Show Housewives 0 Fee Cutbacks It is estimated that the more than women working in automobile factories will be among the first workers to feel the effects of plant cutbacks sure to result because of reduced defense orders There is a 3 difference of opinion whether these married women will willbe willbe willbe be able to find ready employment in the Detroit area in civilian production production production pro pro- or whether they will return return return re re- re- re turn to the home The women are expected to feel the cutbacks more than men because because be be- cause in most causes the men have more seniority The cutbacks arc are imminent because of a recent cutback in tank and md tank production announced by the Pentagon The defense production cuts are arc not as serious as some people believe believe be- be be i lieve since defense work is only about one fifth of the total Detroit automotive output Therefore the cuts will affect only the twenty percent segment of etroits automotive automotive auto auto- automotive motive production It is also assumed assumed as as- that while the twenty per percent percent percent cent segment of Detroit's output will be reduced it will nevertheless nevertheless nevertheless less remain sizable for a numbers umbers of years since defense orders are arc expected to continue though continue though re re reduced for f for r some time to come It n has been suggested by industry industry industry in in- spokesmen that a pinch in employment can be averted if married mar married ried hied women return to their housework housework housework house house- work when reduced defense work necessitates reductions in employment employment employment employ employ- ment tol totals ls Whether women women now employed will accept this change of plan remains to be seen More certain is the prospect that some twenty or thirty thousand workers in the automobile plants around Detroit face layoffs in the next sixto six sixto sixto to nine months |