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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1935.

SUFFRAGETTES' BATTLE NOT YET COMPLETED

Economic

Equality

Evasive

COMPETING WITH MALE LABOUR IMPORTANT PROBLEM

By DR. BETTY MORGAN

TIWENTY-FIVE years ago, when

His Gracious Majesty George V asconded the English throne, the Buffragette movement was in full swing. During the coronation year itself, suffragettes were particular Jy energetic, Their activities, briefly epitomised, fill no fewer than neven closely-printed columna the Times Annun! Index 1911."

of

for

Agitation was the order of the day. There were processions, de-, monstrations, deputations to Parlin- ment. Members of the Cabinet had a very lively time. Even in coll print the Times Index" makes it exciting:

"Meetings Interrupted?"

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A not-infrequent tragedy of modern times is that of the young cauple who want to marry and sot up house, but cannot do so because the woman is in a job that hardly pays enough to keep herself, and the man has lost his job altogether through the increase in underpaid feminine labour.

There are

factories in Great Britain now almost completely staffed by women and girls that ten years ago offered good jobs to

men.

Here is a situation that calls for immediate action. But it does not need a new corps of suffragettes to tackle it. If ever there was a case that demanded joint action be

tween men and women, in their

united interests, It is this one.

But where are the signs, 20 years since the suffragettes were setting all England by the that men and alive to this deeper issue?

women are

ARMORIAL BEARINGS

care; really

INTERDICT GIVEN. AGAINST TAILOR

A petition' was presented in the Court of Session by the Royal War. Mrrant Holders Association, London, Asquith (at the Albert Hall) to interdlet Mr. D. Robb, carrying Mr. J. R. MacDonald

on business as a tailor and dress- Birrell

maker under the name of Robb, at

Mr. A. Mr. W. Churchill (at

the National Liberal Club) 46 Union Street, Inverness, from Mr. Lloyd George (at the Mansion House) Mr. C. F. G. Master-

Mr. Runeiman, And now, 25 years Inter, it all Reems as remote as the Rebecca

mau.

using in connection with his busi- nesa certain armorial bearings consisting of representations of the Royal Arma of the Sovereign, Riots. To generations that suc-or urms which so closely resembled reeded the Edwardian, suffragettes the Royal Arms as to be calculated Jinve never seemed quite real, to deceive and to induce the be- There is a faint odour of the Hef that Mr. Robb and his firm inuseum- about them. Even their were in possession of the Royal name sounds across between a

Warrant appointment or authority piece of aggressive propaganda and to use the Royal Arms, a music-ball joke.

The petition also asked for the. The very dresses that the fashion delivery of letter paper and leaflets of their day compelled them to wear bearing the Royal Arms and of all militate against them. It la dif-stumps, blocks, and other machl- ficult to associate a great spiritualnery for the production of the uprising with those hats and veils Royal Arms. and skirts.

WHAT WAS OUTCOMET That there was passion and re- forming zeal and a strong sense of injustice behind that curious rising of women 25 years ago no one who rends the history of those days can doubt. But what has been the outcome of it all?.

Women have got the vote, the right to sit in Parliament, a chance to try for some of the less im- partant jobs in the Civil Service, There is ttle trace now of the violent sex-hostility that embittered the suffrage struggle in the im mediate pre-war years.

As a sex, women are not much given to philosophialng, but in so far as they do reflect about sex- equality in these days, they are Inclined to favour a frank recogni- tion and utilisation of the differ ences that always will exist be-i tween men and women,

co.

Equality for the modern woman does not mean the acceptance of masculine standards and the neglect of her own. It means the operation, on equal terms, of part- ners who, though they may be dis similar, have equal claims to im- portance in the general scheme of. life.

But-and it is a big "but"-the women of 1935 are concerned about an economic inequality which is much more serious and far-reach- ing in its consequences than any. thing the suffragetics fought against 25 years ago,

FACED PRISON

In the year of the King's corona- Hon women cheerfully faced im- prisonment for the sake of the right to put their crosses on the ballot papers at Parliamentary elec- tions. How is it that a quarter of A century later they will stand by and watch employers at their factories with girls at wages 50 per cent. lower than a man would have to be paid for doing the same work?

Or why will they see men turn- ed out of city offices by the hundred and their places taken by typista earning twenty or thirty aldllings a week?

Itead the advertisement columns of any daily newspaper. How the girls who receive the advertised. posts at one or two pounds a wock ever nuumge to live in London an their salaries is a modern social mystery. Generally it means stuffy one-room existence with sketchy meals and a deplorable lack of recreation because recreation in London costs money.

T

A few days ago I was speaking. to a director of a huge industrial concern about his accrotary. "She's invaluable," he said. "If she were a man she'd be getting £1,000 a Year."

As it is, she gets 24 10s.

a week and lucky to be having that!

UNDERCUTTING MEN

This, for more than women's Buffingo; is a problem that goes to the roots of right relationship be tween the sexes. So long as an army of women goes on under cutting men in almost every section of Industry and in many of the professions, men and women aro doomed to suffer Logother-Men: lose their jobs and women gain little except a bare Bubalstence wage and à fodling of Inferiority.

Mr. J. J. Cunningham said that the petition had been duly served. upon Mi, Robb and no answers had been lodged. He moved Lord Car- mont for interdict, for delivery up of the various infringing arileles. and for expenses.

His Lordship said he had no objection to granting interdict, but delivery of the stationery, &c. He he had difficulty in regard to the would have to look into that and would give his judgment later.

Mr. George Buchanan, Labour member of the British Parliament from Glasgow, Scotland, created sensation in the House of Com. mont by calling the Prime Minis- ter, Mr. Ramsey MacDonald a "wine" and a "mountebank” dur- ing an acrid debate on new na tlonalised dois

system. Mr.

Buchanan, in a violent debale, ** tarted that Mr. MacDonald "ought to be flung out of publie life and horse-whipped."

Only four times have British admirals been court-martialled in all of England's naval history. Rear-Admiral S. R. Bailey was fifth and he was recently quitled following the Hood- Renown collision con at Ports:

mouth.

These two Russian princesses, Marina Galitzin and Katja Emeretinsky, are working in Hollywood's film Colony.

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Outstanding examples of the anti- imperiatlist policy were:

1. Enactment of the Pallippine Independence Act, enabling" the 14,000,000 inhabitants of that archipelago to constitute their own "commonwealth government" and Anti-imperialism was the koydence within-about-11 years; .---.

nove towards ultimate indepen- note of the United States' policy

Washington, Mar. 10.

In 1934 relating to the islands it ministration efforts to have legisla

2. Blocking by Congress of ad- acquired in the wake of the tion enacted with a view to permit Spanish-American war. Import-

tint

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territory; 3.-Statement of Dr. Ernest of Washington.

Gruening, director of the newly .Simultaneously; various of the crented Division of Territories and American areas outside of con- Insular Possessions of the Depart- tinental United States were active, munt of the Interior,-made during throughout 1934 in seeking to main-a visit to Puerto Rico, that it is the tain their access to the "tari Puerto Ricans themselves who must sheltered" market of the United decide whether they want state- States, which in some degree was hood, within the United States, being limited by the adoption of automony, or independence.

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