WOMEN WORKERS
WEEDING DOMESTIC SERVICE
(Rec. 1 p.m.) LONDON, August 12. The Labour Ministry will purge servants from big houses throughout Britain, says the "Mirror." When young ' servants register, the Ministry will write to the employers asking for reasons why the girls should remain in domestic employment. The Ministry has decided that no healthy woman is too old at sixty to do a job which will release a young girl for war work. j The "Daily Mail" says that because labour is becoming scarce in London, women "are being taken from nonessential industries and put. into urgent war work. A "pool" of older women willing to work part-time is being formed.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 38, 13 August 1941, Page 8
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111WOMEN WORKERS Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 38, 13 August 1941, Page 8
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