GIRLS WHO NEVER "SUCK."

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 13, 15 January 1916, Page 15

GIRLS WHO NEVER "SUCK."

*■ ■ There was not a works "manager we spoke to who was not eager to attest to the excellence of woman labour (writes a "Dally Mail" reporter, who made a round ol visits of munition works in Scotland). Some of those dour Scottish foremen and maiagers had said weeks ago that women would "never, do." Results have made them admit they were wrong. Women's time-keeping Is excellent, their zeal wonderful. Right through the working day they stick tight to their Job, never flagging, never "slacking." • ; , So able have the women (proved that In some places arrangements are heing made to put them to work on the.biggest shells. Bogles and jigs and .labourers will do the lifting: the women will do the rest. Many of the women already "set" their ownlathes—exact work for •' which skilled mechanics have hitherto been considered as essential. We 'saw them inserting the cutting tools, banging at the clutch-keys with their leaden mallets, and getting the shell truly centred ou the lathe and under work without assistance from anyone. The woman mechanic seems an established institution now. ,■ ■