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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 1935.

SUFFRAGETTES BATTLE

BATTLE NOT

NOT YET COMPLETED

Economic

Equality

A not-infrequent tragedy of modern times is that of the young enuple who want to marry and set up house, but cannot do só beenuse the woman is in a job that hardly pays enough to keep herself, and the man has lost his job altogether

Evasive through the increase in underpaid

COMPETING WITH MALE LABOUR IMPORTANT

PROBLEM

By DR. BETTY MORGAN

7TWENTY-FIVE years ago, when

feminine labour.

There aro factories in Great. Britain now

almost

completely staffed by women and girls that Len-years ago ostered-good-jobs-to mati.

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 enso that demanded joint action be.

tween men and women; in their

united interests, it is this one.

But where are thu algna, 25 THis Gracious Majesty George V. years since the suffragettes were nacended the English throne, the aulting all England by the eprs, auffragette movement was in full that men and women are awing. During the coronation year falive to this 'deeper issue? itself, suffragettes were particular-

ly energetic, Their activities, briefly epitomised, fill no fewer than

closely-printed columns

seven

of

the Times Annual Index for 1911.

Agitation.wns the order of the day. There were processions, de-

ARMORIAL

BEARINGS

really

monstrations, deputations to Parlia- INTERDICT GIVEN

ment. Members of the Cabinet and

a very rely time. Even in cold print the "Times Index" makes it exciting:

"Meetings Interrupted: Asquith (at the Albert Hall) Mr. J. R. MacDonald

AGAINST TAILOR

A petition was presented in the Court of Sension by the Royal War- Mr.rant Holders Association, London, to interdiet Mr. D. Robb, carrying Mr. A.

on business as a tailor and dress. Birrell. Mr. W. Churchill (at maker under the name of Robb, at the National Liberal Club) ..

46 Union Street, Inverness, from Mr. Lloyd George (at the Mansion using in connection with his busi- House) Mr. C. F. G. Muster-

ness certalu armorial bearings Mr. Runciman

consisting of representations of the Royal Arms of the Sovereign,

mon

And now, 25 years later, it au seems as remote as the Rebecca Riota. To generations that Ruc ceeded the Edwardian, suffragettes have never seemed quite real. There is a faint odour of, the museum about them. Even their name sounds П eross between a plece of aggressive propaganda and a music-hall joke.

The very dresses that the fashion

arms which so closely resembled the Royal Arms as to be calculated to deceive and to induce the be- lief that Mr. Robb and his firm were in possession of the Royal Warrant appointment or authority to use the Royal Arms,

The petition also asked for the delivery of letter paper and leaflets

of their day compelled them to wear bearing the Royal Arms and of all militate against them. It is dif-stamps, blocks, and other muchi- ficult to associate a great spiritualery for the production of the uprising with those hats and veils Royal Arms.

and skirts.

WHAT WAS OUTCOME?

Mr. J. J. Cunningham said that the petition had been duly served upon Mr. Robb and no answers had

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

That there was passion and re-been lodged. He moved Lord Car- forming zeal and a strong sense of mont for interdict, for delivery up injustice behind that curious rising of the various infringing articles, of women 25 years ago no one who and for expenses, reads the history of those days Can doubt,

But what has been the "outööme"ʊY-it-all-

Women have got the vote, the right to sit in Parliament, a chance to try for some of the less im portant jobs in the Civil Service. There is little trace new of the violent sex-hostility that embittered the surage struggle in the im mediate pre-War years---

Ás n sex, women are not much given to philosophising, 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 tween men and women.

Equality for the modern woman does not mean the ncceptance of masculine standards and the neglect of her own. It means the. cd- operation, on equal terms, of part- nors 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 1936 are concerned about an economic inequality which is much more serious ad far-reach- ing in its consequences than any- thing the suffragettes fought against 25 years ago.

FACED PRISON

In the year of the King's corona- tion women cheerfully faced im- prisonment for the sake of the right to put their crosses on the ballot papers at Parliamentary clec- tions. How is it that a quarter of a century later they will stand by and watch employers fill 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 seo men turn- ed out of elty offices by the hundred and their places taken by typista carning twenty or thirty shillings a week?

Read the advertisement columns of any daily newspaper. How the girls who receive the advertised posts at one or two pounds 'a week ever manage to live in London on their salaries is a modern social mystery. Generally it means stuffy one-room existence with sketchy meals and a deplorable Inck of recreation because recreation in

д

London costa money was speaking

fow days ago

i. to a director of a huge industrial concern about his secretary. "Sho's invaluable," he said. "If she were a minn sho'd be getting £1,000 a As it is, she gota Ei 10s.

year" a week and lucky to bo. having that!

UNDERCUTTING MEN

This far more than women's suffrage, 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 professiona, men and women, are doomed to, suffer together,..Men. loss, their jobs and women gain' little except nbare subsistendo siwage and a feeling of inferiorit

He

Mr. George. Buchanan, Labour member of the British Parliament from Glasgow, Scotland, created.

sensation in the Hours of Com. mons by calling the Prime Minis- ter, Mr. Raminy MacDonald a "swine" and a “mountebank” dur- Ing an acrid debate on new ne tionalized

date əyaləm. Mr. Buchanan, ■ violent débato, mi- marted that Mr. MacDonald "ought to be flung out of public life and horse-whipped."

الم

Only four times have British admirals been court-martialled in England's maval history. Rear Admiral S. R. Bailey was' fifth and he was recently me-

the quitted following

Hood- Renown collision case at Porta mouth.

These two Russian princesses, Marina Golitain and Katja Emerstinsky, are working in Hollywood's film Colony,

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the quota principle, with respect to imports of basic commodities."

Outstanding examples of the anti- imporlatilist policy were:

that

and

1. "Enaciment of the Philippine Independence Act, enabling the 14,000,000 inhabitants of archipelago to constitute their own "commonwealth government" Washington, Mar. 10.

move towarda ultimate Indepen- Anti-imperialism was the koy. note of the United States' policy enco within about 11 years:

2. Blocking by · Congress of ad- in 1934 relating to the islands itministration efforts to have legisla acquired in the wake of the tion enacted with a view to permit Spanish-American war. Import- ant steps, both of a positive and ink the Prealdent of the United States to appoint a non-resident of negative nature, were taken dur-lawall to the post of Governor of ing the year to insure the "self that territory; determination" of the insular warde of Washington: ...

3. Statement of

Dr.

Ernest Gruening, director of the newly Simultaneously, various of the created Division of Territories and American areas outside of con- Inxular Possessions of the Depart tinental United States were active ment of the Interior, mado during throughout 1934 in ageking to main- là visit to Fuerto Rico, that it is the tain their access to the "tariff- sheltered" market of the United States, which In some degree was being limited by the adoption of

Poerto Ricans themselves who must decide whether they want state- hood within the United States, automony, or independence.

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