GIRL-BUILT SHIPS
EXPERIMENT PROVES ART
The 12 o'clock whistle shrilled over the shipyard of a mid-Scottish town. There was a rush as the "black squad" made for the gate. And out swung a bunch of women in the trim blue dungarees of the W.1.N.5., girls with-Ginger Rogers curls, mothers of families —the shipbuilders. In that town one of the most novel experiments of the war is proving itself. Women are working in a shipyard as the main source of labour. • It was a year ago that it started. The great central shed of the yard was repaired. New machinery was installed. Slips erected. Three months later the gates swung open to admit the new workers—the women. There were some men to do the heavy work and to train the girls for their jobs. But most of the. labour was female. For this was the new idea, welded craft.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 36, 12 February 1943, Page 2
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