The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-31
tions doing war work with our sol diers abroad.
WOMEN WORKING ON PART TIME BOON TO SHOPS

Part time women workers have proved a boon to the inspecting de- partment of the U. M. c. plant of the Remington Arms Co. The greater number of women registered by the | Minute Women of Bridgeport in the | recent campaign, who signed for part | time work and are already at work, hae been placed in this department | of the big munitions plant. Chief l Inspector H. J, Dietrich has only i praise for their work.
 They have come to us inspired by patriotic motives rather than the de- sire to earn" said MT. Dietrich. They feel a vital interest in their work which is not always apparent in the casual worker. We know we can trust these women, once they have mastered the details of inspection. It has been proved by their work. They are here to help win the war and they know that accurate workmanship on their part is going to bring the result for which they are striving just that much more quickly
 Part time women are being used in the loading and packing departments of the plant and in gauging, but it is In the inspecting that they have made | themselves most appreciated. The or iginal idea in assigning them to this 1 department was to place them in the | most desirable part of the plant, for where the thousands of cartridge l shells are looked over there is neces-
 sarily the best lighting facilities. The rooms are airy and have none @ the messy" appearance of ordinary factory rooms. The entire upper
 walls are of glass, windows which are
 easily adjusted for ventilation.
 There is need for light, much of it,
 and for keen eyesight, when 150 shells
 are passing under the eye of an in
 spector each minute, and that eye
 must be trained to detect the smallest defect in the brass casing. This is
 the first inspection after the shell is tapered. If one shell bearing a ma jor defect gets past the inspector and is detected, as it must be, it means
 that 1000, 900 shells will be returned to that inspector to be done over.
 Then comes the unprimed inspec- ton next, inspection after priming | and still another after the shell is loaded, and in all of these the part time worker is figuring. Practically 100 per cent. of the inspection work at the U. M c. is done by women. The patriotic women who have
 proven themselves capable of doing
 the work, as almost all have, have
 been placed in the most responsible
 positions. The night shift has it's
 quota of part time women workers, fO, 1~f
 night work since the women power
 canvass of the city was made.
 The executive force of the U. M. c. has expressed appreciation of the work done by the Bridgeport Minute
 Women in enlisting women for mu-
 nitions work. They have declared
 that this rousing of interest among
 women who are not obliged to work , has solved many problems for them They say that as a result of the : campaign they are now able to ob- , tain women to do all the work whicl ; women may logically do in the plant whereas before they were often oblig- ed to use old men and boys on many machines which could easily be op-
 erated by women.
 Some time ago women were brOk- en in on grinding and in the tool
 shop. Their work was altogether sat , isfactory, in many cases better than that of men. It is the intention of
 the management to place women
 workers at these machines as fast as
 vacancies occur.
 c. s. Weary, assistant to MT. Die trich, gives credit to the girls and women already at work in the plant
 when the part time women were in $ stalled, for much of the efficiency o1 the latter.
 3 "The new workers are anxious tt ) acquire proficiency" said Mrs. Neary land the old workers are always ready