3 Taxation_used to force women
out of industry, back to drudgery

Prior to the need for added war production forces it was generally accepted that wo-
men’s place was in the home looking after the needs of man or in public service trades.
However, during the war against fascism our young and most capable men were called to
production was greatly needed and women were called upon

the armed forces. Increased
to enter many new fields. They
responded both to the call for
the armed forces and “white cov-
erall” uniforms and fulfilled their
duties efficiently, ; 5

Many women and more employ-
ers felt that married women were
@ special king of animal and
Should not be allowed to stray
from their home and _ fireplace.

Income tax regulations in the
fatly war period required that if
husband and wife were both work-
ing they would both be charged
as single for income tax pur-
Poses; the husband being allowed
exemption only for dependents.
This held. many married women-
from entering the production field
and was very soon removed to
€ncourage them to join the in-
dustrial army.

We must continue the struggle
for equal pay for equal work and
at the same time recognize that
if a woman chooses to work after
being married or wants to sup-
Plement the family budget that
She should be in the same cate-
80ry as a, single women, and that
the income status of her husband
Should not be interfered with.

Every individual, male or fe-
male, should be given the oppor-
tunity of working and there
Should be no discrimination
section. S ince the
there has been a move
to ease women out of industry on
€xXcuses of sudden inefficiency and
o iti ts Only the added strength of

°rganized labor combined with

a

een

Home recipes

This week’s recipe came,
with a very nice letter con-
8ratulating the PT for includ-
ing a page for women in the
“Tribune,” from Mrs, Edna
Farnsworth, of Vancouver,
With the note that it is “one
°f our family’s favorite sup-
Per dishes.” It really sounds -
§00d, too,

Tomato Supper Dish

Enough weiners to serve the
family, or an equal amount
of hamburger, seasoned and
Made into patties.
|  liarge tin of tomatoes
_ Liarge onion cut fine

1 tablespoon of flour

2 tsp. sugar

salt and pepper to taste

Place the above ingredients
ina fairly large baking dish
8nd boil while preparing the
following batter. Then pour
the batter over the first hot
Mixture and bake in hot oven
i degrees, This should
bake in about 10 minutes.

1% cup flour %
3 large tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. cooking oil or short-

ening a

1 egg (optional)

Enough milk to make a
batter that can still be stirred
but that is not too stiff,

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the great desire on the part of
the women that they have been
retained on their jobs at wages
comparable to those of the men.

The 1947 Income Tax Regula-
tions allows a married woman to
earn $250.00 only; earnings in ex-
cess of this amount will be de-
ducted from $750.00 allowed her
husband in exemptions. If she
earns $750.00 her husband will be
allowed no exemptions for her.
Taking an average earnings in
industry we find single man or
woman earning $158.00 a month
and , paying $22.30 income tax
monthly. A married man earning
the same amount would pay $7.10
and if with one dependent, would
pay $1.55. If the wife of this
worker was earning $120.00. per
month she would pay $13.05 in-
come tax and her husband would
then pay as single on his salary,
$22.30, if they had one child al-
lowing a $300.00 exemption he
would be required to pay $16.05.
This means that the worker with
a dependent would be paying an
additional $14.50 tax because his
wife works. The wife then, in
computing what she is adding to
the budget, must add to her in-
come tax the additional income
tax which is required of her hus-
band because of the fact that she
is working.

This means that out of her pay
must come her tax of $13.05 and

the $14.50 additional of her hus-

band which totals $27.55. After
earning $120. for her full month’s
work she finds that she is only
adding to the family budget
$92.45. Out of this she then will
have to pay someone for looking
after her child which will be (if
she is a fair employer) $60.00. The
cost for extra -clothing, carfare, ||
and lunches .will amount to $20.00
and for the month’s work she can
then boast of increasing her fam-
ily’s budget by about $10:00 or
$12.00. It is very easy to draw
the conclusion from this that
most married women will volun-
tarily leave the industrial field.
This discrimination. must ‘be chal-
lenged by all women’s | groups,
supported by labor and all pro-
gressive forces.

The increased prices which we
meet every day can only empha-
size the need for increasing the
exemption which is allowed. A
Single man’s exemption should be
raised to $1500.00 while married
man without dependents raised to
at least $2500.00 with additional
exemptions for each dependent.
Labor organizations, veterans and
women’s groups, farmer and con-
sumer groups must vigorously
protest the method of taxation
whereby those least able to pay
must stand the heaviest burden
while those who live on the labor
of the workers add higher and
higher profits which are not af-
fected by any excess profits tax.

Marx’ family
pattern of co

time.

will be interested in knowing
what Marx’ attitude toward his
own children was.

Relations within families vary
greatly and reflect among many
other things the social relations
of the period. Of course, there
is no simple formula for healthy
family relations: Nevertheless, it
is helpful to read descriptions of
Marx’ family life. We might note
for emphasis the well known fact
that Marx lived a very busy life
and was always deeply involved
in the Communist movement.

Reprinted in Marx’ “Selected
Works” is the following passage
which illustrates his family life..
“His daughters looked: on him
as their friend and behaved to
him as to a playmate. They. did
not address him as ‘Father’ but
as ‘Moor’—a nickname which had
been given him because of his
ebony locks and beard. On the
other hand, as far back as 1848,
when he was not yet thirty, to his
fellow members of the Commun-
ist League he was ‘Father Marx’.
| “Ye would spend hours playing
with his children. They remem-
ber to this day the sea fights and
burning of whole fleets of paper
boats, which he made for them
and which he would, then—amid
jubilation—set fire to in a large

GREETINGS to
Pacific Tribune
§ DR. W. J. CURRY

mS

From “The Worker Board of Child Psychologists.”

Karl Marx never heard of “child psychology”, the field
of study known by that name did not exist during his life-
Nor did he ever write anything about the general
principles of being a good parent. But we think our readers

life splendid
mradeship

bucket of water. On Sundays the
girls would not allow, him to
work; he was theirs for the whole
day. When the weather was fine,
the whole family would go for a
country walk, stopping at a way-
side ‘pub’ for a modest luncheon:
of bread and cheese with ginger
beer.

The vanishing dollar

By WINNIE WILLIAMS

Housewives who are wondering where their dollars
are going were further alarmed when prices took a fur-
ther drastic upward swing recently,
the need for them and other sections of our population

to unite in mass protests to the
government for their current
policy of decontrols,

Among the items which have

WINNIE WILLIAMS

jumped on the ‘increase band-
wagon’ are: |

Fats: Shertening, salad and
cooking oils—up to 10 percent
immediately.

Cotton: Shirts, work clothing,
hosiery, underwear’ and outer-
wear—increased from 5 to 40
percent.

Soaps: Packaged soap flakes
and chips—up 1 cent for small
packages, 5 cents for large. Toi-
let ang laundry soap—i cent per
ber, more laundry bars depend-
ing on size.

Leather: Gloves and mitts.
Wes eta \ :

Cleanliness is next to godliness
but the price goes up.

Towel service for business of-
fices increases 10 percent, and
cleaning and pressing will gen-
erally level up to the $1 rate
charged by some firms during
the war:

Even the grease spots that
cost more money to remove will
cost more to splatter, for the
price of shortening is increased
from 20 cents a pound to
around 30 cents.

Here’s an item on soap our
readers might be interested in.

‘|this through a_ sieve into_ an

‘longer the better: If you want
}}a little fragrance in

pointing clearly to

We just tried it and it really
works. We took all those unus-
able small slivers of soap we'd
been saving for a long time;
put them into a big cooking
pot, cover with water, bring te
a boil, let simmer until slivers
begin to melt into a jelly. Pour

other flat pot you won't need
to use for some time.

Set the pot full of jelly in
an airy, dust-free place and let
stand till it hardens to a man
ageable consistency. Cut into
strips and turn with a spatula
So the underside can dry out
in the air. Let stand until thor-
oughly dried out and hard—the

it, add
Some cologne to the jelly when
first poured into the pan.

* * *
A LITTLE FICTION
(but not so fictitious)

Maximum selling prices on do-
mestic sawdust have been in-
creased by approximately seven-
teen percent to offset the in-
creased production eosts in the
manufacture of bucksaws, ac-
cording to a-recent announce-
ment by the Wild Prices and
Trimem Board. Owing to the.
unavoidable necessity for in-
creasing sawdust ceilings, oer-
tain Hines of bread which in-
clude a quantity of the higher
grade of sawdust have also
been increased from ten to
twelve percent. '

Owing to heavy depreciation
on certain lines of cutlery used
in the cutting of sSawdust-im- |
pregnated bread, the WPTB

creases were only granted after
an exhaustive examination of
the wages and production costs
in the sawdust, byead and cut-
lery industries. Mr. Boredon ex-
pressed the opinion that it is
not expected that these in- |
creases will have any appreci-

able effect upon living costs.

William Liebknecht was one of
the founders of German Social-.
Democracy who shared Marx’
exile in London for many years.
In 1896 he published his remin-
iscences of Karl Marx, Excerpts
from these are also published in
Marx’ ‘Selected Works’ from
which the following is taken:

“Marx, like all persons of a
strong and healthy nature, was
extraordinarily fond of his chil-
dren. He was not merely the most
tender father, who could be a
child with his children for hours
together—he also felt himself
magnetically drawn to strange
children who came in his path,
especially those who were poor
and helpless. .. .

“One had to have seen Marx
with his children in order to get
a full idea of the depths of feel-
ing and childishness of this hero
of science. In his minutes of-
leisure or on walks, he carried
them about, played the maddest,
merriest games with them — in
brief, was a child among children.
On Hempstead Heath we often
Played ‘cavalry’: Liebknecht took
one of the little daughters on his
shoulders, Marx the other, and
then they vied with one another
in trotting and jumping—on oceca-

ee

an

sion there was also a little fight
between the mounted riders. For
the girls were as unrestrained as
boys and could also endure a
bump without crying. :

“. .. One day, when Liebknech

.was on a visit to London, Johnny
(a favorite grandson) . .
upon the brilliant idea of convert-
ing Moor into an omnibus, on
the box of which, that is to say
on Marx’
Self, while Engels and Liebknecht
were appointed to be omnibus
horses. And when
properly harnessed, then
was a wild chase in the little
house
tage.

hit

shoulders, he set him-

they were
there

garden behing. Marx’ cot-

“And now they started off, gee

up! With international cries in
German, English and French. Go
on! Plus vite! Hurrah! Moor had
to trot so that the
down his face, and if Engels or
Liebknecht tried to slacken the
Pace at all, the whip of the un-
relenting driver immediately de-
Scended on our backs: you very
naughty horse! En avant! And so
on, until Marx could not go on}
any more—and then negotiatigns
would begin with Johnny ang an
armistice was concluded.” d

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