Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1917 — WOMEN REPLACE MEN IN MACHINE SHOPS [ARTICLE]

WOMEN REPLACE MEN IN MACHINE SHOPS

■ t Ogden, Utah. —Women in overalls replacing men who have been called into the draft army or have volunteered for^ service with Uncle Sam’s Liberty army, made their first appearance here when the Southern Pacific railroad employed about a dozen of the fair sex for work In the local repair shops. The women will get their first experiencing in “sorting” scrap piles, separating the cast iron slugrf from the malleable, and removing the -steel and wrought iron. Nuts, bolts? screws and Other small pieces will be handled by the women, and if they display sufficient strength and ability in this line it is planned to put them to work Cleaning cars and ofher 1 heavier work about the yards and roundhouses. The “women in overalls” will receive the same compensa 11 on las that given the men who have la-en doing the same work.