Women Carry The Hod While Men Relax
Five hundred women carry the hod and do other laborious work on the construction of a £160,000 law courts building at Batavia.
Mr T. W. Morris, of Melbourne, vice-president of the Victorian Master Builders’ Asspciation, said this on arrival at Sydney in the Nieuw Holland.
Mr Morris investigated building methods in the Dutch East Indies.
Without the aid of any mechanical devices, women worked as builders’ labourers for about lid a day, he said.
“The contractor told me there was no limit to the number of hours worked,” he said. “Most of the women are married, “Think it Joke.” “They regard as a joke the fact that men do the easy work, and they the hard work. “Everybody works in Java, from the age of seven until they die. “The dole and unemployment are unknown. “The sight of Chinese and Malay women doing all the hard work mado me realise the value of the White Australia policy,” he said.
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Northern Advocate, 5 September 1939, Page 4
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