Show WOMEN EXCEED MEN IN JAPANESE FACTORIES japanese women n work at average daily wa wage ge of ten to twenty cents for a twelve hour day there are more women in industry in japan than there are men accord to a statement recently made by the war V ar work council of the young christian association the world war has brought women and girls into the dally daily grind 0 of f industry according to this statement of them little girls under fifteen years of age who work twelve hours at a wage of ten to twenty y cents a day that the world may have filk dresses and munitions in ID tokyo alone a city of two and one half million millio n people there are women employed in sixty two industries dus tries and varying from work no as telephone operators opera tora clerks stenographers and bookkeepers era to work in silk and other sorts of factories and do mettle work each year thousands of these women go back to their homes its in the country broken in health and v victims leti riis of tuberculosis because of the poor conditions under which they work and live they are how housed ed in dormitories in the factory compound these dormitories are frequently unsanitary the 9 girls iris work long hours have no recreation and on finishing their long day go immediately to bed oftentimes a bed which a girl who works at night has been sleeping in all day As part of its world service for women the young Christ christlar lat association plans to build dormitories dormit orle in manufacturing towns where girls may live cheaply under healthful physical and social conditions to send out secretaries who can introduce recreation into the factory compound and direct games and social life this Is done with the operation cooperation co of the factories managers mari agers and proprietors prie tors one of the most influential of these Is mrs buzuk me most P prominent romi nent woman manufacturer in japan who Is owner and manager of a firm which exported worth of bean oil to america last year recently mrs suzuki decided to employ one thou thousand women in her offices she could not find enough well trained ones so she established a permanent school where Japa japanese neso girls g i als may be trained to enter the busl riess ness world the greatest danger ahead of japan she says Is in its growing materialism and japans greatest need the development of her women |