The United States Employment Service, after long study, has reported that, "It can hardly be said that ANY occupation is absolutely unsuitable for the employment of women. They operate lathes, serve as drill press operators and shapers, assemble engines, repair radios, generators and electric starters, and are expert welders. In the Norfolk navy yards 500 women are employed as mechanics. In another plant, where before the war the hiring policy was "No Women", women are in 25 percent of the jobs and are being hired as fast as they can be found. In one war plant every employee is a woman. In some war plants they constitute 70 percent of the employment list. In many war plants women make up more than 50 percent of the workers.
Register for War Jobs at the United States Employment Service Office or at a Woman's Booth February 22 to 27. Throughout our country they are doing work which many believed could be done only by men. Women have proved their efficiency in war work. Women who have never worked before are employed in stores and other necessary business establishments. Still others are in plants which are producing the war supplies essential to victory. Many are employed in the shipyards in Mobile now. Women have responded nobly to the call to war service throughout the Nation. Those of you who are not engaged in war work or essential civilian employment, we do urge you to take the training which will equip you for such a job, or if you have the training, to take the job NOW without delay. We do appeal to you, however, to take a job in which you can aid the war program. We do not ask that you give up one essential job to take another. Many of you are already in war jobs and are rendering essential service to our common country in the hour of need. But they will be of little use if we do not build the ships that can transport them to the battle zone. We are training the armies, we are building the airplanes, tanks, guns and trucks, to do the job that must be done. Hitler will not come to our shores if we build the ships which can transport our soldiers and our war material overseas. There are jobs in stores, offices, transportation, restaurants, hospitals in which you can render essential war service. There are idle jobs in the shipyards which you can fill. There are idle machines in war plants which you can operate. Housing available at this time will not permit the bringing into Mobile of the thousands of additional workers required for the shipyards and other war and essential industries. You are needed in the war jobs and in other essential civilian jobs directly aiding the war effort in Mobile NOW.
Remember February 22 is an important day in Mobile. It is an official statement from the War Manpower Commission. Read it carefully and pass it on to your neighbor.
This folder tells every Mobile woman not now in a war job how she may help win the war. Hitler and his hordes will not come if women help to build ships, more ships to transport our men, tanks, planes, and munitions to the battle lines on other Continents - or if women take other jobs directly aiding the war effort. Women had proven that they could do the job and within a few decades, women in the workforce became a common sight.Įvery woman would defend her home with a gun, a knife or her bare fingers. Men still worked at these plants, but without the women, these plants would have never been as productive or as successful as they ultimately were.Īfter the war, most women returned home, let go from their jobs. The ALCOA plant alone would produce 34% of the nation’s aluminum, a metal necessary for the production of airplanes.
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An estimated ninety-thousand workers swarmed into the city to work in the local war factories, especially in one of the two shipyards (Gulf Shipbuilding and Alabama Dry Dock and Shipbuilding) or in the ALCOA factory. In Alabama, no city felt a greater impact than did Mobile. The War Manpower Commission, a Federal Agency established to increase the manufacture of war materials, had the task of recruiting women into employment vital to the war effort.Ī number of cities across the nation had a positive economic effect because of the demand for manufactured war materials. With men off fighting the war, women were called to take their place on the production line. This flyer was created by the War Manpower Commission to encourage women to register for war jobs during World War II.
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