... and not against each other. Lloyd George was put in charge of munitions and with the powers that the Defence of the Realm Act gave him he put in many measures, such as keeping skilled workers in jobs that suited the government not what gave them the most pay. Another important measure he brought in was women workers. Trade unions did not like this, in 1915 over 1,000,000 women applied for jobs but to start with only 5,000 got them. The trade unions where worried because women didn't get as much money as men, and so they thought that men would not be able to get their jobs back at the end of the war because employers would want to continue to employ the lower paid women. The trade unions would not co-operate until the government promised them that the women would be paid the same as men and be ...

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