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Show CALL FOR WOMEN IN RETAIL JOBS Laundries, Groceries, Drug Stores, Restaurants Need j Help, Survey Shows. WASHINGTON. Women will be ! needed increasingly in the retail. ; trades, especially restaurants and; laundries, the War Manpower com-I com-I mission said in making public a list' of "locally needed activities" reported report-ed by 120 of its area directors. In addition to such retail trades as laundries, restaurants, groceries and drug stores, women will be morei in demand for work in the trans-l portation, communications, service,! teaching and nursing fields, the! WMC predicted. Manpower requirements of the re-i tail trades will drop to 10,100,000 in January, as compared with 10,600,-000 10,600,-000 last July, the agency said, but women must be hired to keep employment em-ployment 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 em-i ployment in war industries. Necessary Activities. The activities described as necessary neces-sary to support the war effort were listed by the WMC as follows: . Wholesale and Retail Trade Restaurants, Res-taurants, ice, dairy products, fuel,' lumber and builders' supplies, drugs,! electrical supplies, paint, warehous- ing, clothing, automobile parts and supplies,, hardware, furniture; wet, i cold and dry warehousing of food; j feed, hay, grain and fertilizer; seed,! meat. i Service Laundries, hotels, banking, bank-ing, dry cleaning and dyeing, inter-' ment facilities (cemeteries and cre-i matories), linen supply, taxi-cabs,! apartment and office building main-1 tenance and service. Manufacturing Cement, brick! and clav nrnrinrts snrh as nlav ninl and fittings, segment block and clay conduit; printing and distribution of freight-rate guidebooks. In the shortage areas where anyj one of these has been listed, the lc-' cal United States employment serv-' ice is conducting intensive recruit-l ment campaigns, and the workers already in the jobs are prohibited! from transferring to other employ-1 ment without a certificate of availability. availa-bility. Women now comprise 40 per cent; of the personnel of independent gro-: eery stores and are being used in-i creasingly in chain stores, the WMCj said. To Replace Draff ees. Although there will be no change in the manpower requirements in the transportation, fuel and utility fields this year (these industries must keep 4,400,000 employees through the winter but will need to increase the number to 4,500,000 by next summer), sufficient women will be needed to replace men to be drafted, the commission said. The agency said that women would be drawn increasingly into the field as taxi drivers, bus and street car motorwomen and conductors, truck drivers, rate, clerks and ticket sell-, ers. In addition, it wag said, by the end of the year railroads want; 100,000 women on their payrolls. According to the WMC, there are: already critical shortages of teach-, ers and nurses. Many states, toi avert suspension of classes, are granting wartime teaching certifl-j cates or 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 I to the classrooms. A |
