Women’s news
and viewpoint

By RUTH DOHERTY

The economy today demands
that there be a pool of tractible
easily trained, intelligent labor
which can be called on when
needed and dropped without dis-
ruption when the need had passed,
Women are ideally suited to this
purpose, having acquired a con-
siderable degree of dexterity in
dealing with various household
tasks,

The married woman is usual-
ly only too happy to supplement
the family income if the oppor-
tunity offers, A good many are
even bored with the solitude of
home and welcome a job which
brings her into contact with
someone to talk to,

Department and chain stores
are happy to oblige by providing
work on a part time basis, hav-
ing large numbers of women on
call. By working a six-hour day,
no time need be wasted on lunch
hours and rest periods—one 20-
minute break is all the law re-
quires,

When the work peters out, it’s
no major tragedy; the linen sup-
ply, etc., has been replenished
and some of the most pressing
debts paid,

Propaganda as a rule follows
the ups and downs—when thereis
an expanding economy, along
come the books and magazine
articles lauding the working
woman; when things slacken off
and unemployment becomes a

. problem, the appropriate stories
and articles appear,

The long term trend, however,

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The whole world sees
Masks fall from his master’s
face.
—by John Hope

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is toward wider participation of

women in industry and it’s about

time we decided to exercise some

control over the conditions under

which we work instead of leaving

it to the vagaries of the system,
* * *

Increasing numbers of women
are employed steadily throughout
their adult lives, yet our daugh-
ters are conned into believing
that marriage is a cosy nest
they can snuggle into if they’re
sufficiently alluring, withnopar-
ticular educational qualifications
required, That is a foul lie, The
young fellow who wants to take
on such a responsibility is be-
coming increasingly rare andnot
a few, after they’ve tried it for
a while, find the burden too much
for them,

It is a foregone conclusion
that some time during her life
a girl is going to have to earn
a living for herself, and possibly
for her children too, and she
might as well be prepared for it.

The sooner social workers and
child psychologists turn their
attention to solving the problem
of child care under the conditions
as they exist instead of deploring
the neglected children of working
mothers, the better,

* * *

White Collar, organ of the Of-
fice Workers’ Union, claims the
myth that automation would pro-
duce enough jobs to absorb those
workers displaced by.computers
has been exploded, IBM Presi-
dent Thomas Watson, they say,
has testified that computors are
designed to displace workers, A
four-day week is their solution
and a hopeful note is that they
consider white collar workers
who operate computors will feel
more like other workers and will
be more amenable to unioniza-

tion,
* * *
Attention is drawn tothe strike

at Globelite Batteries, makers
of Atlas, Goodyear, Auto-Lec,
Co-op and Bulldog batteries, Also
when tempted to buy the Star
Weekly,. remember the Typo-

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Britain forces Jagan out

The British government moved
this week to oust Dr. Cheddi
Jagan as premier of British
Guiana by amending the consti-
tution of British Guiana forcing
him to resign, This action was
immediately followed by the
swearing in of Forbes Burnham
as premier by Governor Sir
Richard Luyt.

This action followed the re-
fusal of Jagan to resign follow-
ing the election last Monday, In
the election the People’s Pro-
gressive Party led by Jagan
emerged as the biggest single
party in the colony, but did not
get an overall majority of votes,

The PPP obtained 109,332 votes
(45,83 per cent), and so has 24
seats in the 53-seat legislature.
Its vote was 16,000 higher than
in the last election and its share
of the total vote went up by more
than three per cent,

The People’s National Con-.
gress (PNC), led by Burnham,
polled 96,657 votes (40.53 per
cent), an increase over 1961 of

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7,000 votes but a slight fall in
percentage, The third party,
United Force Party, polled 29,-
612 votes,

Charging that the elections
were a fraud and that the U,S,
and Britain financed the opposi-
tion, Jagan said after the election

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that he would not resign and tha
the British government, whic

cree would have to force him
out,

The election rules wer
changed recently by the late Tor
government with the aim ofoust
ing the PPP, Unfortunately, the
Labor government refused t
cancel the Tory policy.

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