WIFE EXPLOITATION

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 10, 7 October 1919, Page 5

WIFE EXPLOITATION

; MEN ON LOW WAGES. •At the inquiry into the cost of living now being made by the Now South Wales Board of Trade, Mr. Croft (representing various unions), explaining his suggestion that the living wage declared as .E5 lis. 7d. per week, said that lie had included what he considered a fair allowance for tho work of wives or mothors of tho workers, whose services have so long remained unrecognised. Mr. Kavanngh: Do you suggest that we slioull provide for the payment of a 6enarato sum by tho husband t'o tho wife ?

Mr.' Croft said that this was possibly a question for tlio Legislature; but the wives had for too long been exploited by.the husbands, just as the workers had been exploited by the employers. "The deadly competitor of the conscientious husband and father," concluded Mr. Croft, "is tlio man of his own race, who tokos advantage of his position under the marriape laws, and economically exploits his wife by accepting a wage , only largo enough to secure hi* personal -comfort, -whilst leaving her only enough by ceaseless toil to rear his children, keep the home, and tend to him and them in sickness."

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