UNEMPLOYED WOMEN

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 35, 9 August 1930, Page 17

UNEMPLOYED WOMEN

PROVISIOISr IN" THE BILL

Since the ■ introduction by the Government of the Bill covering unemployi■men.b ; omsuraape, the;. ; Wellington Womeri?s Branch^of;the/;l<few Zealand Labonr Party h'as'beefi.active in soliciting ..support: for; tho extension of th« scope of 'the Bi|rtQ?prpvide for women in the saiiW;. jvay L .as-it...proposes. to provide for men. At anieebiag of the branch on "Wednesday, it was reported that although the labour exchanges now had facilities for registering women who were, oiit of >*r.fo /th£t facias not generally:, known :a,mong.';.,'.ußemployed -women.; ;TheV.: opiniQu • w^assieXpressed that if the-vprovision for. wonien wer« better known the"AnftMb'ers-r'e;gisteriug n-ould bp.eo^siclerably incr.eased. The following resolution -was^eaiEied unani■mousiy;. v "That 4his..s'aneeting^of tha Wellington "Women's Braiich ''of the Labour Party adviies'airthcise- women >vho arc unemployed and who'are seeking employment to;-register names at the Labour Department i" Uic Ta 'Aro Post Office building.' 'Tlus will give a. true indication ,oJ." th'f number of.women who arc at t-lie present S.ime out of employment■'wHfi'out ' ■•\\y otlier means•'of support: '•' coi'isMcrod that if women took the ' CDiir -••' suggested the position revealed would bo i strong incentive to the Government to amend the Bill in the direction of making provision for women as well «• men.