UNEMPLOYED WOMEN
COMPLAINTS AGAINST ALLOW
ANCE.
(MSTU'I IIIHJUH.)
LONDON, 6th March. A! conference of unemployed women under the auspices of the Trades Union Congress resolved in favour of greater Government assistance. Speakers declared that it -was impossible for single girls to live on twenty shillings weekly, the unemployment allowance. A member of the Actresses' Association declared that four thousand out of six thousand members of the association were without work, and with no prospect of getting work. Another resolution protested against attempts to utilise the industrial depression to force wom-en into domestic service, regardless of their suitability. The mover said that domestics ■were treated like slaves.
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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1922, Page 7
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106UNEMPLOYED WOMEN Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 56, 8 March 1922, Page 7
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