WOMEN AND VICTORY.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 170, 19 July 1915, Page 6

WOMEN AND VICTORY.

HOW THEY CAN HELP. GREAT PROCESSION IN LONDON LONDON, July 18. Heavy rain detracted from the women's demonstrations in London in favour of being allowed to do something tc help in the war. There was a procession a mile long, made up of 125 sections, each headed by banners. Amongst inscriptions were: "Men must light and women must work. We are not slackers." "We mean to save our country." "We mean to keep the Kaiser out." "We demand war service for nil." Mr. Lloyd George, in nn address, sad (hat about fifl.OOO women were already working in the munition factories. It was a question of getting men anil women to work together to help the eoamtry through the worst crisis ever experienced. The first thing was to get an adequate supply of ma-chines and tools. The Government was assuming control of all machine and tool making establishments, and women must give their whole time to the work. They could receive the came piece-rates as men. The Government would control the factories, and see-that there was no sweated labour. The women could help Britain lo victory, and without them I victory would tarry. "A victory which j tarries," said Mr. Uoyd George, "means a victory whose footprints are footprints lof blood."