Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-11-04
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Washington, Nov. Vocation
al training for women and girls in
machine shops where light parts
are made, in wood product factories
where assembling and finishing are
important processes in optical ana
instrument factories, and in sheet
metal shops, in order that the Wo-
men may reach the more skilled
and remunerative jobs now occu-
pied by men at these trades, is ad-
vocated by Mary Anderson, director
of the women's bureau Of the Unit
ed States department of labor, in
Ia report made public today, emit
tied industrial Opportunities and
Training for Women and Girls
At present the report states al
though women are employed in
these trades in Ohio, Michigan, New
York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Con-
necticut, Massachusetts,, Rhode Is
land, and Wisconsin, few of the Vo-
cational training facilities of those
states for such occupations are now
being used by women, either be-
cause women are not admitted to
these public vocational schools, or
are not encouraged to attend. Or
ganized campaigns to arouse com
munities and employers, as well as
the girl and womeh, to the need OF
such training are urged by the wo-
mems bureau.
THE increase in the numbers OF
wage earning women, the demon
strated capabilities Of women dur
ling the war, the decrease in male
| immigrant labor, and the growing
demands of our expanding indus
tries call, not only for the admis-
sion of women into courses in ma
chine shop sheet metal, FACTORY
woodworking and optical work, buI
for the same policy among voca-
tional educators of encouraging
boys to take such instruction"
The report is published as the
result of a survey Of industrial
training schools, public and semi,
public, in which women were en-
rolled throughout the country, the
bureau of education and the state
boards of education furnishing
lists and data. 1t states in part
LAS a result of the war, women
have gained a new position in in
dustry, not to be relinquished ever
though manufacturers, who were
forced to spend time and money
| training women, have ceased such
training. The fact that women car
render as good service in machine
shops as in clothing factories, with
no danger to their health, makes II
now public responsibility to Offer
girls thaining in these new occupa.
| ton as well as in the old.
"Their great success in the wal
and hence their most promising
future wage-earners lie, in the
order of importance, in:
! (a) Machine shops where light
parts are made.
(b) Wood product factories
here assembling and finishing are
! important processes.
(c) optical and instrumental
factories.
(d) Sheet metal shops.
The metal industries are the
| backbone of peace as well as OF
war products. Industry should not
he robbed of valuable and neces-
sary skill nor should the twelve
million women employed in gainful
occupations in the United States be
! robbed of their right to every op-
portunity for service.
"These occupations, however, are
those for which women need train
ing circumstances form a barrier
to such training; the shortage OF
unskiIled labor, the objection OF
skilled male workers to the en-
trance of women into their trade
the thoughIessness of young girl
workers for their future, the tim
iditv of older women about start
ing new work, the approval of EN-
plovers of the patient plugging Wo-
men workers at the same task. All
this tends to restrict women to less
skilled, less remunerative jobs, 10
give them no trade, no develop
ment. Accordingly, ORGANIZED
campaigns to arouse communities
and employers as well as girls and
women to the need of trade tram
ing, are necessary.
"Most public vocational school
authorities think of dressmaklng
and millinery as the only necessary
trades for women. not reallzlng
that these are already overcrowded
with women workers, that they are
not the most remunerative occupa-
tions, and not, except in clothing
centers, the big employers of wo-
men labor. Yet these are thu
courses in the Industrial schools
throughout the country. in which
women are most universally enroll
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