WOMEN HIT BACK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 257, 31 October 1933, Page 7

WOMEN HIT BACK.

ANTI-AUSTIN PARADE. LONDON, October 26. Miss Ruby Rich, the Sydney feminist, was" among eight women carrying placards with slogans such as "Married women demand the right to earn," "Women, boycott Austin cars, because Austin boycotts women," who paraded outside the Olympia motor show. The parade was owing to the refusal of Sir Herbert Austin, chairman of the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., to withdraw the speech which he made last month urging the adoption of the Nazi principle of withdrawal of women from industry. Interviewed for the "Sunday Sun," Miss Rich said that she represented the British Commonwealth League, with which the Australian Federation of Women Voters was affiliated. "We are attacking Sir Herbert Austin's most vulnerable point, because he is always trying to make women buy his cars," she said. "We are trying to make women refuse to buy them. Twenty-nine women's organisations are financing the. movement." i Sir Herbert Austin denies having advocated the boycotting of women, and says he employs 1000 himself. "It is unfair to attack the company owing to ugr ctfumoas," Jio -es&S. 1