A 66-HOUR WEEK

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 44, 21 February 1942, Page 11

A 66-HOUR WEEK

ENGLISHWOMEN DON'T

GRUMBLE

ALL-OUT WAR EFFORT IN

FACTORIES

Englishwomen are working a 66----hour week in tank, aircraft, and munitions factories. No one objects to working eleven hours a day, six days a week, and two.weeks' on the day and two weeks on the night shifts, because everyone realises that by her co-opera-tion she is helping Britain to ultimate victory. Among the workers are titled women from some of the greatest houses in .England. They range from Lady Ewing, 64-year-old widow of Sir Alfred Ewing (a former president of the British Association), to 20-year-old Lady Sarah Spencer Churchill, eldest daughter of the Duke of Marlborough.

Lady Louise Montagu, 33-year-old daughter of the Duke of Manchester, is considered by the plant foreman of the munitions factory—where she works to be one of the most skilled workers in the shop. Jn peacetime, as a hobby, she learned the workings of racing cars and aeroplanes. In wartime, as a job, she hap learned to finish patterns for the manufacture of bullets. She is paid £4 16s a week. She is billeted with other women en> ployees and works the same hours. "CUSHY" JOBS NOT WANTED, Lady Ursula Manners works in .an aircraft factory in the North Midlands. Countess Wharncliffe inherited an air« craft factory from her husband, work'