TIME AS CASH

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20105, 11 May 1935, Page 11

TIME AS CASH

PLAN FOR UNEMPLOYED WOMEN In the town of Salford, England, women cheerfully face the prospect of keeping themselves and their children well clothed when their husbands are out of work, states an English paper. The secret of their cheerfulness Is the Challenge Club, in Salford, which was founded about 18 months ago as a centre for unemployed women and the wives of unemployed men. Eighty or more Salford women go to the club regularly and run It by their combined efforts. Some of them do the housework, others cook, others sew. They receive no money for their services, but every hour they work is entered to their names in the club’s ledgers. The things they make are priced—not in shillings and pence, but m hours. A coat worth 10/-, for instance, will be marked 20 hours, and can be bought by any woman who has given 20 hours’ service to the club. They use waste materials given to them by the public—scraps, old clothes, scissors, shoes —in fact, anything that is usable. The only cash expenditure of the club is on food. Miss Chapman, the organiser, pays cash for the food; the members also pay cash for it. A good dinner costs 3d and a hot tea lid. Egg and milk teas for children are only id.