. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . opean and English Sisters,American Women Will do the Workof the Men Called to the Colors r r\ lOR some time railroad officials, in[ JP J common with the men at the heads of the other great industriesof the Nation, have realized thatsome drastic action would have to betaken to overcome the increasing shortageof labor in industrial sections of the coun-try during war times. They may haveconsidered the idea of employing womenin some kinds of work which have alwaysbeen considered mans particular prov-ince, but, at any rate on the railroads, it was not unti
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . opean and English Sisters,American Women Will do the Workof the Men Called to the Colors r r\ lOR some time railroad officials, in[ JP J common with the men at the heads of the other great industriesof the Nation, have realized thatsome drastic action would have to betaken to overcome the increasing shortageof labor in industrial sections of the coun-try during war times. They may haveconsidered the idea of employing womenin some kinds of work which have alwaysbeen considered mans particular prov-ince, but, at any rate on the railroads, it was not until it became certain thatAmerica would enter the Great War thatthey were employed to any large extent. In Europe the employment of womento take mens places started in the firstdays of the war. Even before the firstUhlan trotted across the Belgian borderthe call to arms had rung out over thecountries that were soon to be in thedeath grapple and every able bodiedman had been transformed into a visitors in Paris in the early. SOME OF THE FIRST HUNDRED WOMEN ENLISTED UNDER THE BANNER OFTHE BALTIMORE AND OHIOThey work in our Lorain Shops and do lots of things that women dont usually do—sort material, clean up around theshop, and one—the lady in the felt hat—runs a drill press anrl also works as a blacksmiths helper. And as for theoveralls—what girl wouldnt like to be a woman railroader? 11 12 THE BALTIMORE AND OHIO EMPLOYES MAGAZINE days of August, 1914, will remember thesudden and almost complete disappear-ance of shop-clerks, waiters, buss driversand traction employes. But after a fewdays women began to take the places oftheir husbands and brothers. As thedrain upon the man power of the battlingnations has become heavier and heavierwomen have more and more taken theplaces and done the work of the maleworkers. In England, where the small profes-sional army was, like our own Regulars,entirely divorced from the industrial lifeof the nation, the change was slow
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