4 DECEMBER 1915, Page 25

MEN, WOMEN, AND MACHINES.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPEOTATOR.1 13131,—I wish everybody connected with munition work could read that excellent article, " Men, Women, and Machines," in the Spectator of November 20th. The hours most certainly ought to be curtailed—for women, anyway. I wont to put my name down as willing to work, and found it meant a twelve hours' shift—I speak of Woolwich. As I cannot well give up my rooms in London, it meant that it was impossible for me to work. I asked the secretary if one could live away from Woolwich and yet work there. She said : " It is out of the question. With such long hours in the shops, the women are ,dead tired at the end of the shift."—I am, Sir, &c.,