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There are two main facts thatį The head of the local museum have emerged from much discuss-here has received information ion and investigation on the from a Mr. Lepage, who was in question of Women in Industry, charge of railway construction in Firstly, that there are two dis-the Belgian Congo, of an exciting tinct interpretations of "Equal adventure last month. Pay for Equal Work"-one the While Mr. Lepage was hunting Government interpretation set he came upon an extraordinary forth in the Majority Report of monster which charged at him. the War Cabinet Committee, and He fired but was forced to flee, The the other the trade union inter-with the monster in chase. pretation set forth in Mrs. Sidney animal before long gave up the Webb's Minority Report. The chase, and Mr. Lepage was former interprets "Equal Pay for then able to examine it through Equal Work" as equal pay for his binoculars. It was, he says, equally efficient work: ie., equal about 24ff. in length, with a long piece rates; the latter as equal pointed snout, adorned with tusks pay for a similar job, i.e., equal like horas, and a short horn above time rates. Secondly, that the nostrils. The front fast were having determined upon their re-like those of a horse and the hind spective interpretations, the in-hoofs were cloven. There was a vestigators find that in normal scaly hump on the monster's times the question of "Equal Pay shoulders.
for Equal Work," meaning equal The animal later charged: pay for exactly the same work, through the "nätivo "village" of hardly ever arises. Industry Fungurume, destroying the buts divides itself into men's and killing some of the native work and women's work, dwellers. A hunt was at once and with the exception of organised, but the Government the cotton operatives, who have has forbidden the molestation of solved their own problem, work the animal on the ground that it which is common to men and is probably a relic of antiquity. women rarely occurs.
There is a wild, trackless region If a new industry were started in the neighbourbood, which con- to-morrow, and men and women tains many swampe and marshes, were both employed, it would very where, says the head of the soon be found that certain jobs museum, it is possible that a few were performed by men, and primeval monsters may survive.— certain other jobs were performed Central News. -
by women; the women's jobs in The interest of the foregoing nearly all cases being the less story, with its suggestion of Conan highly-skilled and the less well- Doyle's "Lost World," lies in the paid. In these circumstances it fact that it tends to strengthen the would be very difficult for a belief, held by many undoubted Government arbitrator or Wages authorities, in the survival of Tribunal to determine whether certain monsters of the prehistoric the women were being paid in age in the swamps of Central proportion to their effeiency. Africa.
The present time is a particu-' The Belgian Congo borders on larly critical and difficult one Rhodesia, and the late Kari for women workers. The trans-Hagenbeck, in his well-known ition from war-time work. to book," Beasts and Men," has left, peace-time work is causing a good on record his own conviction that deal of unemployment and ain this region there still exists keen compétition for the jobs some kind of dinosaur, seeming- which are open to them. Public akin to the crontosaurus." sympathy is extended to those Hagenbeck says he received women who are being deprived reports on the subject from two of their jobs at the present time; independent sources. The beast but at the same everybody re-to which he refers was described alises that the men have the first by natives as "half elephant and claim to employment, and that the half dragon." Precisely similar "admission of women to many reports, he points out, were trades has been a concession on received from the negroes by the part of the men for the war Manges several decades pre- period only.
viously, while on the walls of
What, then, is woman's best certain caverns in Central Africa hope for the future? I can see actual drawings of these strange Do other solution but a great ex- creatures are to be found. tension of trade union organis-
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union men: So long as women open to them, thus keeping down remain unorganised they will the whole level of women's wages.. be looked upon with suspicion But if they could become strong- and mistr
working men, y organised in trade unions, so they wi excluded from many that the men had nothing to fear trades and industries in which from and
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Mr. M«Chudy. BDSwering criticisms of the Profiteering Act made by the Consumers' Council at their meeting yesterday, said that it was perhaps unfortunata that the publiq were fur them
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There was nothing petty or re tail about the work of the Central. Committee, The Central Com- mittee was aiming high. They had started by inquiring into three of the greatest monopolies which affect the consumer in this country-sewing cotton, tobacco, and soap.
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“I think," said Mr. McCurdy, "that our inquires are already affecting prices. The other day we wired to Scotland to ask-for some costs of a certain quality of yarns. The next day the prica of that yarn, by a remarkabla coincidence, fell from 3s. 3d. to 25. 1144"
Similar conferences had been held for the purpose of ex mining the prices and profits of blankets, brushes, men's and women's ready-made clothing. The con- ference on men's clothing, to take an illustration, included repre- sentatives of the textile operatives, of the Garment Workers' Union, the Anti-Sweating League, and of woollen and worsted manufact-
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The Industrial Power and Transport Department of the Board of Trade interested them- selves in the invention, and experimental teste have been carried out aboard H.M.S. Con- way, which lies at anchor in the Mersey The tests were quite satisfactory Mr. Clarkson told me when I visited his home at Prestwich Park "I calculate that mytidal turbis, placed in a tidal stream of only
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