SOLDIERS’ JOBS HELD BY WOMEN
140 MEN IDLE IN CHRISTCHURCH
(United Frees Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, March 29. n Le^ d i ey ' aecr etary 0 f the Chrlstchurcn Returned Soldiers’ Association, sayi that at present there are 140 Christchurch returned soldiers out of work on the books of the Repatriation Department. He thinks the situation is serious enough to warrant the Mayor a conference of employers and unemployed returned soldiers out of work, to see if some employment cannot? be found for these men immediately; Mr Leadley strongly complains that all over the city are employers who are satisfied to retain Iwomen in men’s employment' simply because it is cheaper. He says that the Repatriation Board at present-, has thirty clerks out of work, as e^. aa grocers’ assistants, yet jobs they might be filling are held by women'.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 76, 31 March 1919, Page 5
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138SOLDIERS’ JOBS HELD BY WOMEN Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIII, Issue 76, 31 March 1919, Page 5
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