Show better betted employment conditions and shorted workday needs for women in industry by MISS MARY MAHY ANDERSON federal department of labor UT of occupation 9 listed in the census of iga 1920 10 only 36 0 left which did not employ women and we e are faced with a new problem our great and rapid development of machine rande goods has given us an ability to produce more than we can con aunie pum c in many linoa lines so far we have been able to take up the slack by bj r binding inding new lines of production things which once were lus luxuries uries hav haat bacon bioc onic ic necessities to most of us but how flow far along this road we can go before we come to the lay day of reckoning is the question in my mind I 1 em am afraid we shall face a period of tremendous unemployment alia what t is ia the solution lution eo women are in industry to stay they can help in the right direction insisting by on oil better conditions for their cru nr so long as th they ey stay at the bottom of the wage vage scale as a whole eo 80 long as they are weak and exploited just so long do they keep keel down the entire working 9 group regardless of sex shorter hours will help not only through 0 making room for more workers but also through 0 giving off nil the workers more koisti leisure re for the worthwhile worth while whilo things of life we have lave sot got to grow bigger than our machine civilization civilisation we have got to lay more emphasis on oil education or on personal culture on oil recreation on oil home life on com in unity life on citizenship that then is the next step employment will march on oil hut but it will continue to penetrate more and more into these newer liewer divisions rather than to iner increase ase in the great volume that the past lias hai soon seen we ve are workers now wo have taken our places on oil that ground the next step is that of full citizenship |