Show 1 II REPlACE MEN MEM IN IM BUREAU OF nINES MIMES The federal bureau of mines is opening opening open open- ing lag its Us services to women as us never be be- be fore tore Since e the beginning of the war it has more than quadrupled its clerical force force- of women employed In the depart depart- department ment of the interior at Washington n In addition to its regular force fOlce of stenographers typists filing clerks etc who work during the day the bureau has I been compelled to employ a night force fOlce I and this about twenty-five twenty wo- wo mei These night workers are employed at the rate of 50 cents an hour The bureau of mines is endeavoring to make this work helpful to women who are out of ot work or awaiting employment c. or require this extra help No woman employed employed employed em em- by the government during the day Is permitted to join this night force At the new Pittsburg experiment station station station sta sta- sta- sta tion which has Just been completed by bythe bythe bythe the government at a cost coat of half halt a million million mil mu- lion dollars women are being employed as fast as male vacancies require and permit the substitution of female service In the tho bureau of mines' mines former force of I two hundred at this thia station I which occupied the tile old arsenal grounds I Inot not a single woman was employed They I Ia are now being employed y as rapidly as vacancies a gl's occur 6 which f they can fill l I |