Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-08-18 | Page 33 | 626,000 Women are Employed in France

626,000 WOMEN ARE EMPLOYED IN FRANCE PARIS, Aug. IT. Women emploved In n.H branches of Industry in B'rance number num-ber o2f.W(. according to an officJnl report. re-port. Th!t compares with 4S7joo employed em-ployed in normal tlmf-F. This increase is due almost entirely to the employment of women In metal Industries, rhiefly in munition mu-nition works. The weieht which women can be required to carry in far-: or v work is limited by law to fifty-five pounds. Women are widely employed for the inspection in-spection of finished goods; they examine separate parts for automohiu-; verify light shells, fuses -'"id k rename phjs-They phjs-They inpr'ect big Fhel's externally and in-trnaUy in-trnaUy by the use of electric lamps and they test the caliber, using complicated measuring apparatus and mlrropcopes. They nail up cases of all kinds, even cases j for airplanes a.nd automobiles. The women supervise the buildings where men 1 axe at work and keep them clean.