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Show ill! ill & GIVEN Willi i Since New Quarters Were Taken Applications Go Up 600 Per Cent. In a period of approximately sixty days tlie women's department of the local United States employment service has received 64 applications for positions and has furnished 407 situations. ThisMs according- to a report compiled by Airs. Aduie Soper, manager in charg'e of the department, who explains that since the hureau wit moved to the present pres-ent location on Main street np plications by women have increased nearly 600 per cent. During the twenty-five days that the women's department of tho federal employment em-ployment service was in operation iti rpiartTs on South Temple, street the department received about twenty-five applications. Practically all were filled. Since beinq established on the principal business street the office has enrolled more than 600 women for positions and has placed more than 400 of these. The place s applied for and provided comprise every line of labor for which women are suited, and in some isolated instances women have been placed in jobs heretofore held only by men. For instance, one woman was placed in a. position po-sition as a sort of timekeeper and clerical cleri-cal overseer in a local foundry, while, a number of" sirls have been provided with work in elevator opera ling. Wi I h the prospect of an early call for men for army service the stream of applications is daily steadily increasing. Mrs. Soper says. Director P. J. Moran wants 1.50 more men to complete the quota of .r00 wanted for shipyards service in San Francisco. Last nisht forty-two men were sent out on this service, making' the sum total provided 350. Yesterday's enlistments amounted to twenty, which will be applied ap-plied on the next forwarding, which is expected ex-pected to be made Saturday night. This shipment should amount to about forty. J. H. .Keliey, inspector in charge, expects ex-pects to complete the quota by next Thursday nig-ht. Tasi week one party of eighty men was forwarded and, according accord-ing lo a letter received by Inspector Keliey, till but one of this company was 'immediately set to work on more or less j skilled employment. Most of them are now engaged bolting plates and are said to be in fair way for promotions. |