WOMEN AS NAVVIES
Seveu hundred women arc working as navvies, with spades and shovels, on extensions at Lord Furness'.s shipyards on the Toes. Some arc engaged on a bunk along which runs a temporary railway, and others aro laying concrete platforms on which tho keels of now ships will be put down. Somo] aro timekeepers, others arc on "point" duty, and all are said to work admirably. 111 In preparing concrete for tho keel platforms gangs of women work beside gangs of men, and a gang of women has beaten, a gang of men by four cubic yards. There are two branches of work needing much muscular strength from which women are barred, but wherever possible Lord Furnoss is replacing fit men of military age with women. At first there were many sprained ankles, due to the habit ot women going to work in flimsy boots, often with worn pegtop heels, which wero no use among loose soil and stones. A standard low-heeled shipyard boot lias now been introduced.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 293, 30 August 1918, Page 2
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169WOMEN AS NAVVIES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 293, 30 August 1918, Page 2
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