Evening star., 1943-09-26

Management Association. She knows il
thinks far ahead, considering many
problems, and draws on extensive indus
trial experience in the placement of
women, and contacts with labor organi-
cations. When she takes a step it does
not have to be retracted, and she pro-
notes harmony through better under
standings with the expert male artisans,
with supervisors and labor union off,
cials-she thus wins their Cooperation.
BY such methods her aim is to conserve
strength, reduce absenteeism and build
up morale by very strict attention to
welfare provisions.
These women in war work, she points
out. are signed up with distinct agree
ment that when the war is over and the
men need the jobs, the women will go
back to home making and their accus-
toned employments.
The After-War Plan.
One mandate is outstanding-"t
pay of these women is based on the job,
not the sex of the worker" Miss Davies
insists. The War Labor Board is very
definite in its support of the principle
that women are to be paid wages equal
to those of the men for equal skill and
equal production" OF course, where
there has been actual and extensive
re-engineering of job to accommodate
women, it is possible and suitable to set
up rates that are just and fair-and this
includes rates for training as well as
actual production, she explains.
The Industrial Personnel Division of
which Miss Davies is consultant, is a
unit of the Army Service Forces under
1t. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, whose
overall duty is to provide practically
everything the Army needs. Up to the
present time, without any fanfare or
trumpets, the ASF has placed upwards
of $4,000 women, young and old, some
physically handicapped from all walks
of life, in industrial war work for the
Government, the majority of whom are
in nonclerical occupations.
Our Industrial Army.
When a victorious American and Al
lied Army marches into Berlin, Toxic
and Rome, there may be some WACS.
WAVES and Army, Navy and Red Cross
nurses with them Women of this in
dustrial army. however, will not be there
but they will have had a glorious part
in making that occupation inevitable.
Their explosive messages of "uncondi-
tional surrender" went ahead of the
armed forces, spreading destruction and
terror among the Axis forces and people
Every winged fortress that has showered
bombs on Toxic, Berlin and Rome re-
fleets the work of their hands, QUILTED
with precision instruments and guns
they made, and freighted with bombs
they helped prepare.
From a Typical Family.
About Miss Davies herself: She comes
of typical American family in Penn
sylvania. One side of the family was
miners and the other was farmers. Be-
fore she came "on loan" to help the
Army Service Forces win the war she
had only three jobs dn addition to keep
ing house for 18 years for her widowed
and invalid mother). At 18 she started
teaching school at $40 month in Mes
Quehoning, Pa, and when special in
dustrial continuation school for boys who
picked over coal in the mines, and girls
who worked in a silk mill, threw out a
man teacher, this 88-pound girl teacher
begged for the job-but demanded she
get the same pay the man did.
Finally and fearfully the school board
gave her a six weeks trial. She won
the interest of those big rough boys
by teaching them things of concern in
their lives: How to figure what pay they
should get (arithmetic); how to care for
their bodies, what to eat, that sufficient
sleep made them stronger and able to
earn more physiology; why taxes were
paid and how computed and what they
got for their money-how to vote and
why, to protect their rights (civics and
citiZenship)