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PLANAGAN-GILES-At SE, Joseph's Church, Hongkong, on November 24, 1937, Brian Thomas Flanagan to Enid Giles.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1937.
TOO CLOSE FOR
COMFORT
Should Married Women
Go Out To Work?
*ARRIED women who can, and do,
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stay at home give varied reasons against wives working. The chief ones seem to be that some women have thus available two in- comes; their own and those of their husbands; or that the women work for less wages, or salary, than men, and some say that because so many women and girls work in offices there is a corresponding number of elderly men unemployed.
Even if this were true of any part of a country, what of those localities where women have al- ways gone out to work?" Or those trades and occupations such as tailoring, dressmaking, or laundry work; which are only a few of the occupations in which women, both married and single, and in every part of a country, have always worked?
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IF the principle of mar- ried women working in some localities, or some indus- tries, is right, why condemn any kind of work that can be done by women?
In the North of Englund women say they must work be- cause of the inadequacy of their men's wages, wages being lower in the North than the Southern · areas. But conditions have. high rents for houses, or rooms, changed now in the South, and
nccount for many young married women going out to work.
a
work out that way, or
five.
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fusehold Budget/ Joint Inconds 150.0
Penta Patis
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follow
•Once again the echoes of war have come close to Hongkong. Yesterday's visitation
upon Canton, for which the Japanese bombing squadrons from their
If marriage improves women, then a married woman doctor, of beings able unknown base of operations. or teacher, is to be desired. management of their own affairs, against not only married women ried women working is that there to undertake There was a great outcry Then, if the objection to mar- were responsible, reminds this Whilst if managing a home and and shaping their own destinies. working, but the Ministry of is more coming into one home Colony of the proximity of a family on a small wage makes Sometimes we are told that a Labour also attempted to force than another, it must hostilities, never so far removed better citizen, then a labourer's particular party's failure at elec- skilled unmarried women into that all married men should be that residents have been able to
wife and children should be great tions is the attitude of the domestic service. Even Trade paid at the same rate of wage, assets forget the constant
to the working class women, or the disregard of poli- Unionists joined the outcry and or that increases by way of over menace. movement.. For it is a menace even to this
tics by the young people, who out of the fight there arose legis time, etc., should be sternly dis- But things do not appear to are not taught by mothers or lation which is to-day being used couraged. British fortress city and riavalahould be a rapidly rising class, and butter.
there fathers that politics affect bread against any woman over thirty- As to women doing work which base. Our flag and our property
men formerly did, figures prove have not always been respected
So we have the spectacle of the balance is still the same, tak- +3 operations against China. Al-have been expected if Japan had and do, responsible jobs in war who are working, and really be services, and all the new ways "BEFORE women showed people spending energy and ing into account the new kinds thought, and being personally of industries, Governmental" how they could accept bitter against married women work, such as pensions, social ready British soldiers have died, been the injured party. The work nothing much was said by ing foolish enough to think it of using our spare time, not for British homes have been wreck-outery which would have result-women about other women work would cure unemployment if the getting educational facilities for ed, and British industries have ed if the situation had been ing in hard and often dangerous married women stayed at home men, women and chlidren.
occupations.
and the single women went into been thrown out of gear and reversed is more casily imagined
It is said that married women Conditions twenty years ago
service. into confusion for the reason than described. People are bo were bad for
with families should remain at womon. They
home to see to them. But if the that the Japanese Government ginning to grow impatient at worked harder in domestic ser-
married woman takes in a lodger, feels itself bound to discipline a the apparently supine policy of Vice, in the factories, and in the
WHY cannot they seo surely that is working, and is home. During the war the out-
that in this system extra money available in that peaceful people. British ships the British Government. Pre-look seemed to alter a little, but under which we must work for a home, and it might be depriving have been stopped by the sently an occasion will arise when the depression came while longer the workers as a the widow next door of a lodger, women were expected to give up whole, and families and indivi- lodgers being the widow's means the new kinds of work in indus- duals, should earn as much as of livelihood. tries and professions which they possible. By so doing, and had shown they could do equally spending back as they would- well with men.
industries would be quickened.
"by the Japanese" during their | very different-reaction ̈ might
even
ever-
Superstitions of Forth Fisherfolk
blockading force of Japanese when failure to act will naval vessels, and Chinese-lastingly discredit the adminis- owel junks, trading out of tration. It is high time, for Hongkong, have been sunk and instance, that some protest was their crews slain by the same conveyed to Japan over the at- token and in the same cause. tacks on the Kowloon Railway, Finally, the Kowloon-Canton which, after all, is partly British Railway has repeatedly suffered owned, and which daily carries at the hands of the Japanese British subjects to and from aerial raiders, and
the Canton, trains themselves are not im- mune from bombing attacks. It is the contention of the Japan-now clear that the world-wide them bad luck. ese that Hongkong is being indignation and consequent pro-shout a fisherman dream about this It is an even greater tragedy
To mention pigs to a fisherman is pay for equal work would solve used as a base of supply for tests are forgotten by Japan. fish, When talking Among them another sign of bad luck; and the that grievance, for no employ. China's war materials; but even They may have had a momen-call it, "pinkfish.".
selves they never say salmon; they same applies to cross-eyed people.
Mention of these two superstitions er would pay the same wages for worker. The sex if this were proved, and the tary effect. No more. When it Recently a friend of mine dreamed recalls to my mind the story told to an inferior point is not worth arguingsuits Japan to teach the Chinese with some sishermen that night, and, half a dozen other fisher-women, was{it.'
was going out me by a fishergirl. She, along with best suited for the job would get what possible excuse can there
a lesson there is no squeamish-not knowing of the superstition, he travelling to Edinburgh by train to Kowloon.
mentioned his dream to them. They begin her "rounds" when it was L. KNIGE HYDRO-THERAPEUTIC INSTITUTE und passenger train? Once What Canton has done to merit tain to be a waste of time. If it did
be for attacking a
ness about the means employed. were horrified. Their trip was cer noticed that one of the occupants of the compartment was cross-eyed. before it happened and innocent this latest horror-the bombing not end in disaster. My friend only They inmediately crossed their fin-
laughed, but the fishermen were rers and began counting up to ten. wrested from labour to-day, and
While they were doing this people lost their lives. Yeater- of defenceless people in Honam
Something adsmuni. the world may want to know.wrong.
woman lenni out of the window and restricting married women from day, according to passengers, It would be no surprise if Japan
waved to some men working in the attempting to gain for husband, felds. One of the fisherwomen asked the planes three times drove the were to answer that Honam had
tion has arisen, it seems to be At meetings where this ques-
only the woman with a job carrying a fairly good wage or salary who is thought of as an offender, but what of the women working as "chars" or washing up and cleaning in hotels, or the WHEN you have been enjoying af Another superstition concerns poor fleld workers? Whose jobs
delectable cut of salmon have ministers. If one of the crew secs A you ever thought that the salmon is minister on the beach on the day of are they taking? Whose prince- classed among the "bad luck" fish? sailing, it means bad luck. Therely wages are they supplement As for the repetition of the Many of the fisher-folk along the are innumerable cases where boats ing? And what of the depressed Forth believe that if salmon is men- have delayed sailing for a day simply areas where no one is working? Canton bombing outrages, it is tioned in their presence it will bring because of that!
As to women taking less wages
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not put all our young and middle, travellers aboard a Kowloon- to be punished because of anti- As It was a clear night, with the nerf her husband worked in the children, or self a share now will
"No" replied the woman. "My aged men into work. bound passenger train to shelter Japanese agitation there, or moon riding high and only
man's non tattle howker-he's a pig- Why not let the woman work some such rubbish. The fact is, gentlest of winds to ruffle the sea, my friend could not understand why they in the fields along the right-of- of course, that no excuse for should be anxious. But the fisher
breeder
fishergirl put it, "After that she needs to, or even wants way. There is no point in it. that sort of thing is required men were right. Desplie the calm we were frantia. We didnos kento, giving her the opportunity to join a Trade Union, or an Asso- No-one can assert that Great any more. It is doubtful, oven, sea and the clearness of the atmos- what tac dae
that it will raise much of a phere the motorship ran into a mud Concluding her story she pointed clation, to demand her rights ac- Britain has been anything but storm of comment. The world bank and it was only after they had to the creel "See that," she said. cording to her aspirations and
To this day ino' come oot. lonient in her treatment of can accustom itself to anything: been stranded for three hours that "My creel is full. I might as well
they were rescued.
An' If I had kent 1 according to her ability. even to international immoralithese fishermen believe that if my was gaun tas meet a cross-eyed wo- theso frequent incidents, nor ty, mass murder and Japan's friend had not dreamed about "pink man and hear the word 'pigs' men- can one help concluding that a foreign policy.
fish" the boat would not have "run" tioncd.—I widnae have come at a"," nground.
J. R. C.
May Cheal
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