A WOMAN’S POINT OF VIEW.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18992, 11 February 1930, Page 8

A WOMAN’S POINT OF VIEW.

A PENAL OFFENCE TO WORK.

The State Labour Party Conference in Sydney wishes to see it made a penal offence to work more than forty-four hours in one week. _ . May they have it their own way. But let them see to it that

this act is properly carried out. They must work out their details thoroughly. Every mother, for instance, should be provided with a time clock, which she must tick off before she puts the porridge on for breakfast. When she has completed seven hours’ work she had better not dare do another hand’s turn even if it should be the jam making season, and no tea ready for the family. She will have a very good reason for letting the raspberries go bad and the family hungry. Let her remember—“a penal offence” to do any more. Of course there are ways round most difficulties. For the first seven hours she might call her work “work,” and for the rest of the day she might call it her “hobby.” For though man may object to working even “from sun to sun, woman’s work is never done.” But perhaps in Australia they have a housewives’ trade union that we have not heard of. A very interesting document, that award. B.E.S.