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Eleanor Roosevelt — Part 11
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rooms to look into the hones of plain everyday average run-of~the-mill
Anericans, Had they bothered to they would have seen the vast majority
of imerican women were still cconomically dependent housewives cven as
were the wonen of France, England, and Gernany. They would also have
been forced to note the unfavorable comparison between the status of
imerican women and that of Russian women -— the first of their sex ever
to achieve freedom from economic and political discriiination. They
would have seen that the short skirts of the twenties and the shorts
of the thirties were mere service slashes at tradition."
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Chapter VI entitled “Producing for Victory"; (The author—
ess cites a case of a West Coast aircraft manufacturer, Hr. X, who at
first refused to hire women,then resorted to hiring them <s a stop Erp
to unionization of his plant.)
"Bach one of these workers is replacing a man in many
cases 4 union member in good standinge I would not like to be onc of the
woncn in Mr. ¥'s plant when the boys come back fron the war and say: 'So
you let them use you for scabs while we were off fighting so that weld
have a free non-scab fmcrica to comc home tot!
Chapter IX entitled "Battle of the Child";
Mfhat is genuinely needed is a wartime child eczrce progran,
clearly operated by the Federal Government with a large Pederai subsidy,
under uniform standards of nursery school age cducation."
From Chapter X entitled ‘Housekveping as Usual"; (ifter
‘ rolating that the English Goverment has established restaurants to ac~
commodate war workers and war hareless, the author siatcs ~}:
"Cafeterias controlled by the (United States) Govermicnt
and optrated by local officials for use ty industrial and office workers
should insure ample supplies of food.* .
"'Qur school lunch prograu, which served millions of needy
children from 1933 to 1943, when it was abolished along with tae rest of
JPi., proved’so popular that it easily paves the way for other public fucd—
ine orojects. Yet Nrsaxoosevelt and Miss Ifarp.inderson of the ‘ionun's
Burcau have been the only national leadcra to advocate public cafutcriaa."
Fron Chaptcr XII yntitled "The Nale Yorld'; (In discussing
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