BAN ON HANDBAGS
WOMEN WIN STRIKE LONDON, February 21. Fifty women employed by a Leicester hosiery factory waged a successful strike against a ban imposed by the management on handbags. The women were ordered to leave ■ heir handbags in lockers instead of taking them into the factory with them. When they objected the management replied, “Leave your bags , outside or stay out.” They stayed OU I. “Handbags are to us what pockets are to men,” they said. “No man would be asked .to empty his pockets.” The Ministry of Labour intervened and now it is announced that the women, may take handbags of reasonable size into the factory. The “Sunday Express,” in a leading article, criticised petty bureaucracy, quoting the case of a woman, who was fined for refusing Io sit down in a bus when ordered by the conductress. “No doubt she was foolish, but it is bad business to take a steam hammer to crack a nut,” the “Sunday Express” commented.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 17 May 1944, Page 6
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