Objection To Charge
(.VJt.F.A. Staff Correspondent; LONDON, August 20. Women councillors are planning to demonstrate outside a Birmingham women’s lavatories as part of a call to end the “penny in the slot” system. Headed by Mrs Doris Fisher, the women, all Labour members of the Birmingham City Council, will collect signatures for a protest petition. The councillors are also angry at a plan by the public works department to bring in a “new penny” slot machine when the country goes over to decimal coinage in 1971. This would increase charges even more because a new penny is worth 2.4 d at current rates.
Mrs Fisher said: “It seems silly to spend money on new machinery to take the new decimal coins.
"I have been on a touring holiday armed with pennies and I went into some really good-class lavatories, far superior to the ones in Birmingham, for which no charge was made at aIL”
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32072, 21 August 1969, Page 3
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