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Show WOULD GET JOBS FOR MEM State President of Oregon Women'j Auxiliary Plans to Oust Women Who Do Not Need Work. A movement to oust from employment employ-ment all married women who nre not foi-ced by neces- slty t0 wtrk n,ls ' bec" st,,'le( by I Mrs. W. A. Elvers, ( i e" Portland, Ore., re- Vs! y jently re-elected s t state president of C I the Oregon de- Jf pnrtinent of the v Women's Auxil- -Lv lary' tlie A"ieri- j!?S!Kw nn Legion. pSfej, Mrs. Elvers speaks from firsthand first-hand Information. As trained nurse &d more recently as superintendent of the Emergency hospital In Portland, she has been doing a big man's work for years but her husband has been an Invalid for years. "Women got started In men's work during the war, when It was necessary and laudable," Mrs. Elvers declared. "They nre keeping It up 4iow. Those who have husbands supporting them have no right to keep needy men out of employment. They nre willing to work for less, too. They are breaking up our homes, all because they want extra pin money. It must stop, and It's going to In Oregon, at leLst." |