POLICEWOMEN IN WAR FACTORIES
Seventy women recently presented themselves in response to the appeal by the Ministry of Munitions for " 800 policewomen to serve.in State factories. They were of all ages up,to 60, and included wives of officers and doctors, two manageresses of tailoring departments, ladies' maids, book-keep-ers, school teachers, Lancashire weavers, and at least two schoolgirls, aged about sixteen. "Our experience is that school teachers make the best policewomen," said Miss Darner Dawson, chief of the Women's Police Service, who is organising the service for munition factories, where one of the chief duties will be to prevent carelessness that might result in explosions. School teachers exercise discipline in a very ta.- ful way. Ladies' maids may be put second, especially for work in State factories. I'hey are wonderfully quick at detecting in a frock any place where matches might be hidden. We already have a few in munition factories. One the oflier day caught a party of women workers indulging in a joy-ride on a wagon loaded with shells —and s;nd?rinc; cigarettes on top of the shells."— "Daily Mail."
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3041, 30 March 1917, Page 3
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180POLICEWOMEN IN WAR FACTORIES Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3041, 30 March 1917, Page 3
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