CANADIAN WOMEN
EMPLOYMENT IN WAR INDUSTRY. OTTAWA, August 28. Mr Arthur MacNamara, Director of the National Selective Service, over the 8.8. C. national network said 419,000 Canadian women arc at present employed in factory and industrial work. Of these, 255,000 are in war industries. Women are performing 70 per cent of the operations in the manufacture of machine-guns. 'They comprise over 80 per cent.of those employed in instrument factories. They are employed almost exclusively in tne manufacture 1 of medical supplies. They comprise over 27 per cent of the 86,000 aircraft workers. But. still more women are needed in war industries. “There is very little reserve of either men of women,” Mr MacNamara said. “We are facing the most critical time in our history.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1943, Page 4
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