WOMEN AND WORK

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2517, 19 July 1915, Page 6

WOMEN AND WORK

WE ARE NOT SLACKERS ADDRESS BY MR. LLOYD CEORCE. (Rec. July 18, 7.15 p.m. London, July 17. ; Heavy rain detracted from the women's demonstrations. The ■ procession was a mile long, and there were 125 sections, each heaaed by banners. Amoiig tho inscriptions were, "Hon must fight and women must work"; "We aro not slackers"; "We mean to savo oui country to keep the_ Kaiser out" ; "Wg demand war service for all," Mr. Lloyd George, Minister for Munitions, in his addi-"ss, said about hlty thousand women wero already working in tho munition factories, and it was a question of getting tlie men and women to work together to help the country through the , worst crisis ever experienced. Tho first thing was to get an adequate supply of machine tools. The Government was assuming control of all machine tool-making establishments. The women must givo their whole timo to the work. • They would receive the same piece rates as men. "he Government would control tho factories, and see that thero was no sweated labour. . Tho women could help tho nation to victory, without them victory would tarry, and victory which tarries means victory lylioso footprints are footprints ill blood.