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Show WOMEN DISPLACE MEN IN BREWERIES, AND WAGES TAKE A DROP CHICAGO, April 15. As the result of her Investigations In the breweries and tanneries of Milwaukee, Miss 'Irene Osgood Os-good of NorthwMtern University settlement, settle-ment, yesterday declared before the Women's Wo-men's Trade Union league at Hull house that women are fast displacing men in the industry. . "In 1903 a certain big tannery in Milwaukee Mil-waukee employed only two women," she aid. "I went through the same place recently and found 300 girls working there. I found, alao, that the wages or the men In that place1 had been reduced 20 cents a day as a consequence?' Miss Osgood deprecated the Influx' of women Into the breweries, where, she said, the work among the vats and In tha malting rooms was morally Injurious to the girl employees.. The young women receive from $2.76 to $8.60 a week, aha asserted, for long hours and hard labor. |