WOMEN’S PLIGHT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 20 April 1934, Page 2

WOMEN’S PLIGHT

LEAGUE OF NATIONS REPORT LONDON, 12th April. Disasters of unemployment, including the effect of lack. of work on. morality, are revealed in two documents just released. The first is the Ministry of Labour’s publication indicating tlie continuance ,of the industrial drift to the south-east of England, causing terrible distress and derelict areas. A notable example if. Jarrow, in which town 75 per cent, of the workers are still unemployed. All youngsters are workless, and tlio majority have never worked. Efforts to revive local shipbuilding have failed. Wales is the most distressed country in the United Kingdom, and has 34.2 per cent. *of unemployment, compared with Scotland’s 26 per cent., and England’s 15.6 per cent. The second document is the League of Nation’s report on the traffic in women and children. It emphasises the effect of unemployment on morality, showing one country in which many w'j.T>..n,owing to unemployment, turned to immorality, but were forced ro abandon it owing to the increase in them numbers. Investigation in two. .industrial towns in another country reveaied that hi a town of 85,000 inhabitants street women increased from 14 in 1927 to 116 in 1932, and in a town of 360,000, they increased from 250 to 740, including many girls under 18.