THE SEX WAR
INDUSTRIAL COMPETITION THOUSANDS OF EX-SOLDIERS UNEMPLOYED. WHAT REMEDY? By Telegraph—Preai Association—Copyright United Service Telegram. (Received November G, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. November 4. The “Daily Mail” says that the industrial sex war has long been threatened, and is taking definite form. Nearly 15,000 ex-officers and many thousand exprivates are unemployed, whilst women refuse to leave their Jobs. The Male Clerks’ Union is emphatic that women should not bo allowed to work but should got married. Tho women’s reply is, “Many of us have lost our fiancees and husbands; anyhow there are more gilds now than mon.” Tho Women Clerks’ Association proposes as a solution tho equalising of wages, declaring that most of the trouble is duo to the payment to women of less wages than men. Meanwhile thousands of women are being discharged. Hotels arq sacking every waitress. Tho inflated Government departments are more . merciful and are still employing 155,000 women compared with 45,000 before the war.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLV, Issue 10430, 7 November 1919, Page 5
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159THE SEX WAR New Zealand Times, Volume XLV, Issue 10430, 7 November 1919, Page 5
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