PLOT BY HUSBANDS

Greymouth Evening Star, 27 March 1930, Page 2

PLOT BY HUSBANDS

■ ' 1 ■■cgffi*’— .“MASCULINE LIBERTY.” “A society to preserve masculine independence and agitate for masculine liberty.” Such are the objects of a new male organisation which is in course of formation, and the secrets of which, before it could be launched before the country, have just been accidentally disclosed in Blackburn, England. For several weeks a number of wellgroomed young valiants have stimulated interest and speculation by eager, concentrated discussions during lunch hour at a local cafe. A typed MS. by a cruel fate fell into the hands of a sister of one of the “leading lights,” and she has exposed the plot. The annoyed bachelors have changed their quarters. From the manuscript the bachelors are evidently members of the branch of a much larger organisation, though arrangements are not yet complete to blossom forth into a fully mature movement. The title has been provisionally fixed as described above. Breach of promise has either to go, or mere man must enjoy the same privilege of converting it. into a money-making proposition as the girl. Divorce is to be given its literal meaning, and the divorced woman is no longer to receive “the dole” from her one-time husband: though provision must be made by him for any children. The anomaly of an out-of-work husband receiving 56 days’ imprisonment because of inability to respond to his wife’s demand for weekly allowances, and of a motorist staying very little longer in prison for manslaughter is to be “ridiculed to death.” A husbands’ bureau, where, for a small annual fee, a husband may receive information of his legal rights—if he is lucky—is to be formed. A ban is to be placed on women teaching boys, and a similar ban on men teaching girls. Unmarried women magistrates are to cease to adjudicate in desertion and kindred cases.

Permission, by statute, is to be given for women to dig coal underground, and act for corporation cleansing departments on equal terms with men. Admission of women to combatant corps in time of war and no reservation of “soft jobs” is also proposed.