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A CAREER FOR WOMEN-
MISS VIOLET OWEN HUGHES ADDRESSES ROTARY CLUB
"Equal Pay For Equal Work"
Yesterday, being Ladies Day at the Hong Kong Rotary Club,' the Roof Garden of the Hong Kong Hotel was filled to capacity. Miss Violet Owen Hughes was the speaker and the subject she chase, “A Career For Women" proved extremely interestinw.
Mr. M. K. Lo was the Chair and extended a warm welcome. to the large number af guests. He said the Club considered it- self fortunate indeed to have the pleasure of hearing Miss Owen Raches, whom he described as "a very charming member of a very popular sporting family.”
What Is True Welfare Work
In the course of her speech." Miss unskilled repetitive labour. More- Owen Hughes sald:-
over fewer men are needed to pro- duce a requisite number of com- modities. The solution to this pro- blem most" generally put forward
The career for women which I am about to describe to you may
be called that of an industrial Wel-
fewer men, because the unemploy-
fare Worker, Personnel Superin- is to decrease the number of mari tendent. Staff Manager. depending } hours worked, not by employing on the type of appointment and the qualities of the Individual-sp- {ment roll is awful enough already, -pointed. It applies equally to fac- tortes or big departmental atores. and the training for alls funda- mentally the same.
but by employing them for shorter hours, say for five or six hours à day. Then the economist presum- ably leaves it to the eductaionalist
or social worker to ensure that all this surplus energy left for leisure is used to advantage.
The development of this function In Industry can be traced in the history of the Institute of Labour Management. a professioni asso- But even if this, shortening of elation to which men and women hours Is economically sound, it engaged in the work belong. The
does not provide the Anal answer Institute was founded in 1913, and to the problem. "No compensa- until recently was called, the In- tion will redress the balance if la- stitute of Industrial Welfare Work-bour is stultifying, withou: interest
ers; (the change in title is signi- ficant of the change in trend, of the work.)
The general public began to hear. of Welfare Work during the war, when the extensive employment of girls on munition-making neces- sitated the appointment of respon- sible vomen to supervise them.
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and human value in itself. If the core of a man's existence, his life's work, excites no loyalities gives no Inner and permanent satisfaction, his life is thereby degraded." His whole personality suffers, and the State suffers correspondingly in the impoverished quality of its citizens.
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1934.
CHEUNG CHAU BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT
SLANDER
*Case Again Adjourned
The claim for 81 000 for alleged defamation of character brought by an 18-year-old unmarried girl. Lau Kwan, a resident of Cheung Chau, against Kwong Yip, of the Tai Lan Shop, a village elder, was continued before Mr. Justice Jacks In the Summary Court yesterday. »Mr. M. - A. da Siiya of Messrs. D'Almada, Remedios and Silva ap- peared for the plaintiff and 'Mr. M. K. Lo of Messrs. L. and Lo represented the defendant,
Opening his address for the de- fence, Mr. Lo said that his client
was
Lordship before his
For slander and defamation of chatze- ter: That slander was alleged to have been uttered on two occasions but Mr. Lo contended that that was not proved and that the onus was on plaintiff to prove it.
On February 24 à lady inform- ed his client that a certain person was going about with her daugh- ter. She made a certain state- ment involving Leung. On the 27th March while he was at the Club talking with two other elders he informed them of the com- plaint and it was then decided to go further into the matter. A meeting was called and it WRJ
then decided to inform the Officer in-Charge of Cheung Chan Police Station.
At a second meeting a petition was drawn up signed by the elders and forwarded to the Omicer-in Charge for despatch to the Hon 1. Q. P.
transferred to Tsimshatsui. Water Police Station. This transies war more of a promotion as he receiv- ed more salary.
Mr. Lo, next put the defendant into the witness box. Defendant said that he was a retired detec- tive, a resident of Cheung Châu. for over twenty years. He was one of the four nominated as an elder by the Kaifong. They divided the work between them, sach taking the duty for three months, and during the period was responsible for keeping accounts and for con-. The picture conjured up in most
vening all meetings He would True Welfare Work people's minds by the title "Wel-
also be the person sent for by the That is why I feel that true wel- fare Worker" is I believe that of
Officer-in-Charge or the DOS fare work consists not so much a nice woman with a kind face,
should notices be sent out. He In the provision of canteens and whore whole preoccupation was
had an adopted son who is also with the manner in which her sports clubs, but in the establish-
a wireless operator. He was also ment of conditions, which, дос- charges mispent their time after withstanding the Anancial difficul-about Ave months and was then the operator in Cheung Chau for they left work at night.
ties of production' to-day, will give "Punch" quoted'
justice in administraton add maxi- Funch described her most beautl- mum encouragement and freedom fully in April of this year, number for the development of emciency -six in that illuminating series "How ❘ and responsibility to run a Bassoon Factory," Here dividual,' * she is defined as well-meaning Fortunately. It is no longer neces- female whose job it is to act sa sary to emphasise that an employ- Mother to the happy family with-er needs to give at least as much in the factory. She has to see that | consideration to the human fac- the eyes, teeth, nalls, and more ee-tor in his organisation as he does pecially the morals of the workers to his machinery. And the La- are kept in spotless condition; she bour supervisor becomes a kind of has generally to potter round tie-human engineer, on whom is the ing ever so friendly and cheerful to | responsibility for the smooth run- everybody. And impress on ning and economic ase of all management and workes alike the mass of potential energy em their responsibility to one another; bodied in the men and women and to realise that what they say under his or her charge, -- to her when reminded of this is merely the rough crust round a heart of gold. She has to take a keen interest in their homes and wives and children, and to help them organise their leisure; and not to mind if" with the best will in the world people seem a little ungrateful and are out when-she' calls
to
But to return to the develop- ment of the movement. Following the boom came less prosperous days. inevitably bringing the realisation that all must be econo- mically justified, and that the Welfare Department must stand up to costing the same as any other. The care of the worker became no longer an appendage" to the Can you wonder our professional business, so rare that only the association has changed its name? wealthiest firms were able to in- Yet it is unfair to mock unduly dulge in the expense of a Welfare at the pioneer welfare worker; for Department, and having establishm underlying her work was insistence ed one, felt their benevolence a on the importance of the indiv-suitable and useful advertisement dual worker, a fundamental prin- for their products. ciple which, at all costs, must The work of the Department
stand
gradually merged with that of the
Accused Acquitted In
Murder Trial
After retiring for an hour and forty minutes, the Jury 20- quitted Tre Sum, alias Tre Cheung Kit, who appeared before the Chief Justice, His Honour, Mr. A.D.A. MacGregor, on a charge of murdering a 33-year-old woman-named Lam Ngo at Lok, Ma- Chan Village.
The prisoner gave evidence during the day's hearing” in which he claimed that the injuries caused the woman were as a result of self-defence.
When the Jury returned into Court, the foreman said, “My Lord. The Jury are unable to decide as`to' whether the deceased was killed by the socused in self-defence. Are we entitled to give him the benefit of the doubt?"
Mis Lordships. "If you feel a doubt about that and it... la a reasonable doubt, then 'yon "are bound to give the prisoner the benefit of such doubt.".
The jury then returned a unanimous. verdict of "Nat guilty” of murder. Asked by the Judge as to their verdict in re- spect of the manslaughter charge, they returned a simillar ver- dict
Self Defence Plea
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had
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In the witness-box, accused said that the prisoner's case he joined the plantation on April, been put very clearly by his Coun- 14 last, and since then had often sel, whom I would like to con- seen his mistress striking his mas-gratulate on one of his far too ter. She had a ferce temper. infrequent appearances in this
Recounting the events of the Court." evening of August 25, acaused said The Chief Justice went on to that whilst he was lying on his say that if the prisoner had made bed in his quarters he saw his up his mind to kill the woman mistress, who was holding a pole, and lay in wait for her, and sub- walking out of the gate. He saw sequently killed her, that would be her hiding the pole near some murder. Equally would it be mur- bushes and almost immediately der if the accused made up his afterwards, he saw Lau Sheung mind to inflict grievous bodily
ed away.
walking towards her. They had harm on the woman, and in the a conversation together and walk- 1 process killed her.
If the accused, however, had said Accused want to the gate and to himself “what the" woman reeds took out the pole. After he had is a good thrashing and I am go- done so, he heard footsteps being to give it to her," then it was hind him, and on turning round for the Jury to say whether or he saw his mistress, with Launot the weapon chosen and the Sheung. He became frightened force used were reasonable. If the and ran away.
accused. sá administering
the He hid himself, but later saw thrashing was unfortunate enough his mistress walking towards him. to deliver a blow on a fragile part He shouted, "Mistress, don't strike of the woman's body, which kill- me!" and then started to run. Hə ed her, then the Jury's proper saw her draw a knife eight inches verdict would be one of manslaugh- long from her sleeve. She chased ter him, but could not cut him with
off with the bamboo pote the knife behewarded her
->Walked" into› Pool
Jury's Doubt
The Jury retired at 4.30 pm. and cite not re-enter court until 6-15 pm: when they informed the She then picked up some stories Judge that they were unable to and threw them at him. His legs decide whether the ezensed killed It was at the request of the | were getting weak. He could not the deceased in self-defence or plaintir's mother that he' promis- | run" fast and she was gaining on not. They asked if they were to ed to look into the allegations. him. He waved his pole" about to give the prisoner the benefit of He spoke of the meeting in which keep her away from him. When the doubt.: His Lordship Indicat- the Sergeant was present and he got to a pool, she was stilling that they were bound to do added that no mention was made chasing him although she was so, the Jury returned a unanimous of the words "Sok Yau," "Bok some distance away, He walked | verdict of "Not Guilty" "to" the Tak" and "Sok To" He denied into the pool, and lost the pole murder charge as well as to the being present at the meeting in He had no intention of harming alternative charge of manslaugh the Restaurant Ho Tai Sun, All his mistress at all When he re- ter. they had said about hien were covered after a rest, he went back. fabrications. Whatever he did was to his quarters and packed up his without any thought of malice as things. He heard her shouting to he derived no beneft from the other fokis to come out and "whatsoever.
hit him
The case was adjourned, till
December 5th.
she plays a part in the intricate mechanism of the representation of the employees in their joint working with the management. “
For four years I was Personnel Superintendent in a shoe factory employing 1300 work-people, rather more men than women, and I was responsible for the activities I have listed; so dull I am afraid in the abstract, but so varied and stimulating, and infuriating and absorbing in real life, I wish I had time and the gift to make you
Cross-examined by Mr. – Fraser, accused denied that he had exag- gerated his tales of the dead wo- man's ill-treatziers, and that this ill-treatment did not supply him with a motive for killing her, be- cause he wanted to do so, he could have done so long ago.
Counsel's Address ⠀⠀⠀
The following jury was as fol- lows:--Mests. E. C. Frederick, (foreman); B. ✪. Anderson, F. A Joseph, W. C. G. Knowels, Hang Chik-liang, A. E. Minu, and J. A dos Remedios.
TAIT'S MANILA CARNIVAL
All The Fun Of The Fair
The ever popular Taft's Mardla Carnival show has arrived, and for the last two days scenes of Ereat activity have been noticed on the spare round opposite the Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon.
· After Mt. 3. A. Fraser had ad- dressed the Jury in the course of which he pointed out that the pro- babilities were that the attack was more in the nature of a surprise attack than anything else," Mr. W. Thomas Tam addressed the Jury on behalf of the prisoner.
Mr. Tam contended that the prisoner had told a reasonable story of what happened on the day (in (question. His story, raid To train for this work, and to Mr. Tam, was consistent with the qualify for membership of the story of self-deferite as the pri tastitute of Labour Management sorer appeared to have made certificate of diploma in Social preparation for his departure Science is required. I trained at from the plantation and more the London School of Economics, over had he contemplated murder. of cinerent forms of amusement which provides, I consider a part- he could have had the use of far that. It seems impossible for any- cularly sound course. But several more formidable weapons. The one attending not to find some of the
provincial Universities, story of the Crown witnesser diù
The Training
But in the early days of the Employment or Labour Departee it so, but I have neither, movement the emphasis was cerment, and na such became an in- tegral part of the business admin- istration.
tainly on the moral and physical well-being of the worker. And the activities of the Welfare depart- ment were evident in Ambulance Rooms, Canteens, parts and 80- clal Clubs..
Organisation of Leisure
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What The Work Entails Let me try to give you an idea of what the work of such a de- partment entails:.:
The Labour" Supervisor
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think the trend was mis- thoroughly know, and be respori-
open to day and the slogan of the The show, we are informed. Will organization which is "Fun for all and all for fun, seems to be a very apt one as they have in their
Carrival such a choice selection
taken, as in fact time has tend-sible for the carrying out of the Laverpool, Glasgow, Bristol provide not, support the theory that the thiry that Just suits their taste,
ed to show. For one thing it Factory Acts.
is questionable whether the or She engages, placcá and follows, ganisation of leisure is an ap-up labour, keeping detailed records propriate foriction of the employer of al employees of the arm. She It may sem to him useful as a is responsible for health of the means to promoting a corporate employees, involving medical, dent
"spirit in the works through sport, "al and optical treatment, and is Lory, Paychology, Gocial Adimini Mr. Tam dwelt noon the poin though a new ride called Leaping
a recognized curriculum,
At the School of Economics woman, whose dery temper was
accused was the aggressor and the though most who do attend cad- not resist having a go at every- theory and practical work fun to well-known, the victim. The op thing. gether. Theory consists of; Econo- posite was more likely to be the have been lined up. The Dodgem Five different flding devices mics, Philosophy. Endustrial His-case
will probably be the most popular, at The which must be met in the case of Tena will certainly appeal to the (Though believe me it often has concerned with the heating, sentration, Local Goverment.
course throughout is not a speci-a conviction of manslaughter. It exactly the opposite effect!) And | ing, lighting, ventilation and saal-
alised one for Industrial work; it the sujuries were inflicted on the side, Big Wheel and Merry-go- public. Ther there is also the the provision, in large industrialtation of the works. She does gives the basis of training for all woman by the accused in self- areas, of a sports ground is un- what she can to educate in branches of social admistration, defence, he submitted that the Round: doubtedly a boon; atil I suggest accident prevention, and is res-police coure Probation Officers, ferce used was not unjustifiable. Of tide shows there are quite a
for
the accidents
it is the function of the Local ponsible for the provision of
Hospital Almoners, and others. Authority to provide this, not the treatment employer whose surplus profits when they occur. Her department The practical work consists in
spending two days a week, attach can be better employed. “
keeps statistics on labour turned to some organisation, either It is a commonplace that at the over, absenteeism, and any other under the Longon County Connell present time industry is becoming similar matter requiring research of private charler. more highly specialised and, mehe run services to the employees with the Charity Organization Bo- chanised, and man's entre m pro such as canteens, thrift and mer duction tends to deteriorate into clubs, pension bellemée etc. And
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