New-York tribune., 1919-02-02
English W omen Are
Expected TO Rush
To America for Jobs
Roger W. Allen Predicts
Former War Workers Will
Make Up Great Total
i'll Future immigration

1t is unanimously agreed that the
problem Of turning TO peace industries
those women employed in war jobs is
a serious one in this country. 1t is
more serious in England, how
ever, where the percentage of
much greater than of men and where
the preponderence Of female population
is marked. according to employment
reports here
Roger w. Allen, president of the
New York Business Publishers Asso-
citation and one of the group of bust
ness paper editors recently sent to
England, at the request of the British
government, to visit the industrial sec
tions there, is of the opinion that when
immigration to this country resumes
its former proportions English women
will constitute large part of those
coming in.
"Canada.' Mr.. Allen said, "is al
ready getting ready to handle a large
immigration. Australia, also, is hop
ing that English women will come
there, for, although nearly as large
as the United States, Australia has a
population Of only 100000. Whether
or not the young women will leave
England is a question: but the older
women undoubtedly will.
Man Shortage Felt
"Whercas many women of this coun-
try will step into matrimony on leav-
ing their war jobs, those of England
cannot do so, for there are not men
enough.
"The part played in this war by the
English women--as we'll as the women
of all countries-c cannot be eXagger-
ated. Wherever we went we saw evi-
dences of the magnificent work they
did during the four years Of the strug-
gle. They entered the same activities
which were assumed by the women Of
this country, and in greater numbers
than here, because there were fewer
men.
'Nor did they handle only the light
jobs. We saw women doing heavy
trucking, and when we arrived at our
station a woman took the fifteen OF
twenty suitcases Of the party, carried
them to a hand truck and pushed it to
the tram we were taking It didn't
seem exactly orr idea of chivalry, but
it was a custom of the country.
"Window washers in England are al
most always women. They are con-
tracted out by window washing agen
cies as here, and look very trim in
their uniforms ard high boots.
Fund for Unemployed
"As for the labor situation created
in England by the return Of the sol
diers and lhc cessation OF way indus
tries, can only say that England is
handling it splendidly. Like this coun-
try, she was wholly unpreparcd for
peace, but she buckled to the job in
the same splendid way in which she
undertook war. There is in England
an unemployment fund from which
civilian workers. and women
period of thirteen weeks. If they re-
main unemployed longer than that time
the allotment stops.
"Soldiers receive the allotment for
twenty-siX weeks. In all movements
there is evident the desire to treat
women just the same as men were
treated
"Both mon and women there are be-
ing urged to cultivate the land to d
greater degree than heretofore There
is a tendency on the part of large land
owners to dispose voluntarily of some
of their large land holdings The gov
ernmcnt, on its part. is buying large
tracts and will shortly have something
like a million acres, which Il will di-
vide into small holdings. to be sold on
small payments to returning soldiers
This is done primarily to increase the
cultivation OF the soil; but it viii also
help to solve the turnover of labor
Women True Stoics
''The women OF England arc stoics
and manifest The same calm reserve
which characterizes the men, Although
nearly every women suffered the loss
OF some relative in the war, there is
very little mourning 10 be seen Yet
their suffering was tremendous
"England is keeniy interested in
America and American activities, and
English women are eager to know more
about the women OF this country. We
were treated with the greatest cordial
lty wherever we went and saw every