Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1952-09-05

confused and deluded so many
| people distant from the actual
| scene"
| In case you are interested, the
prominent man who said those
words of praise for President
| Truman was General Douglas
| Macarthur.
| Strange, isn't it, how cam
paign time dims some people
memories"
| Ends Never Meet
| The U. S. Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics, re.
ports that the cost of living in
April, 1852, for a workers fam.
lily of four was S81.52 per week.
And this is a modest budget
according to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
| The actual average weekly
wage of factory workers, accord
ing to the U. S. Department of
Labor, for the same month of
April, 1852, was $66.24. And fac.
tory workers are the highest paid
of all manual workers.
All of which means that ends
never meet for Mr.. and Mrs
Worker these days.
Women Don't Work For Fun
A new bulletin from the Won
ems Bureau, U. S. Department of
Labor bulletin 239) reports some
interesting facts. Most women
don't work for fun. They work
because they have to.
The Women's Bureau studying
the case histories of 5000 Wom-
en- workers discovered that up to
% of all female workers "sup-
ported either in full or in part
other persons besides them
selves"
For example, a sampling of fe-
male workers in the Communica-
tions Workers of America CIO
Union (Telephone Workers.
shows that 500 of the women
had to support one or more de.
pendents. The figure was even
higher among women in the Tex.
tile Workers Union of America,
CIO, where $40 of the women
had to support one or more de-
pendentS.
How . Moscow Family Lives
We wish to introduce a few un-
published figures from the 1851
household budget of a Moscow
family-figures which, inciden-
tally, have been carefully check.
ed.
The family consists of three
people, a couple and their only
child, who enjoy an income far
above the average. The average
monthly Moscow wage is approx
imately 600 rubles, but our man
white-collar worker, earns al
most twice as much, nearly 1,20C
1ubles a month. His take-home
income is about 1000 rubles
since approximately 200 rubles
are deducted for taxes end for
subscriptions to the government
lottery loan. These subscriptions
are, for all practical purposes
compulsory, and vary with the in
come, and are therefore but a
form of taxation.
The rent amounts to 60 rubles
with nine rubles added for gas
between 10 and 20 rubles for
electricity, and Is rubles for pri
vate telephone, or 104 to ia ru.
bles in all. The telephone, of
course, is luxury for Musco-
vites, but the man needs it for
his job. The rent seems to be
cheap but you have to conside,
Soviet housing conditions.
This family shares its 3h-room
apartment with two other fami-
lies. Our White-collar worker
having relatively high income
lives with his wife and child in
IL rooms. The two other FAM
lies are crowded into one room
each, although one consists of
four, the second of seven per
sons. Altogether, there are IL
people in the 3h-room apart.
ment and they all share one toi
let and one kitchen. With such
orowding, the rent is high
enough.
In parenthesis, it should be
said that, despite the crying hous
ing needs, accelerated by war
damage, housing necessarily CON
tinues to be poor in the USSR
because the military establish
ment and heavy industry have
first claim on investment funds
May / quote from the economic
survey in Europe in 1851 page
8O):
"The extent of over-crowding
in Soviet cities is indicated by
the fact that in 1899, urban
dwelling space averaged only
about five square meters per per
son, or about one-third to one
fifth as much as in most Western
European countries"