Show call for women tn in retail reta al jobs laundries groceries drug stores restaurants need hep help survey shows washington women will be needed increasingly in the retail trades especially restaurants and laundries the war manpower commission baidin making public a list of locally needed activities reported by of its area directors in addition to such retail trades as laundries restaurants groceries and drug stores women will be more in demand for work in the transportation por tation communications service teaching and nursing fields the predicted manpower requirements of the retail trades will drop to in january as compared with last july the agency said but women must be hired to keep employment plo y ment at the expected january level because of the impending heavy withdrawal of men from this field to fill selective service quotas in the next few months and take employment in war industries necessary activities activities the activities described as necessary to support the war effort were listed by the as follows wholesale and retail trade restaurants tau rants ice dairy products fuel lumber and builders supplies drugs electrical supplies paint warehousing clothing automobile parts and supplies hardware furniture aeto wet cold and dry warehousing of food feed hay grain and fertilizer seed meat service laundries hotels hotel s banking dry cleaning and dyeing interment facilities cemeteries and cre mattries ma tories linen supply taxicabs taxi cabs apartment and office building maintenance and service manufacturing cement brick and clay products such as clay pipe and fittings segment block and clay conduit printing and distribution of freight rate guidebooks in the shortage areas where any one of these has been listed the local united states employment service is conducting intensive recruitment campaigns and the workers already in the jobs are prohibited from transferring to other empio employment y without a certificate of availability women now comprise 40 per cent of the personnel of independent grocery stores and are being used increasingly crea singly in chain stores the said to replace draftees although there will be no change in the manpower requirements in the transportation fuel and utility fields this year these industries must keep employees through the winter but will need to increase the number to by next summer sufficient women will be needed to replace men to be drafted the commission commission said the agency said that women would be drawn increasingly into the field as taxi drivers bus and street car motor women and conductors truck drivers rate clerks and ticket sellers in addition it was said by the end of the year railroads want women on their payrolls according to the there are already critical shortages of teachers and nurses many states to avert suspension of classes are granting wartime teaching c certificates e for which somewhat lower qualifications are necessary but most emphasis is put on the patriotic appeal to women who have retired or who hold other jobs to go back to the classrooms |