Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 307, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1918 — FRENCH WOMEN EMPLOYED ON RAILROADS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FRENCH WOMEN EMPLOYED ON RAILROADS

The French railroad companies, which before the war only employed women to look after grade crossings and to distribute tickets, now use thousands of women as porters, controllers and as cleaners of carriag and locomotives. The state railway has gone so far as employing woman stokers on shunting locomotives and in a few cases woman engineers. T state railways alone employ 3,500 women. In all their spheres of work these women, some widows, others fatherless, some daughters of mobilized men, work hard and long and rarely complain. Their employers are always pleased with them. / Students of labor conditions are asking when peace is restored wiyit will happen to these women. There exists an arrangement drawn up between the different companies where women are employed and the men s «y ndicate which the employment of women shall only be temporary. But it is quit possible that after the war women will be called upon to continue their wor and probably more will be found to fill posts vacated owing to the tremendous losses in the war. •

ONE OF THE HUSKY RAILROADERS.