MEN CROWDING OUT WOMEN WORKERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 68, 3 November 1911, Page 2

MEN CROWDING OUT WOMEN WORKERS.

Tho complaint is often made that men are being thrown out of employment by the competition of women who take a smaller wage to do the same work. A 'new version of this competition comes from America. A number of the business concerns employing clerical labour in large quantity have begun displacing their women workers by men. Many of the groat railways, it is said, have actually determined on regulations prohibiting the employment of women in future. The reasons given involve no reflection on the actual economic value of women’s labour. It is not suggested that for work done the cost is greater than if men were/employed. The trouble is that tho women do not look beyond their daily task. They have no* ambition for the future. They are not at work to make themselves a career, but to tide over a few years .before,..marriage. The American employer wants workers who will stay and give their life’s energies to business.