On This Day, 5 April 1917

Birmingham Daily Post

Thursday 5 April 1917

MUNITIONS ACT AND LADY CLERKS.

At a General Munitions Tribunal, held yesterday, at the Victoria Courts, a Birmingham firm were fined £10 for employing a lady clerk, previously engaged by a munition firm, without a leaving certificate. The representative of the firm said they did not ask where she had previously been employed, being ignorant of the fact that the Act applied to lady clerks. The Chairman said firms must clearly understand that clerks came within the provision of the Act.