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Show WOMEN EXCEED MEN IN JAPANESE FACTORIES 850,000 Japanese Women Work at Average Daily Wage of Ten to Twenty Cents for a Twelve Hour Day. fT There are more women In Industry In Japan than there are men, accord-to accord-to a rtatement recently made by the War Work Council of the Young Women's Wo-men's Christian Association. The world war has brought 800,000 women and girls Into the dally grind of Industry according to this statement state-ment ; 30,000 of them little girls under fifteen years of age who work twelve hours at a wage of ten to twenty cents a day, that the world may have rllk dresses and munitions. In Tokyo alone, a city of two and nne-half million people, there are 100,-000 100,-000 women employed In sixty-two Industries In-dustries nnd businesses varying from work as telephone operators, clerks, stenographers and bookkeepers to work In silk and other sorts of factories fac-tories and domestic work. Each year thousands of these women wo-men go back to their homes In the country, broken In health and victims of tuberculosis becnuse of the poor conditions under which they work aud live. They are housed In dormitories Id the factory compound. These dormitories dormi-tories are frequently unsanitary. The girls work long hours, have no recreation recre-ation and on finishing their long day go Immediately to bed, oftentimes a hed which a girl who works at night has been sleeping In all day. As part of Its world service for women, wo-men, tho Young Women's Christian Association plans to build dormitories In manufacturing towns where girls may ilve cheaply under healthful physical and social conditions, to send out secretaries who can Introduce recreation rec-reation Into the factory compound and direct gnmes and social life. This Is done with the co-operation of the factories' managers and proprietors. pro-prietors. One of the most Influential of these Is Mrs. Suzuki, the most prominent woman manufacturer In Japan, who Is owner and manager of a Arm which exported $11,000,000 worth of bean oil to America last year. Recently Mrs. Suzuki decided to employ one thousand women In her offices. She could not find enough well trained ones so she established a permanent school where Japanese girls may be trnlned to enter the business busi-ness world. The greatest danger ahead of Japan, she says, Is In Its. growing materialism, and Japan's greatest need, the development of her women. |