WOMEN WORKERS
NEW RESTRICTIONS OUSTING THEM FROM TRADES LONDON, May 19. "A very ..'determined attack is being made upon the whole position of women in the professional, business. and industrial world," said Mrs. Pethiek-Lawrenco in lier presidential address at the annual conference of the Women's Freedom League. "From day to day wc are learning of new regulations against employment of married women, of new demands for unequal and of equitable scales of payment, of new legal enforcements of different minimum wage standards founded entirely on sex, of new restrictions on women's labor which tend to oust them from the industries in which those restrictions operate, of new refusals to admit women to positions which they have earned by their ability, and for which they have proved themselves eminently fitted.
"We need not fear the issue, but we need to be very courageous, very dogged, and persistent, in holding our ground. . . "Opinion in the trade unions at the present moment is definitely in favor of any legislation which tends In secure all available employment foi men, and the political influence of the trade unions m very great, especially when the Labor Government is in power.''
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17526, 22 July 1931, Page 12
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