WOMEN AND WAR WORK
After reading about Mr. Bevin's recent report on women "for essential war work in Great Britain, it makes me think that he would find a happy hunting ground in our own country towns. The mecca in which I live, for-non-war-conscious damsels, ranging from 19 years to 24 years, who are filling jobs that 15-year-olds could be doing well, is truly amazing. Lrraceiul lounging over stationery counters chatting, with numerous other employees around, or bending over radio sets with a bored air and asking- the bosses at the back the price when someone inquires Yes, an of this is going on while there is fn s ?-« eak for fe male war workers in different centres throughout New offi a^ nd - ,? erha Ps if a manpower omcei could manage a tour and see S.n e T self the waste of Sirls, in general, some factory doing essential •wfe ° U . ld ' P r erha Ps, benlfit—l say perhaps" ! ON ESSENTIAL WORK.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 109, 10 May 1943, Page 2
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