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Show ; j 4 Woman's Place is in the Factory ft f iltH ilili ffltt . F tf P V h h V II (t-- rk , . Panned bv Censor AS the reserve of employable male workers available for war industries reaches exhaustion, Canada must rely increasingly upon women for industrial labor. Thus 75,000 women are now working in war industries along with 600,000 men. Starting mainly as inspectors, like the girls in the accompanying photo who are checking 7.2 inch shells in a huge plant near Montreal, Mon-treal, women have invaded almost every field of operation. Only in jo!; whir h require physical strength are they excluded, since new machinery ma-chinery has made it possible for even the heaviest operations to be accomplished by the press of a lever. Women are making intricate radio and electrical devices, shell fuses, parachutes and uniforms; they are driving rivets, welding steel, handling lathes and planers. Modern warfare demands 17 behind-the-scenes fighters for every soldier in action and women are swiftly overcoming the prejudice against them as industrial workers, relieving men for active service. |