“FACTORY GIRLS DAMNED”
POLICE STATEMENT RESENTED. By Telegraph.—Frees Association. Auckland, Oct. 3. “Factory girls are just as respectable as any othei- girls in Auckland,” said the secretary of the Female Clothing Trade Employees’ Union, Miss Cassey, to-day, referring to the recent court case in which a senior police officer was re-’ ported to have said of two accused men that they preferred to stay in Auckland and live on girls working in factories. There were over 3909 young women in the clothing trade alone and the remark, as it was made, damned the lot of them. She added that the matter was to be brought up in Parliament.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1929, Page 11
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