On This Day, 1 June 1918

Birmingham Daily Post

Saturday 1 June 1918

WOMEN MUNITION WORKERS CONDEMN STRIKES.

Rumours of a possible one-day strike munition workers Birmingham, by way of protest against the recent conviction of a man on a charge of impeding output, having been circulated during the last few days, we are informed by the Women’s Party that the women workers at some of the largest factories in the district have passed a resolution in the following terms:—“The women munition workers of this factory at a meeting to-day unanimously resolved to do all in their power to continue to increase production, and condemn all war workers who pursue a policy of restricting output, by means of strikes or otherwise, especially at a time when the situation on the Western Front is so serious. If there are men in this country who so far forget themselves as to betray our boys in the trenches, the women of this country will rise in their might against such traitors to the Empire.”