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MR. CHURCHILL ON UNEMPLOYMENT..
WOMEN'S SENSE OF STYLE.
DEATH SENTENCE HANGING CAUSE OF TRADE TROUBLES.
OVER GOVERNMENT.
WHERE WOMEN MAY NOT GO.
LITTLE "PUBS." ON CALEDONIAN CANAL,
Things which women cannot do
The "style-consciousness" of Mr. Winston Churchill in his last present-day women compared with
"quality-consciousness" of as well as man were mentioned speach before the Xmas Recess, the said that Government lay under; thoir grandmothers and the lack by Sir Malcolm Ramaay, Comp- what was no doubt a death sen- of response from manufacturers troller and Auditor-General of the for the Treasury, in evidence before the tence, but the date of their execu-were given as reasons tion was uncertain,
Borious poeltion of the textile in- Royal Commission on the Civil "We know," he continued, "that dustry by Mr. Edward II. Symonds, Service at the House of Lords.
For instance, said Mr. Malcolm, their attoriney (Mr. Lloyd George) president of the British Fashiona has visited them on several occa-and Fabrics Bureau, when he ad-"I cannot send a woman down to quartermasters who sions in their coli and has reported dressed the Modern Salesmanskip interview
stay at the little 'pubs' on the to the world the result of his Luncheon Club in London. examinations into their condition. "Feminine charm in the last Caledonian Canal." He tells us they have gone com-century," he said? "was framed in pletely to pieces, mentally and heaviness and drabness, To-day
Limitations.
TOUTSTANDING orally. (Laughter). Ho says it is embellished in lightness and Sir Malcolm was referring
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they are merely footling, and with brightncan, This welcome im-the employment of women as as- his happy blend of Transatlantic provement in consumer taste asiatant auditore in his department, and London alang, that they are more responsible for the distro-Women, he said, were not admit- gibbering (laughter)--or per sing condition of our textile in-ted to the executive grades in ser- haps I am going beyond what he dustry than all the other factors vice departments where men had did Any. (Laughter.)
put together.
to work. So, while they were ad "But we must not be surprised "Our grandmothers were quality mitted to the executive grades-
whereas and he was very glad to see them
weight-conscious,
when we reflect on the strain to and which these unhappy men are sub-present-day women are style and there were practical limitations The few manu- to their employment, such an ho Jected. Thoir attorney, unable to colour-conscious. make quite sure if they have any facturers who have taken a leaf had indicated.
Sir Claude Schuster, Perman- testamentary dispositions to make out of the foreigners' book and pro-
if they can do anything to help duced materials to satisfy modernent Secretary to the Lord Chancel- women arc But lor. was asked if women were him before their hour comes-style-conscious
eligible for clerical posts in the (laughter)-naturally mias his opportunity.
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not short of orders,"
"Yes," he said, "they are eligi- ble, but we have only one."
Referring to the employment of
said:
Claude
"We can
cannot do without the mar.
"Equally naturally, he is in would neutralise the beneficial and position to put considerable pres-stimulating effects to industry sure upon them, and they, in their which might follow from a tarift condition, are perfectly ready to and would speedily lend us along women in the Civil Service, Sir hand over anything of value which the path Australia bad found it they may possess or be able to lay lead to--if not disaster, At any their hands upon to stimulate his rate immense disappointment and riage bar. The removal of it would be a great cruelty to clerical efforts to prolong existence contraction.
women. They don't want its re- which has long ceased to be either
The imposition of tariffs ou im-
moval themselves. They ought useful, honourable, or agreeable,"
manufactured ported
articles (Laughter).
would undubtedly be a stimulus tent to want to carry on their work
when they are married.' productive Industry. Above all, the Government should reform the unemployment insurance system.
The greatest of all needs the r tation of confidener.
This Parliament, also was under sentence of death. It was almost dead already. They had occupled about twenty days in discussing unemployment and no results had been produced. Nothing effective would be done in the present. Par. liament.
Mr. Lloyd George seemed ' determined that, as nient would not lol.
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Way
e arc approaching." he said, ne second Christmas under the Socialists: what lies before us?
Home or Office, The Public Trustee (Sir Oswald Simpkin) and ho was strongly against equal pay.
"Women have not 80 mirty
he declared obligations as men,
ve Another Budget by the Chancellor "and I cannot help feeling a sort Jvern- of the Exchequer. Another gen-of instinct that equal pay is not
right." his unem- eral election with all Its disor
In reply to Mrs. Wintringham, ployment scheme he must keep ganisation.
A double uncertainty Sir Oswald said that difference of them in offieur a year or two in hangs over trade and enterprise. pay involved no difference of forder to rafn the alternative vote.
How can a recovery be expected status. He added that he was in
favour of the marriage bar. under these conditions?" Loyd George rated, the alternative
Keserring to a speech a year women could not serve her home yote higher than an early attempt to solve the unemployment proago, in which he had predicted and the office. blem. (Conservative cheers).
cheerless period ahead, Mr. Chur- Confidence the Greatest Need. chill remarked that little did he
(Lamader). Apparently, Mr.
Conservaties did not agree with the Mosley proposal for Import boards. Neither could they accent
or anyone else then perceive how disastrous this year was to prove in many branches of economic life.]
The Commission adjourned.
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