UNEMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN.

Evening Star, Issue 21974, 9 March 1935, Page 17

UNEMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In answer to “ Fair Play ” 1 entirely agree with her statements, but would advise her to be very careful indeed how she* votes at the next General Election, as no justice for women can be expected from the present Government. After three years of most unjust taxation for women it thinks it lias done the right thing at last bv exempting all women who have £sl) ana under for an income. It used to be £2O. In England a woman is allowed £l2O a year free from tax. The women do not grudge one mite of 10a in the £ if it was given to help our less fortunate sisters, but nothing is done tor out-of-work women. 1 know of most distressing cases. One friend of my own recently tried to commit suicide, but was prevented by onlookers. Another lias been committed to a lunatic asylum through money worries and losing her all through no interest being paid to her on a mortgage she had and lessened dividends from other investments. The workers are not the only women who have been beggared by this present Government and its methods of robbing Peter to pay Paul. Pise up. women, and do something about it. Isew land was the first country to adopt votes for women, and where has it benefited them?—!, am, etc., Fair Pi-ay No. 2. March 9.