The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-05-01
MOBILIZATION OF
 WOMEN WORKERS IS UNDER WAY
National League U r g e 8 Those Who Gan Spare
 Time to Register.

New York, May 1.-Women who have had business or shop experience and who can leave their households for temporary employment in office or factory are urged to register at once with The National League for Women's Service, which is eXpedltlng the filling of army and navy contracts by helping to obtain woman labor TOT factories that have received govern ment orders but are handicapped by lack of workers. The league has 1s- sued from it's new national headquar- ters at 259 Madison avenue, New York City, the following statement explaining how women's organiza- tions for the first time are planning an important part in mobilizing and preparing the country's resources for war service.
 Under supervision of the Depart ment of Labor the leagues Bureau of Registration and Information at Washington is mobiliZing women who have had office or factory experience and are available for industrial ser vice in connection with government war-supples contracts. Through the local branches of the league in the thirty-six states in which it is now organized the bureau has set out to
 
 labor in government establishments as we'll as in privately-owned factor ies that have received emergency or ders for army and navy supplies.
 '"The bureau is informed by the Navy and War Departments of every contract awarded. This information, though kept strictly confidential forms a working basis for the bureau. It comprises orders placed in the government-owned factories and ar senals, orders placed with private firms, statements as to which con- tracts require women labor both skill
 ed and sunskilled. the status of the labor supply in the establishments re- | ceiving contracts, the number of | trained women workers that can be
 mobilized for paid but patriotic ser l vice in the vicinity of a government
 contract factory, and the number of 1 industrial recruits possible to obtain l ed and unskilled, the status of the l to places where emergency contracts have sbeen awarded.
 eff, for example, there is found to ] be shortage of workers in the local i ity in which a government contract has been awarded, the bureau by tele- graphing the leagues chairmen in other localities arranges to supply the deficiency. The success of this work
 obviously depends upon the co-opera-
 tfon of womens organizations every.
 where as well as that of women who
 registrar with the league individually l More than forty of the leading wo-
 mems organizations of the country have now registered with the league filing in the Bureau at Washington complete information as to the num- Der of their members available fol patriotic service.
 I ''In New York state more thar two hundred women's organizations with more than fifty thousand indi. vidual members, are Sco-operatins with the league. The success of the
 league in, mobilizing volunteer work
 CTS to conduct the military census has been such that Governor Whitman has expressed to the league his hope
 that in order to avoid overlapping and l duplication of effort all women's or.
 ganizations seeking to serve the state
 and nation will clear their effort:
 through the league. Similarly exten
 sive coordination of women's worl is being rapidly accomplished in the other states in which the league is or ganized.
 Inasmuch as it is expected tha every pair of capable hands, botf masculine and feminine, that can b, called on will be needed to manufac
 ture sufficient munitions ad nsuppIie
 for ourselves and our Allies ever,
 woman who has had experience O.
 training and who is able to leave he present duties in the care of other should register at the nearest reeistr- bureau of the National League fo Women's Service. Women's organi zatons whose members are avaiIabl for either paid or volunteer Iseryic should register at once, if they hay not done so. Such action by com pleting the information as to the wo man power of the country one fiji s with the bureau of Registration an 5 Information at Washington vii ! greatly i-fltda-teacaIgLjN ] greatly facilitate the mobilization 0 the nations women workers.