SHE HAS NO UNION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11248, 11 April 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

SHE HAS NO UNION.

It was about 5.30 p.m., and the N.Z. Times investigator found her, scrubbing offico steps with great vigor. She mopped tho wet steps with, a cloth, screwed the wet out, disappeared -with tho bucket, and returned, dressed for home. The pressman asked her if she had worked eight hours this day. "It's on'y .men who woi'ks eight .hoavrs. Mo old man! 'c don't work at all. 'E's m the 'ospital.' ; I started work m th-e offices over thera tliis morning at 'arf past three. I goes 'ome and gets the kiddies their brea .kfasts- and 'f.^ <i bite meself. Then I does ■ a day's waslnn' for Mrs - — '-*—. On me way 'omc I calls m 'ere to give Mr ■ ■ — V office a- bit of a clcn-riiTflf out, and now I'm going 'ome to gets the kids ' their tea., As I tired? Well, -I ck» ; feel a bitdoiKv up, but it's all m- a lifetime. Will I start at 'ad" past thi-ee' to-morrow moraiu.'? Qhu'ec I will. Yes certainly il does the sewin" for the kitls w-hch'T'g-ets 'omc." Tho reporter meandered away thanking: 1. Should men grumble at being hard- worked 1 ? •2. Suppo.»c that woman hadn't got amazing 'industry, tremendous pluck? 3. Suppose- the average mail, had to work as hard as the average charwoman? 4. Do strikers' wives ever strike? ■ . ■