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Until recently Berlin's offer to put German labor at France's disposal, for the purpose of rebuilding the devastated province, and to deduct the cost from the Reparations bill has been refused by France. The French Government had feared that her labor unions would indignantly protest against the acceptance of any such prepositions. Her plan was for Germany to work at home and sell the product of her labor at a profit, a part of which would go to France as indemnity. With this money, French laborers were to be paid for rebuilding the wasted provinces. This...
...French General Confederation of Labor has declared itself in favor of using German man-power. At once the government has shown signs of reversing its stand, and leading French statesmen are dwelling upon the advantages of the German offer. It has been stated in the New York Tribune that the Germans could do, for $550,000,000, work which is now costing the French government $750,000,000. Shifting the burden of restoration to German labor would cut from the French budget the immense sums now allotted to the devastated areas and forward deflation. It will indeed be unfortunate...
...hard to believe that we have been on the wrong track for so many years. We must not overlook the fact that woman labor legislation has a social as well as an economic significance. So when the feminine craze for "equality" goes so far as to throw away all the hard-won advantages gained through years of struggle, it is very like cutting off one's nose to spite one's face...
Thus does the restless sex pursue the will-o'-the-wisp of Equality. The curious thing is that woman and child labor laws have always been regarded as beneficial to the employee, and as such have been fought tooth and nail by the "moneyed interests. "Indeed, those states which load in such legislation have always been considered as the most progressive. Now that she has discovered that it is all a gigantic conspiracy on the part of the male population to keep her in bondage, emancipated Woman is determined to cast off these chains as well. She likes to think...
...these, the "turnover" tax would assess every sale from the raw material to the final product at delivery. Since some articles pass through many more hands than do others, certain branches of industry must inevitably labor under a serious disadvantage. The "turnover" tax, moreover, would encourage the formation of combinations, to the exclusion of the small manufacturer and the middleman; it would tax concerns regardless of how profitable they are it is, therefore, not adapted to American business conditions. The retail sales tax, on the other hand, eliminates this difficulty by proposing to collect revenue upon the product...