At the Board of Trade on Tuesday a Conference was
held on the substitution of women for men in various trades. Mr. Runchnan informed the representatives of the women'. organizations that up to April more than thirty-three thousand women had enrolled themselves on the Special Register of Women for War Service. Six thousand had entered their names for employment in armament works and four thou- sand for employment in clothing factories. Applications for women's services should be made to the local Labour Exchanges. It was not intended, however, that women on the Special Register should be employed at the expense of women who had entered their names in the ordinary way at the Exchanges. The Special Register was, in fact, for local emergencies. In Government work the piece rates for women would be the same as for men. The Board of Agriculture had arranged for a certain number of women to receive a short training in agricultural methods. The War Office, OA we learn from the Times, are employing some hundreds of women as clerks, messengers, and typists. Before the war women were employed only as typists.
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