Women at War…Safeguard your Health
1942-10 1942 1940s 8 pages Reprinted from the "Daily Worker" October 10th, 1942 MAKE WAY FOR WOMEN At this crucial moment of the war, with man-power urgently needed for offensive strategy, old-fashioned prejudice against employment of women keeps on bobbing up. The obstructionists...
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London : Issued by the Communist Party of Great Britain
October 1942
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1942
1940s
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Reprinted from the "Daily Worker" October 10th, 1942 MAKE WAY FOR WOMEN At this crucial moment of the war, with man-power urgently needed for offensive strategy, old-fashioned prejudice against employment of women keeps on bobbing up. The obstructionists are not only to be found among reactionaries, but also among those who should know better. Mr. Marchbank, General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, in an interview yesterday on the shortage of manpower in transport, said that the employment of women was no solution in view of "the limited range of jobs they may be expected to do." Why so limited? In the Soviet Union there are women engine-drivers, trains with full crews of women, women station-masters, women regional traffic superintendents. Are British women less capable than Russian women? In The Times, the Conservative M.P., Professor A.V. Hill reveals that, out of step with other medical schools in this country and every other, the majority of the London medical schools refuse to accept any women students. The current Ministry of Labour Engineering Bulletin shows the splendid success of women in heavy industrial jobs where there was formerly reluctance to allow them employment. Thirteen and a half per cent of the employees in the steel industry are now women. The award of the George Medal and other awards to nurses for heroism when Exeter Hospital was set on fire by bombs is scarcely necessary to remind us that within and without the Services British women have proved themselves capable of coolness, courage, endurance and responsibility in the most arduous possible circumstances. Give them the chance. The country needs them and they are willing. Issued by the Communist Party of Great Britain, 16 King Street, London, W.C.2 and printed by Crafton Press Ltd. (T.U. all depts.) Crafton Street, Leicester. October 1942
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