New Britain herald., 1930-07-11
PAY 0N VACATIONS
 URGED FOR WOMEN
W0nen's Bureau Works to Re ieVH Unfortunate Workers
By MARY Y. ROBINSON.
Director of the Division of Pubic
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S4tCaSAS are HOW O744-S P1@+f~-t' . railroad tickets purchased. and automobiles put in condition for holiday launts. there are tens of thousands Of women who are ro!l- ing assiduousIv n the production or . goods designed for the comfort and . Luxury or others. bur whose only . vacarlon will be -a theI- dreams
 A vacation with pay for every woman worker who has been with . q firm !. reasonable length Of time IS one Of -he unwrlrten standards !. advocated by the '. :. Wonen's . bureau. Nor does this agency be lieve that an employee should be , required to show full years service i in a plant before he.ng granted q { day ot vacation with wages. as k 100 often the practice ln the world Of business anl lndustry.
 4 policy which prevails IT many fzcter!es Of enforced vacations Of q. week or tRo without pay for work CTS while the plant IS shut down for repalrs spells hardship rather than hsnaA- 10 the women. 4 hol!- day is no holiday at all f a woman has to forego her wage during such interval Worry over q reduced budget and The scrlmp,rg necessary to make ID the defcit offset the good der.ved from the rest.
 Women Need Vacation More
 Men also want and need vaca- tons, but rest and recreation, or re-creatlon to speak more to the polnc. are of even greater slgni1i- ance 70 women. As the home makers and mothers ot the race. as producers not only Of economic goods but Of future cItlzens. women arr more likely than men TO carry the double burden ot working at the job and performing household duties still considered women's specially and therefore they have q double reason for 2 respite.
 Nonorony and routine are more typical of vonen's work than Of nen's since women fall heir more frequently 10 repet.rlve jobs Thus women are in greater 1eed Of change and relief
 -f-I bO4.A d-LFl'.s t4-E 4i4E1 D- 1 vacation with remuneration for women working n stores. offices. and the professions. The mere sug- gesron, however, of similar prlv- ilege for women ln factor.As meets with seemingly lnsurmountab wall of opposition In many quarters
 Why ,. worker who drills holes in steel day in and day out should Tt have I paid breathing spell as well as the teacher who drills ideas lnto children's heads. or why the girl who manufactures typerwr.rer keys doesn't have 9 chance 10 get away from the job in the same way as the typIst who strikes thAse keys, or why the women AngageI in making hats, dresses, shoes are not deserving Of change as we'll IS the salespeopIe selling the self same articles and certainly more than the butterflies of fashion who spend so much time buvlng and donnlng such clothes these are questions 10 which there IS no logi- cal negative answer
 tIStS dCdtlo1 N1In Fay
 In the name Of both health and efficiency the Women's bureau urges q vacation with pay for wom- en. No woman can stand the strain on nerves and drain on energies that go with steady grind Of labor ing day in and day out unbroken by q vacation. without paylng health toll ln the long run. Such worker becomes the easy pray Of disease and harmful fatigue
 The old saving all work and no play makes Jack dull boy" is just as true now in the heydav Of efficiency experts as when it was coined. Managers with up-to-date vacation policies for their manual workers testify that such rAcesses reduce labor turnover. increase efficiency. and strengthen morale.
 Legislation Is scarce
 The movement Of vacations with pay for industrial workers IS q re- cent one, dating largely from the world war Charles N Mills ln his book on the subject points out that general Or special Legislative acts granting vacations 10 workers have been adopted in 1 , European coun- tries. Tn the United States the orlv laws Of this sort apply 10 publi3 employees, about two million Of whom are al,awed pad vacations. MT Mills estimates that more than 2 million American industrial work CTS are now being granted by the.r employers this kind of break in their work life. Thus q good start has been made but much more must be done 10 bring this privilege or rather right within reach of the millions of wage earners in need Of 1t
 After all, the cost to the employ CT Of pad vacations is comparative !y slight. According 10 Mir. Mills computation the nedian or typical cost Of vacation wages Is n general 1.5 per cent of rhe total annual pay roll
 In the m2tt-r of vacations Uncle Sam practices Tn 2 rather ideal way what he breaches From the mo- ment workers enter hls employ they start to accumulate q savings fund of time, known as annual leave, to the evtent of two and | half days for each month ef ser vice. Often this leave can be used in a sort of hand-to- mouth fashion as fast as it accures, or it can be saved Up and Tn many cases taken in a lump sum of full month $ vacation with pay, in addition to any holidays occurring within the period.
 Such a reward in time and nonev every worker covets. and every