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Show VALUE OF WOMEN WORKERS REALIZED British Manufacturers Dispense With Their Services With Regret, j League Announces. ! By International News Service. i LONDON, Doc. 13. British employer? hare ! ' Iru rued the value of woman la bur during' the ! war, nail now rrpret that a Fiirplus of labor, duo to demobilization of soldleiB, necessitate lu.vfrriK off women workers. Thut is the finilinf? of the "Women's Industrial Indus-trial leatrue, which aims to secure equality of trial incut and opportunity of employment for women. Viscountess llhondda is president. A questionnaire, answered by 14L"' British firms, innny of whom employed woman labor for the fitst time during the war, expressed themselves, almost without exception, n-s beine j highly satisfied -with woman Inlor. while A jj majority of them regretted demobilization, lack of trade ami uncertainly of future plans forced I lliein to dismiss woman employees. j There are now Tit. TOO women employed by these H22 firms, which by no means represents repre-sents a fair share of nil which employ woman labor today, as ntrniimt 24.300 before the wnr. A third of the firms who employed women for tho first time during the war have been able to retain them on some processes of manufacture, manufac-ture, while another third would be willing to keep them on but for opposition from ei-soldiers. |