New-York tribune., 1918-09-19
Civil Service Board
Opens Several More
Positions to Women
Greater Opportunities for
War Work Made Possible
by New Ruling
Skilled Labor Needed
Special instruction Offered to
Beginners in Some Sci
entific Branches

The women's division of the United
States Employment Bureau announced
yesterday that the Civil Service Com
mission has offered several new oppor-
tunities to women. These include
registrar in the civil service. scientific
assistant, law clerk, stenographer,
negative cutter, market assistant, field
and laboratory assistant in plant path
ology, scientific assistant in marketing,
specialist in agricultural economics,
treightcar record clerk, geologic aid
or assistant geologst, map colorlst,
rural mail carrier, trained nurse. file
clerk, laboratory assistant. blo-chem-
ist. artist craftsman, printer, labora-
tory helper in soil physics, curative
worker, mechanical craftsman, topo-
graphical craftsman, office machines
operator, blueprlnter, expert llngulst,
field examiner, research agent, teleg-
rapher, telephone operator, coder, econ
omist and tingerprnt classiier.
Because of their present and future
possibilities medicine and dentistry
should make special appeal.to women,
it is believed Another occupation
lately opened to women is that of op-
teal glass worker. Before the war
most of the optical instruments used
in America were obtained from Ger
many. Now. except for skilled work
ers, the optical glass problem has been
solved. A training school for operators
on precision optics has been estab-
lished at Rochester. n. Y, by the ord
nance department of the army. "A Nv
ing wage is paid during the six weeks
course, at the conclusion OF which
student may enter ono Of the optical
munition factories.
Welfare Workers Needed
Women welfare and social service
workers are needed by stores. factories,
schools, colleges, corporations. com
munities and cities both here and
abroad
Since the Fourteen Minute Women
Speakers Bureau of Indiana was or
Eanized, last January, record of 296O
speeches and seventy-four war confer
ences has been made. General patri-
otic appeals, Liberty Loan, registration.
child welfare food, thrift stamps and
ether educational instruction on war
topics were the subjects of the talks.
Many recruits were added to the
land army units at Fallston and Cations
Vile when a large number Of women
answered Mary]and's appeal for help
in gathering the tomato crop.
In England women are now making
tanks for the army. In one factory
the whole process of construction is
carried on by women. while in others
they are employed TO make the various
parts. One foreman in charge of
blast furnace recently announced that
he would be willing to undertake any
form of ferro- concrete work with wom-
en- as his only assistants.
What Women Are Doing Here
Seventv-three women are employed
by the Syminpton- Anderson gun shop
at Rochester, n. v, one of the sixteen
constructed by the ordnance depart
ment for the manufacture Of mobile
artillery cannon. OF these twenty are
engaged in inspecting the American and
French millimetrc guns and 6-inch
trench mortars. Others operate the
machines which run test bars from the
steel forgings after they have been
treated by heat and the machine in
which these bars are subjected to a
breaking test to determine the texture
and quality of the product and its fit
ness to go into the guns.
Women are wanted by the shrimp
and shoe factories Of Louisiana, accord
ing TO Mrs. Olivia Blanchard, director
Of the worncn's division, United States
Employment Bureau at New Orleans.
Work at the shrimp factories would
be continuous for an indefinite period.
for after the shrimps have been canned
the oyster season begins. Salaries at
the shoe factories range from $40 to
Sl5 week, while efficient workers can
earn $40.
Stcnographers and typists are in de-
mand for the Office of the director of
military acronautics, Washington.
Those in the air service will be paid
$1,10O which at the end of three
months will be automatically increased
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