A Woman's Point of View

...The one great thing which they reveal is that Socialists do not think they know it all, that they realise the value of sound knowledge...

...The reason is that the bulk of this sum must be used under the law to reimburse 40 per cent of city and county appropriations for relief...

...to the bands,, railroads and insurance companies...

...When the pert little thing with the hat over one eye comes in flashing a big sparkler, the husband-to-be is always a well-fixed young man—a "manager"—whatever that is...

...One comrade writes from California: "At onr meeting today the gross ignorance of the Socialists concorning Socialism was revealed to me...

...The Socialist Party to become a major factor in the American political scene must be in the forefront of such a struggle...

...We are advised that the men who called were queried as to their attitude toward the Fascist government and were advised to investigate Its benefits...

...Even this would be eae-slxth of what the federal government might be reasonably expected to spend...

...each of these asked the addressee to call at the agency to receive information concerning him...

...In the face of this grave responsibility the bankers directing the affairs of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation have been so unsympathetic to the needs of the unemployed that it will take almost two years to disburse $800,000,000 of federsl money for relief...

...tflTH no near prospect of economic recovery, as I pointed out in last week's New Leader, misery among the unemployed and their dependents in the months ahead will be the worst in the history of the United States...

...Prior to the reduction, relief had averaged 16 cents a person per day...

...In the four months of Its operation sixty million dollars have been loaned for this purpose...

...It will be fortunate if they aaa aaaintaln it Under the present state relief lew it is impassible fsr the slate government to spend the $30,000,000 bond issue for relief just approved by the electorate at a rate snore rapid than $3,000,000 a mouth...

...By Gertrude Weil Klein A Woman's Point of View Now They're Starting a Campaign to Get the Married Women Out of Jobs—But One Must Eat JPLEVEN million women in this country hold down jobs...

...And the married woman...

...And now they are caught, these poor, bewildered young things, on the breathless merry-go-round of trying to make good their bluffs...

...Of these, thirty-seven percent are married women...

...Is it any wonder that the men regard the married woman worker as the poison in their pie...

...Pennsylvania has asked for $45,000,000 for relief from the R.F.C., and to date has received $6,000,000...

...Here's hoping that 1 will round te sends In the names of fo* Isadora...

...You see, we are not blessed with a Rand School or able teachers...

...Here are a few figures to illustrate the breakdown of this system: Detroit has reduced the number of families receiving relief from 48,000 in January to 21,500 in August, with relief at the rate of 16 cents a day per person...

...Let her get herself a man and get married...

...The up-and-coming young man who used to make quite a splurge on his $35 per week, the, slinjky...

...Unless a determined fight is waged and won to force adequate appropriations to meet the needs of the distressed unemployed human suffering in the months ahead will be unparalleled...

...Contrast the generosity of the R.F.C...

...A Yipsel director writes from Ohio: "We have a number of Yipsel* who are new to the movement and we have no means of teaching them the principles of Socialism...

...In the face of this mounting volume of misery and distress, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has adopted- a miserly policy In the distribution of funds for relief...

...It's partly due to the ballyhoo that's all in the game of seeming to be what you're not...

...More than a billion and a quarter dollars have been distributed to these institutions since its inception...

...This work usually declines for want of leaders and a program...

...Ths picture that they give la Inspiring, our workers ars facing their Job with energy and understanding...

...The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad got $32,600,000, the bulk of which was used to meet maturing loans, while the state of Pennsylvania received only $6,000,000 when it asked for $46,000,000 to feed the starving unemployed...

...In New York ' City, for every family added to the city relief rolls another family is arbitrarily dropped...

...The organization that leads such a fight is sure of future mass support...

...A coarse such aa you offer will just about solve our education-of-new members problem.1' The assistant organizer of a great eastern city tolls of his job: "To my mind onr biggest task is the building up of a strong organization centrally and in various parts of the city and county...

...The pay envelop is no consideration at all...

...It's rather a question of both men and,women understanding their identity of interests as workers, and* understanding the identity of their fates as economic pawns...

...young stenog who looked like Park Avenue on her $26 pay envelop, are having the* skin peel off their noses, so close to the wind do they sail, trying to get by on half their former salaries...

...Slow-Footed Relief Unless the law 4s changed it will take ten months to spend the $30,000,000, although it should be used up in four and a third months at the rate of $7,000,000 a month to meet the needs of New York's destitute unemployed...

...In the first place, the present chairman of the R.F.C., Atlee Pomerene, is a Democrat In the second place, Governor Roosevelt's record in New York State is not one to inspire confidence...

...Ws sorely need members who are well schooled In Socialism and in So* cialist strategy...

...The Need of Socialist Education By WILLIAM E. BOHN COR two months the Rand School * has been corresponding with comrades all over the country with regard to its new correspondence course in Scientific Socialism...

...Governor Roosevelt has steadfastly refused to call a special session of the Legislature to recommend changes in the state relief law that would make it possible for the state to meet its obligations to the unemployed...

...Letters have come from twenty-six states and from three provinces of Canada...

...In fact, out in the Middle West, a more militai t group has formed a union...

...or, in the inner offices where the language is fancier, it's a career or economic independence...

...Eagerly and-hotly they argue the question over luncheon tables that once heard no more serious disagreement than over the wisdom of investing in a Eguenie hat...

...The Union made public a letter addressed to Guiseppe Bran-cucci, head of the agency, expressing its belief that he was exceeding his authority...

...We believe you ars overstep-ping the authority of your office as a representative of a foreign government In this country in addressing American citizens en any political matters concerning their country...

...There is hardly a community in America which does not today find itself in the same predicament as these cities...

...Hounding of Anti-Fascists In U.S.A...

...relief policy and the enactment of legislation providing more adequate federal aid...

...The married women are desperately thumbing through musty books that their mascared eyes never thought to see, digging out old feminist arguments about women's rights...

...Wage Losses and Relief The annual wage loss in the United States due to unemployment at present is fifteen billion dollars...

...They are worried and baffled by the propaganda to push them out of their jobs...

...Those fortunate enough to receive relief average 15 cents a day per person...

...A complete mobilization of the' credit and tax resources of the federal government is imperative if hunger and starvation are to be averted...

...Little can be expected from the incoming Democratic administration...

...According to the state relief administration, a minimum of $10,000,000 a month should be spent on public relief...

...Because of the bankrupt condition of most local governments they cannot be expected to increase their expenditure of $3,000,000 a month...

...And there isn't much point in women banding together to fight the men for what they claim is their work...

...These American citizens, or at least some of them," said the Civil Liberties Union's letter, signed by Roger N. Baldwin, director, "happen to be opposed to the Fascist regime in Italy, a privilege accorded them under American law...

...Nobody wants to know whether a girl is working because she must...

...The only logical source for the additional four billion per annum is the United States government...

...Among office em-Ill o y ees, where large n u m tiers of u n-s k i11 ed and semi-s k illed young men and women scurry to their i d entical cubby-holes, it's plain war...

...How they are going to do this without using union tactics is a little vague...

...Where...

...Chicago relief agencies in October sharply cut allowance for 100,000 families...

...But perhaps we shall see...

...Nobody can tell her that...

...Until large numbers of both men and women get together on this basis, the struggle for existence will get messier and sexier...

...In July it was empowered to lend $300,000,000 to cities and atatea for direct unemployment relief...

...Nothing is more important...

...Of course, they don't call it a union...

...The records show that the average relief per family in New York State cities of 100,000 and over is 80 cents a day, or 16 cents a person...

...Instead of spending this minimum of five billion annually approximately a billion dollars is being spent by all unemployment relief agencies in the United States...

...Fifty-two thousand families have suffered this fate in recent months...

...On the other hand, here's a bright little item to cheer you up...

...It's not a question of women taking work away from men or men taking working away from women...

...Well, It closed opV Another victim of the depression, of so we thodght...

...It's just bitting at anything blindly, wildly, and we're going to see other manifestations of this dumb reaction before it's all over...

...Registered letters addressed by Sign or Brancucci'a office to various Italian-born Americans in Westchester County are in the Union's possession...

...Nobody gives a darn if she tries to explain that her $20 per week is all that is keeping her and her husband from becoming public charges...

...But Inquiry disclosed that it had moved Into larger and more gorgeous quarters OB 47th Street you san writs taw own By Henry J. Roaner Public Relief Agencies Are Fast Breaking Down Reconstruction F. C. Cares More for Banks Than for Human Beings—In the Face of a Terrible Winter Socialist Party Has a Serious Task...

...Maybe this is not quite as inhuman aa it sounds...

...At the present rate of distribution of these funds it will be April, 1984, before the entire three hundred million dollars is spent...

...But before putting this matter before our State Department, we desire to have front you an explicit statement as to tM object of these letters sad ss to the legal grounds on which you evidently assumed your sction was Justified...

...According to a survey just made by the women's Bureau of this department, two-thirds of the women employed in white collar occupations—and the proportion of married women is about the same—are working because there are others depending upon them for support...

...When Congress reconvenes the Socialist Party must lead in the fight to compel Congressional bearings on the heartlessness of the R.F.C...

...v'"' These are samples of messages which are pouring Into the Band School every day...

...Their need is as desperate as any man's...

...She has a good case...

...She's married and that's that...

...Banks and Me* Charles G. Dawes got $80,000,000 for his Chicago bank in one lump, while the state of Illinois received only $13,000,000 for relief when it asked for $87,000,000...

...Her place is at home...

...May We Inquire on their behalf why your office, as a representative of a foreign government, saw fit to address American citizens concerning their political views...

...In the white collar class, which is taking some terrific punishment during these four years 0. D. (of depression, if there's anybody who doesn't know) the feeling against the woman worker—and this goes double for the married woman worker is acidulous...

...Illinois asked for $37,000,000 in September and has since received $13,000,000...

...When...

...There isn't much logic behind the effort to drive women out of the so-called gainful occupations...

...Then, to add to the agony, there is in almost every office of any size a married woman or two managing to hold on to a job, a salary, and a husband...

...Neither private charity nor local governments can carry the burden...

...There used to be a little shop up on Madison Avenue in the fifties where a lady could go in and have a harness made for her poodle...

...Is Charged Arbitrary summoning of American citizens of Italian birth by the Royal Italian Consular Agency in Yonkers for questioning about their political beliefs will be taken up in the immediate future with the State Department, the American Civil Liberties Union announces...

...If she's going to keep on working she casually lets you know, it's because she prefers typewrit ink to .dishwashing...

...This should be a major objective of future party activity...

...90,000 heads of families in the state who have been approved for work relief after rigorous investigation proving destitution are receiving no aid because of lack of funds...

...Instead only $6,000,000 a month is being spent— $3,000,000 comes from the cities and counties and $3,000,000 from the state...

...It is, therefore, impossible for the state to do more than match the local governments' expenditure of $3,000,000 a month...

...A humans administration would have distributed the $$00,000,000 between July and December and whan Congress reconvened would have asked for more money...

...They understand that if we: are to have a united party, a party that will grow consistently, exert its power increasingly, they must have a fundamental unity of So*' cialist concepts...

...The fedejal administration, nevertheless, continues to insist that the main reliance must be placed upon local governments and voluntary charity organizations, with some supplementary assistance through loans by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation...

...and lo it is appalling...

...We must have the benefit of your correspondence course.* Another writes from a town in New Jersey: "We increased our vote here from 800 to 8,000...

...Cities and counties because of tax delinquencies find it impossible to market their relief bonds...

...This objective cannot be realised unless the State Relief administration is empowered by law to give money directly to local relief agencies when local finances are insufficient to provide adequate relief for all known cases of destitution...

...and according to the working male population, especially the would-be-working male population, they should all be dunked in the ocean...

...Therefore I want to begin organising classes to meet as soon as ths stir of the election is over...

...If anything, the men started it, when they began building factories and moving the industries out of the home...

...Tomorrow it may be a question of making good their eats, and they know it, even if they don't read the statistical surveys issued by their country's Department of Labor...

...It's just an organisation of married women workers who have determined to fight to the last ditch to hold on to their jobs and their rights to a job...

...Considering the fact that the average American worker when employed never earns sufficient to permit him to lay aside a large surplus for a rainy day, relief expenditures ought to total at least one-third of this wage loss if the health .and vitality of the unemployed and their dependents are to be maintained...

...Send us the material for your correspondence course and we will send check by return mail...