Evening star., 1943-03-29
Conference 10 Weigh
War and Peacefime
Roles Of Women
Institute Of Professional
Relations Opens 2-Doy
Session April g.

| Greater use OF COllege-GralneQ
women in the war effort and the
inclusion of women in postwar plans
for full employment will be the
theme of the third Washington con-
ference of the Institute of Women's
Professional Relations to be held
April 8 and 10 at the Mayhower
Hotel
Mrs. Jouett Shouse, chairman of
the board of the institute, an
nounced that college deans, per-
sonnel and vocational advisers will
attend the conference, which has
as its subject, War and Postwar
Demands for Trained Personnel"
Pros and cons of compulsory
draft of women, supply and de-
mand of chemists, teachers, women
in the armed forces and postwar
employment of women are among
the subjects to be discussed.
Ickes and Bait to Speak.
Mrs. Chase G. Woodhouse, director
of the institute, will open the ses-
sions Secretary of the Interior
Ickes will speak at the afternoon
session April 9. William L. Bait,
vice chairman of the War Produc-
ton Board, will preside at that
days luncheon. DR.. William Haber,
War Manpower Commission re-
search consultant, will discuss "Spe-
cific Plans for Use of College,
Trained Personnel in the War Eff
FORT Need for women in trans
portation will be the subject of a
talk by Miss Dorothy Sells, chief
Of the personnel supply section of
the Office of Defense Transpor-
tation, who has just returned from
England.
Other speakers April 8 will in
clude George w. Bailey, secretary
of the Committee on Scientific Per-
sonnel, Office of Scientific Research
and Development; Donald Daven-
port, chief, employment and occu-
pational outlook branch, Bureau of
Labor Statistics; Miss Charl o. Will
liams, National Education Associa-
ton; Ralph E. Flanders, president,
Jones Sz Lamson Machine Co. of
Vermont; William B. Stout Of the
Stout Division of Consolidated Air
craft, Dearborn, Mich; DR.. James
Babcock, assistant chief, Examining
and Personnel Utilization Bureau,
Civil Service Commission; Thomas
r. Blaisdell, assistant director, Ma
tional Resources Planning Board:
DR.. Phillip Jessup. Foreign Relief
Commission: Philip Gold. Inter-
American Affairs Committee, and
Mrs. E. Swift Newton of the Red
Cross.
Wadsworth Among Speakers.
Representative Rogers. Republi-
can, of Massachusetts will preside
at the morning session April 10
and will introduce the following
speakers: Representative Wads-
worth, Republican, of New York,
who will discuss "Why Women
Should be Drafted; Senator John
son, Democrat, of Colorado, who
will champion voluntary enlistment
of women; Mrs. Margaret LIE Boutil-
lier and Mrs. Gilmore Herrick, direc-
tor OF personnel and labor relations,
Todd Shipbuilding Corp.
Representative Tolan, Democrat,
OF California will preside at the
luncheon and speak on Home Front
Community Needs" Philip Murray,
CIO president, will discuss Organ
lied Labor Faces the Problem of
Postwar Employment of Women"
At the afternoon session April 10
Boris Shishkin, research director Of
the American Federation of Labor,
will speak. Others include Miss
Elizabeth Christman, executive sec
retary, National Womens Trade
Union League, on leave with the
Woman's Bureau, and Archibald
Mcdonald Gordon, Labor Attache
and First Secretary of the British
Embassy.