TELEGRAMS. CLERKS' UNION.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 131, 30 November 1911, Page 3

TELEGRAMS. CLERKS' UNION.

POSITION OF FEMALE LABOUR. fax TELIGBAPH— SPECIAL 'IO THE POBT.J AUCKLAND, "This Day. Tho formation of the Clerks' Union^ continues to form the .subject of numerous letters to the press. The president (Mr. Pickoring), in a letter, says,: — "In these days it seems only natural and reasonable for the artisan to form a 'union and declare his demands; but when the clerk, who is in, an infinitely worso position, swallows his false pride and docs likewise he is looked down upon as a most dangerous character, and is reviled, singled out, and subjected 'to petty and spiteful tyranny. _ A number of employers have already intimated their agreement to the demands, and wished tho organisation overy success. The proposal to place female labour on the iaiiie level as male labour seems to be hitting some rather hard. . Now, sir, I am not 1 aware that tho lady solicitor, the lady accountant, oif .the ladydoctor havo any special concessions made to them to enable them to follow their ie3poctive professions. lv' competing with men in the slime spheres they have to pass the same examinations, are allowed exactly the same privileges, can chargo tho same fees : in other words, they are recognised as man's equal*. Why, then, this difference with the .lady clerk ?"