WOMEN AND WAGES

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1933, Page 2

WOMEN AND WAGES

HITLER . AND HIS LATEST EDICT

LONDON WORKERS’ OPINIONS. 'i’ ~ . ' Is Hitler right i.n his .decision that married woman should be taken out of industry and put back into the• home? Here are the opinions (given to a Sunday Express representative by five London workers wlio would be affected by any such order in Britain). Miss Marjorie Daplyn, a clerk in a city office stated:—“Of course, married women should work if they want. Women should all be economically independent; Thousands of unhappy marriages owe their failure to the dependence of the wife on her husband for every penny. The only argument against women, married or single, in offices, is pure sentimentality. There should be only one consideration where Work is concerned —who •can do the job best:” Mr Edmund Shaw,' a clerk in a City firm of accountants, expressed his view, briefly and bluntly as follows‘The married woman who takes a job—a n y job—when her husband can support them both is a selfish, sub-human monster with no sense of citizenship or fair play.”

Mr George Kirke, an unemployed secretary said :—“I -am out of work, and eouild perhaps find it if some of these married women gave up their posts, but I feel that it is asking too much of anyone to expect them to do so. I would take no competent married woman’s job from her. But I would willingly take that of any incompetent or idle person, man or woman.” Miss' Jenny Dickson, aged seventeen, a typist in an insurance office, wastes no words. She remarked; —‘‘l think Hitler is quite aTght. An office is a dreary place anyway.” Mrs Eleanore Ritter, secretary to the manage r of a firm at Holborn, said “Hitler’s ban gave many .people an opportunity to toll me that I have no business to stay here as mv husband can support me. A few vear,s ago I was continually ailing. My doctor suggested that I found employment. I did. Since then I have been happy and well.”