CALL ON WOMEN
' EXTENDED IN BRITAIN MOBILE LABOUR FORCE. FIRST WOMEN “WHARFIES” SIGN ON. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day. 12.5 p.m.) LONDON, November 12. A new order issued by the Labour Ministry makes any young woman without home ties liable to be sent to work-anywhere in Britain. A survey will soon be taken of young women in non-essential .. jobs. They will be replaced by older women. 1 The hew order divides women workers into two groups, mobile and immobile. Mobile women workers are classified as those having no children under fourteen, those who are not wives of service men, 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 the War Office order banning the use of firearms for training. Dr. .Edith Summerskill, M.P., said: “The War Offce 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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Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1941, Page 6
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188CALL ON WOMEN Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 November 1941, Page 6
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