INDIGNANT WOMEN
“PREFER WORK TO BEING KEPT” ATTACK ON MR. THOMAS LONDON, Monday. The Minister in Charge of Unemployment, Mr. J. H. Thomas, has been vigorously attacked by strong-minded and strong-willed women as an outtome of his statement yesterday that it is against the nation’s interests (or women to w'ork for what is called pin money/ thereby depriving others of legitimate employment.” Viscountess Rhondda, who is a director of 30 companies, and was a pre-war militant suffragist, says: ‘‘Mr. Thomas shows a surprising lack of the first, principles of economics. The more workers there are the more prosperous will the nation be. The majority of women work because they must. All persons, rich or poor, have alternatives. They must either work or allow themselves to be kept. Respectable men and women prefer to work.” Women secretaries, the presidents of the Women’s Freedom League, women clerks’ associations and women teachers confront Mr. Thomas with a block, and ask indignantly why women should be prevented from working, and alsc> why nothing is said of men with private incomes who continue working.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 831, 27 November 1929, Page 9
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179INDIGNANT WOMEN Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 831, 27 November 1929, Page 9
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