WAR
JOBS CALL 1/3 OF WOMEN
WMC Says Shift
Needed by July 1
WASHINGTON,
D.C.—Yesterday in Chicago, the chairman of the Women’s Advisory Committee of
the War Manpower Commission (WMC), Miss Margaret A. Hickey, stated that by the
end of the year “…approximately one-third of all American women over fourteen
years of age…” will be required to work in war industries. Miss Hickey also
emphasized women are “…our largest single labor resource...” and said that
would continue for the duration of the war. On the heels of Miss Hickey’s
speech, today in Washington, Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the WMC, called for a
shift of 2,600,000 million workers from non-essential jobs to war-useful jobs
by July 1 next. McNutt said the military
plans to expand by two million by that date and “…these men and women will be
drawn from war-useful jobs as well as from other occupations…”, thus creating
the need for the shift of workers toward war-useful jobs.
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