Is it impossible to get the Government to see <lb/> that instead of forbidding the increase of wages <lb/> they should forbid the lowering of them, while <lb/> food is rapidly reaching famine prices for the <lb/> workers & the poor?.

I must add that, although I have heard it <lb/> <unclear>suggested</unclear> on several occasions that the women of <lb/> Belfast suffer particularly from the prejudice <lb/> & obstruction of the men, I have found no con-<lb/> firmation of this theory. I found no trace of <lb/> it in talking to the men & when I asked the women <lb/> they said there was not the slightest ground for <lb/> such a suggestion. their only criticism was <lb/> this, - that men who are convinced have union- <lb/> ists do not urge the women workers in their families <lb/> to organise themselves, - which they <gap/> con-<lb/> sider they ought to do.

<salute>I have the honour to remain<lb/>

Faithfully yours</salute> <hi rend="underline">S.C. Harrison.</hi>

<date>31<hi rend="superscript">st</hi>January 1916.</date>

<address>36. Upper Fitzwilliam Street.<lb/> Dublin.</address>