The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-30
Do VANISHED Job by Day,
Plus Own Work at Home
BY MARGUERITE YOUNG
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

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NEW YORK, Oct. 80 - Meet
- and salute - the Two-Job
War Worker. There are thou
sands of her, all over the coun-
try. A man who puts in his 8
or 10 hours in a war plant is
considered to have done a good
days work. But Miss War Work.
er - or more often, Mrs. War
Worker - does that and in ad-
dition tackles the ordinarily full
time job of making and keep
ing up q home, often including
raising a youngster or two or
three.
The women war workers In
Republic Aviation's big Long Is
land plant are typical, rather
than exceptional, in the national
picture. They are hanging up
some sweet production records
on the Thunderbolt, fast new
high fighting plane that will
soon be blasting the foe on COM
bat fronts.
MEN THEY WORK WITH
GIVE WOMEN BIG HAND
They get vigorous applause
from their bosses and the men
working alongside of them -
more vigorous, perhaps, than
even the public tribute President
Roosevelt recently paid to wo-
men workers in general for their
numbers, skill and devotion and
the good job they are doing.
"Hand it to EN-" young
management representative said
spontaneously.
He pointed to a dramatic ex-
ample on the final motor as
sembly line. There, about six
steps apart in the long line of
man-high engines moving slow
ly along on the powered convey
or in the cement floor of the fac
tory, we're a man and woman
mechanic.
The man was Abe Simon, the
260 pound giant who twice
fought Joe Louis. The woman
was Marie Isabel Kittell, lis
some blonde who once was
Powers model for even n 6
clothes, but who now mothers
her two youngsters and also her
ailing husband, and is known as
ACE" to her fellow-mechanics.
WOMEN HAVE BEATEN
OUTPUT RECORDS
Women as group are cred
tied with a substantial quicken
ing of the rate at which the
roll out and fly
away. Reason: they hit faster
stride, working 10 hours a day,
than men ever did, working
eight hours a day.
At small stack drill presses,
women have overshot mems
previous production high by ex-
actly 10 per cent.
At the hydraulic press, 4500-
ton monster which whacks out
plane parts at fantastic rate
that increases with the speed of
the workers in feeding it alum
mum, or loading its trays, wom-
en- have broken the mems pre-
vious record time. They get 3
per cent more production per
"turn" at the giant press.
INEXPERIENCE
PROVES AN ASSET
Another surprising asset Is
psychology. 1t shows
up spectacularly in individual
contributions to the improve
ment of production methods.
The official smiled about this.
He said the individual woman's
typically feminine stubbornness,
realism and straight gumptious-
ness, and her inexperience and
consequent "fresh eye" on the
lob account for many changes
which put Thunderbolts up fast
er.
And the psychology OF the
women as a whole-most OF all
their intense personal needs and
hopes which hang on winning
the war - account for their zeal
and generally efficient work.
For three months this plant
has been employing a military
secret number of women - ana
every month the plant has top
ped its production quota. Inc
number of women workers is
large, is growing fast, is expect.
ed soon to reach ratio OF ~
per cent of the entire force.
First thing you notice on en-
tering the plant is that the wo-
men are, literally, everywhere,
and everywhere they're scatter.
ed among men workers instead
of being segregated. Timekeep-
ing, welding, riveting, the wo-
men work among the men ana
as partners in "two-man' oper-
atoms.
In the riveting team, the wo-
man an dies the rivet gun,
seeming TO do the harder task,
I hough actually the mans
job of holding the
bucking tool against the rivet
requires more strength.
Next thing you notice is that
in taking in the large number OF
women, you've been looking at
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