TURKISH MEN ADOPT SKIRTS
NECESSARY TO GET WORK Men parading as women'ia order to gain their daily bread, constitute one of the paradoxes of the new day in Turkey, says the Smyrna correspondent of a United States exchange. Fourteen young men who, disguised as women, had procured jobs in an American tobacco depot at Smyrna, were arrested by the Turkish police. The youths explained that the shortage of jobs for men had forced them into skirts. Women, because of their dexterityin sorting leaves and willingness to accept lower wages, are in greater demand than men among the tobacco companies.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 810, 2 November 1929, Page 32
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