Poster art is popular in China. This is a reproduction of
“Nurse Loves the Neat Children” by Shao Ching-kuan.
(Hsinhua News Agency photo.)

A man captures prize
for best housewife!

FATHER of five has won

top prize in a national
competition for the best
“housewife” in Hungary.

He is Zsigmond Bodo, who
lives in a two-room flat with
his wife and five - children
aged five to fifteen at No. 155
Tlosvay Road, in Budapest’s
14th District.

He won the prize for show-
ing how «he organizes the
household.

He and his wife both work
—she as a manual laborer and
he in an administrative job.
She gets 1,100 forints a month
and he 2,350. Family allow-
ances. bring up the total to
3,980 forints,

‘Wy wife works from 7 a.m.
to 4 p.m. and I work from 8:30
to 5 p.m., he said in the paper
which won him first prize. .
“I get four of the children
ready for school and_ the
youngest for kindergarten in
the morning, and my wife
brings them home. :

“T buy the food for the day
in the mornings, and by the
time my wife gets home every-
thing is prepared for cooking
the evening meal. Week-end

shopping is my job.”

Midday feeding is no prob-
lem for the children eat at
school and father and mother
at works canteens.

Bodo and the children keep
the flat clean in the week and
his wife takes over at the
weekend. He helps with ba-
thing the children, and with
the washing and mending.

General expenses, including
rent (only one-thirtieth of
their combined income), fares,
meals at work, fuel, hairdress-
ing, cinemas (weekly) and
theatre (six times a year),
swallow up 1,422 of their 3,980
forints,

Mrs. Bodo (remember she is
a manual laborer) gets two
perms a year and a fortnightly
set and manicure at an average
cost of 53 forints a month
(about $4.25).

“Tt is only fair that I should

help as my wife also takes |.

part in productive work out-
side the home,’ said Bodo.
“As I am the only one who can
use the sewing machine I also
do the mending.”

Bodo’s prize .
machine!

+. a sewing

~ ROBBIE

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*“}more severe,

The farmers

READER, Vancouver, B.C.:
Capitalisrn means the concen-
tration of power, control and
industry into larger and larg-
er groups under fewer and
fewer hands. :

In agriculture the effects of
this concentration on the “un-
economic” or small farmer is
more. pressing
than upon most groups. Agri-
culture as an industry requires
a capital of Iow composition,
low constant. capital, high var-
iable capital. :

Under the tendency towards
an average rate of profit,
goods produced by a capital of
jow' composition tend to sell
below their social value, con-
tributing to the ‘exira value
which capital of high compos-
ition receives for its products.

The small farmer having
the capital of the lowest com-
position in the agrarian field
is thus operating the depress-
ed area in a depressed indus-
try. He sits in the very bottom
of the trough of adversity.

In the articles in the Pacific
Tribune -dealing with deficien-
cy. payment, it appears that
the writers seek to preserve
the small farmer as such and
to take no steps whatsoever
to equip-him for his struggle
against capitalist economic de-
velopment.

Before offering any con-
structive suggestions, I: cannot
but remark that it is regrett-
able that no economist was
consulted before the article
was finalized. Had this been

done “raising wages, increased ,
old age pensions, etc.’ would
not have been advanced as the
solution for alleviating depres-
sions or as a means of liquidat-
ings surpluses. (See Victor
Pearlo’s article in the Novem-
ber Political Affairs).

Integration is inevitable for
the poultry and egg producer.
If no steps are taken by them-
selves, they will, by one and
twos and threes, find them-
selves serfs in an integrated
operation under the strict sup-
ervision of a trust or packing
corporation.

As serfs they may survive
with the company seeing that
only the obedient survive.

However, such form of in-
tegration is not inevitable. The
alternative is integration under
a co-operative set up by and
controlled by the small farm-
ers who belong to it. In such
a co-operative the farmer can
retain his individual influence
and life while getting the
benefits of collective effort.

A discussion on the ways
and forms this integration
should take, the safeguards to
keep the control of. the organ-
ization democratic, is a prime
need in the agrarian field.
Then the implementation of
the results of such a discussion.
These steps, coupled with con-
tinuation, for the time being,
of deficiency payments, make
sense. The cry for deficiency
payments alone is actually
asking capitalism to subsidize
indefinitely those whom it has
decreed are inefficient and

uneconomic.

Rising tide

CRITIC, Powell River, B.C.
I’ve heard it said that the only
reason -for anyone wanting
socialism is their jealousy of
the rich. One might as well
say that the only reason we
want locks on our doors or
guards at the banks is our
jealousy of robbers.

But with all the locks and
guards we are only partially
guarded from thieves.

We are robbed of much
more than money. We are rob-
bed of our peace of mind by
the hovering fear of unem-
ployment. We are robbed of
our self-respect when we have
to stand in breadlines, or beg
at welfare offices, or plead for
jobs or grovel to keep them.
And if the rich think they can
make money from a war, or
that they need one to keep
them in power, we are robbed
of our sons.

We can take heart though
that the handwriting is al-
ready on the wall for those
who rob us. We see it in the
faces of the unemployed. We
read it in the countenances of
the laborers who are curbed
by the law from trying to ob-
tain a fairer share of their
earnings.

In fact, the growing con-
sciousness of the people that
there is something. better for
them than fear, and hunger,
humiliation and war, is a ris-
ing tide that nothing can hold
back for long.

“Cheer to the Successful Launching of the Soviet
poster (left) drawn by Shao Wen-chin and Teng Ke. Poster (right) is by Ha Chung-
wen and is entitled “Long Live the People’s Commune.”
reproduced in millions of copies and shown throughout the Republic of China.

a

Space Rocket” is the title of Chinese

Posters like these are

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