The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1919-12-13

er's opinion of the substitution will
his reasons for failures or for sue.
cess is given the number of sub
stituted women who have been dis
missed since the armistice and the
number of men taken in place o.
dismissed women.
And the results of that question,
naire show how much better fitted
women are for work in many of th(
industries into which they were in.
Quoted by war emergency than they
are for work in branches of the gar.
ment industries in which division OF
industry practically all women work
ers were concentrated before the
world war. Manufacturers, on the
whole, according to answers from
the QUESTIONABLE, view this scatter
ing of women in industry favorably
And for various reasons. For in
stance, a prominent lumber merchant
in a southern state was forced by
the war to employ women in his
yards. He is much in favor of keep
ing them in the industry as he says
that the women carry two boards
if they can whereas no man who
ever worked in the yard would car
ry more than one regardless of size
and weight.
Another equally prominent furni-
ture manufacturer who was filing
government contracts wrote in an
swer to this request for material to
be used in the Y. w. c. A. report
1--WE feel that women saved the day
for us as they must also have done
in hundreds of other industries; Sc
you can understand that we have
every reason to feel most grateful
to them" This man employed women
in all departments of his factory
handling machines, at cabinet, max
ing, finishing, upholstering and trim
ming furniture
The president of a large recording
and computing machines company
manufacturers of cameras, projec-
tors, films, magnetos and such things
says There is no department in
women cannot be trained to- do the
same work that men have been doing
and to the work better and get out
greater production Success depends
upon how women are trained just
as with men. Half of our employees
are women, all of whom have been
carefully selected for their work
Women are very adaptable and
satisfactory as workers in one of
the largest electrical companies in
the United States, according to the
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able, he says, their output is great
er and that in electrical manufac-
turing concerns the number of girls
and women employed is limited only
by the supply. One-fourth of the
workers in one of the largest plants
of that company are women who re-
ceive the same pay as men for eQui-
valent work and who, in practically
all cases, earn more than men on
piece work This concern has spec
ial training rooms for its workers
and has employed women on 800
new operations during the war pc
riod
1--WE are also frank to say that
had we not teen able to secure the
services of the women employed by
MS during the war we would have
been unable to operate at all or our
operations have been seriously cur
tailed" states another big manu-
facturer who announced that women
are to be retained in his factory.
So through practically all of the
twenty-nine groups of industries and
their various branches, do employers
testify to the services rendered by
women during the war and predict
either directly or indirectly through
the figures they offer. new era
in which the trend OF employment
for women in industry will be moi
to the concentrating Of women in
one of the twenty-nine divisions but
to a scattering Of women through
all industries and placement in OPP
erations for which they are partic-
ularly fitted.