Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-05-16 | Page 33 | Parisian Women Do 32 per Cent of Men's Work

PARISIAN WOMEN DO 32 PER CENT OF MENS MEN'S WORK MURK 1 h PARIS May Ia 15 two Thirty pet per percent cent of or the Iho work formerly done dono lono in Paris b by men street treet sweepers s ib- ib way guards elevator l attendants trolley troley car cr conductors and amI t operators Is now done done b by ly I Every ery E o or administrative admin e district In Paris has a municipal municipal mu mu- employment a agency enc where employers who Will want nt help hell and persons persons per per- sons SOIlS who want work resI register ter No other a agencies are ure recognized b by law Tile The employer must pay py the nominal fees Inquiries ut ul various bureaus show that amon among laboring classes I servants suffer most from th the war Most French families reduced tile wages of their servants tho the first week of or mobilization and runny many were discharged Th There re are arc now lon long waiting lists of ot servants looking for tor any sort of employment This category cate- cate catt- catt gory Includes mail many governesses gO and aUdi private ate tuors who owing to LI the economy campaign In French families lies les find ind themselves es out of a work Two months ago ago there thero thele were wet 20 O Opel per pel cent more dressmakers and tailors tailors tail tail- tai tai- ors assistants out cut l I of employment than at Jre present nt showing silo I hat that with wih the lie coming comins of spring fashions are again agin receiving some attention For certain branches of office employment em em- such ch 8 as messengers office boys and porters portErs more applications are received from employers than can bo ho filled The scarcity has 1158 le led t to tf c the increase of or wages from 5 S r to 10 per cent as ns youths are being continually con coti- summoned to Join the thE colors with wih the new TlC cla classes NI On the tl other hand highly trained d employees ac accountants accountants ac- ac bookkeepers stenographers pliers office mana managers ers and typists find difficulty In iii securing situations I ns 15 the tile majority of ot lar large e offices s ha have hae e either adopted a policy of oC retrenchment retrench retrench- ment or are hol holding ln open o En the tIle then va vacancies va- va caused by br mobilization mob of former farmer employees Hitherto it i lists has been the tile custom for an applicant for or a position to state stute the tile minimum salary required also the tile kin kind of ot employment desired At t present man nIan many Sli say tr that tile they will perform an any duty duly even the mo most l menial me ale- me- me nial and will 1 TI rely on OU the tile bounty oCI of oC I their employer