The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1950-02-09
WOMEN IN
INDUSTRY

July Of last year, IL women were
named TO office in Delaware, tab
ulation by the Women's Interna-
tional Exposition in New York
shows. This placed Delaware first
among the states in proportion Of
women appointees to total popula-
tion-one for each 1876 persons
ia the state.
Nevada was second with z ap-
pointees, and third was Colorado,
which had Al appointees, one for
each 27,397 persons who live in
the state.
More than three-fourths Of the
nearly d million women engaged
in manufacturing in 1947 were in
production work, the Women's Bur-
eau Of the u. S. Labor Department
says.
Nearly two and half million
women were concentrated in 6 in
dustries: Apparel and related pro-
ducts, textile mill products, food
and kindred products, electrical
machinery, printing and publishing,
and machinery Except electrically.
Taken together, these half dozen
industries employed almost two
thirds of all women in manufactur-
ing administrative and office
workers as well as production
workers.
The total number Of women in
factories constituted 27 percent Of
the 14.2 million persons engaged
in manufacturing. Among produc-
tion employees alone, women ac-
counted for % percent.
Employment in apparel and re-
lated products has maintained its
traditional numerical superiority
among factory women. Women en-
gagged in the manufacture of APP
parel and related products formed
rs percent Of this industry's total
production workers in 1947. Total
ing about 760, 500, these women
workers outnumbered the men pro-
duction workers by half million.
They also exceeded by far the num-
Der of women production workers
found in any other of the 6 indus
tries which accounted for the bulk
of women factory workers in 1947.
In point of numbers, nearest
contenders to the women employed
in the apparel and related products
industry were the women workers
who make textile mill products.
They exceeded 518,000. Third place
was held by women production
workers in the food and kindred
products industry. They totaled
1876, 500 and formed about % per-
cent of the total production work
ers in this kind of establishment.
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A distinctive and precedent
making system of collective bar
gaining relations which has existed
for nearly 40 years in the women's
coat and suit industry, large en-
ployer of women, is discussed by
Dwight Edwards Robinson in "Col-
lective Bargaining and Market
Control in the New York Coat and
Suit Industry" columbia Univer-'
sity Press, 24S pages). 1t is the
purpose of the study to determine,
in as concrete terms as possible, |
the meaning Of this highly advanc-
ed form of collective bargaining to
its labor and managerial compOn-
ents as well as to society.
After summing up the key pro-
blems and main historical phases
of bargaining in the industry, the
author presents step-by-step ac-
counts of the NRA period and its
and of the Federal
Trade Commissions action under
the antitrust laws against employ
ers' organizations and union alike.
A full analysis and appraisal is
given of the National Coat and
Suit Recovery Board which is un-
que, first as a "trade association"
by labor and manage /
nent jointly, and second as the
,nly national association establish ]
ed under the NRA code to survive
% the present time. !