Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-09-24
GIRLS IN TROUSERS
BUILD BATTLESRIPS
But Scotchmen Say NUM-
tionets Make Munition
Better Than Men.
TAKE PLACE OF MEN
Great American Manufac-
turing Plant Turned
Over to Women.
CBy JOHN l.. BALDERSTON)
Copyright 1916. BY Mcclure Newspape
Syndicate


sles wore trousers a time back, but a
DIT OF Il shock that was to many good
people IN scotland, and they no wear
them moo, said my Scotch guide on
the clyde, as | watched some hun
dreds of girls and young women build
Ing battlcship. They were dressed
In short skirts. with leather. aprons,
stout boots, and upper garments and
caps much like those of their men as
tociatos, who tailed on the heavier la
Dor while the women worked, at the
lighter tasks.
"DuutiOn of labor" is phrase
everyone is familiar with these DAYS.
but II loses its dry and statistical
sound when 1t is seen in operation. 1t
means in the great Industrial plants
Of Great Britain. the Introduction of
women into jobs formerly filled by
men, as well as the introduction OF
non-union men into union Jobs There
is more of the former than the lat
ter, for the problem now is to get men
Tor the army, and the problems raised
by the Introduction of female labor
are thorny ones
SO far as | could see in the ship
building plants, however, men and
women get on we'll together despite
the grievances felt on both sides. The
women complain that they do not get
as much pay as the men while the
perhaps biased foreman of Il great
shipyard said to me, What the union
men seem to complain of most is that
girls come in here and learn in thret
weeks what II took them seven wears
to master and then do it better into
the bargain"
However, no ill-fceling crops out at
work. The Scotchman is too chival-
rous for that. There is good deal of
good-humored chatting, but | noticed
many times that when a besrimed
n llt. 1a,, 4
lady in narrow aisle between the
banks of roaring machinery, he al
ways makes way for her with as much
circumspection as though he were in
drawing room.
Later ! saw some thousands of girls
making big shells. practically without
any masculine aid. A great and IA
nous American manufacturing com
pany, with big branch plant in Scot
land employing eight thousand men
and women in peace time. has turned
over its whole works to the ministry
of munitions, and some of the same
machines that once made "a well-ad-
vertiscd article Of household use are
now turning out shells. Most of the
machines installed in the score of
buildings have been scrapped and new
ones specially turned out for she'll
making installed All the men who
worked here two years ago have gone,
cunatinn ana tho foyv .ean aho,'t 10
premises are superintendent or eX-
pert workers employed to do the few
jobs that require strength as we'll as
skill
inc tbnt yonen'e con,t do ara tbo
delicate iobs sucb ns ,,aking fusos
where a deviation Of n bundredtb az
an inch Will ruin everything, are done
far better by girls than at other
nnt who sbouod nc around ..I, 1,
nationco thn, docs 4, ,rhis sor, as
ivort 10 lilo IacomoLinr a. roon,ros
infinita natience and sirca w,n,nan
have more patience than mon thev
make hetter shells"
Tbcra arc scores of stages In sbeII-
making and we saw thew All yhera
In nonco time eight thnusand workers
ycrc cnpoped fo,,rteen thniisand now
tail in three shifts seven davs a week
,rha ani,. fine work e,o,' stons 10
whom a Zennelin apnears in tho neigh
horbood and ali I;ebts ara ordared
nnt
The largest plant OF all is fed by
freight troins which copoe ON n citing
ond donosi, tons nnon tors oT nate9
riai MI stoci,ed ,1n outs,dn LIS
axoc,iv iilso strect njnins sawod I'M
into gtrins Tbeso rapped cvIinders
nner ruU NJ eacb end are tba raw ma,
terini ~ great bowitzer nroiectiIes
Tbev oro carrind inside and confluence
tho inurnev which tnrns them ont of
~ Imiidiny within a few homrs bur
,,Is,,ns shniIs counlata ovcnntino Tor
,ho ,nsa cam ana tho chnrre az do
struction Which ora added n them
oIso,,,boro All tbe work In tbis bu;Id-
tnp, is doro hv womon with Tho ey-
nan,io,, lnI of Tho minor ana mnsk,Iied inb
~ worlsins n heiIows to fan n forge
10, ~, ,abo steoi hands rvb,to bot nr,or |
~ ,,nir o,tachmont 70 tho sbolIs
Wbiis no figures concerning the
,o,a, n,,tnu, ~ the factory can he
80, 80; norrtnd IN this dsnartment
go tban three thousand shells in
,or,o,s mopi ," s,ages n, comnietion Tbev
49, 10, nrdjrarv shells either but
oII %I' =, ono caIibey and that n large
"no irtended for long range work
r.,ie,e, na.I,;on, Naar,,