GIRLS' GRIEVANCE
WORKING NEAR JAPANESE
IX STATE VEGETABLE AREA (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter.) WELLINGTON, this day. The unpleasantness and embarassment caused to young women engaged in vegetable production through having to work alongside Japanese prisoners of war, was the subject of a notice of question by Mr. Mackley (Nat., Masterton) in the House of Representatives yesterday. The question was directed to the Minister of Labour, Mr. Webb, who was asked whether he would take steps for the protection of these workers.
. Mr. Mackley also asked the Minister whether he would arrange to see that girls were not placed at a disadvantage in respect to working hours, as compared with the Japanese. He said a case h3d been represented to him to the effect that women university students recently manpo\vered under the Government vegetable project at Grey town were subject to the ordeal of working in the same paddock, within a few yards of Japanese prisoners of war . Mr. Mackley also asked for an inquiry into demands for £1 union fees from these students, who were told it would be deducted by the manpower, officer if they failed to pay within a certain date. *
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 63, 15 March 1944, Page 2
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