Evening journal., 1918-12-04
WOMEN return TO
PEACE PRODUCTION
Hundreds Thrown Out Of
Work Go to Other
Occupations
u. S. EMPLOYMENT
SERVICE IS AID

The movement of women war work
ers to peace time production has be-
gun.
Two hundred and forty gas mask
workers were released from a Govern
ment plant IN Long Island City last
week. The employment managers OF
this plant telephoned the United states
Employment Service before notifying
the women.
Good" was the response Of the SER
vice official. the world is going out
of mourning; lingerie, waist, necktle
and collar manufacturers are calling
for power-machine operators. Corset
factories, released by War Industries
Board from their restricted output,
need skilled operators. Send us others
as YOU release them and we VIII place
lhem."
A large motor manufacturer in Detroit
who has been employing hundreds OF
women. reports: "0ur plant has unilll-
ed contracts that will keep us at 100
per cent. production for two years. The
questions are whether we can get ma
,erlals and labor. The War Industries
Board has already released steel sup
plies. Even before the war our great
problem was a sufficient labor supply.
We are ready TO add to our force"
The first group OF women TO be re-
leased from war service IN Washington
was made the subject Of special con-
ference attention by the Employment
Service. Their names, qualifications,
and home addresses were requested
by the Employment Service. Tele-
graphic machinery Of the Clearance Di-
vision OF the service was started, and
within a very few hours II was evident
hat nearly every woman would be Of
fered a position, many OF them In or
near her home town. This offer OF
a position will be cO-lncdent with her
release from war service.
Similar service will be rendered by
ihe United States Emplosment Service
throughout the country. Special efforts
have been made to list such clerical
work as Washington women who have
been engaged I'm war work can do. In
order to be ready to place these wo-
they are released from Government
service.
With the war labor supplying ma
chinery Of the war equipment OF the
Employment Service reversed TO meet
.he reconstruction needs, there need be
no serious problem OF unemployment
for women who have been engaged In
war work or for returning soldiers
whose places have been taken by wo-
men. The one necessity Is that em-
ployers and employees, whether a scrub
woman or a professor, utilize the ma
tion-wide facilities the Government has
provided.
There remains the new factor OF the
woman who has been urged TO take a
mans place. Widespread pressure TO
this end really began only with the
recent draft, which had scarcely start
ed to operate. The great number Of
women on war work have been trans
sential industry. Like the gas-mask
workers, these women Will naturally go
back TO their old trades.
A few hundred uniformed women
chauffeurs concentrated In cities where
publicity Is facile have made country
wide appeal when earnest census takers
could not find one In this calling eight
years ago. The woman shlpyard worker
has likewise been given much attention,
yet at the greatest shipyard In the
country out Of total Of 10000 workers
In late October, only 10 per cent
were women on mems Jobs, and these
were unskilled jobs where transfer Is
easiest
Women who are highly skilled work
ers In their trades or professions were
already, before the war, largely re-
leased from sex discrimination. En-
ployers more and more are calling for
so many skilled operators, so many
chemists, etc. War pressure has merely
accelerated a natural development.