Women and War Work

by Helen Miller Moyes

And so we will slave, and slave, and slave,

Lest the men at the front should rue it.

Their all they gave, and their lives we'll save,

If the hardest of work can do it;—

Though it's long and long the day is."

—JOHN OXENHAM.

The Ministry of Munitions has a great department devoted to the work of looking after our workers' interests.

This department of the Ministry was established by Mr. Lloyd George. Mr. Rowntree, whose work is so well known, was put in charge.

The health of the Munition Workers' Committee was set up when the Ministry was established with the concurrence of the Home Secretary, "To consider and advise on questions of industrial fatigue, hours of labor, and other matters affecting the personal health and physical efficiency of workers in munition factories and work shops."