BARMAIDS AGAIN?
VICTORIAN HOTELS MAY REPLACE MEN WORK IN WAR PLANTS (Special Australian Correspondent.) (9.30.a.m.)' MELBOURNE, Aug. 12. Victoria will not employ barmaids “merely for the sake of war conditions,” declared the Victorian Premier, Mr. A. A. Dunstan, at the State Premiers’ conference yesterday. “War needs might make it necessary to over-ride the Victorian State laws,” said the Prime Minister, Mr. J. Curtin; replying. “We are getting into a most paradoxical position when we say in one breath that women shall not be permitted to drink ’in bars,” remarked Mr Dunstan, “and in another breath that women shall be permitted to serve in bars.” “It is necessary to ’encourage a policy which will produce disemployment, so that people disemployed can be placed in war industries,” replied Mr. Curtin. “We are not going to deprive ourselves of men merely to provide masculine dispensers of beer in Melbourne hotels.” Victoria voted against the employment of women in hotel bars in 1924, and licensed those then in that occupation. No more licenses have been issued. ___________
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20860, 12 August 1942, Page 3
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