WOMEN IN INDUSTRY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18538, 8 April 1930, Page 2

WOMEN IN INDUSTRY.

STANDARD FOR LIVING WAGE. By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 7. During the hearing 61 the tearooms and restaurants portion of a dispute before the Arbitration Court, Mr E. Kennedy, who appeared for the employees, said the Court had not yet stated what should be a living wage for women workers, or laid down any principles for guidance where women workers in industry were concerned. The Union asked for a living wage. “The principal consideration in arriving at this wage,” he said, “should be the happiness, health and future of the woman, which is of the utmost importance to the community. There should be a recognition of woman’s permanent position in industry and commerce, instead of it being regarded as an episode in her life. The wages she is able to earn at any occupation should be in accordance with a democratic community, and should be sufficient for her to dress in a manner consistent with womanly dignity and self-respect, and to allow of her observing the unwritten law of her sex in the change of fashions and seasons, and to allow her to have a period of rest each year.”