[276] London Times, May 1, 1919.

[277] Violet Markham in The Labour Woman, June, 1919, p. 59.

[278] Vide [p. 55].

[279] Vide [p. 62].

[280] G. D. H. and M. I. Cole, Regulation of Wages, p. 17.

[281] Labour Gazette, August, 1918, p. 307.

[282] Tobacco; aerated waters; boot and shoe repairing; paper bag making; brush and broom making; hair, bass, and fibre trade; laundries; corsets.

[283] Great Britain, Ministry of Labour, Labour Gazette, December, 1919, pp. 514, 515.

[284] Vide [Appendix M (p. 249)] for list of “unsuitable” occupations.

[285] The report of the “Machinery of Government Committee” took a similar position, advocating in a rather guarded way the increased employment of women in the civil service, including the upper division, from which they had been excluded before the war.