FEMALE INVASION

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1939, Page 11

FEMALE INVASION

REVOLT BY MEN

LONDON, April 1

The National Men’s Defence League, in its campaign “to combat the feminine invasion,” has started a branch at Bristol. The organisers declare that unemployment among men is the fault of women. Pamphlets have been printed and widely distributed, pointing out the feminine invasion into the realms of teaching, medicine, music. Civil Service, banks, pharmacy, even the 8.8. C. “Men at the 8.8. C. are proposing to use the stagg organisation, which is being formed, to safeguard their positions. They say women are getting all the key positions and that the whole organisation at Brodacasting House is coming under their control,” state the league organisers. “Owing to the employment of women in orchestras and bands, men are forced to seek a livelihood by playing in the streets. The recent perfornmime by a woman on the 8.8. C. organ marks another stage-in the advance of f lie female invasion of Broadcasting House," it is added. "University-trained women are ousting men from industry and professions,” they say. “A bad salary for a man can be a good one for a woman, because of their lack of a man’s responsibilities.”

“Thousands of men to-day, through unemployment, are unable to consider the question of marriage. Others, fortunate still to have jobs, realise the impossibility of making matrimony a success because their salaries are not sufficient to satisfy the extravagant tastes of the modern girl.”