Show MAKING MEN BEGGARS women in london crowding ont tho sterner soi sex 1 I have before me says walter besant in the london queen the thirty seventh eleventh annual report of the society for promoting the employment ol 01 women I 1 am sorry to learn from this report that th atthe the demand for women clerks and bookkeepers is on tho the increase at the same time I 1 am informed in other quarters that thousands of men dorks clerks are tramping the streets of london wearing out shoe leather in going up and down stairs in the weary work of trying to find places they find instead women doing the work which should keep them and their wives for halt half the pay one has no objection to women doing mens work it if they get mens pay they may even keep the men in idleness it if they please like the laundresses ilow how shall we make these promoters understand the cutthroat cut throat policy of pushing women in everywhere at halt half or quarter the pay and driving the men abroad however there fire are other and more satis sails factory features about this report in the lower walks something has been done by the society in getting gelling places for women as hairdressers hair dressers will they ever become such admirable artists in this walk as aa the men in finding cooks and waitresses and in getting temporary work of all kinds tor for women but the numbers and figures given demonstrate that the work of 0 the society Is hilt but a drop in the ocean we have of people with of women and girls girle and all who aro are past the age of oe 15 with in an insignificant ant minority of about are clamoring for work |