Women For Munitions

From the Huddersfield Daily Examiner, 16th January 1917.

WOMEN FOR MUNITIONS. 

ANOTHER HALF MILLION WANTED, AGED FROM 18 TO 45. 

Two hundred photographs prepared by the Ministry of Munitions showing women at work in the munition factories are on view at Harrod’s, London. Filling shells, stoking nitric acid stills, assembling fuses—a work as delicate as making a watch—acetylene welding, electric wiring, and making the wings of aeroplanes are but a part of the work they perform.

Women are engaged to-day on hundreds of different processes on which only men have worked before. Not all have the physical strength for manual labour, but there is any amount of gauging, testing, and inspecting to be done, and in this responsible work well-educated women specially excel. Whether they are working in trousers and tunics, as some of the operations require, or in khaki or asbestos overalls, all the women look thoroughly happy.

Half a million are already engaged in the munition factories. Another half a million are required. An appeal is therefore made to every woman who is physically fit between the ages of 18 and 45, who is not already engaged in productive labour, to offer herself as a worker to a munition factory. Application may be made either to the local employment exchange or to one of the munition training centres in London or the provinces.