In October 1943, 200 Seoul high school girls were deployed to a tobacco factory to make cigarettes for Japanese troops
October 8, 1943 Gyeongseong Ilbo (Keijo Nippo)
The Maidens’ Sincerity Engraved on Cigarettes
The Monopoly Bureau has decided to manufacture special cigarettes with a shrine’s crest to commemorate the consecration festivities for the Gogoku Shrine being built in Seoul and Ranam. At the request of Seoul No. 1 and No. 2 Girls’ High Schools, 200 students from each of the two high schools went to work at the Monopoly Bureau’s Uiju Tong tobacco factory from the 2nd to the 12th. Together with the general workers, the maidens engaged with all their hearts in this precious labor producing the fragrant commemorative cigarettes.
The daily work routine is as follows: assembly at 9:00 am, greetings by the plant manager after the national ritual along with work site precautions, start work at 9:20 am, tour of the plant after completion of work at 2:00 pm, greetings by the plant manager at 3:30 pm, and dismissal.
(my transcription into modern Japanese orthography, with punctuation marks added for clarity)
昭和十八年十月八日 京城日報
煙草に刻む乙女の赤誠
専売局では京城及び羅南にご造営中の護国神社の鎮座祭記念用社紋入特製煙草を製造することになったが、京城第一、第二両高女の申出により二日から十二日まで両高女生徒各二百名が専売局義州通煙草工場に出勤し、一般工員と共に乙女の真心を胸一杯にこめ、尊き勤労にたずさわり、香りゆかしき記念煙草の製造作業に従事している。なお毎日の作業順序左の通り、午前九時集合、国民儀礼を終わって工場長挨拶ついで作業場の注意、同九時二十分作業開始、午後二時作業終了後工場見学、同三時三十分工事長挨拶、解散。
Source: 京城日報 1943-10-08 : 京城日報社 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
