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Title: Women and war work
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Fraser, Helen. (from old catalog) Catt, Carrie Chapman, 1859-1947, former owner. DLC (from old catalog) National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection (Library of Congress) DLC (from old catalog)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: New York, G.A. Shaw
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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uilt a model factory away in the hillssomewhere in Scotland with four tiers offerro-cement floors. It is built with the ideaof taking 300 women students and eight monthsafter it opened, it had sixty women students. Itis a factory entirely for women, run by, and toa large extent managed by women, with the ex-ception of two men instructors. In the groundfloor the girls are working at parts of high poweraeroplane engines, under their works superin-tendent, a woman who took her MathematicalTripos at Newnham College, and was lecturer atone of our girls public schools. The womenrank as engineer apprentices and their hoursare forty-four a week. The first six months areprobationary with pay at 20/—($5) a week, andthe students are doing extremely well. Women are now part and parcel of our greatarmy, said the Earl of Derby, on July 13, 1916,without them it would be impossible for prog-ress to be made, but with them I believe victorycan be assured. Mr. Asquith, too, has paid his tribute to the
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Women in Munitions 125 woman munition maker and to others who aredoing mens work. In a memorable speech onthe Second Reading- of the Special Register Bill,he admitted that the women of this country haverendered as effective service in the prosecutionof the war as any other class of the community.It is true they cannot fight in the gross ma-terial sense of going out with rifles and so forth,but they fill our munition factories, they aredoing the work which the men who are fightinghad to perform before, they have taken theirplaces, they are the servants of the State andthey have aided in the most effective way in theprosecution of the war. Our munition women are in the shipyards, theengineering shops, the aeroplane sheds, the shellshops, flocking in thousands into the cities,leaving homes and friends to work in the muni-tion cities we have built since the war. Whenour great arsenals and factories empty, womenpour out in thousands. Night and day they haveworked as the men have and it has

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