PENSIONS ARE
NOT ADEQUATE
LONDON, July 14.—Despite the
provision the British government is
supposed to make for .the wives and
families of its men at the front, an
expose in the labor “Herald” today
would indicate that some of England’s
women and children feel the pinch of
poverty during wartime quite as much
as the thousands of American militia
men’s wives and children feel it since
their breadwinners have been called
to the Mexican border.
The allegations concerning the al
leged pension evils are attracting the
attention not only of labor unions, but
of government officials. The Herald
gives a long list of inadequate pen
sions and says:
“If this kind of thing happens while
the war is on and men are needed,
what must happen when peace is de
clared and the services of men in the
army and navy arc no longer requir
ed?
“Some of the cases are:
“A horseshoer who could easily
earn $20 a week was wounded in 1015
and discharged. He is still under a
doctor’s care and some days cannot
work at all. He has been granted a
pension of $2.70 a week and has a
wife and seven children, the eldest 14
years and the youngest three weeks.
“A private in the army service
corps with a wife and four children,
the eldest 14 and the youngest 11
weeks, was discharged as medically
unfit and suffering from general de
bility. His pension is $1.15 a week
for six months.
“Another soldier, shot through the
arm,who cannot get work because
one arm is disabled, was awarded a
pension of $1.35 a week for six
months.
“A soldier who had been in the ar
my 12 years, discharged this year, is
very ill in a London hospital, while
his wife and five children, who found
themselves unable to live on his pen
sion of $1.16 a week, are being carqd
jar by the poor board.
“Another human wreck from the
Royal Marines, discharged for nerves
following fever, must try to keep his
wife and five children on a pension of
$2.80 a week.”
Dozens of cases similar to these
also are told about.
SENSIBLE PLAN
TO AID FEMALES
WASHINGTON, July 24.—Uncle
Sam’s all ready to help his women
and girls get jobs.
Organization of the recently cre
ated Women & Girls’ division of the
United States employment service of
the Bureau of Immigration now is
on a working basis, Commissioner
general of Immigration Caminetti
announced here today.
Branches of this bureau have been
established in all the leading cities
of the country. They are in charge
of women. Uncle Sam’s investiga
tion disclosed that women and girls
don't like to deal with men when they
go to an employment bureau, that’s
why.
The service stations will give spe
cial attention to the requests of wo
men wage earners for work and to
meeting the demand for female help
in rural as well as urban communi
ties.
If a woman in Des Moines wants
a job in. Kansas City but doesn’t
know much about conditions down
there, she will be told by the bureau.
Detailed information about pay,
hours and general conditions will be
placed at her disposal by the bureau.
If the woman wants to get into a
certain kind of work but doesn’t
know enough about it to be efficient,
the bureau nearest her home will
provide her a vocational training
course along that line and be hunting
a job for her meantime.
Each bureau is responsible to the
government for the sort of places it
sends the women who ask for jobs.
The women in charge of the bu
reaus must “protect the women and
girls from exploitation and misdirec
tion; and no woman or girl shall be
directed to an opportunity unless the
character of the place and the em
ployer has been established to the
satisfaction of the officer in charge.”
The factory owners and business
men of the United States are urged
to cooperate with Uncle Sam’s wo
men agents in getting efficient fe
male help placed in the right jobs.
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OPTICIAN
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