Evening journal., 1918-10-28
MORE DEMAND FOR
women LABORERS
Unskilled Women Earn
Good Wages at
Light Work
CAMP AICN ON
INFANT PROTECTION

Only a short time ago three TO four
dollars per week and board was consid-
cred a fair price TO pay for kitchen
and laundry work for the average family
in this city. Today the average family
in this city is without that help. due
solely to the unprecedented demand for
women in nearly every line Of industry.
Women, regardless Of nationality, who
were formerly content 10 work for three
Or four dollars per week can now easily
earn the same amount each day. and
hundreds Of them are doing IL.
Just at this time the Women's Divis-
ion Of the United States Employment
Service, at No. s3s Market street. VIII
mlngton, has a large order 10 MI at the
price mentioned. Polish and Italian girls
are more desirable for this order than
other nationalities, but any woman who
is able and willing to work can secure
the employment by applying at once at
the Women's Division.
There never has been. time within
the recollection OF the average citizen
when women were given such oppor-
tunitles for earning big wages as are
now offered them, and thousands OF wo-
men are today making good use Of the
opportunity afforded them OF earning a
comfortable living and at the same time
being able TO day a little aside for the
proverbial rainy day"
Teams OF women are being organized
I'm Berks county, Pa, for harvest work
I'm the corn fields. H. G. McGiNen. farm
labor agent Of the Employment Service
I'm that county, reports that the energy
and efficiency Of the women in this work
IS giving universal satisfaction.
A recent canvass made at a Detroit au-
tomobile plant for the purpose Of ascer-
tanning how much Of the work az that
point could be handled by cripples. re-
Vesled the following interesting informa
tion:
Jobs that could be filled With legless
men, GO; by one-legged men. 2,637; by
one-armed men, 7i6; by totally blind
men, 10.
The time required for these men TO be-
come expert at their Jobs is estimated.
for f7i3 one day or less: for f,46l. one
day to one week; for 25i. one 10 two
weeks: for 53i. one month TO one
year; for 43, one 10 six years.
About IS per cent. Of all the employees
at this plant at the present time are
said TO be cripples or physically sub
standard. Eighty-ilve per cent. Of them,
however. arc classed as fully efficient
workers.
Nearly 5000 returned soldiers, so much
disabled that they could not return 90
their prc-war vocations. have been offered
courses in industrial re-education by the
Department Of Soldiers Civil Re-cstab
lishment, Of Canada. the experience OF
which organization has guided the u.
s War and Labor Departments and the
Federal Vocational Board IN smaller
work.
The largest number OF men 10 gradu-
ate from courses in any One month was
9S6 last June. The total number Of grad |
uates at that time had reached 767.
Ohio manufacturers In non-war lines 1
must help supply the explosives TO be
used In bringing the war TO a final and
successful conclusion
This. is the attitude taken by Ohio
rommunily-labor boards i'm calling upon
manufacturers in their own State TO
release 1900 men for the governments
s20OOOOOO nitrate plant at AncOr. near
Cincinnati and a similar plant at Toledo.
There is a demand FOR 5000 men at each
plant Immediately and like number
within the next month.
Virtually every communicative board
in Ohio has requested manufacturers do
ing non-war work in It's vicinity to sub
init a formal statement Of the number Of
men In each department and the maxi
mum number Of men who can be releas-
ed for work on government projects.
Ohio officials Of the Employment Ser
vice take the stand that the way 10 get /
results is TO- put up to manufacturers
individually and request a definite
snswer.
An appeal that all Allied powers join
forces in an international health cam
paign for the protection Of mothers and
infants as a guarantee for the future
welfare Of these nations is sounded in
message received by the Children's Blu
reau OF the United States Department OF
Labor, through the state Department
and the British Embassy.
This message is contained in a reso-
Tuition passed by the National League for
Health, Maternity and Child Welfare OF
Great Britain. 10 is expected that the
appeal from England, whose infant death
rate since the outbreak OF the war has
fallen nine points below the. American,
will stimulate the United states to take
further steps in raising IFS standards for
protecting the health OF infants, young
children and mothers
A moving picture showing the chrono-
logical steps in the recruiting and place
ment Of women in industries has been
prepared by the Philadelphia Womens