Women and War Work by Helen Fraser
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etc., and by the setting up of the Women's Service Bureau by the
London Society for Women Suffrage (N.U.W.S.S.). Various women's organizations have established most valuable clearing houses for voluntary workers in Scotland and England and Wales. The Women's Service Bureau has dealt with 40,000 applications for voluntary and paid work--mostly paid. Its interviewers take the greatest trouble to place these applicants suitably, and to find out just what they can do or would be good at doing. Our biggest Government arsenal secured their first munition supervisors through it--and the Government Departments, big firms, factories, organizations, banks, workshops, institutions of any kind, send to it for workers. It not only finds these posts without charge--it is supported entirely by voluntary contribution--but it has a loan and grant fund to enable women and girls without money to pay for training and maintenance. Its records and the letters in its flies provide reading that is as absorbing as any novel, and it was one of the wise agencies that realized the older woman had a place and could help as well as the younger ones. To find the person and the post and to put them together is its fascinating and admirably done task. The organization done by women in Britain has been notable and admirable. I can only touch on some of it and must leave out much, but it is |
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