
ment was made by Swift & Co. Both
plan to use women in the smoke
house, officials said.
There will be little difficulty in har-
vesting the grain crop, according to
reported gathered by the United Press.
In only one state is there real short
age-in North Dakota, where the lab
or shortage is so acute that the state
efficiency commission has appealed to
the war department to exempt its
farm hands, until after the harvest.
In other states most of the crops will
be harvested before the men are
called out.
''Maude MuIlers" Save the Day.
Iowa's crop is above normal, what
little shortage of men there is will be
met by the volunteering of the iowa
women, who are laboring beside the
men in the fields.
Nebraska has only a small winter
wheat crop. No labor shortage is ex-
pected until corn husking time. Many
students are working, thus creating
the smallest harvest hand shortage in
years
Texas grain harvest is practically
over, but labor famine is threatened
in the cotton fields. There is no short
age in Kansas, tho there is an UNI
usually large number employed this
year.
Minnesota's grain crops will be
saved by the states 'Maude Mullers''
who have been recruited from the
state agriculture college and the
farmers homes. An exceptionally
heavy acreage and enlistment of men
in the army boosted the demand for
male labor. State Immigration Com
missioner Sherman estimated that
double the usual number of farm
hands Will be on the inh this Yea