PREFERENCE TO MARRIED MEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 152, 29 June 1926, Page 16

PREFERENCE TO MARRIED MEN.

(To the Editor.) ir,—l think your correspondent who aigns himself "Married," is a trifle selfish, and shows a certain amount of animosity towards single men, when he suggests that they should be discharged from their employment to give place to married men.- The married man is sheltering behind hie wife's petticoats as it were, and expecting to be lionized for committing the act of becoming married, which act is of a voluntary nature, I believe, and consequently the married man has himself to blame, if he is financially embarrassed. We know that a single man can live half as cheaply as a married man, but single men, in nine out of ten cases, are saving up for the purpose of becoming married, while some are keeping dependents, so why victimise single men? Personally. T think that employers accept for employment men who aie most suitable for the special positions offering, «and I'll guarantee that I can produce as rough a spin as regards-obtaining and keeping my various/jobs since my return from the w«r> ahd.since my subsequent marriage as'-.pur..'.married correspondent can furnish. >- Happily I returned from the war only seventy per cent disabled bodily, and about one half per cent in moral courage, and that's why 1 Ea J% {rive the single men a fair go, as they will be the first to go to the next lT ' and-the married men will lie the '■'. jjW, as they were, generally, on the last am, etc., "*■"-.. RECENTLY MARRIED.