WOMEN IN THE LONDON POST OFFICE.
Eight handled young women at work, allot them in one room, all looking comfortable, nmst of them looking pretty, earning fair wages at easy work, work fit for women to at which they can sit. and restrain! not he weary, with a kitchen at hand and hot dinner in f h** middle of the day with leave of absence without stoppage of pay every year, with a doctor for sickne.ss and a pension for old age—for the young woman as years roll on will hec nno old—with only eight hours of work, never before 8 o'clock in the nornihg and never aft'a- eigiit o’clock
at night, with female and the chance of being a superintendent open to each girl, 'fids is a Government office under Government veillence, and all this has sprung into existence during the last eight years.
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Kumara Times, Issue 739, 11 February 1879, Page 2
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