NOT BEACON NOW.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20277, 11 April 1934, Page 1

NOT BEACON NOW.

Women Keener on Shows Than Dances. LONDON, April 4 At the Easter Conference of the Shop Assistants’ Union, Elsie Beevor criticised the union’s attempt to attract women members by leaflets emphasising the importance of marriage and preparation for it. She contended that women xo-aay were far more interested in securing a good job and enjoying themselves at pictures and dance halls. The union should attract women by urging equal pay for equal work. Mr John Jagger, in his presidential address to distributive workers, hinted at the possibility of wage conflicts in the near future. He instanced the suppression of workers in Germany and Austria by the “ Fascist monster,” and also the recent events in France and Spain. He that the same “dread signs ” were emerging in Britain, where, the new Unemployment Bill was Fas-cist-like, and also that the Mountebank Blackshirts (British Fascists) were ordering armoured cars. “We cannot afford to be complacent,” he said. “We cannot ?avc democracy by hiding our heads in the sand.”