Women Are Shown Doubly The Victims of Industrialism
Women Are Shown Doubly The Victims of Industrialism THE extreme handicaps of low wages and long hours which employers in the United States have imposed on women workers for a hundred...
...He produces things for money and exchanges money for things...
...Two Million Jobless Women The pamphlet closes with a vivid picture of the suffering which women workers have undergone during the depression...
...But this buying rush is what is needed to start business, and if the inflation is controlled everything will be lovely...
...An abnormal increase in the currency brings a rapid increase in prices, and when prices go up you know what happens...
...This is to be composed of several existing "splinter parties" in various countries from Great Britain to Poland, together with groups which may be induced to secede from the Socialist parties in other countries where as yet no open schism has taken place...
...But suppose we inflate wages at the same time," fraid Joe...
...And if a cyclone is controlled there will be no loss of life," said Bill...
...Y^S...
...A Bedeviled System of Exchange "IT'S like the beautiful ascent of an airplane," Bill continued...
...When a man gorges himself with more food than he needs he suffers from food inflation," said Bill...
...For New Soci HPHE Regina Conference of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation this summer marked the first milestone in the development of Canada's new Socialist movement...
...While these groups have made slight gains, they have been the recipients of the "ragged edges of employment, the lowest wages, and the longest hours...
...Imagine each of us trucking steel, bars to the opera in exchange for tickets...
...The oppressive conditions under which Negro and immigrant women are compelled to earn their living are outlined...
...Blanshard: The Sunnyside Branch has received and accepted your resignation from the Socialist Party, although, of course, not without regret that so old an association is thus severed...
...The Reichxbahn describes this servitude as 'a school of comradeflhin and national feeline-.' " Old Pals' Corner Money Inflation and Exchange Nearly Stagger Bill and Joe,But They Survive the Ordeal By Autolycue •"T^HIS money question is getting my goat," said Joe as he and Bill admired the newly decorated Rand School auditorium...
...Out of almost 11,000,000 women who ordinarily work for a living, the number of the unemployed has increased to more than 2,000,000...
...The rnoney inflation is basic to everything else and the process of increasing panic we have discussed shows that it is," said Bill...
...Stl true that s middle clasi lusioned in and the C.C venient insl these people ronto alone of these cli membership Another ii C.C.F...
...It does," Bill replied, "and when the system of pro'duction gets into a jam because of producing more than' we can buy, not more than we can use, then this money 'factor becomes a crazy agency that acts like a maniac when it is more needed as a stabilizer than at any other time...
...Something like that happens when inflation begins," Bill replied...
...Clubs, all were represented on the national council...
...Quebec's numerical indication of weakness suggested that progress must necessarily be slow amongst the French-Canadians...
...Dear Mr...
...And when we learn from the papers that you have rushed from the Socialist Party to one opposed to it on every fundamental issue — if one can speak of the fusionists as having any fundamental issues—we must conclude that either you or we are very much muddled as to what constitutes the Socialist ideal...
...It is a case of commodity-moneycommodity...
...For the money he buys hats, shoes and food...
...Here is a sample: "Under the guisj of 'voluntary labor service,' the Reiehsbahn has introduced what is tantamount to slavery...
...J. S. Woods worth, M.P.," was reT elected president of the organization, and a National Council was formed representing the various branches of the movement in the different provinces...
...What do they mean by inflation, anyway...
...Money becomes cheaper and cheaper...
...The money continues to decline in value", which is reflected in still higher prices and more panic to get rid of the money...
...i push of the | subsided, as gun to settle comes the ( These facts, familiar ts i Further™ need not b Party is ¦ without ki One need o beginnings a in the anti-s back a fall day when it date...
...a day...
...Sod We fed | confirmed i) comments a Socialist P| These rem* lated on a < conditions i those in En completely tl that account varying pod little familii conception < amaze us, co one who hi years the op izing hhnse...
...When you say that you consider energy "better spent in industrial and educational activity," you seem—amazingly—to overlook the fact that those are almost the only objects of Socialistic activity and the sine qua non of Socialistic success...
...is ths construction lar to the States...
...Driven from home work by the factory system and later hired to operate the typewriter and filing systems, employers have persistently imposed lower wages on women than on men doing similar work...
...When was right s d'tions wen By W. H. C. Coulthard Canadian C.C.F...
...The general result, the author declares, is that "for many thousands of women, wages have always fallen far below the cost of decent living, even though they must support themselves and often dependents on their meager earnings...
...Joe asked...
...The fear brings more inflation and prices continue to go up...
...Are we a herd of animals fleeing from unknown fears...
...Then you don't think much of inflation at a way out, ¦aid Toe...
...Farmers and Laborites, Socialists and middleclass members of the C.C.F...
...The same is true of the farmer...
...That would be barter on a scale that is impractical...
...More Older Men Reported In "Unemployable Group" More and more men of 50 and ever are becoming members of the "unemployable group," Frank J. Taylor, Commissioner of Public Welfare, stated in a report based on a compilation of lodgings at the Municipal Lodging House...
...A step in this direction sdems to have been taken at Paris after the congress of the Labor and Socialist International, when a number of so-called "left wing" delegates, whose proposals had not found favor in the congress, held a private gathering of their own—of course without authorization from the parties which had elected them...
...The results achieved include the establishment of the Women's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor, which was sponsored by the American Federation of Labor in 1916, and protective legislation against long hours, and nightwork...
...Although we are glad to learn from your "confidential" statement that your resignation is not caused by a "loss of faith in the Socialist ideal or a disbelief in the value of Socialist education," we do not quite understand how one can display any faith in the ideal of the cooperative commonwealth achieved by cooperative effort while turning one's back on the one instrument of that cooperative endeavor which is at once a means and an end of the Socialist ideal, or how a faith in Socialist education is to be fulfilled by divorcing one's self from the only medium for the communication of that education...
...Victims of Discrimination The author emphasizes the fact that the jobs which employers have compelled women to take have been mainly in the unskilled and lowerpaid classes...
...I'd get my hooks on some...
...Ohe of the surprising features of the movement's growth has been the exteniif Clubs...
...We avoid possession of money as though it carried the contagion of leprosy...
...Together, they would be not more than one-tenth as strong as the parent body...
...Prices begin to soar and people, rush to buy, fearing still higher prices...
...Profit-mad capitalists have reduced wages and lengthened hours until a general breaking down of working standards for women has taken place, which has been partially neutralized by increasing attempts to have state legislatures pass more adequate labor legislation dealing with unemployment insurance, old-age pensions, minimum wages, and shorter hours, supplemented by the minimum wage provisions of the codes set up under the National Industrial Recovery Act...
...His Old Part Blanshard a L The following letter to Paul Blanshard, who resigned from the Socialist Party and joined the fusionistt, was sent to him by Sunnyside Branch of which he had been a member...
...Its number of Eastern uri been respos research'w* C.C.F...
...Written by Eleanor Nelson and illustrated by Jean W. Hill of Washington, the brochure describes the changes that have taken place in the occupations of women who work for a living during the past century...
...When the money supply of a nation is abnormally increased there is money inflation...
...Those over 60 years of age (many of them are much older than 60) average eighteen nights a month per man...
...Women Are Shown Doubly The Victims of Industrialism THE extreme handicaps of low wages and long hours which employers in the United States have imposed on women workers for a hundred years are graphically described in "Women at Work," issued by the United States Women's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor...
...Can We Control a Cyclone...
...On the whole, we are led to believe that your conception of the Socialistic ideal has been peculiarly your own, since it appears to have nothing in common with that professed —and acted upon—by the Socialist Party, and we must conclude that the use of revolutionary phraseology is no guarantee against sudden exit to is no accept damentals...
...So capitalism compels use of money to effect exchanges," said Joe...
...Nonsense...
...Msni The Msi scribed as document is its complets nearly ^00 fourteen sa program su low for ac circumstanc ly detailed fication for latter score...
...Splinter Parties" Seek to Form New International The Independent Socialist party and the Revolutionary Socialist party of Holland, both of which originated in secessions from the Social-Democratic Labor party, are now trying to unite...
...No more than I do of the inflated politicians," Bill feplied as they returned to the shop...
...The worker produces commodities for a money wage," Bill continued...
...It certainly looks like a difficult job," said Joe...
...viewpoint The very eludes the be ditions data In this coum fore the W( sible for the go West an which was I Vast tides sweeping oi tling conditi only withii before the w talism begi with that a wide spread now arrived industrialist complete...
...We cannot hoard large quantities of steel, sugar, shoes, and so on, and exchange a quantity of steel for an opera ticket or so many pairs of shoes for a radio...
...He buys money with his labor power and sells money for the things he needs...
...Ths ists have 0 their incresi givings...
...It was attended by nearly a hundred and fifty accredited delegates from every part of the Dominion except the Maritime provinces, for the distance to the conference from that section and the incompleteness of organization there prevented representation...
...How's that...
...Expressing the opinion that the men of 50 and over will experience real difficulty in ever obtaining regular employment, the report said: "The younger homeless men, who are occasionally employed, average ten night* per month at the Municipal Lodging house...
...Leon Trotzky was hailed as' the coming leader of a brand-new and simon-pure international...
...Gee, I wish they'd inflate a few billions," said Joe...
...At a joint meeting which they held in Amsterdam last month, ostensibly as a demonstration against Fascism, the speakers devoted most of their time to attacks on the Social-Democratic Labor party, on the Labor and Socialist International, and on the Communist International as well...
...It makes your head swim to read about gold standard, inflation, deflation, bank credit and the like...
...Hitler's Rail Slaves The International Transport Workers' Federation reports some of the fruits of Hither ism on the German railways...
...during its first year of existence...
...But if we do not promulgate them, who is to do so...
...In tin Kdnigsberg Division 700 young people, housed in discarded wagons, jwork for SO pfennigs (roughly 5#d...
...That middle factor of money enables human beings to hoard it and exercise command over vast forms of wealth...
...That middle factor of money bedevils exchange...
...Money the Maniac "TTHE more we inspect it the more absurd it appears," said Bill...
...Mine, too," said Bill...
...Do you think that the government can control such a nation-wide panic fear...
...The machine goes up, allright, but at the top of the spiral something goes wrong and it comes down xvith a crash...
...The more you hooked the less you would have...
...It is merely more evidence of the inherent stupidity of the capitalist system...
...everybody rushes to buy goods, to stock up at current prices and avoid higher prices later on," said Joe...
...But notwithstanding these admittedly weak spots it is impossible not to be impressed by the tremendous growth of the C.C.F...
...What is more, an inflation panic brings a government deficit, and to avoid an unbalanced budget the government prints more money," said Bill...
...And when you got it you'd rush madly to get rid of it," Bill replied...
...Included in the jobless army are many married women discriminated against because of their marital [status, many older women whose chances of finding jobs are very slim, and many young women workers for the first time in the job market...
...During inflation in Germany a million marks would buy a meal one day and a few weeks later a meal xvould cost two millions...
...It certainly is a bughouse world," said Joe...
...This inferior economic status developed the long and difficult fight made by women for better working conditions...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 14
