WIVES GO ON STRIKE.
AGAINST HUSBANDS. A strike of wives in the village of Verteyevka, Province of Briansk, Russia, has resulted in a complete victory, the husbands signing a pledge to accord them better treatment. Assembling with a militant peasant housewife, Axenya Karaseva, as their leader, the women marched to the village school where they drew up their ultimatum. Then Madame Karaseva made a speech in which she declared: “We married women live under harsh conditions. The men often beat Us, treating us like cattit. We never hear a kind word. We refuse to suffer these offences any longer. Therefore we .serve our husbands with an ultimatum that we are ready to be helpmates and companions, but we demand that our husbands should not be so free with their hands or abuse us with bad words. We shall not return to them until they ail sign this! 0 Realising that , the entire village was against them, the husbands agreed io mend their ways, walked meekly to the platform and with trembling hands signed the •locument.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1926, Page 18
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175WIVES GO ON STRIKE. Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1926, Page 18
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