The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1919-03-24
TWELVE MILLION WOMEN
AT WORK in INDUSTRIES
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Washington, March 24.-At thi
Htime when there is so much discus
Vision of women who entered indus
TRY during the war-and who in the
kopinion Of some should now hasten
Ehome whether they have homes OF
mot it is interesting to recall that
the census of 1910 showed 100000
l"females" out of a total wage earn.
ling population of 30,OOO,000~or prac,
II tically / in 5. On the basis of in
Increase in numbers Of working women
shown for the preceding 80 years
and one-half million females in
gainful occupations" 10 years of age
and over, without regard to those
who entered industry because OF
Temporary war conditions. There are
approximately eleven and one-half
million women to be reached by an
ideally efficient service.
Many states are making special
zeffort to meet pressing problems
uwith regard to employment of ex-war
workers. New York has arranged
to have members of cooperating or
ganizations make a thorough canvas
Throughout the state of all employ
'rs not previously reached by the
jervice for opportunities for sol
liers, sailors and war workers. Wo-
men members of these cooperating
organizations have been asked to
AXE the most time consuming part
of the canvass, that of reaching all
u employers who have fewer than 10
%employes
n What States Are Doing.
Il Pennsylvania is conducting train
Il ing course for women examiners
Il along the lines of the training re-
Gently given supervisors in Washing
Y ton.
( Massachusetts and Missouri are
| working on plans for cooperation
with women's organizations particu-
| larly interested in working women's
problems. Missouri has formed an
advisory council of representatives
Of organizations. All members Of
the council receive the Employment
Service Bulletin, and attempt by dis
cussion and other means to become
a force in shaping public opinion on
employment of women and girls.
Massachusetts has under way plans
for meeting of representatives of
,women's associations for "construc-
tive criticism and suggestions"
New York is experimenting, in CO.
operation with Y. w. G. A. and board
of education, on a plan to Industrial
ize domestic service Women who
are not readily fitted into available
jobs are referred to night courses in
various forms of domestic service.
The course mapped out is largely in
the nature of an extended trade test.
Women who complete the course are
promised places with set hours and
wages in keeping with their proved
skill. More women employers than
working women were agreeing to the
plan when last reported
Wanted a Wife.
Connecticut, through it's assistant
to the federal director and New Ha-
ven community labor board, had the |
Minute Women and Motor Corps of
women put on a two-day campaign
January 27 and 2S, canvassing the
mercantile and banking sections Of
the city to find employment for re-
turning war workers, men and wo-
men. Plans are made to continue
the plan, if successful, to Bridgeport,
Hartford and Waterbury.
Women's divisions are not always
centers of nerve-straining efforts at
equal pay and equal work" The
Newark, N. j., office had a thorough
ly domestic call the other day. One
Dan Mandella, late of Naples, sought
out the federal director, and through
his interpreter asked for a wife. mo
body comes to us for anything we
can not supply, least of all to our
division" announced Direc-
tor Spitz. After consultation with
the woman's division the director
promised to let Mandella know about
a suitable young woman within the
week The impatient employer"
that he had references,
five children, anG house and gar.
len ready, and wished the wife in
-ime to get to the justice of the
peace that afternoon.