Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1918-09-24
WOMEN To REPLACE
MEN N PLACES NOT
ESSENTIAL To WAR
Each Board VIII Soon Publish
Lists of Industries in Com
mUnty Where Work Can Be
Done by Women

WASHINGTON. Sept. cS Machinery
designed 20 force men out OF non-es-
sentiai employment and muster women
u the naricH 20 take their places was
put in motion today by 1.0oU community
labor boards reaching into every section
Of the country.
The boards are acting under detailed
Instructions from the government work
ing through The United States employ
msnt service
Each board will soon publish lists Of
Industries in its locality in which men
should be replaced by women. The
lists viii be based on surveys of all in
5ustrisl plants in each boards district.
The surveys will bs minute Each JOB
EiH be studied 20 determine whether
woman should III it,,
Power OF Employment
Publication OF the lists = expected
20 cause employers g comply and sub
sJituts women as a result OF the moral
pressure thus eSeTted- Where moral
pressure fails. stroncE measures NAV be
undertaken The employment service,
working through he war industries
board, has power oshut Of the supply
Of raw materiaIs@Irom any plant.
This move Is result OF the enlarged
army program under which 1900. 0gn
men will be sent to France by next
June.
u is expected 20 weed out OF non-es-
.sentisl employment every man in the
nation The ccroIIsry - she probs bic
Induction or hundreds OF thousands of
women rot only into non-essential war
industries but into munition factories
as well officials say the number of
women may -Un into millions. The
women are impcra lively needed 20 in
sure an adequate supply % material
and munitions 10 the lighting men 81
France Because or the nationwide
Dor shortage. the mUnItiou program
faces serious delay. This is made plain
tu the instructions to local boards sent
out hy the employment service
To the extent that we fall behind in
the supuIy Of material vie shall have
- make up the deficit from the living
bodies Of our yoHnr men read the in
strucsions- This IS not rhetoric Il
g precise cold military calculations
As soon as the facts are realized,
Americans AR going 20 cease carrying
on business aS usual and swarm into
wzr work
"Nou-EssenCiaI"
The use OF the term OF 'Hon-essentisi
employment in the Instructions To corl-
runity boards has special siEniE-
canoe Although a man i working in
A UuufNHWN AaEANEe dllN NN'lA - AA-anaAA.
shells ne stiu may he classified as
--nou-esssu-isI worker" This viii &C.
cur when the community boards sur
vey shows that mans job can and
should be filled BY a woman
The program then, really means the
women OF the nation are 20 DC muster
cd 10 help turn CIT the shells with
which our soldiers wiz blast their Pa an
toward Berlin
In making the surveys. the bcsrd viii
fsv emphasis on the jon End not on the
industry as Z whole
Thc employment service which now
has = corner or ali employment IN the
United states will assume responsible
itv FOR listing and Milling with women
ne Jobs which its community boards
pass on
Eve-w Dreczutiol will Re taken 20
.-..ard the health ard safety of the wom-
n workers. Two women members w.il
be added 20 the personnel OF each com
-ounftv board. Boards are composed or
conservatives Of both employers and
employees