Edson: Clare Luce says ‘me too’ on full-job bill
By Peter Edson
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Ferguson: Woman worker’s outlook
By Mrs. Walter Ferguson
If you are a woman worker, what are the chances for keeping your job after all the boys get home? There are nearly 18 million of us, and it is unlikely all will stay in the business world. A specialist in guidance and placement gives us some pointers.
In case you are with a concern that was created for wartime needs, or were hired to fill in because of the labor shortage, you probably will get your notice soon when war production ends. On the other hand, women who have been in the same position for years and made good need have no fear. Seniority rights are important. The person who changes jobs frequently doesn’t stand the same chance as the girl who stays put, provided both are equally capable.
Government and industry are eager to provide work for everyone. However, good sense warns us that the process must be gradual if we reach the goal. Women, still rated as newcomers to industry, are always the first to be dismissed when there is a surplus of labor.
For that reason, says our specialist, all who have husbands or others to support them, must step out of business and industry, for a time at least.
During the last four years large numbers of women – and men, too – who were earning good salaries, gave poor and reluctant service to their employers and the public. In the coming shuffle, they need expect no favors. They do not deserve any.
The young woman who wishes to establish herself in a business career or is simply forced to work for her bread and butter must realize she is walking into a new world.
Background of news –
London and free trade
By Bertram Benedict
London dispatches say British business and financial interests are bringing such pressure as they can upon the new Labor government to speed up plans for the long-discussed United Nations trade conference. Washington announced, August 4, that the meeting was tentatively scheduled for early in 1946.
Opportunity for discussions looking to an earlier meeting is afforded by the presence in London of representatives of some 40 governments participating in the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and of Will L. Clayton, U.S. assistant secretary of state in charge of economic affairs.
Fears were quietly expressed in Washington prior to the British election that victory for the Labor Party – then regarded as unlikely – would impose serious obstacles to the Hull program for a great post-war expansion of international trade.
The Truman administration was on the point of obtaining authority from Congress for further reductions of 50 percent in American tariff rates in exchange for removal by other nations of restrictions on imports. And it was no secret that this additional bargaining power was desired principally for use in negotiations with Great Britain. The program of the Labor Party implied indefinite continuance of government controls – particularly of imports and exports – as basic to an all-around planning of the national economy.
Comfort in Attlee statement
There was some comfort in the statement of Clement Attlee, just before the results of the election were announced, that the Labor government would seek to promote international trade and rising standards of living all over the world. He said: “It will seek to remove, as far as possible, all barriers that hamper the free exchange of goods and services between the nations. It recognizes, however, that the era of the old archaic free trade has passed away.”
Prime Minister Churchill’s only statement had been that he would do everything possible to promote world trade but would not give up the right “to safeguard our balance of payments by whatever means are necessary.”
The present situation in Britain bears a striking resemblance to that which existed in the United States shortly after the Roosevelt administration took office in 1933. The new president had a definite program of government intervention in economic affairs. Its cornerstone was deliberate depreciation of the dollar to raise domestic price and cheapen American products in foreign markets.
The London conference
Dollar depreciation was in full swing when Secretary of State Hull left for the London World Economic Conference in June 1933. Mr. Hull hoped that an agreement could be reached for a world reduction of 10 percent in all tariffs, but this proposal was not even broached at the conference.
It quickly developed into what President Roosevelt regarded as a conspiracy by the “gold bloc” countries of Europe to force immediate stabilization of currencies, at fixed ratios, and an early return to free movement of gold under the orthodox gold standard.
It generally is agreed that the London conference was wrecked by Mr. Roosevelt’s message, July 3, 1933, in which he refused to consider any early stabilization of the dollar in foreign exchange.
This and other statements of the president which put American recovery ahead of all other considerations were characterized in London as “economic nationalism gone mad.”
Truman reports on Potsdam, warns Japs
World urged to work for peace; free European waterways asked
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Simms: U.S. hopes never to use atomic bomb in future war
Truman urges discard of weapon; what to do with it is big problem
By William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor
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Joy of victory sweeps Manila
‘When do we go home?’ G.I.’s shout
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London goes wild, like on V-E Day
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Map story of Allied victory in war against Japan
How Nips expanded empire since 1870; how they lost it
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Multi-million-dollar project urged as Pyle memorial
New York company asks creation of big park, cemeteries and college endowments
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Railroading tomorrow –
Research helping to provide faster and safer trains
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Gracie Allen Reporting
By Gracie Allen
HOLLYWOOD – Goodness, they simply can’t stop talking about the atomic bomb at our house. Even the cook spends more time gossiping about splitting the atom than she does about breaking up of Hollywood marriages.
Why, it seems once you crack an atom, you get so much power you can do anything. I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ll soon be able to get the tops off aspirin bottles and open windows in railroad cars.
I suppose the song writers and movie companies will get in on the atom idea, too. We’ll have songs like “Ah, Sweet Molecule of Life” and “Explodable You.” In the movies, poor Errol Flynn will have a lifetime career of keeping villains away from the atom secrets. But personally, I think any picture about atom-smashing should include Van Johnson. He’s already made plenty of us girls go to pieces.