EQUALITY FOR HUSBANDS.

Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1112, 7 April 1930, Page 2

EQUALITY FOR HUSBANDS.

NEW SOCIETY FORMED. “A society to preserve masculine independence and agitate for masculine liberty.” Such are the bbjects of a new male organisation which is in course of formation, and the secrets of which, before it could be launched before the country, have just been accidentally disclosed in Blackburn (says the London Sunday Chronicle). For sevteral weeks a number bf well-groomed young valiants have stimulated interest and speculation by eager, concentrated discussions during lunch hour at a local cafe. A typed manuscript by a cruel fate fell into the hands of a sister of one of the “leading lights,” and she has exposed the plot. The annoyed bachelors have changed their quarters. From the manuscript they are evidently members of the branch of a much larger organisation, though arrangements are not yet complete < to blossom forth into a fully mature movement. The title has beep provisionally fixed as above. Breach of promise has either to go or mere man must enjoy the same privilege as the girl of converting it into a money-making proposition. Divorce is to be given its literal meaning, and the divorced woman is no longer receive “ the dole ” from her one-time husband; though provision must be made by him for any children . The anomaly of an out-of-work husband receiving 56 days because of inability to respond to his wife's demand for weekly allowances, and of a motorist staying very little longer in prison for manslaughter, is to be “ridiculed to death.” A Husbands’ Bureau where, for a small annual fee, a husband may-re-ceive information of his legal rights —if he is lucky—is to be formed.

A ban is to be placed on women teaching boys, and a smaller ban on men teaching girls. H Unmarried women magistrates are to cease to adjudicate in desertion and kindred cases. Permission, by statute, is to be ,• given for women to dig for coal underground and act for corporation,.* cleansing departments on equal termi*jß with men. ■ Admission of women to combatant corps in time of war and no reservation to “soft jobs” is also pro- ■ posed.