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Show WOMEN TAKE OVER MANY JOBS TO RELIEVE MEN The navy started out a short time ago to enroll 25,000 Waves, and almost before admirals could say jack-rabbit nearly 40,000 women had signed up on programs to replace re-place men in jobs. At the time of our first World War women mobil- izea tor sewing, knitting and light work. Their main job, however, was winning "equality of the sexes" and they got nation-wide suffrage into the constitution in 1919. Women Wo-men began widening the scope of their activities and tens of thousands thous-ands of them moved into clerical employment and business. For many years women have demonstrated demon-strated their superiority in the use of the hands for deft operations. For a century women have been telling men to "let me take that, your hands and thumbs are too clumsy." This bitter truth has been admitted by the male of the species spe-cies which seems to be proved by a statement from Eastern Aircraft at Linden, New Jersey, that 75 per cent of all welding trainees for their division are women. Another group of women in training, whose ages also range from 21 to 45 years, are being hired, put on payrolls, pay-rolls, and sent to Rutgers university univer-sity to study mechanical drawing, metallurgy, shop materials, mathematics, math-ematics, blueprint reading and other subjects. The women are paid $130 a month, and the first group of graduates will take over actual jobs this month. Thousands of women are employed em-ployed at this moment in the manufacture man-ufacture of the finest precision instruments in-struments in various war production produc-tion plants, especially those that were set up by the automobile industry. in-dustry. The reason is that this industry in-dustry has for more than 30 years developed the finest and most accurate ac-curate technique. Women possess the "delicate touch" and that's why there are Waves, welders, and women wo-men workers taking over so much important work in industries, and releasing men for places where brawn and muscle is especially needed. |