Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-02-23 | Page 11 | Better Rooms for Girls in Industry

BETTER ROOMS I IfOR fOR GIRLS IN i INDUSTRY 1 Y W W. C. C A A. Report Discloses Result of Campaign NEW W YORK Feb 23 Assistance e t to girl workers in solving housing problems problems problems is tobe to tobe recreation lems and in finding be continued by the 1 Y W. W C. C 1 A. A on ona ona a a. war scale It is announced in n. n tIle of at the association associations s 8 war annual r report port work council The safeguarding of ot health and the maintenance of morale moral of ot girls in industrial centers have become become be- be be become come part o of ot the tue reconstruction I pro pro- o gram recently been SI n new w centers have opened in isolated regions 1 where special special special cial industrial problems for women must be met met met-In in mill mm villages of the South mining towns of Ohio and West Virgi Virginia ia and among canning and fish packing Industries of or the Pacific coast SERVICE CENTERS Service centers have hav b been en opened In eight cities with large larg industrial populations pop pop- Richmond Va New Orleans Orleans Or Or- leans Jeans Cincinnati Minneapolis Pittsburg PlUs Pitts- burg Mass St. St Louis Lows and Chicago In the last fifteen months month's girls have enrolled d Jn In these J cities a as members of or industrial clubs or have been assisted in housing cafeteria cafe cate- teria service education and nd tion Particular attention is being given to the women housing problem In Washington where durin during the w war r women were employed The number has already increased to and seems likely to be before the year Is over because of th tb additional force required for tor the cen cen- sus A large recreation building and ind inda ada anda a hotel for girls are planned AID NEGRO GIRLS Work for tor negro girls Is under way In ten domestic fields of ot the tion Assistance to foreign born women Is being given by one fifty-one In International International international In- In Institute centers with p I workers speaking thirty-five thirty lan Ian The work Is In line with that done in the war such as translations home service for families of ot soldiers and allaying of ot rumors that caused I excitement among among- foreigners who did not understand the true conditions Work for foreigners In small Industrial Industrial Indus Indus- trial towns and agricultural ties Is ts under way in four states 34 VACATION CAMPS 1 I the Describing war work of the counell council council coun coun- I cil ell the reports tell of thirty four vacation vacation vacation va va- va- va J cation camps in twenty states where about girl workers obtained rest t tand and recreation Lectures on social hygiene hy- hy hy by- I giene glene were given In communities surrounding surrounding surrounding sur sur- rounding cantonments to a total of 1 1 wom women n and girls Dormitories I were built for girl workers connected with a number of cantonments The association maintained hoe has tess tess' houses In this city for women's I relatives or friends who were visit Ing soldiers and sailors at camps or d shore stations Many hostess hostess' houses acted ed as hospitals during the influenza epidemic