On This Day, 8 June 1918

Birmingham Daily Post 

Saturday 8 June 1918

BIRMINGHAM MUNITIONS TRIBUNAL

WOMEN’S OBJECTION TO WEARING CAPS

Two young women – one a lady clerk in the office of the superintendent of a works – appeared yesterday before the Birmingham Munitions Tribunal yesterday, charged with failing to obey an order of the firm by not wearing caps while passing through the works

The representative said the firm had experienced considerable difficulty with the girls in regard to wearing caps. They were required to wear them for their own safety, and the firm had had serious warnings from the inspector of factories about the omission, owing the large number of “scalping cases” that had occurred at the works. Twelve months ago the scalp of one woman was completely taken off, and she was still a patient in the hospital.

Defendants were each fined 10s., Professor Tillyard, the president, intimating that any future cases the kind would be much more severely dealt with.