Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-11-25 | Page 24 | Office Girls Declared Too Eager to Marry

u t OFFICE GIRLS GIRLS DECLARED DECLARED I I TOO EAGER TO MARRY 1 I It I I II t I II II I I I I ti- ti 4 I tt 4 5 43 I I a t office to 1 1 In In inset t t Chicago OffiCe c cs 1 llon I By fly G GEORGE BRn NEA Service I CHICAGO Nov 24 All All nomen omen office workers expect to get mat flint mat ned ried In a lear 5 ear ea- or two All men expect to get the boss job Thes Thea are major obstacles to 0 o er r- r come In bringing white collar workers Into the organized labor labo movement according to Dd ard Hughes secretary of tho the Chicago Office Union the largest large office workers local in In the country countr Miss MarIe Marle Erhardt his office see SEC sec secretary Is read ready to verify the state state- statement statement ment But are they downcast at the difficulty They'll tell teU the hole hole world norM Not OPTIMISTIC With th tho the promise of ot backing from the American Federation ot of ll Labor for tor a national extension cam cam- campaign campaign 1 they aro are looking forward to 0 the day when hen the bookkeeper and ond the clerk shall drive to work In a Rolls Royce just the same as the I U aside the tha cam cain campaIgn Is to be wages sages this fall tall to de- de de tho the office 1 workers union In- In Into into into to a serious factor In business In- In Instead instead Instead stead ot of o a mere ocal ocal minority Those two hopes in th the hearts ot of men and women nomen make It hard to t arouse Interest In unions says say I Hughes Hughe's The girls figuie e they I Iare are working only temporarily he men tear fear anything which might nn- nn antagonize antagonize the management md und de- de deter do ter fec promotion Then they think they have social superiority by be- be beIng being beIng Ing union non The squeezing which luch the office worker g gets ts bet between een manual labor I and employers will sill bling hIm around to organization The trades trade are unionized and are ore getting higher ages The Tho heads of ot business are 2 organized and ond are arc getting larger large profits Th The cost rost ot of 11 liking I But the office n worker without et- et e protest has hiss to take talce what pay Is offered I CITY nur n ORGANIZED ORG OIW I Most of ot our 1300 1100 members In Chicago work orl in the city hall ball About are ore women omen omen When the thi cost of ot started up the un Un-I Un organized clerical force torce here fo for fot a raise They couldn't en e I get a hearing from the finance committee They don t get e eer- eer er e en thing they ask now of ot course courso but bu they are listened to and conditions condition have hae Improved ed I The white Collar unions a at present ha haie have no e no 1 national organization tion but are chartered directly I by bythe bythe bithe the American Federation of ot LaborThe Labor The plan of ot campaign Is to tIe work ork a Ork In cities where there there Is IsI I oread already a foothold reeking peekinG to iiii- iiii I 1 11 1 t offices ol of ate Industries In which the shops already ar are organized And the day Is coming corning sass ta 13 8 Miss Erhardt when when the young youn man going to see his girl pirl will have llave hav to show his card not cord not visiting visiting- but union 00