WOMEN WORKERS SOUGHT

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 2, 3 January 1941, Page 9

WOMEN WORKERS SOUGHT

(Australian Press Association.) LONDON, Dec. 7. The appeal by the Minister for Labour, Mr Ernest Bevin, for 500,000 women munition and engineering workers, is interpreted as disclosing two needs: (1) Speeding up production in everchanging conditions, and (2) Replacing men needed by the Army. The London Daily Mail, in a leading article, says: “When are we going to get a real plan for the Home Front? We are still drifting along as we were a year ago. The Ministry of Labour’s appeal for women war workers failed largely because of the demand for shop girls, typists, dressmakers, and office cleaners. “We have got to make up our minds whether women in these trades will help to beat Hitler quicker than woman in workshops. “Mr Bevin says that much more must be done to produce the trained labuor required. Why isn’t it done? Why wasn’t it done ong ago? Mr Bevin says, too .that the Government will not hesitate to use compulsion if necessary. The Government took compulsory powers months ago. Millions of women will be needed before the war ends.