Washington County News | 1918-08-08 | Page 3 | Lady Stevedores on Job

LADY stevedores ON JOB three of them are fired fop others are giving able service brooklyn N Y sixteen women la overalls are wrestling dally with pound bags of coffee and hundred ol 01 sugar w arbing side by side with muscular men long used to this hard job they are the new lady stevedores hired by the new york dock company there would be 39 these female dock gallopers wallo pers were it not for the fact that three of the number n were fired on account ot heir bussing cussing among hie present 10 arc an au elior a former vaudeville star several and two negro women their hours are 7 a m to S p ra days a week they are getting 32 cent an hour the rate paid to men II 11 B whipple general manager predicts a bright for all women similarly engaged though ho really had no notion the scheme would work as well as tt has