New-York tribune., 1919-07-13
$4,000 Women War
Workers Seek Johs
In British Trades
Clerks Ask Recognition
i'm All the Governmental
Branches; Wages Are In.
creased for Union Labor
Nesc York Tribune
Vorei0n Press Bureau

- Nesc York Tribune
Forei0n Press Bureau
Agitation for increased wages and
shorter hours of labor proceeds apacs
in England. Present conditions are 70.
fiected by these extracts from the news
columns of THE London Daily Mair.
Temporary women clerks in Govern
ment Offices in London are to have an
increase of $1.20 a week, and men over
twenty-four years of age an increase
of $2.4O.
Thousands of these women clerks
are looking with apprehension to the
day when rehabilitation of the bio
wartime staffffs of the government de-
partments begins in earnestr An official
of the Women Clerks Association saws
there appears to be no ready solution
of the problem of what is to become
of the $4,000 women clerks. At the
moment the association is trying to
secure preference for those dependent
on their earnings for a livelihood and
the treasury have promised to urge de-
partments to dispense first with women
of Independent means.
Places Open for Many
In the autumn about 1000 extra per-
manent clerkships in the civil service
will be awarded to women, and an ex-
animation will be held to select the
most competent from among the
women now on temporary engagements.
The age limit has been advanced from
twenty-four to thirty years.
protest meeting is to be held next
Monday against the recommendation
of the Gladstone report, which would,
it is contended, confine women to the
routine work appointments in govern
ment Offices, barring them from the
ranks of the higher class clerkshps
1t was decided at the conference of
the National Union of Clerks at Bir-
mingham that demands should be made
for minimum of $3.50 a week for
all clerks in urban centres and S1625
a week for clerks in rural districts
over the age of twenty-one
The question of minimum scale for
clerks between the ages of sixteen and
twenty-one years was referred to the
executive council. In regard TO hours
the executives proposal in favor of
maximum working week of thirty
eight hours was accepted.
Dressmakers Get Raise
Revised schedules of wages and con-
ditions of employment affecting over
10000 workers in certain sections of
the making up (clothng) trades IN
London have been arranged between
the London Employers Association and
the trade unions concerned
Minimum rates of pay for dress
makers and tailoresses have been
agreed upon. The settlement affects
about 10000 dressmakers and will rep
resent an average advance of $ a
week.
Miss Agnes Dawson. of London,
president Of the National Federation n
Of Women Teachers, at the confer.
ence at bennington yesterday. snil
women teachers would no longer toll
crate without protest the practice Of
payment according to sex.
They demanded payment according 10
the quality Of work AMI wi'h = rc"trd
to sex. There could not be any irle
setting down untl luo principe OF
equal pay for equal WORK was con-
ccded to all women workers.
Women Quit Buses
The number df women conductors
in the London omn buses is being
steadily reduced as the men return 70
take over their pro-war Jobs. Already
there are nearly 900 fewer women IN
the l.. G. O. G. omnibuscs then there
were year ago.
A meeting Of South London male
tramway conductors and demobilized
soldiers is TO be held 10 protest against
the action Of the l.. {. G. in contin.
uing 10 employ women when there aee
so many demobilizcd men waiting for
jobs
The matter is very complicated us
the women belong 20 the union. while
Scotland Yard is said 10 be still issu-
ing the licenses.
The National Union of Clerks. in con-
ference at Birmingham on Saturday.
passed a resolution that tho only wty
to allay industrial unrest and secure
increased production was By tho ma.
tional ownership of all industries ard
services. and democratic management
by the workers engaged in each indus
try or service.
Brainworkers Protest
A federation of brainworkers er
trade union lines was referred 70 ct
a possibility OF the near future AT tE'
first conference of the Guild Of lnsuf-
lance officials, held recently at Canon
/ Street Hotel.
F. +. Hill, Liverpool, said that the
/ brainworkers of the country were now
alive to the need Of joint organizs-
ton. and in course Of time he hoped
that officials in banks. shipping and
insurance Offices, and kindred crgani-
cations, would weld themselves into
one great movement for that object.
A charge against the Trades Union
Congress of trying TO destroy them
by a policy of might at the instigation
of rival trade unions" made By
speakers at the conference Of the Ma
tional Union of Corporation Workers
in London.
Commenting on the Congress action;
A. Taylor. the general secretary, SAID
the trade union movement was not all
love, as some people imagined. There
was good deal Of hate in it, in spite
of the frequency with which they were
told that all men must be brothers.
They, as municipal workers. had come
up against that bitter ill-feeling.
resolution protesting against the
action of the congress in 1906 was
adopted