WORKERS FOR “PIN MONEY”

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 56, 29 November 1929, Page 11

WORKERS FOR “PIN MONEY”

WOMEN REPLY TO MR. THOMAS London, November 25. Mr J H. Thomas has been vigorously’ attacked by strong-minded strong-willed women as an outcome of his statement cabled yesterday: It is against the nation’s interests for women to work for what is called ‘pin nioney,’ thereby depriving others of legitimate employment.” Lady Rhondda, who is something of a financial genius, and who is a director of thirty companies, and a pre-war militant suffragist, comments: “Mr. Thomas shows a surprising lack of the first principles of economics. The more workers the more prosperous the nation. The majority of women work because they must. Everybody, rich or poor, have the alternatives that thev must either work or allow themselves to be kept. Respectable men and women prefer work.” Women secretaries and presidents of the Women’s Freedom League, Women Clerks’ Associations, and women teachers confront Mr. Thomas with a solid block, and ask indignantly, why women should be prevented from working; also why nothing is said of men with private incomes who continue working.