DEPUTATION
OF WOMEN UNEMPLOYED
REQUESTS TO MINISTER,
ißy Teleyraph, — L‘t. Brcss Association/
WELLINGTON, April 14
Urfemplioyed women of Wellington who have formed an organisation under the auspices of the Trades and Labour Council approached the Minister in charge of Unemployment with a strong request to receive at least the same consideration as single men, who pay unemployment tax. There were about 150 in the deputation, which was introduced by Mr Holland (Leader of the Opposition) and were accompanied by Messrs Fraser, Semple. McKeen, and Jordan. Miss O’Connor, Isipjaking impa'ssionately, after assuring the Minister that employers were taking advantage of the ..situation to exploit women, said the deputation differed from any one which had previously approached him. It was going to get what it asked for.
“This is not a threat,” she said. “We have discovered that our men hold thoughts of insurrection, but we are no longer going to do that. We are going to stand shoulder to shoulder with them. We will fight back to back with them, and ‘ when the women start to fight, all I can say is, God help you and all other people on the benches of Parliament.”
Other speakers instanced cases in which girls were being made to suffer hardship. The Minister was asked to appeal to employers to- give a chance to single wometi. Many married women, it is stated, held jobs whose husband's were in well paid positions.' M)r Holland (supported the request that the Unemployment Board should be abolished, and the Minister take direct responsibility. Mr Coates, replying to the women's deputation, said that, the Unemployment Board was'asking the different central organisations to send in their requirements, and the Board would do its best to meet them. Central organisation would soon be called upon to make necessary requirements to meet cases of women in distress.
The .Government would allow no one to starve, and 'the organisation to copewith tthe position would be as extensive as possible.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 April 1932, Page 6
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