Will it be Accepted?

Maoriland Worker, Volume 2, Issue 75, 16 August 1912, Page 3

Will it be Accepted?

WOMEN AND THE POPPER.

A CHALLENGE

Bob Semple has addressed the following letter to Mr. Rhodes, of Waihi fame:— , Dear your ' _tat.eawn_ press, to the effect produoe a woman who would work tho popper sin-gle-handed. I now beg to challenge you to make good that statement, and would stipulate tibat the experiment shall be carried out in the presence of representatives of the mine-owners, the Federation of Labor, and the public press— and the machine to be worked under-

ground, where the ordinary cond.__jt| under which the miner haa to work •_*_! exist—namely, dynamite smoke, dut_v "fau%" roof, and all tho other difficulties and disadvantages that _ «*M**f** has daily to contend with. I would also stipulate that tihe lady who is to have the honor of working the machine shall be your wife or daughter. I submit, sir, that it is a ___• pro. position good ri ________________)uim_ of a working-man is for your-'wife or daughter.— l have th* honor to be, sir, yoiira very „__- fully, R. SEfctPLE. Runanga, August 1, 1912. Don't he content to be poor. Yqq and we have no right to be poor ia tUi country. The store of knowledge has so "bargain sales."