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Local Government Board, (War Employments Branch) Dublin. 22nd March, 1916 Dear
Sir, I have to thank you for yours of the 17th instant in
reply to my letter of the 11th addressed to Captain Kelly.
The information you have been good enough to obtain from
the President of the Flax Spinners and Power Loom Weavers'
Association is most valuable and reassuring and will be
embodied in my report to the Board. I am also obliged for the information contained
as to
the employment of female workers in Munition work. I am,
Sir,
Yours faithfully. War Employments Inspector.
Alexander McDowell, Esq., Ministry of Munitions, Coates Building, Castle St,
BELFAST.
A letter from the War Employments Inspector to Alexander McDowell (d. 1918), Ministry
of Munitions, thanking McDowell for his reply to his queries about the employment
of female workers in the Linen and Munitions factories in Belfast. The inspector states
that the information will be submitted in a report to the Local Government Board (LGB).Alexander
McDowell, Esq., was the joint director of Ireland for the Ministry of Munitions.