TRANSPORT MANNERS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—May a member of the weaker sex offer a complaint over the treatment of a fellow worker by tram tra-. vellers? On Monday I was in a busy city tram at 12 o'clock and noticed a post girl standing in the outside" part of the tram with a heavy bag over her arm. Also in the same part of the tram were 16 or more men, all sitting round this girl, smoking, talking, or just sitting, and not one of those 16 men stood up to offer that girl a seat. Is it because a girl is doing a man's work that she is considered too strong to offer this small courtesy to? I travelled quite a distance in that tram and was an interested spectator all of the journey, and when I finally got out the "postip " was still standing balancing herself to the swaying of the tram. It would have been such a little thing for one of those men to have shown this girl a little politeness, or do they all believe in equality of the sexes under all circumstances? —I am, etc., Swing and Sway. July 11.
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Evening Star, Issue 25224, 11 July 1944, Page 8
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