The Demand for Work The position of women in industrial, civic, and political life is attracting much attention in England at present, the unemployment menace looming large at a conference of unemployed women arranged by the Trades Union Congress General Council. About 400 women were present, including representatives from the weavers, chainworkers, Jace workers, pottery workers, and also women clerks and secretaries, women from the Givil Service, boot and shoe operatives, actresses, and clothworkers.
A resolution was passed deploring the failure of the Government to provide work or training for unemployed women, and drawing attention to the fact that women would not benefit from the sum allotted by Parliament to general unemployment relief up to March, 1922, Pointing out that the only training schemes at present in existence were those of the Central Committee on Women's Training and Employment, the resolution urged the Government to allocate further sums for the provision of work in which women could be suitably employed, and the provision of training emes with maintenance where desirable, and that, failing the provision of suitable work or training, it was the duty of the
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