Bisbee daily review., 1917-07-26
DEMANDS FOR LABOR
 UPSET SECLUDED LIFE
 OF WOMEN IN TURKEY
Heavily Yelled Women Now Doing Much of the Work Originally Done by Men Be- fore War.
(By Review Leased Wire)

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands, July 25.-Even in the land of the harem the war is bringing women into pub lie employment and the public eye. Hard shocks are being administered to old prejudices in Turkey, wolnen's age long seclusion is being assailed, and it will be strange indeed if fhe facts recorded in the latest letter of the Nieuwe Rotterdam Courant's Balkan correspondent do not have a lasting effect on he general position of wo- men in the east.
 Such announcements as "the min istry of war requires women for of- fee and warehouse duties, at a cIm- mencing salary of 200 piasteis (equiv- ,ient to normally about s19) montE." emanating from the department of i'm perial posts, telegraph sand teie- phones, the Turkish Red Crescen: | (Turkish Red Cross), the railway companies and the municipality can now be reHi daily in the papers U. the Turkish cap'ial, says the writer quoted The 3. ces particularly add that the candidate must present a written statement from the head of her family that -ne has been given permission 10 accept such work
 Invite Women to Work
 They are signs of the times, testify ing to the prevailing dislocation of or dinary life in Turkey. Women are not only permitted, but openly invited to- come and do mems worI, beside and among men, and even in public. Fore over, they are offered immediately al salary of $19 month, while. in ordin- ary times, a male beginner nas toI serve the fist few months for noth- ing.
 Since the beginning of the war liv ing at Constantinople has become tws or three times as dear as before. and longer hours are worked ever in the public departments. Nevertheless, the conservative old Turk cannot yet bring himself to grant his womenfolk the permission required by the govern ment.
 The more levies of young and older men are called to the colors, however the greater the need of substitute la bor becomes. Women and gir:s are more and more in dmand for occupa tions which, according to Turkish ideas, are unsuited for them.
 It is still for the greater part Greek Levantine and many Jewish women, and women subjects of countries al lied with Turkey, who have given ear to the calls for woman labor. Practi- cally no Moslem women are to be found engaged in office work. It Is chiefly in. the telephone service ans the offices of the Red Crescent that Moslem women are to be found, and then only a few. Some Moslem nurses have also recently made their appear ance in the dressing stations and the | war hospitals, but they wear white | cloth so wound round the head and pinned together under the nose that only eyes and nose are visible. Ar menian women show just as little in clination for public occupations.
 Boys Take Mems Places
 There is still no thought in the east of utilizing women as conductors on | train or street cars, as coachmen, mail carriers or the like. The more men arc incorporated in the army, the more is | recourse had to ever younger labor, with the result that schoolboys from the middle classes, soys or I4 to 15 years of age are to be seen acting as train conductors and even as drivers. |
 It is pretty generally acknowledged that the women employees give satis- faction, and, indeed, are quieter and less eXacting than the men. It is | even declared that altogether they | waste less time in talking and con sulting the mirror than the men re quire for rolling their cigarettes. drink | ing their coffee, now no longer obtain able and the like. These virtues, not withstanding, when normal condi- tions return it is not anticipated that the women of Turkey and the east will offer very serious competition to men on the labor market. The con ceptiOn and conviction are too deeply | rooted that women's place is at home.