By BUD FISHER
500 REASONS FOR STAYING OUT LATE!
BOOK OF THE MONTH
THE HUSBANDS/EACH
FRIENDS
BOOK OF THE
MONTH THE HUSBANDS
FRIEND
M.P. AND
CONCHIE
INQUIRY
WAR WORK FOR
500,000 WOMEN QUEENS THEATRÉ
(By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)
Allegations that people, who could have given evi-} EVERY UNEMPLOYED woman in the country dence at an inquiry into will be given the chance of training as a munition the treatment of con-worker under a new Ministry of Labour scheme toʻ They scientious objectors had put 500,000 women into the arms industry. been "spirited away" will get the same pay and allowances as men while were mentioned in the training. House of Commons.
Mr. Ernest Bevin, referring to the scheme in Major Milner (Soe, Lerds, EE.1 Parliament said he would tell employers of the need
for giving as many jobs as possible to women.
told Sir Edward Grigg, Financial Secretary to the Way Office:
"It has been suggested that some people who might have
"The demands of the armed Forces for men,"
been witnesses have been spirit. said Mr. Bevin, “are already becoming so great that
ed away."
He asked if the names of the witnesses at the inquiry could be published.
Sir Edward said he would look into the matter.
Earlier, Sir
Edward
told Mr.
it is manifest that women must be employed in all forms of production in ever-increasing numbers."
The only itial qualifications | unemployed women of all ages. for women trainees will be aver- age intelligence and physical fit Gienvil Hall (Soc., Calne Valley)ness, There is no age bar. that the court of inquiry bad met in private and heard evidence from individuals who are alleged to The have received illtreatment, court was now preparing its report. Mr. Hall suggested that it was
Even grandmothers may apply so long as they are hale and hearty.
"We need 500,000 women for our armament factories by next Au- unsatisfactory that the inquiry gust," Miss Caroline Haslet), Ad- viser to the Minister of Labour in the training and employment of women, told a reporter.
was held in private.
Sir Edward replied that there was no reason to direct suspicion against those conducting the in- There were objections to quiry. holding such an inquiry in public,
"The scheme will absorb almost the whole of the large number of
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“Women accepted for training weeks' duration courses of eight will be sent to technical colleges and engineering works in London and the provinces," she added.
"One of the most important points in the scheme is that the women will receive the same pay- ment and allowances as men get while in training
What They Will Get
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Girls aged eighteen to twenty will receive 20s, a week if training locally, plus an allowance of 15s, for an adult dependant upon
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If they go away to train, they will get a lodging allowance, 55, pocket money and 30s for an adult dependant.
Women over twenty-one will get 24s. per week, plus 15s, a week for an adult dependant if train- ing locally.
When training away from home they will get a lodging allowance, usually 19s. a week, plus 7s. poc- ket money and 30s, for on aduit dependant,
Unemployed women are urged hy the Ministry to register for the scheme at once.
Training courses will start very soon, and a continual stream of Britain's new armament workers will be taken into the munition works during the next few months,
The pay which these women, are being offored is likely to be raleed in a question in Parlia~ ment soon.
While these women are being; trained they will be kept by the Government, given 78, a "week pocket money, AND ANY ADULT DEPENDANTS WILL RECEIVE AN ALLOWANCE OF 30%, PER WEEK.
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