WIVES IN UNIFORM

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XXXI, Issue 8835, 21 October 1942, Page 1

WIVES IN UNIFORM

OPPOSED BY 4 SERVICEMEN POSITION IN GREAT BRITAIN Servicemen are likely to oppose any official suggestion to conscript childless wives of soldiers, sailors and airmen into uniformed women’s services.

Stories about immorality in Women’s services, which a special committee recently refuted, have probably influenced their attitude.

None of a number of men interviewed objected to his wife going into industry.

Mrs Violet Markham, chairman of the committee which lately investigated allegations of immorality in women’s services, recommends conscription for all women, whether servicemen’s wives or not.

Although most women • with any realisation of the situation are doing something, too many still think their war effort consists of following their husbands from hotel to hotel, or sitting at home doing nothing, she says. Before conscripting servicemen’s wives, the Government will have to reconsider an earlier pledge that these uniformed services.