HELPING TO VICTORY.
LONDON, July 18
Heavy rain detracted from the women's demonstrations. Therte was aprooession a mile long m 125 sections, each headed by banners. Among the inscriptions -were : "Men must fight and women must work," "We are not? slackers. We mean to save our coun£ try," "To keep the Kaiser out we demand war service for all."
Mr Lloyd George, m an address, said about 50,000 women were already working m the munittion factories. It was a question of getting the men arid women to work together and help the country through the worst crisis ever experienced. -The first thing was to get an adequate supply of machines and tools. The Government was assuming* control of all machine and tool-making establishments. Women must give the whole of their time to the work, and they would receive the same piece rates as men. The Government would control tho factories and 'see that there was no sweated labor. Women could help trt. victory.. Without them victory would tarry,* and a victory which tarried meant a victory whose footprints were .footprints of blood. : •
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13739, 19 July 1915, Page 3
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