Show women workers must hide age washington A womans comans proverbial re reticence tice nce where age la Is concerned has edon economic omle if not ethical justification in our modern industrial system according to officials official of the united states bureau the woman over twenty eight who tells her employer the truth about her age Is likely to find herself out of a job says miss bliss mary V robinson director of the bureaus division of public information the bureau finds the term older worker Is being applied to all women employees between the tha ages of twenty eight and ana sixty eight and that it la Is fairly typical for industrial concerns to e employ only we women men under ali arty with the problem of finding work becoming more acuto acute for women in th their air thirties les naturally to the women of over forty forced to seek a job the situation seems almost hopeless miss bliss robinson said many women in their fifties despite years of satisfactory and loyal service are kept through wrong types of efficiency methods in constant dread of losing their positions and thase who have crossed the sixty mark maik even though still hale fit and useful gen orally are regarded regard ed as hopelessly be yond the dead line of employment the bureau recently made a survey of women hand workers in the cigar industry where hundreds have been thrown tin own out of work by factory mergers and installation of recently invented automatic cigar mak ing machines A number of those thosa questioned frankly admitted prevaricating about their age in their effort to find new work miss robinson rals raises esthe the question if it isal t a sho shortsighted civilization i that offers wage standards too low to provide savings that would insure against unemployment meni and age standards coo low to provide jobs for capable applicants |