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ed summary of the results of two years' official inquiry in Britain into the desirablilty of paying women mon for equal the same rates as jobs.

By

Trevor Evans

that

But the suspicion of men women are "natural' undercutters" remains. That, however, is not the the commission's bias reason for against equal pay.

It has taken Lord Justice Asquith and his colleagues, four women and four men, nearly 100,000 words to say what they think about it all.

And to every 20-word decision reached

they add 200 words of prevent you from qualification to jumping to any husty conclusions.

But they are against equal pay for men and women, mainly be

there are few jobs where the way. equal work Is achieved by both

cause

HOPES BANISHED

O any women who expected this royal commission to give them increases all the way round to men's level can banish their hopes.

All the same, the royal commis

sion has done a lot of useful jobs in its two years' labours. It did not run away Trom conclusions. It faced them, and found them too difficult to solve.

The remarkable thing about this report is the evidence it gives of how experts can differ. Let me

you two examples:- give

If women were given the same marry would they A men Day cartier and have babies sooner than

Three of the biggest employers

of women were asked this question by the royal commission.

The first two sald: "Yes, women would earn more; they would save they would be more ready to

To over-simplify the commission's conclusions, the case la that there are too many practical difficulties in

EQUAL VALUE

TN industry there would have to be IN

an overhaul of all jobs in that together. And with over-lapping region where men and women work this purpose-to see that women gave as good value as men for their money.

There is also the question of cost, although the commission dismisses tits so incidentally that it obviously does not expect equal pay to become a reallly In the near future.

Those sterling balances........ Great

International Game Of Poker

IN the capitals of the world

the greatest game of poker is now going on with a £4,000,- 000,000 jackpot in London.

Holding the eards for Britain is 59-year-old Etonian Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer. The stakes are the sterling balances which you hear talked about,

By

Stewart Gillies

High taxation, queues, shortages, toil, tears and swent will be the pur-

an. A diana! prospect.

But if Mr Dalton deals with our

gold, and that we Jost half of our With the shipping during the war. best will in the world we can't let them spend the lot now.

So they are ready and willing to wait. But while waiting they ask, roasonably enough, for a little on account and for some interest on the rest.

So there's Mr Dalton's problem." Let's see how he might solve it without damnging Britain's credit

Here is the ordinary man's gulde

They are a headache for Mr creditors in his most skilful, persus-and without "busting" us altogether. alton-and .it'a

your sive way we can get out of this jam Landsche, too. These sterlinghenourably, and still have hopes of balances are the debts we ran something better from life than per- up to win the war. And you petuai austerity. ought to know all about them.

For it is you and I who owe this money. It works out to £83 pier head in Britain. And, under the American loan agreement, we must decide wint we are go- ing to do about these war debts before next July,

Monoy for trade

Monoy we owe

ET me tell you, therefore, how we got into this tangle of debt and how we may get out of it.

What are these sterling balantes?

To whom do llow can we

How did they rise?

we owe the money? Day it back?

The sterling balances are the, cost of the goods and services supplied during the war years by the Empire

TT is the biggest Bunncial problem the world has ever known. On the terms at its settlement depends the #tandard of living in Britain for and other countries. several generations.

As we had turned over all our in-

If it settled badly Britain will dustries to the war effort we were have to continue restricting Imports unable to pay for more than a frue- and increasing exports indefinitely,, tion of these supplies and services in There will be little more food and the normal way by selling British

goods in exchange. no more luxuries for years.

Be Paid

Men?

and

So we credited their bank accounts in London with pounds sterling to be spent later when we had the goods to offer. They now have about 14 000,000,000 in those bankbooks."

Ber

Our No. 1 creditor is India. share-£1,200,000,000, largely for goods and services supplied to the Forces of the Far East and Middle East. Part of the price of saving India from the Japs.

It's the same story with Egypt. Her bank balance is £350,000,000.

and Wales and another £2,000,000 in Scotland. But in industry

admits the commission commerce itself bunten on an estimate.

from Do not get the impression this summary that the four women Mainly for supplies for the Eighth on the commission sat by and let Army and other troops who halted the men get away with this anti-Rommel's advance on Cairo. feminist Bluebook.

Australla and

New Zealand

to-

IN DEFENCE

Anne gether have about £250,000,000. Eire THREE of them, Dame

Loughlin. Dr Janet Vaughan about the same, and lesser amounin and Miss L. F. Nettlefold, put in for Palestine, Malta and other Em

pire or near-Empire countries, quite a defence for women.

in- women are The view that

the big debt is about In Europe herently lacking in adaptability, said these three champions, is highly 60,000,000, due to Norway, mainly unplausible "in view of the surprise insurance money for Norwegian ships situations which constantly arise in taken over by us and sunk by the the natural and traditional sphere Germans. of women's work." Some witnesses

argued that it

In South America the

Inrgest

women were given equal pay they balances are the Argentine £120.000,-

employers would would be excluded from industry, 000 and Brazil £50,000,000. because

prefer Money to spend.

LL these

to how it may be done. Under the American Lann agreement of last July we served notice on the world that we would split these balances Into three parts.

First, a small amount to be released at once for spending here or any where. Next, other amounts to be released in the mathe way over a period of years starting in 1931,

Last-and this will be the big talk- lng point-part of the debt to be wiped out as a contribution towards the cost of winning the war.

Money in London

TEST case la Egypt. All the Eighth Army know how prices rocketed against us in Egypt. 5o Mr Dalton may ask for something off the debt on that account,

And just four yeurs ngo Egypt was What saved by us from Rommel price would the Egyptians pay for this freedom?

Now we are pulling out of Egypt altogether. They are taking over the

expensive military and naval installa- tions in the Canal Zone and else where. What will these cost them?

Finally, Egypt and the other sterling Countries must keep hundreds of mil- llons of pounds in London as bucking for their local note lasues and to Anance their day-to-day Overcas trading.

That should take care of about

£500,000,000 of the £4,000,000,000

total.

So the amount Egypt may in the end want to have free for "blowing" may come down to tens of millions.

That goes for India and the rest, too. us. They have And, of course, some of our creditors found other ways out. are not pressing

Money to invest

her millions to buy British-owned THE Argentine may use most of investments in that country, such as the rallways.....Brazil wants her millions in British goods....Norway will pay loans. will take it in new ships....Australia

off part of her sterling

That would solve the debis. The interest is no longer a problem. A countries, naturally month or two ago the Argentine was standing out for 2 per cent on her million. But In the end she settled for half per cent.

men at the same rates.

"If you want to be consistent,"

AL retort the three women of the com-A enough, now want to know when mission, "the majority on the com- mission should advocate equal pay, and how they can spend their money. for total unemployment would be a They appreciate our dimeuilles. They

debts of this kind can only be reled will not pay more to anyone else. the Civil. Service the move more powerful incentive to marriage know that in practice international You may to Sure that Mr Dalton would cost "between £3,000,000 and than mere low carnings.”

according to the £10,000,000," eventual size of the service.

In

Which suggests that many women in the past have morried because In lenching the transformation they had nothing else to do. (Continued on Page 3) would cost £14,200,000 in England

According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)

tribute towards setting up # There were two good Ines of the play in dummy, declarer led a

home, and they would favour an Carly family."

thiru But the

said: "No-the would

not save. They women would spend more on higher ston- dards of living. Besides, the better paid the job, the longer the women will stick to it."

So the royal commission. Dushica

that answer back to you.

The second question is:

Are women able to stand up to

the strain of competing against

As they

compete

men as well against other women?

cal and psychological Five medical experts came before the commission. Dr Sibyl Horner said that equal pay will produce keener competition be tween the sexes for the better paid work.

there is She maintains that constant

may strain, which reflected in the health of a woman who has to prove by performance her mole that she is as good as he

rpart,

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and MeSwiney Professor Professor Bartlett said there is no factual evidence that women would

be beaten in a mixed racn.

play for the slam in to-day's deal, but the declarer chose a third, not so good line.

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West opened the ten of trumps. East discarded a loty diamond while

And Professor Killick sald that declarer won with the king, and the risk of an adverse effect

women's

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club to his Jack. As he explained later, his theory had been to find the club queen on side, in East's hand; or, if the jack last tu the queen held by Wood because of the rest of the clubs might be good

3-3 break. Unfortunately, things did not develop in elther of these directions. West smothered the club Jack and shifted to spades. The ace was put up, the high clubs were cashed, South discarding a diamond, and a club ruff established a good irick in dummy, but this was worth had to precisely nothing-South concede a spade.

The correct plan was to allow forj 14-2 break of the club sult. After winning with the heart king, de clarer should have taken the slighti risk of cashing the two top clubs. Then he could safely ruff a third club with the queen, cash the ace and jack of trumps to draw West's trumps, and ruft another club to establish the fifth card of the suit. Now it would be elementary to lead to the spade nee, diseard a diamond on the good club, and concede a spade trick. .

Another winning plan was to lead

on West's remaining trumps were a spade toward the queen "at an East letting go another early stage, but this depended on health through the strain drawn.

of competition with men was no diamond and a spade. Now: with the spade king being right. more serlous than that of competing

with other women.

And that the payment of the rate for the job" regardless of the

of the

not worker would materially Increase the element of competition.

SCX

Well, in that case, what's to stop us deciding, as so many other coun- tries have done, to ignore sex in Jobs and pay the worker the rate for the job?

FULL TIME NOW

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