FOR WOMEN VOTERS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 129, 28 November 1923, Page 5

FOR WOMEN VOTERS

FRANCHISE AND WELFARE OF

CHILDREN,

(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.! .LONDON, 27th November.

'' Mr. Baldwin said he was glad to know a number of women candidates were standing, for their cause. The Government's energies, if it was returned, must be devoted to combating unemployment, and therefore he was I'eluctant to make promises, for he never made one unless he could keep itj but-he agreed that the present discrimination in age between men and women voters could not be permanent. He hoped he might be able to revise the Joint Committed of berth Houses which had been investigating the guardianship of infants, witli a view to working out an agreed measure which could be submitted to Parliament. Regarding pensions for widows, there was no one who did. riot sympathise, but no honest man could promise to deal with the question in view of the present limited revenue. The policy enabling children 1 to, pass from the elementary schools via the socondary schools to the university had his ..warmest support. He declared that he would have nothing to do with tile inflationist policy regarding tariffs. If monopolies resulted he could deal with them. • ..