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FEDERAL "NORKS
AGENCY
Work Projects Administration
For Release
Tuesday, 1v:arch 3 , 1942
WPA STEPS UP EFFORTS TO PUT WOiif.EN rlORKERS INTO WAR PRODUCTIO:{ JOBS
Reemployment and training representatives of the WPA have
been instructed to give
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imr:Jediate attention 11 to the placi;1_g of
women WPA workers in jobs which are being opened to women by the war
production progr am, Howard O. Hunter , Commissioner of Work Projects ,
announced today .
Orders to all State ~-PA offices call for special efforts
to find jobs for v,omen who have been trained in vocational. classes
while on tile 1:YPA payroll , who can be so t r ained , or who are otherwise
qualified for factory and other employment .
Training of lfl'PA women has been conducted Eenerally through
the facilities of local p1J.blic vocational schools .
Where available
and needed , additional training facilities will be provided .
Many
women are already qualified because of aptitude and throuch 'NPA project
experience for certain types of factory jobs , such as assembly work .
Still others had such actual experience bef0re coming to ..,NPA .
W-PA State organi zations place women , as well as men , in
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priv3.te jobs thr ough the channels of the U. S. Employment Se r vice
and by filling orders received directly from employers .
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