Show TH iTH AN J OF f W I J TAKE AK JOS J B. B I V f MR i I in One Sta State Do Dc I New Work Vork Linemen Linemen- e ettes tes Peanut Pe nut Butchers Butch I ers T Truck c k D. D Drivers Driver 5 I By U United pre Press V V w Feb 9 Thou 9 Thou Thou- I N KT j I t iN sands to s ns i J girls girls' and wo le d di their i bit to help I tlc V th iii C t T I work t i This gigantic t x sp t f manpower w Is clearly hO hOn hown n by b coH ol 1 b by bythe the tIle United Press from I representative American cities With the nation crying for men to I build ships keep the railroads running running running run run- ning and for men to fight girls and andI all work I women are shown taking up I from operating street cars to climbing climbing climb cUmb- ling ing telephone poles Massachusetts alone has from since I to more women working America entered the war The heaviest heaviest I est Increase V is reported in women textile workers Approximately 2000 Oregon women are working in mens men's places accord A ing to estimates of ot social workers In electrical majority of V these are positions although the state boasts one woman blacksmith two brass finIshers finIshers finishers fin fin- while many many are operating gas filling stations Wooden box factories fan fac tories have drawn draD a large number of women workers V Montana Montana V Jh has s women w men peanut butchers on trains Washington reports one telephone nette V Pennsylvania Pennsyl iJ state officials estimate estimate estimate esti esti- mate that nearly women are are employed in th the state at what prior considered strictly to the tho war was vas mens men's work In ad addition several hundred bundred hundred hun bun dred thousand women women are are working to toI today today to- to day who were not working prior to I the var war but but not at mens men's work However outside of Philadelphia and the number of women doing do- do O- O I Pitts Pittsburg burg ing mens men's work is relatively small Several sections of ot the Pennsylvania railroad employ women as track hands Railroad work also has haR called many women In San Francisco women yemen pra practically tic replacing cin men as passenger coach cleaners while Whilo many ire are working in the Burlington shops tending Lending machines etc Women romen there running many elevators ele and re replacing replacing re- re I are tre placing men In offices The Tho increase increases Is s estimated front from 10 to l 15 ii per cent to employ women on street streetcars streetcars Attempts cars tars were defeated in Kansas City I Women organizations there are fightIng fight fight- Ing In exploitation by hy unnecessary ry employment employment em em- of women at men mens men's s work worl and irid attempting to enforce equal pay to more women are arc From I doing loing mens men's work in St. St Louis than before the war Many are employed I conductors on street cars c rs some a. a as is J are ire driving trucks and three are arc acting act act- carriers mail In ing na as Dallas reports leports a n. few women postal clerks Five hundred girls are working Inthe in inthe the he Cleveland and Lorrain roundhouses round round- houses louses on engines Twenty five hunI hundred hun bun I dred more are engaged as elevator operators messengers and md bellhops I Chicago council of defense committee commit commit- tee teo 00 says the number of women doing mens men's work vork there t ere is surprisingly small mall New York City has women street streetcar car ar c conductors and elevator ele ehe vat vator ator or operators Albany has twenty five women working in shops on bolt cutting machines and an sorting metal In La contrast to other cities Atlanta has hardly been affected by the movement the only girls now doing doin oin I mens men's work work- ork being a few In the ele ele ele- ele V J |