Show 4 MAKING MEN BEGGARS women win in madan london crowding out ont tie sterner set bex 1 1 I have before me 11 says walter waller berant in the london queen the thirty seventh annual report of the society for or promoting the employment ol of women I 1 am sorry to learn from thil report that the demand for women clerks and bookkeepers la Is on the increase at the same time I 1 am informed in other quarters qu artere that thousands of men clerks are tramping tho th streets of london wearing out shoe oboe leather in going up and down stairs in the weary work of trying to find places they find instead women doing the work which should keep them and their wives tor for halt half the pay one has no DO objection to women doing mens meng work it they got get mens pay they in may sy even keep the men in idleness it if they please like the laundresses row how shall we make these promoters understand the cutthroat cut throat policy of pushing women in everywhere at half or quarter the pay and driving the men abroad however there are other and more satisfactory features about this report in ID the me lower walks something has been done dona by the society in getting places for women as haar dressers will they ever become such euch admirable artists in thle this walk as the men lit in finding cooks and waitresses and in petting getting temporary work of all kinds for women but the numbers and figures fi agures gures oven given demonstrate that the work of the to is but a drop in the ocean we have of people with 2 of women and girls and all who are past the age of 16 with an einsig minority of about are clamoring tor for work |