NO SOLUTION

Evening Post, Issue 113, 10 November 1930, Page 10

NO SOLUTION

WOMEN'S JOBS FOR MEN

Asserting that "vii employment cannot be relieved <by throwing women out of work and giving their jobs to men," Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, chairman of the National Council of the National Woman's Party, announced that a campaign would be conducted throughout the United States to combat efforts in: that direction. A resolution authorising the campaign has been adopted by the council, says tho "New York Times." "A widespread .attempt is in progress to create Federal employment conditions for men at the expense of,women," said Mrs. Wiley. "At, the recent convention of the United Textile Workers of America a policy, was adopted of placing further "restrictions upon, the employment of women as a supposed solution of the unemployment situation. "Also the executive committee of the Cotton-Textile Institute recently voted to urge all mill executives to-bar women from night work, effective not later than Ist March, 1931. In some cities, as ■ for example, Philadelphia, officials a*re threatening to put women out of positions desired by men regardless of the local Civil Service laws. . "The Woman's Party intends to see that women workers get a square deal,: and its various State branches will send deputations to the executives of those mills which have indicated an intention to eeaso employing women on the same terms as men. "It is ridiculous to attempt to solve the unemployment problem by taking work away from one group and giving it to'another,' for that will not decrease the number of unemployed. . "The theory that women work for 'pin money' was long ago exploded. They work for the same reason that men work, and that reason is eeonomie necessity. Studios made in the United States reveal that as between single men and single women who are gainfully employed women contribute in-larger proportion than men do to the support of. dependent relatives."