“LIVING ON FACTORY GIRLS”
A STATEMENT RESENTED. Auckland, October 3. , “Factory giAs, are just as respectable jas any other girls in Auckland,” said The secretary of the Auckland Female Clothing Union (Miss A. E. Cossey) -thiit"‘morning, in Mating that there was $ feelipg of intense,resentment over the statement made in a recent Auckland Magistrate's .Court case, when h. senior police officer wqs reported to have said, in referring to two accused men, ‘They preferred to stay in Auckland: and live on, girls working in factories.” Miss Cossey said it was a slur on the Auckland factory girls, who included many very respectable and intelligent young -women. In the Auckland clothing trade alone there were over 3000 young women employed, and the remark, as it was made, damned the lot of them.” Miss Cossey added that the matter was to be brought forward in Parliament, when ope of the Auckland members would ask, the Minister of Justice what was the justification for the remark.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 8, 4 October 1929, Page 19
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