GERMAN LABOUR SHORTAGE
MANY JOBS ADVERTISED. BERLIN, July 3. The German labour shortage has reached such a stage that the newspapers are carrying pages of “situations vacant” advertisements. The Morgen post (Berlin) has 16 pages of displayed advertisements announcing vacant situations in addition to many columns of similar small advertisements. The Frankfurter Zeitung has eight full pages of these advertisements. Women are replacing men throughout the country as railway hooki"'- r :clerks. tram conductors, postmen, lift ! attendants, sweeps and tnxidrivers. I Married women are replacing the shop assistants younger women who have been sent to munition, clectriea land other factories that are engaged on Government' contracts. I Domestic servants are vntually uuobtainable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 193, 17 July 1939, Page 7
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112GERMAN LABOUR SHORTAGE Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 193, 17 July 1939, Page 7
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