The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-20
Success in Factories May
Have Far-Reaching Effects

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home and family life and thrown
into the vortex of factory life.
But now the sense Of urgency,
of the time factor, so imperative
in total war, has come home to
British women. They now under
stand that victory rests as much
with them as with the men in
the Forces. CONSUMPTION has con-
firmed this feeling. Women are
not patriotic in the way men are,
but every one of them works or
IS ready to work with will be-
cause deep down in her heart
she has at last realized that In
SO doing, her sweetheart or hus-
band, son or brother will return
that much quicker to her.
/ found women everywhere, in
factories turning out engines for
long-range bombers, in machine
tool works, in small arms fac
tories, doing both skilled and un-
skilled work and doing it ell.
Everywhere the men in char
were loud in their praise of
workers. Some, of course, had
been employing them before the
war; for others, this was q total
ly new venture.
"The women are marvellous"
said the manager of one unit of
England's most famous arma-
ment works (they turn out any
thing from a dreadnought to
anti-aircraft shells). "They are
easy to handle and respond to
kindness and fair treatment.
After all" he went on, "women's
hands are made for skilled jobs
such as we turn out in the fac
tory a cross section of war
work which might almost be
called a little Switzerland Few
men have that def turn of the
wrist, that dexterity of touch
which seems to come naturally
to most women"
NOT ONE DESIRES
TO TRADE JOBS
Another interesting fact which
was often repeated to me-the
percentage of failures q m o n &
women is practically nil. When
it is found that q girl has too
much difficulty in mastering GER
tain technicalities, she is put on
to a job more within her scope.
In one factory, making aero
engines, 1900 girls had passed
out of the school in the last IL
months. Most of them were put
on highly skilled jobs, including
tapping and "studding," which
had previously been done by
men only. After six weeks train
ing, girls were being posted to
the hangers to take down rec
ords of the countless tests made
by the engineers before the en-
CINE is actually placed in the
fuselage.
Every woman, every girl I
talked to, in countless "shops"
as well as in training schools,
confessed she liked the work and
found it no harder than what
ever she had, done before. Most
of them admitted - especially
those who had never seen the
inside of factory before-that
they dreaded the idea of it. But
not one declared she would rath-
er be doing something else.
If these women still feel that
way after the war, an industrial
revolution Of major importance
lies in the offing.
MR.. AND MRS. ERNEST
REINHOLD, 2470 North Jeffer-
son avenue are celebrating their
25th wedding anniversary today.
MR.. AND MRS. p. K. NC
WETHY and Mr.. and Mrs. John
Nunneley will be hosts to their
supper club on Sunday at the
McWethy home on South Wilson
boulevard.
MR.. AND MRS. OTTO NICK
Ell will entertain their Supper
club on Sunday evening at
their home on South Wilson
boulevard.
MRS. CHARLES Postlewait
entertained members of the jolly
Neighbors Club yesterday after
noon at her home on Is South
Rose street.
Mrs. Douglas Gilman of st.
Clair Shores, Miss Margaret Ann
Perry and Miss Jean Hetrick Of
Newberry, Mich. were guests.
Prizes were won by Mrs. Edward
Schwartz, Mrs. John Weissarher,
and Mrs. Louis Borke. The next
meeting will be held at the home
of Mrs. Schwartz on March 5.