The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-09-16
U. s. EMPL OYMENT BUREAU TO BEGIN
 HELP CAMP A|CN Women Are to Be Asked to Aid the Government in Speeding up Munitions. SPEAKERS WILL TELL
 NEED OF SERVICE Will Be Asked to. Leave Homes to Take Places in
 Shops. ~

A campaign the like of which has United States began today in Bridge port-a campaign to bring wom en out of their homes,. out of re- tirement, out of the common pursuits of life and into the munitions shops.
 Making Munitions is Woman's Work" is the slogan adopted by the committees that have in charge the plans for the campaign, and this phrase will confront the women of Bridgeport during the next few weeks no matter where they happen to be- in, the theatres, the stores, along the streets s-everywhere.
 There is a critical munitions situa- ton in Bridgeport, which will be- come more pressing in the near fu- ture, due entirely to the heavy de mands the government is making on the munitions factories. The labor shortage extends so far into the thou. sands that the total cannot be defi- nitely estimated. The new draft will deprive the factories of many more hands, but the government has no in tention of reducing it's demands on the manufacturers.
 The United States Employment Service, in conjunction with the War Department, recognizing the situa- ton, have decided that there is only one way to meet the emergency, and that is through calling on the women of Bridgeport to show their patriotism in the very practical way of going to work in the factories. Thousands now are working, but thousands who never did a stroke of work in their lives must take their places at the factory benches if the boys across the ocean are to be supplied with munitions and equipment absolutely necessary for them to fight with. The war IS far from ended, and the War Depart ment's program calls for the produce ton of sufficient munitions to make sure that when it ends there will be no question about who won.
 Every woman in Bridgeport will be put on record as to her willingness to do what she can to help produce this citys quota of munitions. Through the State Council of Defence a can- vass of every house in the city will be made by the Minute Women, and women not now employed will be ask ed to fill out cards stating whether | they are willing to help the govern ment to the extent of doing very es- | sential war work.
 In the newspapers there will be an extensive advertising campaign; in the | theatres the plea for women to work in the factories will be thrown on the screen between movies, the billboards will carry the message to women, window strips along the business
 streets, cards in the store windows and various other means of impressing the
 women with the importance of the 1 situation will be used. o.. | Clergymen, professional men, Four
 Minute Men and others will be called | on to send the message to women
 from the pulpit, the stage, the street corners-from all public places. The advertising campaign is being handled by a committee made up of J. E.
 PheIan, F. W. Montanye, w. G. Fay i Tor and c. A. PheIan.
 | The United States Employment Ser wee dIu lH0 w ar department are h.
 sistent that the importance of this
 campaign cannot be overestimated.
 The men fighting in France must have munitions, and Bridgeport is per | haps the greatest munitions center in l the country. If the people of this
 city fall down on the program the | government has laid out for them, | then the troops in France will be de-
 prived of materials they simply must
 have if they are to go into the battles and win. The women of England l have been at work for four years l 5,000,000 of them are making muni- l tions of all kinds, from the heaviest | ordnance to the Hghtest work. The | grandmothers of France are .mending | the clothing of the American soldiers
 and repairing their shoes; the women
 of Italy are making the goods that
 their soldiers must have, and for a long time the women of Canada have
 been in the factories and otherwise
 engaged in supplying the goods that the Canadian soldiers must have The l women of America can and will do as
 we'll, the War Department feels, and the women of Bridgeport are called
 on to be leaders in the movement to the factories.