Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-12-14
nv Associated Pressl

LONDON, Eng-The saying that
woman's place is in the home has lit
tie application in war time. There
are now in the British Isles .3,219,000
women employed outside their own
homes. 1t is generally recognized that
their rally to work lin the national in
terest" is going to make it difficult
for Parliament to refuse the demand
for suffrage which will be renewed
when hostilities end
During the first two years of war
the increase of women workers, ex-
elusive of purely feminine occupations,
was $4,000. Of.these 10000 directly
replaced male labor In other words,
more than three-quarters of a mil
lion women left their homes to re-
lease that number of men for mill
tary service. In most instances the
women went into the munition plants,
where considerable number of them
have given up their lives in doing
their bit
Women Rise to Opportunity
There seems to be no limit to the
class of work women can do. At first
it seemed strange to see girl con-
ductors on the buses, girl window
cleaners, van drivers and messengers.
But as the war progressed the field
broadened and now even in build
ing, mining and quarrying scores OF
women are employed. The metal
trades ALSO have claimed their share
of the neW industrial army. It must
be understood that this is an army in
skirts. As matter of fact, skirts
are worn for the most part only in
those occupations which bring women
in touch with the public In most of
the factories and shops, the breweries
and the railway yards, jumpers and
regulation oyeralls are the approved
costume The bus and tram conduc-
tors, or "conductresses." are jaunty
in their neat blue tunics and skirts
reach just below the knees-low
enough to overlap close fitting black
leather puttees. There is seldom
glimpse of stocking. The bus COM
panies issued an order recently that
no silk hosiery should be worn.
War Workers Are 100000
1t is stated that probably 100000
of the women war workers" have
been recruited from those formerly
engaged in purely feminine occupa-
tions-domestic dressmakers, millin-
ers. etc. The servant problem is be-
coming more and more acute, for the
demand for munition workers is in
creasing day by day and the wages
Offered are far beyond the dreams OF
avarice to majority Of the English |
domestics.
The number of women employed IN |
railway work has increased more than |
200 per cent Ordinarily the only rail- !
way posts open to women were clerk .
ships and carriage cleaning tasks. |
Now there are women ticket coilec- |
tors, porters. engine cleaners and /
workshop laborers. In Glasgow and +
sore other cities women are being /
tried out as tram drivers and motor
women. m
Statistics Are Compiled +
Interesting statistics regarding /
woman's part in war work have been
collected by the employment bureau I
of the Beard of Trade The number
OF women recruited to industrial &C.
equations between July. 1914. and I
July, 1916, vas 3e2.00o. OF this NUM-
Der 2e3.no9 direc.iy replaced men.
En- commercial occupations the IN H
crease in.the number of women work
ers was $4,000, while the number Of
women replacing mcn in this class
y a. %! .uoa. Tins lppaIcnt dfaGIcp