WOMEN SHIPBUILDERS

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 104, 27 January 1943, Page 3

WOMEN SHIPBUILDERS

Women in industry arc still considered >.,mewlml in the I" lieve-it or-iiol category. I’.-opie ask. almost incredulous y. Are thev really repkieing men .' Are they good workers’'” savs the "Uhristmii scienia Monitor.” Here’s the answer Al tlm & a h/ their Z Simide vied was one of the first m New England' const rm-l ing wooden ships to einIdov n large corps ol girls as nuichiiiisls , product ion of vessels. And if any; Lodv shouted th.. l :.iml.’’You’ll be sorry lie is now undoubtedly very red in the la An nrrnv and navy “E” for excellence credit for its merit. Six mouths ago limit.' of the women now in industry were plying needle mid tlireml. Today they work with heavier fools. Their patterns are Hie frames of ships and planes; then "goods” 5 t ,.,.| I of cotton. p.m „|| iliiv i< just the beginning. Be1,,,.,. ||„. vein- is finished it is expeeled (I,:,I th,, inige Fore Rive,. Shipyards ol the Bethlehem Steel CorporiHmn ni l "e | Mt peiit), by women. Millions mm-.' will leave the fireside for Um Im-tori in ,1,.. greatest drafting of woman power that the I States Ims eier known. When it is over many will lay don n then tool- amt go hack Io the familiar chores of the hollsi'l' il’e. Iml not all. Aew ll"hls will Ipen lifter this war Io women « Im have earned a place in them.