THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 3, 1941
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BY BUD FISHER
TYPISTS PREFER
MOTHER OF 7 IS RAIL
FACTORY JOBS NOW PORTER
(From A Special Correspondent)
SHORTHAND-TYPISTS are leaving Govern- ment departments for better jobs in private offices or munition factories. Others are joining the women's Services. The acute shortage of steno- graphers, many of whom used to find it difficult to get jobs, is slowing up important Government work.
"The only way for the Government to get these girls back is to increase their salaries," said Mr. W. J. Brown, general secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association. "We are raising the whole question of the pay of temporary staff.`
Temporary
shorthand typists
ja twenty-five years old Government offices get a maxi- mum of 52s, or 57s, a week ac- cording to grade. The maximum for permanent staff is 75s, a week for shorthand-typists and 60s. for copy-typists.
Most mothers of seven children who have been up since six, doing house- work and cooking break- fasts and dinners for her family, would be thinking of taking an afternoon nap by 2 p.m., but this is the time when one woman starts the second half of her day's work.
She is M-e Iris Hormon. Esmere Road, Sparkhill, Birming- hom. a porter at New Street Sta- tion, Birmingham, who finishes of work al 10) her second spell
provided there is no air raid. Mrs. Hardman is forty-two. and she works for seven days a week handling soldiers' heavy kitbags and pushing trucks up and down the platform. of
policy is still: Catch 'em young, treat 'em rough, and give as! little as you can."
The shortage extends to clerks and bookkeepers
Miss B. M. Kettle, employment Secretary of the Association Women Clerks and Secretaries. sauc:
Catch 'Em Young
"There is an acute shortage of, ordinary shorthand-typrets girls "On piecework in factories girls who have not had much experi- get much higher wages. They can ence and would expect salaries of new find well-paid jubs in private jabout 70% it werk. offices, replacing men called up. Fr responsible jobs they get more money.
"The Government Is nothing to attract girls.
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With her cap slung at a rakish angle over her blonde hair, her lips neatly rouged, and wearing smart silk stockings she looks ten years younger,
"My eldest daughter is nineteen and is marrying in a week or two," Mrs. Hardman told a reporter. "These are the girls who have
"My youngest is six. When my been swallowed up by the far-
two youngest children were eva- tories Many of them become buscunted recently I felt it was my } conductors for the funt of the
duly to help my country, as doing! thing, or take jobs on the land to rest of the family are out at work
1ts help the war effort.”
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"I got a job here and I like, the work but it means my getting up at six every morning and cooking breakfasts for seven of us. Then 1 rush round doing the housework.”
CARELESS TALK ON TELEPHONE
A business man was ad- monished at Edinburgh for having talked care- lessly on the telephone.
was
It was the first prosecution of the kind in Scotland, and brought under the section of the Defence Regulations which states that "No person shall obtain or communicate any information in regard to number, description, armament, equipment, disposi- tion, movement or condition of H.M. Forces, vessels, or aircraft." The maximum penalty is £100 and three months' imprisonment,
The case was heard In camera and a statement made to the Press afterwards.
It was stated that the subject
of the charge was mentioned to a business associate and personal friend.
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Sheriff Robertson said it gossip which in itself might not be, of any use to anybody, but, along with other items, it might have been collated into something use- ful to the enemy. ›
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