Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-02-18
U. S. Employment Service Re-
port Shows Only Few Yield
ing Wartime Positions; Make
Effort to Hold Fast.
HIGHER WAGE TEMPTATION
HARD FOR 'EM TO RESIST
| $780, 900 Fair Workers Doing
Mems Work When the War
Ended; Labor Federation
Wants Situation Remedied.

Washington, Feb. 1S.-Women who
took mems jobs for war work are re-
fusing p return to peace time pur-
suits.
This is shown today by reports of the
United States employment service from
all the industrial centers Of the coun-
try. Practically everywhere, it was
stated, where women stepped into
mems jobs they are making a deter
mined effort to hold them.
The best estimates of the employ
ment service show that about 100000
women out of 100000 female workers
we're doing mems work when the war
ended and reports indicated the num-
Der has been reduced only slightly.
The large majority OF women in over
alls, officials stated, did not step out
of home life to do their patriotic duty
for the country, but were attracted
from the rank of women who were COM
PEELED to work. Higher wages was the
cause and the women are loathe to give
up their places and the higher wages.
SPURS JOB FAMINE.
The determination of the women, Of
ficials admit, is one of the contribut-
ing causes of unemployment Of men.
but they point out that these women
must work to live and if they are to
relinquish their work to men other en-
ployment must be found for them. In
many cases the women are backed by
employers who believe their labor can
be obtained at lower figure than that
Of men.
Calls for women workers have been
gradually decreasing ever since the ar
mistice was signed, the employment
service reports show. Nov. 2, $4,000
requests for female help were received.
During the last week the demand was
down to $4,000.
Opposition to the women keeping
the mems jobs is clearly manifest at
the American Federation of Labor and
has been shown in the cases Of the De-
troit and Cleveland conductorettes,
where the union tried to force out the
women, were backed by the companies.
IN THEIR OWN SPHERE.
The federation does not want to
drive women out of industry, Secre-
tary Morrison said today, but believes
there is work for women and work for
men and that both should stay in their
where women are doing mems work
they should receive mems wages, and
he will back them in every effort to re-
ceive deserving wages for their work.
Women are now strongly entrench-
ed in the railroad service, their num-
Der having increased from 10000 in
January, 1918, to 101 900 in October So
far, the government has announced 10
definite policy of turning their jobs
back to men.
Labor officials doubt that women will
stay In some fields of mems work per-
manently, such as street car conduc-
tors, baggage workers and hop work
ers. They believe the women Of their
own accord will drift back to what Is
generally classed as women's work
largely because of the hostile feeling Of
the men.
Senator Kenyon has written Secre-
tary of Labor Wilson for figures show.
ing how many men are being kept out
Of work by women holding their jobs
LESS THAN 10 PER CENT.
New York, Feb. 1s.-Of the tota
number of women who held Jobs dur.
ing the war, less than 10 per cent will
leave their positions now. DR.. Georg'
Kirchwey, director of the United Statel
employment service for New Yori
state, declared today.
DR. Kirchwey does not refer exclu
sively to women who took mems job
during the war emergency. His figure