The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-02
WOMEN Of ENGLAND
HELPING At FRONT
Employed Only at Army
Bases Far Behind Fight
ing Line In France.
SEX NO DIFFICULTY
They Work Hard and All
Male Soldiers Respect and
Protect Them.

.Head1urters of Women's Army Aux
Hilary Corps. Behind British Lines In
Franco correspondence OF the Asso.
ciated Press, Up to April Of this year
the employment OF women with the
British army has been solely confined
to England. Today. 1000 women are
employed In France on army work.
At the beginning of the year. a prom
inent staff officer was sent to France
to report generally on questions OF la
bor supply for the army and on econo-
MIXING man power. in order to weed
out the largest possible number Of
able bodied mon for the fighting line.
Ono Of his recommendations was the
employment of women. In prefacing
his general remarks on this recon-
mendation he paid the following trib-
ute to the work which women had al
ready done for the army on home soil:
I'm the past year the employment Of
women in England has developed to an
imensc extent and has been attended
with remarkable success. Women have
taken up various forms of male en-
ploymcnt, which by many had been
deemed impossible for the SEX, They
have found their way into work in all
branches Of life and have proved their
capacity for It.
Tn the army at home tho success Of
woman labor has been conspicuous. and
women nrc to he found In numerous
Offices and cooking in many of the
home military establishments. Results
have shown that thr sex difficulty has
not been anything like what some had
predicted. The women have worked
hard and the men have respected them.
and. experience at home has been al
most unanimous in this respect"
In accordance with his recommends
tion the employment of women labor
was approved in the following capaci-
tics:
Ambulance and motor-car drivers,
clerks and typists. storcwomcn, check
crs, tclegraphers. telephone operators.
postal employees. ordcrlies cooks and
domestic servants. Later additions to
tho lists of women workers include
tailors. bakers. shocmackrs, mes
sengers. and technical women" the
latters category including printers.
gardeners for gravesJ, grooms, and =
number Of minor occupations.
The various employmcnts are off,
Nially divided into four departments
with fixed rates Of pay. Cooks and
those cngag cd in domestic service re-
ccivcr 500 to $3.50 year; the other
three Observation-Disclosures nical, clcri-
cal and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. rates Of
nay varying from IS to $40 per week.
Women engaged in domestic service
get free board and lodging; those in
The other departments have deduc-
ton of $3.50 per week for board and
lodging if they live in government no.
tells.
Higher rates OF pay are allowed for
forcwomcn and women ranking as non :
commissioned officers. Every woman
joining the corps signs an agreement
10 serve for ''one year or the duration
OF the war" whichever is the greater
period. Annual grants are made for
uniforms.
In the substitution Of women for
man labor. the British army rule is
to substitute roughly four women for
three men. 1t is. of course, a basic
regulation that women in France are
employed only at bases and places al
safety far from the fighting line.