Novel Use of Lipsticks

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 14 (Supplement)

Novel Use of Lipsticks

To obtain recognition of their union in negotiations, about 600 tailors and tailorcsses, employed at an Edmonton factory, England, recently struck work. The girls inarched through the streets with a white banner on which, painted with their lipsticks, was the announcement that they were fighting for trade union principles. The strikers held a meeting at the town hall, and after discussing their grievances, indulged in singing ami dancing. The secretary of the company declared that the object of the dispute was to enforce 100 per cent, union membership in the factory. On behalf of the workers’ union it was stated that there had been a change or policy with regard to recognition, ami that the company refused to negotiate with them.