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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1988.

Women Demand Pay Packets For Wives

Thousands Never Have A Penny They Can Call Their Own

Even Their Savings Are

Not Theirs

FROM THE DAY THEY MARRY THOU- SANDS OF WIVES NEVER HAVE A PENNY THAT IS REALLY THEIR OWN. THEY ARE THE GREAT UNPAID-WORKING HOURS THAT WOULD BRING THEIR MENFOLK OUT ON STRIKE.

Now the women are out to change all that. They want to put wives on the same basis as other wage earners, knowing just how much they will draw at the end of the week.

In only two countries in the world, Norway and Sweden, have won through to those conditions. The newly-formed Married Women's Association want to make Britain the third.

They propose to present to Parliament next session a Bill to establish that every married women who runs a house for her husband shall be entitled to an equal share of his pocket money.

If the wife also works outside] mending, household accounts and the the home the two incomes shall education of children up to Ave be pooled and, after home- years, keeping expenses are paid the

remainder shall be

divided between the two.

"For this she is entitled to board, lodging and clothes, and nothing

equally more.

In the little time that the Mar- rled Women's Association has existed It has found that there will be a good dent of opposition from men.

NEVER A PENNY

Miss Monica Whately, hon, secre- tary of the Six-Poini Group, who founded the association, explained its alms to a Sunday Express repre- sentative.

"At present," she said, "the house- wife, although she does as hard and useful a day's work as any other worker, is not entitled to a penny of wages.

"She is doing highly skilled and nationally important work.

"Look what she is expected to do -cooking, cleaning, laundry, shop- ping, sick nursing, dressmaking and

"No man would dream of em- ploying a housekeeper on those terms. Even in the poorest house- hold she would be paid some толеу.

"Thousands of women, from the day they marry, never have a penny! in cash that they can call their own.

"A wife should be able to treat her husband to the pictures if she wants to If her husband has money to buy himself drinks and cigarettes und games of billiards she should live equal money to

Defending France's eastern frontiers is the famed Maginot Line, a series of big foris and smaller fortifientions, some of which are sunk in the earth, others crouching under rollway embankments, widle others are hung on precipices. So interlocked and intricate is the system that French militarists say the border can be covered with a sheet of fire. Top penel shows blockhouses. Baltom, ammu nitlam

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she does the whole of the house- work or house management In order to have a right to a share of her husband's income. "Once we have achieved legul buy herself status we shall work for other bene the little luxuries that appeal to her. fits that women workers outside the home already have, such as health insurance, holidays with pay and days oft.

RIGHT TO SHARE This financial subservience. of women to the husbands is bad for the men as well as the women.

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"There are hundreds of thousands "But under our proposed Bill aj of women who have never had a day woman would have to prove that off work since they married."

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MOTHERS, CHILDREN, AND THE AGED TO

LEAVE CITIES

Legislation to give effect to the Government's plans | for evacuating more than five million people from Lon- don and other cities, in the event of war, to "safety zones" in the country is to be prepared for submission to Parlia- ment next session.

It will be based chlefly on the re- commendations of the committee which, under the chairmanship of Sir John Anderson, has been consider- ing problems involved in the evacua tion of city dwellers to the country nx a protection from air raids.

now in the hands of the

A reporary, is to be published]

Home

early next month move will be

The first

a national survey of potential billets In rural

where mothers, arcas, children under school age, and aged people can find comparative safety. SCHOOL CAMPS

Steps will then be taken to pro- vide school camps in the country for all children living in industrial cen- tres.

The idea is to erect these camps (consisting of open-air classrooms and sleeping huts) as soon as possi- ble, and to use them in peace-time to give every elementary schoolchild

a month in the country.

and

It is probable that 1 committee will ortly study the construction

shortly

such camps. organisation of Plans are also being considered for the maintenance of industry, in- to temporary dormitories in the suburbs when their working day is done, and to

them by day in

bomb-proof shatte

TRANSPORT PROBLEM One of the biggest problems of the evacuation scheme is that of trans- port, but schemes have already been worked out by the main line rail- the ways, London Transport, and Ministry of Transport for clearing the danger zones of women

and children within 72 hours of the pro- clamation of a national emergency.

The Anderson committee has can- sidered the possibility of obtaining international agreement on the set- ting up of "neutral zones" for the and safety of women, children, wounded,

As to the Government plans, they are based on the principle of decen- tralisation of organisation, and dis- persal of the population into the smallest groups possible. For this reason, billeting, and the organisa- tion of school camps, will be under- taken by local authorities.

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