MEN OR WOMEN?

Hokitika Guardian, 16 March 1933, Page 3

MEN OR WOMEN?

DECISION REAGfI ED IN KANSAS

Women, not- machines; are' to-day the chief, danger of modern civilisation. For ten'years past they have been taking; men’s jobs in increasing •' numbers, thereby causing in- a large measure the' present epidemic of unemployment. This dictum, bv Professor Paul Converse, of Illinois University, has already influenced' the Federal Government, which is ' adopting measures designed’ to /decrease the number of Avoinen employees in- Washington, st'a'tei the;“Daily Mail;” - f. A decision taken by tlie-.Kansas' City RoAver and Eight Company. skoiVs that it js likely to be adopted as the cor-ner-stone 'of'tlieir ciiiplbynient • policy by iP&ksfrial concerns - generally. “We recognise,”., says, the Kansas “the stabilising* j'nflneiice of a family hohie,". and we' appreciate,,the necessity of providing' young AVomen Avitli employment which. will permit them to marry.

‘‘Therefore we are talcing steps gradually to employ more men.” The ' decree of tfee company’s directors • is: ; “No more married women are to be Employed by v*.’* The hardships of this decree are to he temporarily alleviated as follows “We do not ask married women already employed* to resign at this : time, but any. single woman employed ' by us must resign if she marries after July; Single women iritetiding. to r marry, and desiring to' retain their ' employment, must' marry on qi" liefpe that date.”