WOMEN’S PLIGHT.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20284, 19 April 1934, Page 1

WOMEN’S PLIGHT.

League of Nations Report on Unemployment. Disasters of unemployment, including the effect of lack of work on morality, are revealed in two documents just released. The first is the Ministry of Labour’s publication indicating the continuance of the industrial drift to the south-east of England, causing terrible distress and detrelict areas. A notable example is Jarrow, in which town 73 per cent of the workers are still unemployed. All youngsters are workless, and tile majority have never worked. Efforts to revive local shipbuilding have failed. Wales is the most distressed country in the United Kingdom, and has 34.2 per cent of unemployment, compared with Scotland’s 26 per cent and England’s 15.6 per cent. The second document is the League ot Nations’ report on the traffic in women and children. It emphasises the effect of unemployment on morality, showing one country in which manv women, owing to unemployment, turned to immorality, but were forced to abandon it owing to the increase in their numbers. investigation in two industrial towns in another country revealed that in a town of 85,000 inhabitants street women increased from 14 in 1927 to 116 in 1932; and in a town of 360,000 they increased from 250 to 740, including many girls under eighteen.