By HARRY CONN

eames who many be-
lieved had the most bril-

liant mind of the century,
was a staunch supporter of a
shorter work week as an im-
portant step toward meeting
the problem of high unemploy-
ment.

Albert Einstein, whose genius
made possible the splitting of
the atom, wrote often of the
need of a shorter work week.
This is revealed in a collection
of the famed scientist’s articles,
addresses and pronouncements,
published by The Philosophical
Library, Inc., of New York.

Einstein felt “that the devel-
opment of industry and machin-
ery has made the struggle for
existence very much more se-
vere, greatly to the detriment of
free development of the indivi-
dual.

“But the development of ma-
chinery means that less and less
work is needed from the indi-
vidual for the satisfaction of
the community needs. A planned
division of labor is becoming
more and more of a crying ne-
cessity, and this division will
lead to the material security of
the individual.

“This security and the spare
time and energy which the indi-
vidual will have at his command
can be made to further his de-
velopment. In this way the com-
munity may regain its health
and we will hope that future
historians will explain the mor-
bid symptoms of present-day
society as. the. childhood ail-
ments of an aspiring humanity,
due entirely to the excessive

What

Albert Einstein

thought —

of the shorter
work week

speed at which civilization was
advancing.”

Einstein, who left his native
Germany in 1933 when Hitler
Came to power, saw the shorter
work week not only in relation
to the freedom of the individual
but as a healthy and progressive
step for the economy.

He concerned himself with
the price-wage problem in the
middle 1930’s at the time techno-
logical change was beginning to
make its first inroads into em-
ployment and came forward
with these three specific recom-
mendations:

“1. A statutory reduction of
working hours, graduated for
each department of industry, in
order to get rid of unemploy-
ment, combined with the fixing
of minimum wages for the pur-
pose of adjusting the purchasing
power of the masses to the
amount of goods available.

“2. Control of the amount of
money in circulation and of the
volume of credit in such a ‘way
as to keep the price level steady,
all protection being abolished.

“3. Statutory limitation on
prices for such articles as have
been practically withdrawn
from free competition by mono-
polies or the formation of car-
tels.”

Although Einstein wrote these
views during the world-wide de-
pression, many of his concerns
reflected today’s problems and
many of his recommendations
have been incorporated into the
scientist’s adopted land.

For example, he believed that
our fundamental trouble is that
“to satisfy the needs of the

“Instead of raising European wages to yours we
have agreed to lower yours to theirs.”

‘Fred Wright in UE News)

world today nothing like all the
available labor is wanted. The
result is unemployment and ex-
cessive competition among the
workers, both of which reduce
purchasing power and put the
whole economic system intoler-
ably out of gear.”

Einstein devoted much
thought to two problems that
We are concerned with today:

jobs for our younger people and

protections for our elderly.

Writing to a colleague, he de-
clared:

“I also share your conviction
that steps absolutely must be
taken to make it possible and
necessary for the younger peo-
ple to take part in the produc-
tive process. Further, that. the
older people ought to be exclud-

ed from certain sorts of work

(which I call ‘unqualified’ work),
receiving instead a certain in-
come, as having by that time
done enough work of a kind ac-
cepted by society as produc-
tive.”

RDSWU Record.

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East German
projector for
planetarium

Canadian trade with socialist
countries got a boost with the
recent purchase of a projector
made in East Germany for Cal-
gary’s centennial project, a pla-
netarium. :

J. F. Wright of the city’s elec-
trical epartment, and Edmon-
ton planetarium director Ian
McLennan said they favored the
Zeiss product to a_ projector
made at Oberkochen, West Ger-
many.

McLennan said the _instru-
ment, made in Jena East Ger-
many, would be far superior to
the U.S. Spitz instrument used
in Edmonton and an improve-
ment on a Jena instrument to
be installed in Moscow in De-
cember.

Priced at $160,000 it includes
a satellite projector at no extra
cost and a servicing and instal-
lation contract.

Import tax on the East Ger-
man machine would raise the
cost by $65,000, still below the
West German. offer.

The projector will artificially
depict the heavens and other
celestial phenomena on _ the
dome of the new building. The
whole project is expected to
cost about $1.2 million.

. Side by
J.$. Wallace

(I’ve just discovered the CBC is running 4 ye
with the above title. In their case it refers to ae,
by Pat Paterson. Good luck to her, if she in.
quality records she did in the days when I listen
she says “side by side” she means records. The 1
are going to make will speak for themselves.) -

Here he snores
Well wined and fed
With a canopy
Stretched over his head
And another one handy
Under his bed.
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WV HEN I visited Livadia Palace at Yalta, in eg
I was able to see where Churchill, Roos?
Stalin conferred. But I wasn’t in physically 8 hed!
at the time so I quit before our touring party 1 nd}
Tsarina’s bedroom suite. So I had to learn se00 (eo
what the guide said when he threw open the door
open the door? Nonsense: he opened it.) .

“Here are 13 of our tsarinas!”

And there they were: 13 women convalesciné
heart attacks. In the whole palace there were 690 7
like them: men and women, receiving the finest ai
treatment without a cent of cost. Receiving all, ses
all, their wages in the meanwhile.

I thought of John Loye who died two or thre
ago in Montreal. And the poem of his which 4P bi
The Worker: it could be 40 years ago: a

God save the King.

His palace wide,

And each exclusive dweller

But fifty folks on Wapping side

For shelter share a cellar ©

Oh, tell me woman, pinched and thin,
How much the king is giving

To keep your soul your body in

And keep your children living?

God save the king from Louis fate
When monarchy is over

The night he slips through Windsor gate
To Holland via Dover.

Loye made the mistake of thinking monarchy we J
enemy. He didn’t realize that now it is merely the ©
the surface of the capitalist class. (I'd like to C0
to his poem: if I remember and you don’t object):

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held so far in 7 out of 20 Olym-

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were 67 East Ge
West Germans. p.

The influential wees
daily “Die Welt” re,
ed an editorial of 2
the subject. Nothing
Communist conspire), G
vert the World Oly?

According to an agreement an
all-German team has represent-
ed both German states at the
Olympic games since 1955. In-
dividual contests are held be-
tween the best East German and
the best West German in every
sport category. The winners
make up the all-German Olym-

pic team. is the explanation 0
Population of East Germany ne cee Die Welt ?

—17 million. - the last five lines,
Population of West Germany says:

—52 million. “One cannot com pa

At the World Olympic Games

that our society has #
1955 in Melbourne and Stock-

lationship to sports, ©

holm, the German team was has — at least in Je,
made up of 137 East Germans cles — no relationshiP ~
and 141 West Germans. at

At the World Olympic Games ee

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Poster seen on thé + ne
of an American tour's
Arthur, Ont.:

Goldwater in ’65.

Hot water in "66. 161.
Bread and water 1? ©
No bloody water i?

1960 in Rome, the team was
made upof 137 East Germans
and 194 West Germans.

For the 1964 World Olympic
Games in Tokyo, due to start
this fall, contests between East
and West Germans have been

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September 11, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE