[266] Great Britain Home Office, Report of the Chief Inspector of Factories and Workshops for 1916, pp. 6, 7.
[267] Great Britain Ministry of Reconstruction, Reconstruction Pamphlet No. 1, “The Aims of Reconstruction,” 1918, p. 4.
[268] The Women’s Employment Committee of the Ministry of Reconstruction held that the question of what disposition should be made of the national factories was also one of major importance. The committee suggested that work in these factories, if they were retained by the government, could be so regulated as largely to prevent unemployment by manufacturing goods for which an early demand could be foreseen. Great Britain Ministry of Reconstruction, Report of the Women’s Employment Committee (Cd. 9239) 1919, p. 4.
[269] Great Britain Ministry of Reconstruction, Civil War Workers Committee, First Interim Report, p. 5.
[271] Vide [Appendix L] for detailed figures on unemployment among women workers after the armistice.
[272] United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Monthly Labor Review, May, 1919, pp. 242-243.
[273] Vide The Common Cause, May 9, 1919, p. 1.
[274] Labour Gazette, May, 1919, pp. 171 and 187.
[275] Committee of Inquiry into the Scheme of Out-of-Work Donation. Interim Report (Cmd. 196), Final Report (Cmd. 305).