Women War
Help Sought
Big Response Noted
Among Omahans
Omaha is depending upon its housewives to fill the five thousand war jobs necessary if the city's labor crisis is to be met.
Clarence L Kirkland, chairman of the emergency labor supply of the war manpower commission, Saturday said that they are responding splendidly.
Many, he said, have already made their applications to the United States employment service.
"Like the great majority of the men who are applying these days, the women are not so much interested in what the job pays as in what it will contribute to the war effort," Kirkland said.
In that connection, he added, it should be pointed out again that almost any job is a war job. Clerk-ing in a store or working in a laundry is just as important as manning a bench in a war plant, Kirkland said.
"We are trying to make arrangements for the care of the children of those women who want war jobs," he said. "It looks as if that problem is being solved. There are now seven day schools in operation and six or seven more will be set up when needed."
Kirkland said the committee would like to fill 80 per cent of the job quota with women workers. Although much of the work is not easy; it is work that women can do and it all helps toward winning the war, he said.
Poultry processing, meat packing and laundries are among the industries which need women immediately.
The war has proved that women are capable workers in many jobs they have never tried before, Kirkland said. The local postoffice, for instance? is now using many women clerks and sorters and is considering using them as drivers.
