WOMAN AS DOCK LABOURER
For six months a woman, the mother of two children, has been working as a dock labourer on Tyneside, dressed as a man. Her sex was revealed through an accident. The story of Margaret Wilson is a pathetic one (says the London Evening Standard). Married to a German sailor who, she stated, ill-treated her, she determined to fend for herself and her two children. Last May she disguised herself as a man and went down to the docks and wharves seeking for work. She was successful, and took her part alongside the men in loading and unloading. She was engaged in the loading of a wherry at Derwenthaugh when a heavy steel plate fell on her, inflicfing severe internal injuries. Her fellow workmen carried hqj: into a shed on the wharf and a doctor was sent for. When he arrived the poor woman was conscious, and her first words were a request to the doctor asking that he would order the men out of the shed before he examined her. “I am a woman,” she said. The doctor ordered the men to withdraw, and then Margaret Wilson told him her story. She was attended to, and subsequently removed to an hospital.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1075, 13 March 1913, Page 4
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205WOMAN AS DOCK LABOURER Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1075, 13 March 1913, Page 4
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