Evening star., 1942-10-25
Five Million Women Wanted for New Jobs
BY Potts Boswell,
wide World.

DALLAS, Textile businessman
turned weary, disguised look at the
tumble Of letters and kilograms on his
desk, then grabbed phone.
The nice-talking lady at the employ
ment agency sighed He wants q Sec
retary now, but he wants to pay just
what he did last year. He'll have to
take beginner, or some woman who
quit work when she married and is
starting back again."
She wasn't talking through her new
fall hat
Compelling, aI-important demands for
women In war industry are many and
widespread. But there is increasing de-
mand, too, for girls behind the girls who
make the planes and shells and guns.
This story Is about them.
Listen to department store personnel
director. Women under 80 whove been
with us less than five years are going
into war work. We couldn't match the
pay If we wanted to try.
Were losing five male department
heads to the Army and filling their places
with women
All our list Of extra help has been
htted into regular jobs"
Here's secretarial school ,GMore than
half the women learning typing and
shorthand are married.
Demand Is Great.
"The civil service people came in here
and told me If you've got anybody you
think could qualify We'll give them the
test right now" the receptionist ex-
plains. They sure want them in Wash
ington."
Just send me anybody who looks all
right and I'll teach them to wait table"
restaurant owner urges.
Il want five girls, Of good family, Just
out OF high school," says an insurance
company looking for requirements for
policy clerks
All this Is in Dallas, big town in
Texas, where the "wanted-at-once-
women" plea may be more urgent than
IN many places, and less urgent just now
than in a lot of Others
It's a place where, up to now, by
scratching around enough woman power
Is being found, but w. L. Worthington,
who manages the United States employ
ment service here, says employers in-
Guiding those in war industries) have
stepped up by more than 100 per cent
their estimated need for women workers.
Now listen to War Manpower Commits
sloner Paul V. McNutt. He says more
than 100000 women must be gainfully
employed by the end of I943, meaning
100000 must be added to the present
totaL perhaps one out of every three
housewives between the ages of 10 and A.
His hrst concern is that more women
go into war industry. War production
employed 400 900 women last December;
McNutt wants the total to be 4.5OO 900
shortly after Christmas this year; 6OOo,-
600 by the end OF l943.
Want Ads Scream for Help.
Wherever war plants cluster. want ads
scream for women In war industries and
right beside them other ads clamor for
girls to fill the jobs which thus are left.
Some fun. this being so wanted? Take
a final look at Manrower Commission
statistics: There were 1900 900 women in
agriculture In December, 1941; 100000
in non-war employment; 100000 un-
employed. BY next January 1st. Army
and Navy auxiliaries (the WAACS and the
WAVES should have l95O0; agriculture.
100000; non-war employment retain
100000 and unemployment drop to
100000
Now, lady, feel isolated because of not
doing anything? Got son or a brother
In the service? A husband who is due to
go soon? Need some money (you won't
get rich) to get your credit in shape?
To meet the increased cost of living?
Want a job?