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Show ITEN CITIES TO OPEN ' INDUSTRIAL BUREAUS Women's industrial Service centers 1 ar being established by the Young Women's Christ ian Association in ten of the larger cities of the United States in order to demonstrate the best way pf meeting the needs of the woman who earns her own living, particularity particular-ity when her worl: takes her into a strange city. Such outers have, been star!-'l In Richmond, Va., and in New Orleans. Others will be opened soon in ( iiw m-nali. m-nali. Minneapolis and Kansas according to Miss Gertrude Murrell, who leaves New York shortly to establish es-tablish work in the last two cities The five other cities which are to have ihe.se industrial demonstration cen-yet cen-yet i.i be determined upon The plan, according to Miss Murrell, Is to secure a building in the heart of the industrial district of the city I where a club, on the order of the Industrial In-dustrial War Service centers, started by the Y. . c. a in factories dur-intr dur-intr wnrfime will hn -itnnri The house is to be ir. a section i where the girl is and be v. here she needs it. There will be no set pro gram of work If the girls who go to i the club want educational classes, such work will be started on their request If they do not. they can use the center cen-ter just for recreation and for good times. If a cafeteria is needed one will be started. The center is to provide pro-vide whatever the girls themselves in each community want. The center, while promoted and supervised sup-ervised through the national industrial cob mittee, will be under the direction ot a local committee which will be made up of women living in the com -muni ; and of industtial workers I u whom the club is started and will be i managed on broad, democratic prin-l ciples. There will be no religious restrictions restric-tions or Qualifications nor will membership mem-bership in the Y. W. C. A be com ! pulsory. club mmbers may join th Association if they desire, but the club is open to all women industrial workers. The girls will assess dues when small clubs are formed among 'the large membership for the purpose of studying definite subjects or pursuing pur-suing specified kinds of recreation such as swimming, hiking, basketball or other gymnastic classes. The work will be directed by women who have had experience in the war s. rvice clubs at the big munitions factories fac-tories during the past year and the aim is to found the work so thorough -I ly that cities, realizing the necessity for social centers of this sort, will con j tinue the work after the demons i ra -jtion year when it is financed by the National Y. W. C. A. as part of Its reconstruction program. |