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MUNITIONS
By June of this year the number of persons employed under this Ministry was over 2,250,000, of which about 400,000 are women. Forty-five thousand skilled men have been released from the Army and are now employed in munition factories, and many hundreds of people have been trained in schools as tool setters, lead burners, plumbers, gauge makers, etc.
Women are now employed upon some 500 different munition processes, two-thirds of which had never previously been performed by women.
The following statement was made in the House of Commons by the Minister of Munitions in August this year:
