The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-12-31
Labor News From Britdin

much impressed by Anne Loughlins
statement that output Is as high and
in some cases higher where women are
employed part time Mrs. Roosevelt
said that this would interest the Amer
lean employers.
Position in the Postwar Field
The position Of women in industry
after the war was another question
upon which Mrs. Roosevelt displayed
Il lively concern. She asked Anne
Loughlin what she thought the wom-
ems position would be in post war in
dustry. Anne replied that the answer
to this question necessarily depended
to a large extent upon how long the
veIoped. But she pointed out that wom-
ems war work had given them not
only the title but the qualification to
remain in industry on footing of
equality with men. A great many of
them are doing mems jobs. They have
received an intensive training for
skilled work. Not all the women who
are in war industry today will want to
stay in wage earning employment
when the war is over; but Il grea.
many of them will have to earn a
livelihood as breadwinnerS of fam
lily, and many others will wish to 90
on working as SO much of the re-
spOnsibility of housekeeping and cara
of children will have passed largely
out of the hands of wives and moth
ers, through the development of nur-
sery schools, canteens and other wei
fare arrangements Of direct assistance
to working women.
Such We're the questions Mrs.
| Roosevelt and Anne Loughlin dis
| cussed, and Mrs. Roosevelt will have
| the opportunity of seeing how closely
Anne LOughlin's views conform to
| those of other representatives of or
ganiZed working women-for the an
nual meeting of the Standing Joint
Committee of Working Womens Or
ganizationS soon follows.
This standing joint committee CO.
OrdinateS the activities of more than
score of working womens OrganiZa-
| tons, including wOmen's cooperative
guilds, teachers organizations, and
the wOmen's guilds attached to many
of the national unions, as well as the
wOmenS sections of the LabOur Party
| and the wOmen's group on the II. L. G.
General Council. Three representa-
tiveS of the committee serve on the
| WOmen's Consultative Committee of
the Ministry of Labour. But it has
| maintained also an active interest in
the activities of other ministries and
government departments.
Caring for the Children
One of the questions coming before
the committees annual meeting is the
provision of wartime nurseries for the
care of the children of women war
| workers.
The three ministries concerned are
| the Ministry of Health, the Board of
Education, and the Ministry of La
bOur. The committee has consistently
maintained the view that the care and
| supervision of the children of women
war workers is Il national RESPONSE
bility and has urged that where it is
| impossible to provide nursery schools
or nursery classes for all the young
children in need of care during the
| day local authorities should be re-
quired to prepare register of
"minders'' who will take care of chill
dren in their own homes under the
| supervision of the Official Health
| Visitors.
The organization of private mind
ers" has been fostered by the min
istries as an alternative to the estab-
lishment of nurseries, and the Wom-
ems Committee insist that in areas;
where "minders" are appointed they
shall be paid by the Authority, and
that training facilities must be pro-
vided in every area to train an ade-
quate number of nursery assistants. 1t
should be explained that only the diff
| ticulty of obtaining properly qualified
statfs has prevented the ministries
concerned from extending the provi-
sion of nursery schools There has
been Il speeding up in the provision of
nurseries during the past six months,
but priority claims on labor and ma
terials are undoubtedly an obstacle in
the development of the full facilities
which the Womens Committee feel to
be necessary. Other questions occupy
ing the attention of the Women'S Com
mittee, include juvenile delinquency.
child-guidance clinics and the estab-
lishment of youth centers by local edu-
cation authorities.
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