WOMEN’S WAR WORK.
INCREASED RESPONSIBILITIES. (Roe. 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, Nov. 12. A new order issued by the Ministry of Labour makes any young woman without home ties liable to be sent to work anywhere Lu Britain. A survey will soon be taken of young women in non-essential jobs. They will be replaced by older women. The new order divides women workers into two groups —mobile and immobile. Alobile women workers are classified as those having no children undei 14. those who are not wives of Servicemen, are not doing an essential war job, or who have no home ties.
Twelve women wharf labourers, believed to be Britain’s first, signed on to unload a ship at a north-east port because insufficient men were available.
Women Home Guard volunteers are resenting a War Office order banning the use of fire arms for training. Dr. Edith Summerslcill. M.P . said: “The War Office cannot crush a spontaneous movement like the Women’s Home Guard. In France men and women were not prepared. In England women are going to be prepared.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 291, 13 November 1941, Page 7
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