RIGHT TO EARN

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1933, Page 6

RIGHT TO EARN

ENGLISH WOMEN'S CHALLENGE

ENGLISH NATIONAL MOVEMENT.

(United Tress Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright)

LONDON, Nov. 15

T wen tv-nine leading women’s organisations, representing the entire feminist movement of Britain, held a mass -meeting at the Central Hall, Westminster, and inaugurated a national movement upon questions relating to women’s right to earn. Mrs Pethick Lawrence presided. She said that the old tradition was that man and women were one and the man in that one wa-s very alive to-day, and it was a challenge to the right of married women to earn their living. German women, married and unmarried, had been dismissed from posts, and been sent home, after being told that their true function was to exhaust themselves in child bearing. -She added: — “A triumph for such ideas would mean that we were heading for the dark ages.” Viscountess Astor said that there were six million women who were wage- earners in Britain to-day. Of these nearly one million were married women. MARRIED WOMEN’S BILL LONDON, November Id. In the House of Commons the Married Women’s (Nationalisation) Bill was read'the third time and passed.