WHITE SLAVES WANTED.
OFFER FROM MALTA. <£2 WEEK AND COMMISSION? London, Sept. 9An insight into the inducements offered to English girls to accept positions in music-halls abroad, was given at the Trade Union Congress by the delegate of the Variety Artists’ Federation, who read a letter sent from a Malta cafe chantant, offering a woman an engagement. •‘You have to sing on the stage,” it read, “and then go down among the tables. Of every free drink to which you are treated you receive* half the cost ,and the more you move around the more money in your pocket.” The letter mentioned that real whisky or port was not given to the singer. The remuneration offered was £2 a week, a return passage, and the commission on drinks. The delegate, who said that the business was conducted on straightforward lines, condemned it as a foul case of white slave traffic.—(Reuter).
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 243, 27 September 1922, Page 7
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