Show HOW ENGLAND WAS MADE INTO ONE NIT ON PLAN Continued From Preceding Pa Page e on a lathe some nights Done ago ago 1 Done fourteen today Beat that if you can you JOU devils ils No under this this this' spreading fast industry with its suggestion sUgg of good management management manage manage- ment and hi high h wages there is the beat of no ordinary impulse Somo Some feel it much more than others but says cays the clever er and kindly superintendent dent I 1 have already quoted the majority ma mn- majority jor ty ore are very decidedly working f from Om the point of view yiew of doing doing- something something something some some- thing for their country A great reat man many of the women fuse arc are earning for the first time The Time Themore more I see of t them em all the better I like them And then followed some some interesting interesting- comments on the relation of the more educated and anel refined among them to the skilled mechanics two two national types that have e perhaps perhaps per per- haps never met in iii such close working contact before Ones One's thoughts thong bc begin to follow fullow out ont some som of the possible social r results of this national move move- ment Happy Army of Here is the report of another un- un official offIC al inspector I 1 wa was astonished at the aspect of the time women workers worker I r had expect expected cd to see sec ce them wear weary pale eyed heavy e ed doggedly elIy doing their bit Instead I r found a township of 10 OU girls and aud women lookin looking well strong happy happ nail mill determined glad of the work proud of their achieve c ments The hours are t twelve at a n shift out of which Bich an fin hour is taken token for dinner and half an hour for tea Some start at 7 i. i others at S. S Every ery woman oman works work alternately a n week on onda day da shift mid and a week elk on night shift N No woman unman works on en Sundays At the time end ent of two months every ery woman is entitled to the coveted triangular ulal badge c with frith the inscription On War Yur Service No Xu woman of 21 1 and aud upwards upwards up- up wards earns carns less than 2 s a 1 week even O during her first week while in inn ur ural she is earning a al n very short hort time week and when she goes gOli into nito the thet t danger buildings buildings' or 11 01 time the factories where the shells hells are filled with tho time lint but deadly cordite inn innocent ent looking and aunt hi high h explosive ll materials she rime week A cams carns from frym his Jos to a 3 I U At At this particular works the they prefer their apprentices apprentice I raw raw The authorities like to train the time women themselves and the women they the most urgently need are those tho-e of tho 1110 public school type type intelligent intelligent well educated capable sportswomen There are arc a certain number of over o over over- lookers lookers' employed who can start as nt in training and who earn from 2 to 3 3 J los a The Time girls either take their own meals or go to one of the many canteen rooms scattered about the munitions town town- ship In n many of the I shops shops' they prefer to take their then own dinner as the they vary yar their meal with mu music minic ic Iming having haying hay hav ing ing- bou bought ht a piano from a fund subscribed subscribed sub suh- scribed by themselves At a n given g- g gen en signal bimal i in l 1 the lime middle of the day all lathes are arc stopped and the ceaseless hum of machinery gives gins way to women women's 5 ton tongues ues and antI the strains of a n raise valse or of the latest music hall 60 song rattled out on the property common piano In shop after shop yon you see sec only an occasional man However er well the women are doing doin they cannot take the place of all nIl the e skilled worl workmen and so 80 far a woman is al almost almost nl- nl I most unknown unknown though though h women workers workers workers work work- ers act ns as toolmakers Thus Tints there arc nrc men watching their work and mill coming to their aid in difficulties Row after row of girls in overalls o mill and caps khaki color or blue pretty girls with flushed checks an and hair escaping I from their mob caps eaps merry girls g with dimples all working on the tile instruments instruments ments of destruction wives wins working for a man who is fighting to keep wom women n and amI children safe brides of a n. afew afew few days widows There Thero are different different different differ differ- ent grades ades of society represented and every even branch of industrial life but hut all nIl are arc re linked together tog by England's Eng 5 need Soc Social nl distinctions are leveled lc in the tho democracy of overalls o and caps raps Quaint little feminine touches bright brig brighten en the shops Roses Hoses nod nOlI from glasses Most rost of the girls girl look healthy and well 11 for the time authOl authorities ties have haye realized that it i is in in their in interests interests in- in in- in I as well as in those of the individual in individual in- in worker that health should be he guarded and preserved cd One lady I doctor in the Midlands who said smilingly that she sometimes sometime included the d duties I s 's of a parson hums has discovered ered an nn antidote te f for r fumes which discolor discolor dis dis- color tho the skin of the workers The same factory in ill the time Midlands I which is growing Fro in and aud 1111 spreading and gobbling up green preen fields is a n model o one e where girls gills gently bred can work with comfort and under proper cpu cpu- Hostels built on the hut but system contain pretty prett little bedrooms either ither double or single for which and all nIl their meals the girls pay weekly There are n a matron and three maids for each ench hostel Many of the matrons arc are trained nurses and nd have ha taken certificates certificate in sanitary inspection There arc are also laundries where the girls can cnn amuse amuso themselves es doing up collars and blouses but the laundry work is clone done for them very eQ cheaply Recreation rooms noisy and quiet so BO that all tastes may bo ho satisfied are a I feature and there is a splendid canteen canteen can can- teen where good food is served ser on tables decorated with flowers With ith piece work overtime and bonuses most t of the girls here hare earn cam very good g wages wag A girl sirl over o 21 begins hegins at a 1 weekly with the thc possibility of earning a bonus Girls of 16 are arc earning earning weekly on In certain certain certain tain work and older ones 3 lOs week weekly 1 Girls engaged in gauging ing and examining r fuses from to S Sr o 1 and nud o'clock only earn weekly others average n Educated women as o assistants to the time supervisors supervisors su su- earn carn 3 to 4 1 weekly Lately certain orders of the ministry of munitions have haYe come into force to improve the time wages of tho the women working in iii controlled establishments enga engaged e l in in tho time production of arms anus ammunition ordnance and all branches of mechanical engineering and shipbuilding In addition allowances allowances allowances allow allow- ances for processes inimical or 01 dangerous dangerous dan dan- to health are decided on the 1 merits of the case case MC The rates are an improvement upon the prewar pay for unskilled women's work Handling High Explosives At another factor factory the tho women are I 1 ed in ill all the pro processes of filling I the time the raze fuse and und in many of those for for r making tho the IS 18 II time lof fn fu fine fine-a e e-a e a tribute to the accuracy and delicacy of touch which women dis dis- play The fhe work entails the handling of high explosives though explosives though h as one ono II if if had not to visitor remarked one I leave lenye all handbags S and umbrellas outside outside out out- side sille thc these c shops and slip ship sou ot on one would not realize it it The girls girls' handle without a trace of nervousness nervousness nervous nervous- ness the deadly T T. T N. N T. T and the even en more deadly fulminate of mercury mer- mer curY displaying a steadiness s of hand null and smoothness of movement that shows sho how each realizes the Ole vital ital im im- of or the full fall concentration j every cry sense upon the operation hand Th Time The shops hops where these impo taut tant processes are carried on aj at t small each tenanted b by only three four girls in girls in order to localize ail explosion explosion each each room bas lias doors op to th the fresh air at either cither end so th the atmosphere may not become pct pC sowed b by the chemicals Indeed e c over possible precaution one could thin thi of to eliminate danger is taken F processes such as ns screwing up of fuses where the chance of a explosion must be bo risked a machin called collea a safety gig invented b by o of of the owners o of the factory factor factory is in u uIt us us It is a globe of hardened metal in iut which the fuse is inserted for tight All Any explosion takes place i iside 11 if si side e the globe which is strong to resist it the time operator goes ni u harmed To mention all the tho proc processes cs pe formed in these workshops would i ii volve oh unnecessary detail but th ran range e from the tI breaking down ai nl examination of en every rr separate part parta a n single fuse to the filling of or t tl that detonator detonator that hollowed ed tube rt i longer than the first joint of the h tIo fin finger which finger which cr which when filled wi four grains of fulminate of and four and aud a half grains of po d powder r can ran fire a shell of ot practical nn any size A standard of hi high h efficiency boin boin bo boi in speed and md accuracy is maintain in iii these shops One girl chargi detonators declared that in her cod col co the they were turning out ont 1000 II i I day Another girl whoso whose work ri rl tho utmost care for care for the dro ping of n a grain or two t of the chem cal enl would mean menn a dangerous sion said ion said she filled regularly 1500 1600 detonators a lay day while a thimi who whose c work was to m measure the tho Jen of powder pellets claimed 1500 a 8 df as her average output An Air in ing process to watch was 85 the time maki of the time T. T N. N T. T powder int pellets One girl carefully wipes am nf polishes the time mold a second the time powder and niHl pours it in and H ti third tho time girl irl on the time press o co cori the process 5 All the Torkel enga engaged ed in handling explosives eg we we masks and shields for the eyes yes Ti Th hands hand and aud faces are stained with y low 10 but not to a marked degree o 0 mug ing to the precautions taken ll v hope to adopt the the- gas givs helmet used i ithe t time the trenches for the use of time tho girls said an nn official |