WOMEN AND ECONOMIC PROBLEM.
LONDON, Juno 22.
Mr W. M. Hughes addressed a meeting at Westminster Palace Hotel, under the auspices of the Women's Imperial Council of Defence, representing scores of women's war work societies.
Mr Hughes said the war had torn away the screen behind which women for centuries had been forced by social and economic arguments to veil themselves. They must realise that henceforth woman would be a prominent factor in the economic problem. Unless they were prepared for a national disaster, women must not be regarded as cheap labour. A resolution was carried demanding vigorous economic reorganisation, the establishment of a most rigid blockade, and the amelioration of the conditions of British prisoners.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3250, 28 June 1916, Page 21
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