Show 3 women workers must hide age washington A womans comans proverbial reticence where age Is concerned has economic it if not ethical justification in our modern industrial system according to of the bie united states bureau the woman over twenty eight who tells her employer the truth about her age Is likely to find herself out of a job says miss mary blary V robinson director of the bureaus division of public information the bureau finds the term older worker Is being applied to nil lill women employees between the ages of twenty eight and sixty eight and that it Is fairly typical topical for industrial concerns to employ only women under thirty with the problem of finding work becoming more acute for or ft women omen in their thirties naturally to the women of over forty forced to seek a job the situation seems almost hopeless MISS robinson said 11 many women in their fifties despite years ot of satisfactory and loyal loal service ore are kept hept through wrong types of efficiency methods in constant consta fit dread tit of losing their positions and those who have crossed the sixty mark even though still hale fit and useful gen brally are regarded as hole hopelessly lessly beyond the dead line of employment the bureau recently made a survey of women hand band workers in the cigar industry where hundreds have been thrown out of work by factory mergers and installation of ra recently invented automatic igar cigar mak ing machines machtmes mach thes A number of those questioned frankly admitted prevaricating bout about their age in their effort to find new work miss robinson raises the question if it a shortsighted civilization that offers wage standards too low to provide savings that would insure against unemployment and ago age standards too coo low to provide jobs tor for capable applicants |