WOMEN WORKERS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, 26 October 1916, Page 7

WOMEN WORKERS.

PLACED .ON WAGE EQUALITY

WITH MEN

BY CABLE—PRESS > ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. (Received: Oct. 26, 11.50 a.m.) NEW YORK. Oct. 25

Mr Ford announces' that the minimum wages for all women employed at his factories will be five dollars per day, the same as for men. , ,

This is the first "time tha# a lairge 'American employer has given" women wage equality "with men. Mr Ford declares he was converted to the principle . after ar conference with President Wilson, and' h,e believes this will, help President Wilson with 'women votes.