The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-07
DPENS ALL BUREAUS
 TO ENGL LISHN OMEN.
Board of Trade Circular Of fers Them Employment
 in All Departments.

London, May 7--EEnp1oymenrs Tn a1 departments of the British govern bent service is officially thrown open . women for the first time. in . cir a1Iaz issued by the cabinet though he board of trade. The circular Aees all government departments to ksplace. wherever possible, men eIn- Goyes of military age with women nd offers to obtain suitable women substitutes for various clerical and FEer places through the government Abor exchange
 The circular is a sequel to recent gar office statement appealing for the la4ease of more governments employees Aor service at the front In this state nent Lord Kitchener was quoted as aying: 1T confidently look to the reads of deBartments to arrange by fnding suitable substitutes for the necessary permission to be given free ly to their saberdinates who are pre- Jared to join the coIors-
 The board of trades circular points ut that "a large number Of women Jerks have registered at the Aaoor Exchange. and conslderapIe nnlnpes l.l'ss.ls 2 lf these already have been engaged lv certain government Experiments. h1 addition a special register IS beang srx,Dfled of women who have sign1- hed their willingness to undertake yeryice during the continuance or the var. to release men for combafant iuties. This register already contains ia GOO names. and will supply a large Sn41r11er of women qualified to take he place of officials who may De re-
 The board Of trade has itself. re- leased and in a large number Of cases heir places have been taken ny Wo- men.
 It remains to be seen what reply tvi11 be made by the heads of the yar1- DlIs government departments to the sBard of Trades circular Many of khese departnents hitherto have hra1zn a line very srigidIy against any any bwnen employees All or them Wlh now make a careful survey or tnelr uorlz and ascertain to what extent men Of recruiting age can be replaced with women
 It has been for years the aim of various womens organizations to op- kain from the government an equal opportunity for both sexes in the gov eTnrnert employ. The B ard of Trade circular Is regarded as an official dec- Iaration that for the perdor of the wal at least the barrier of sex will have no sanction m -abinet.
 Sylvia Pankhurst, the mfIitant suf- fragette. has had a clash with Lloyd over the employ yTnent Of women Fne chancellor, in reply to a letter from her. promised that women doing piece work would receive the same rate od pay as the men were gefting, but said nothing about time work. Miss Plank hurst then wrote to him on that point but received no answer An indirec reply was made, however, by MT. Edt1 nicinan, M. P. president of the Boar' of Trade, who said that no condition had been laid down by the governmen as to time work.
 Miss Pankhurst then made state ment to the press in which she ac cuses the government of refusing t euarantee women the same pay a men for time work adding:
 From the women's point of view it is unjust that women should be em ployed to do mems work at a lowe rate; from the mans point of view 1t is disastrous. Guarantees to talk men back into employment after tn war can never be enforced; and if an proof of this is needed. we find it
 fact that promises by employers make allowances to the wives of work
 men who are fighting at the front ar already being broken on every hand.