The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-10-04
WOMEN REPLACE
MEN ENGAGED N
!: NON-ESStNTIALS
MACHINERY DESIGNED TO FORCE
MEN TO WORK OR FIGHT PUT
i.7.s IN NOTION.
COMMUNITY LABOR BOARDS
Viii Publish Lists Of Industries in
Which Men Should Be Replaced BY
Women--Necessitated BY New
Army Program.
(By United Press.)

Wy OuitCu IiCoo.j
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2s.-Machin.
cry designed to force men out of non.
essential employment and muster
women of nation TO take their places
has been put in motion by 1000 COM
munity labor boards reaching into ev.
cry section of the country.
The boards are acting under de-
tailed instructions from the govern
ment working through the United
States employment service.
Each board will soon publish lists
Of industries in its locality in which
men should be replaced by women.
The lists will be based on surveys of
all industrial plants in each boards
district. The surveys will be minute.
Each job will be studied to determine
whether woman should fill it.
Publication of the lists is expected
to cause employmers to comply and
substitute women as result of the
moral pressure thus exerted. Where
moral pressure fails, stronger meas
ures may be undertaken. The employ
ment service, working through the
war industries board, has power to
shut off the supply of raw material
from any plant.
This move is a result of the en-.
larged army program under which
100000 men win be sent to France
by next June.
1t is expected to weed out of non
essential employment every man in
the nation. The corollary is the prob
able induction of hundreds of thou.
sands of women not only into non
essential war industries but into
munition factories as well. Officials
say the number OF women may run
into millions.
The woifeh are imperatiyely need.
ed to insure. an adequate supply OF
material and munitions to the fighting
men in France. Because OF the ma.
tion-wide labor shortage, the mum
ton program faces serious delay.
This is made plain in the instrnc.
tons to local boards sent out by the
employment, service.
ITO the extent that we fall behind
in the supply of material we shall
have to make up the deficit from the
living bodies OF our young men," read
the instructions. This is no rhe-
toric. 1t is precise cold military cal.
culations.
las soon as the facts are realized,
Americans are are going to cease carry
ing on business as usual and swarm
into war work"
The use of the term of "non-essen.
Itial employment" in the instructions
to community boards has special
significance. Although man is
working in a munition factory and
even is making shells he still may be
classified as "non-essential work.
err This will occur when the COM
munity boards survey shows that
mans job can and should be filled by
a woman.
The program then really means the
women of the nation are to be must
cred to help turn out the shells with
which our soldiers will blast their
path toward Berlin.
In making the surveys, the board
will lay emphasis on the jobs and
not on the industry as whole.
The employment service which now
has corner on all employment in the
United States will assume responsible
ity for listing and filling with women
the jobs which its community boards
pass on.
Every precaution will be taken to
guard the health and safety of the
women workers.
Two women members will be added
to the personnel of each community
board. Boards are composed of rep
resentatives of both employers and
EMPLOYEES.