The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1942-05-28
On
Social Security

Back in the days of 1918 when
five million men We're called into the
armed forces of the country, hundreds
of thousands of women took places in
industry.
Women employed in the iron and
steel industries increased from about
three per cent of the total employment
in 1914, to 10 per cent in 1913. In the
airplane industry women rose from
five per cent to 10 per cent. Women.
too, took their places in other wartime
industries and replaced many men
workers in civilian industries.
Today, in the present war, women
again find new opportunities for EN-
pl0yment, as they form one of the
most important labor reserves.
The United States Employment Serv-
ice is making plans for the wider en-
plOyment of women as the need for
manpOwer expands.
1t is estimated that America will
need ten and One-half million more
workers than are now employed in
war production. The estimates are that
about eight million workers may be OBJ
tanned from the plants which are being
transformed into arSenals. That means
that another two and One-half million
new workers must he found and many
of these must be wOmen
Women war workers will be needed
10 ,,t ,,nAhfrn, nthnr, 1rt11 pn
place men who have worked as book
keepers, clerks, filling station attend
ants and farm labOrers and who will
go into the armed forces. 1t is believed
that more than one million women will
be needed before the end of this year
and Il great many more in 1913.
"Women must be trained to take
their place in industry when the call
comes for Them" says f. l.. Keenan,,
acting chairman of the Regional Labor
Supply Committee for Ohio, Michigan
and Kentucky. "They can be trained
in public vocational classes which have
been established all ver the country,
or within industry itself.
AT the beginning very few women
we're taken into the vocational train
ing classes, but as the need becomes
more acute, the War Production Board
is advocating that women be admitted
to these classes in increasing numbers.
women are especially good in the
S0-called precision Industries and in
light manufacturing Of all kinds. In
some of the munitions works in Great
Britain more than twO-thirds of the
workers are women.
"In the meantime, women should
register with the nearest office of the
United States Employment Service to
be ready when they are called for
training or jobs"
Today in America more than half
a million wOmen and girls already are
employed in the workshops of war
plants helping to carry out the greatest
production program ever undertaken
by this or any other nation.
In general, wOme will not add to
the supply of skilled labor immediate
ly, but they are unQuestiOnably a large
and promising source of labor through
proper training. British experience In
the use Of women in industry has
shown that women can make a tire
mendOusly valuable contribution to
war production, rs they bring to their
jobs accuracy and deftness I'm manu-
featuring operations.
In electrical plants women can work
as radio assemblers or %armature wind
fers. Some car work at engine lathes
and milling machines; others as core
makers, spot welders or airplane Gov
erers. Women also are excellent In
SpeCtorS.
In n plant that makes bandage
shears for government use, wOnen 10
(all the assembling, shaping, sharpen
ing, testing and chrome plating. Nee
dies and thread have been women's
tools for centuries, so that cutting and