ANOTHER VIEW
(To tho Editor.) Sir,— Having read "Nee Trepide's" letter on the employment of husband and wife, I should like to state the other side. If a man's wife chooses to earn her living apart from the wages of her husband it surely is no concern of Nee Trepide." For "Nee Trepide" to suggest Government intervention between man and wife where the latter is working seems to me a confession of weakness and an admission of 'Tm down and I'll drag you down too" sort of thing. Would it afford "Nee Trepide" any satisfaction to see a man get into financial difficulties through the enforced cessation of his wife's small but entirely necessary wage? Is it right that a married woman should be deprived of her job when her employer is thoroughly satisfied with her services, and when any employer will tell you that married women are to be entirely relied upon? We all know the troubles of the unemployed, and it would indeed be a hard person who failed to Sympathise with them; but the system of elimination and substitution would not ease matters in the least, and the trouble caused would only mean weighing dbwn the other side of tho scales.—l am, etc., . , DOUBLE HARNESS.
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 8
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208ANOTHER VIEW Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 147, 24 June 1933, Page 8
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