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THE HONGKONG DAILY FRESE, TUESDAY, MAY 20TH, 1919.

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PROBLEM OF WOMEN WORK BES.

DEPUTATION TO LABOUR MINISTER.

WHY NATIONAL FACTORIES ARE

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HOW BOLSHEVIK LAW WORKS.

VILLAGES RAIDED FOR GIRLS.

According to the Stockholm correspond end of the Exchange Telegraph Company such an outcry has been caused by the law for the cationalration of woman in Bel- "Sir Robert Horne, Minister of Labour, hevik Russia that in one locality its ope. received a deputation representing, theration has been suspended. The Krasnay National Federation of (isnarni Workers (Careta gives an amazing account of the and the National Federation of Women result of nationalisation. The essence pl Workers on March 8th,

the system was that every girl, on reach The deputation was introduced by Mring 18 must register bereel! at the J. R. Clynes, M.P., who explained that bureau for free love, attached to the they wished to lay before the Ministry local control commissariat, after which the present position of the women werker she was obliged to choose a partner from in the

the country. He pointed out that

It is to be feared that in Vladimir Pro- deputation represented to organisations among men between 19 and 50 years old. numbering a million organised workers, a considerable proportion of whom were vines this led to a lamentable confusion women: War had

women in juridical notions as to personal in changed conditions Pround riolability a few days after the Soviet' Sneaselves installed permanently if the decre, which, ofte may say wonten unani- industrial affairs of the country, and had mously ignored, two outsiders, known to now much greater difficulty in finding nobody arrived in the town and seized the work than the average man had. In two daughters of a non-bourgeois com- order to meet the necessity of women the rade, declaring that they had chosen theur Government should take immediate steps

as wives, and that the daughters, without to organise schemes of useful work and training for women, and also continue the any ceremony.. must submit, as they had unemployment benefit for the whole not observed the registration rule. Com- period during which women were out of Frades Yablonovak and Gariakin, who sat as judges in this claim, decided that the work."

girls must submit, and the girls were carried off, and have not been seen since."

Miss Madeline Symons, of the National Federation of Women Workers, said that when Sir Robert Horse addressed them. At the recent conference they felt that he He had not the full facts before him. then said that one of the contributory causes to the unemployment of women was their reluctance to take work because of the fact that they were receiving the unemployment

lent dunation. Women did not refuse occupations at anything like a decent wage-959. a week or over. It was true that a number of women were reluctant to take work below, sad some

week. At times very much below.

255. many exchanges throughout the country Women were being offered work at wages from

men in 129, to 23x a week. Four Brighton were offered work in January at 19. a week. Their denation was stopped because they refused the work. A woman in London was offered work at a laundry. She worked for three weeks at piece rates, and found that by working as hard as possible the could not earn more than 129. Od. a week. When she gave is up because she could not live on that sum she went to the exchange to find that her benefit was refused.

women

In addition, women were often kept waiting six weeks before their cases came in front of the Court of Referees. It was Hot the dislike of domestic service which prompted women to refuse that work Women workers felt that the Government bad not tackled the

adequately Question Practically no training schemes had been undertaken. Nothing had been done to need which was urgent provide work, of the moment. At the present time half a million women were drawing unemploy ment donations, and the number would increase. The Government were not show ing anything like the same initiative and

in energy in tackling the problem organis ing for peace that they had shown when tackling the problem of organising for

war

be

Mr. W. T. Kelly declared that men could not tolerate the continuance of the conditions of work and wages from which wamen suffered. He appealed for a mora sympathetic administration of the Employment Exchanges, and declared that one oficial entered a room in which forty women were waiting for offers of work, and asked, "Who is for domestic service? As no one replied, each one as handed the usual form, and told they ere not entitled to further benefit.

GOVERNMENT NOT UNSYMPATHETIC.

Entha

The journal gives many other instances of absurdities and outrages. siasts for nationalisation, naturally all males, raid whole villages, seize the young girls and demand proof that they are not over in As this proof. is very hard to give, many of the girls are carried off, and there have been suicides and mar ders As the result. In the town of Kovro a regular campaign, not paralleled. since the Trojan war, was waged between the vengeful relatives of an abducted nationalised girl and her persecutors.

town In this

Register

of Nationalised Women" was -opened pa December 1st last. bat up to February 9th only two women bath over 40 and neither of whom had ever been married

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registered themselves as willing to accept the first husband, the State sent along.

TRICKS OF FÅTE.

SHERLOCK HOLMES OUTDONE BY

COINCIDENCES.

Thres examples, reported on February 15th of the strange tricks played by coin- cidence deserve to be recorded together:

1 DEATH COINCIDENCE.

A

two

& Stafford landlady found her lodgers dend together in the same bed. suicide It might have been a murder, or compact, or murder and suicide Buty as the inquest showed, one man died sud. denly from the effects of a beavy supper, while the other was suffocated at the same time in an epileptic fit.

ILCAUGHT IN THE ACT, This related

WES

at Marylebone Polire Court: A woman lost ber gold ring in the street. Her first thought was to warn the pawnbrokers, in case a would-be thief tried to pledge it. And in the first pawn shop she entered she found another woman

the lost ring in the act of pawning

11. THE LUCKY MOMENT. An artillery captain left his luggage in the cloak room at Victoria Station, and went away. Charging to return some hours later, he walked past the cloak room. At that moment a stranger, came out, carrying the officer's ralise and haver

his sack The officer promptly recovered

Westmins goods, and charged the man at ter Police Court.

It was no

Sir Robert Horre, replying, said that although various speakers had made a somewhat severe attack upon the Govern with the private manufacturers, and so ment and the method, or want of method, forcing them to close down. by which they were deal

dealing with the P8, the Government must not be good for the Government to make things

as unsympathetic in relation to for which there was no market. the sufferings and bardships women were might as well dig a hole in the ground in enduring at the present time. The Goverde. Sir Robert remarked.

to fill up another hole somewhere

Bo

We

the

A Lady demand, for housing er

Member of the Deputation: Is there accessoria for housing 7

Sir Robert: That is a different point. The Lady Member: But that is our

erament knew very well what the hard ships were, and knew that they did not affect women alone. The country WAL 801ersonally; I

through a very severe trial.

the To thin any i

present situa tion as far more

situa tion with which we were confronted point.

be proceeded.

#In

Sir Robert Temarked that they did not

during the war til of dangers just make houses in national factories, and boi

some respects

WHY TRADE 18 DISLOCATED.

as great, and things might very wall was immediately met, with the interrup happen at the present time which would tion," But you can make wooden doors.

in national factories" indict as severe an injury upon the coun- try, as a military defeat at certain stages One of the attacks made upon in the war, the Government was to

the effect that it bent all its energies to organising for war,

now that war was over

over they had got And very averse from taking action · regard to the problems of recon- struction. I would beg you to remember that the

conditions under which industry was carried on for the purpose of war are as different as the earth is to the sky in comparison with the conditions that you are dealing with new.'

When tha means of they had an

factories and otherwise,

They

Bir Robert Continuing, said that if the Government

to compete with private enterprise at this moment, when it was so shaken and nervous, the result would be that they would deter man- facturers from those enterprises which they were prepared to carry on. would make the condition of unemploy eat even worse than it was at present. The reason why we were not getting on so fast was that we had not yet got peace, and the export market was dislocated: The present state of unrest was You hardly

of try was organising · by † deterrent. materials limited demand for the that the state of Europe is a great anxiet

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The difficulty then to anybody who cares anything for our civilisation. I believe that this country was that the country could not produce fast enough, and could not get suficient more than any other in the world standa people to make the materials required. between the present system and something

price did not matter. Orders were

that would not be any better than illimitable. To-day there was not only no system of wreckage. Do not imagine that unlimited demand; there was no demand at all, and the price mattered to every body. There was not anything like cient orders in the shops to keep the shops going, and every manufacturer was so about the conditions under which

carried

bis

being

trado of his material, and the

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Government can straighten out all these things at once; or that they are in a position to control the great forces of the world which, at

THE STEAMSHIP the present time, are inimical to the improvement in the con dition of employment.

Bir Robert said he would be glad of al prices the

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orders as he could get at besig would stigated. Coming to something which

The fear were not work was not because

national factories

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"said. would not be

be entirely palatable,

Bir Robert said it was-unfortunately:

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women

to take their un

sense which some people imagined Everybody would be at work if there were employment benefit in preference to going:

preferred to plenty of employment, and the reason why bere had been innumerable there was not plenty of employment not instances of that, and it was true that

private manufacturers could

FRENCH LESSONS that the prive work. If the Government there were not as many people in domestic

MOUSSION,

I started to make things in national fac service na there were before the war. tories which were made by private and of the engineering trade, that the Govern also be remembered in cases like that facturers they would be making things for; which there was no market, or else ther ment gave is pledge that when the men. would be competing, in the sains market the jobs would not be available women who been given them (Continued at) fact of next solumak) temporarily.

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