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FACTORY INSPECTOR AGAIN.ST
OVERTIME FOR WOMEN
Chief Oscar F. Nelson of the Illi
nois department of factory inspec
tion, in his preliminary report as a
member of the committee on labor of
the national council for defense,
calls attention to the facf that pre
vious experience shows that over-
wtk time, as in munlion and other sup
ply laciunes, uues iiul resuii m in
creased output.
t "It has always been the tendency,"
says Nelson, "when unusuardemand
coupled with shortage of labor puts
stress upon manufacturing busi
nesses to attempt, to take advantage
of these conditions in two ways.
First, the manufacturer oftgn pleads
for a looser interpretation pr en
forcement ox both of the law af
fecting female labor and child labor
as well. Second, the same condi
tions are made much of in order to
head off impending legislation or cre
ate a sentiment which makes for de
lays. "The fact that England particular
ly was confronted on short notice
with manufacturing problems similar
to our own at the present time has
made the nation's experience partic
ularly valuable to us. 'England has
at least 3,000,000 men at the front.
These men, withdrawn from indus
trial life, throw a large and constant
ly increasing burden upon women
workers. The experience of English
manufacturers, therefore, compelled
to use female labor replacing. male
workers under conditions calling for
highest possible output, furnishes an
exact c-iide, drawn from stern expe
rience, as to what constitutes the
best length of working day.
ences upon which judgment may be
based is that of an English vronian
factory inspector who noted that the
great Bristol clothiers found that the
normal day paid better than the nor
mal day plus an hour and one-half
overtime three nights per week.
More than that, the manager respon-
sible for a factory employing over
2,000 women and girls, where the
normal day is from seven to six,
found that when thfe day had to be
reduced to eight to five by reason of
cancelled orders that the girls' out
put remained the same.
"Another English factory inspec
tor, reporting upon war-time condi
tions, states that in one case, where
the bad effect of overtime showed at
the end of the second week, the man
ager persuaded the directors to re
turn, as an experiment, Jor a week to
normal hours. The output and qual
ity of the work improved" so much
during this week that the firm de
cided to keep the normal hours alto
gether. ,
"A well-known wholesale clothiei
employing a thousand women on
government contracts in England
gave it as his well-considered opin
ion that work only during regular
hours was sufficient, any work be
yond that being quite useless, as it
exhausts the workers and does not
pay."
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, SCALLOPED MEAT
Use any cold cooked meat and dry
bread. Cut the meat into small pieces
and put a layer into a well-greased
baking dish. Add a layer of crumbs
of dry bread and a little stewed to
mato, or tomato soup or sliced onion,
or any other cold cooked vegetable.
Add another layer of the meat, then
mofe crumbs and seasoning, moisten
with gravy or hot water' or left-ovei
soup, cover with buttered crumbs
and bake 30 minutes.
The economical housewife can
save many a dime by getting the
principles of this dish in mind. As she
makes her most delicious salads by
chance, so these scalloped dishes are
often most successful when made of
whatever the refrigerator happens to
contain.
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Armed bandit got $70 from Cecil
Berneburg, clerk United Cigar Stor,
1562 12th.
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