WOMEN WORKERS IN THE POSTAL SERVICE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 586, 14 August 1909, Page 11

WOMEN WORKERS IN THE POSTAL SERVICE.

: , The. writer of "After Office Hours" in "St. Martin's-lc-Grand". comments upon "The New Policy" of tho Post Office women clerks —in other. words,., their determination riot to accept I;he. position of I ■ persons , employed solely. oil account of their cheapness. . So far.from allowing men's salaries .to. be -cut down to a point nearer their own (as is at present the. case), they are educating, their sisters to demand that their own. work shall deservo the .'pay-.'it received before feminine competition /was introduced. The : writer—a' man—believes "thatr'tjib "quality • of = t-hb' women clerks' work can justify their demand.

He then proceeds to., say : that, though rather lukewarm on tlie suffrage question, he does see the immense, amount of good the 'discussion of-it has done to both men and women. AYe men, ho says, , aro being'criticised in a way we 'have; never experienced before, arid our illogical arguments, our selfish lives; and 'our colossal, conccit; are be\ng: attacked \Hthelbquenco and ability; I-am indeed often ashamed of my own sex when I listen'to'.a'lady speaker answering one.of--the silly- questions, that men' are fona of putting at;'.the meetings 1 of- Suffragettes.i If wo are ;going'to keep pace with the women wo shall oertainlyi'.haye to build . more, in the ■ shape of : arguments., I welcome ,the criticism r ot men -by women, real fighting criticism; I: mean, not the shrieks of timid, disapprovals of old days. And these, ladies allow lis a right*'of reply: that is a gain on the old days.

I, A little boy who was very fond of cheese, 'and who also liked .to have the. gas lit when he wont to bed, was one night asked by bis father wh6fcher. be would have some'cheese or havo tho gas lit when bo went, to bed. He replied; after some little hesitation, "Tommy: (bis little . brother) can hare the gaß lit, and I'll have cheese." . 1 ~ • . ;