East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-11-15
PLAN TO GIVE MARRIED
WOMEN'S Jobs TO MEN
STARTS AN ARGUMENT
Employment Ideas of Detroit
Mayor Openly Combatted by
Head of Women's League.
BY MARGERY REX
(Writtcn for International News
Service.)

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(Writtcn for International News
Service.)
NEW YORK, Nov. 15.-Mayor !
James CoIzers. of Detroit. wants 10 |
take married women out of office and |
simultaneously remove loafers from
park benches.
This is his proffered solution of the
present problem of unemployment
While many men are out of work,
numbers of married women are earn
ing good salaries. Whether or not
apportioning one salary to 4 family or
giving up married woman's joc TO
single man would be feasible has
aroused some discussion.
Miss Rose Schneidermann, head of
the Womans Trade Union League
questions the ACCESSIBILITY of the plan,
while DR.. Rurolph NJ. Binder, profess
sor or sociology at New York univer
sity, is more in sympathy with Mayor
CouZen's ideas.
Il am opposed to the idea Of oust-
ing these married women from their
Jobs to make way for idle men," Miss
Schneidermann declared.
"The argument that they may not
(have to) work is no more sensible
than. to say that there are many mar
ried men who don't have to work.
"Women's work as housewives and
mothers has not been recognized or
paid, and until the State does offer
such recognition why should not
women have the right to seek employ
ment and be self-supporting if they
want to?
Married women have as much right
to jobs and independence as single
men have"
How DIR. Binder Views Case
We were wondering if some of the
park bei,ch idlers might not be the
husbands Of the married women witt
the good jobs, and if wife's success
in business doesn't often stultify ;
mans desire to achieve. With these
questions we approached DR.. Binder.
There is a good deal in the ides
that couple often Goes not get aheaC
in the world when both work" he said
Married women ought to be sup
ported By their husbands, in any nor
mally constituted society.
at should be q mans job to iool
out for his wife and his children.
ANY society in which a married
woman has to work presents an abnor
NAL industrial condition.
, women who look after their home
{ are amply employed. Houses requir
plenty of work to be presentable ant
comfortable homes.
But | believe that there are fey
women working who don't have to b
wage earners. If a married womal
= needs her job she should be allowed t
keep it. 1t would not be right to tax
it away from her and give it to
single man who might be bum an
not deserve it, nor be able to fulfill tn
requirements as well as the woman al
ready in the position.
THAT wouldn't be good for employ
ers or employees.
"As for the married woman VIII
works for mere pin money-or clothe
money-to get finery with which t
stir her neighbors to envy--she ough
TO be spanked.
Have Regular Spending Race
, ''If women earn money they fee
they have the right to spend it. The
+ a husband with a salary-getting wifi
feels that he is freer to spend, toe
Result-they both spend to the yer
limit of their resources.
There is nothing left. They haV
no right to live that way.
"If woman decides to marry sh
should be willing to have children an
care for her home.
= "The pioneer women of this countr
raised big families, worked for thos
families, and conserved the result q
! the husbands labors."
: Miss Schneidermam's opinion
But, in opposition to Dr. Binder
theories Miss Schnedermann empha
! tically states:
IF society women want to work
they also have the right. 1t is goo
for peoples souls to have steady oc
cupation OF course, they don't hav
, to work as far as finances are con
cerned but rich men don't have to g
down to offices and take up profes
sions either, except for the satisfac
ton and self-respect they get out o
honest endeaVor.
an many cases where married
women work, when they don't neet
the money, there are circumstance
existing that we don't know about
There may be something behind it.
I'VE have got to have a remedy fol
industrial conditions that produc,
idleness, but the only one so far
and it is only a palliative, not &
: remedy-is the unemployment insur'
ance' proposition now widely used il
Europe where it has been tried and
found effective. A small amount !:
given the mployed-enough tc
keep them from being destitute.
THAT would put the burden on the
State and the employer. Without il
the burden is all on the individual