Show Cites Oites Faults of Modern Industry V Editor Th The T Telegram l ram 1 We have recently lad had consid considerable ra- ra ble hIe discussion in the Peoples People's Corner Corner Cor Cor- ner ncr on birth control Probably bh at it this thi tl time n it would n not t b be out of place to consider a few of the economic eco ceo nomie facts which are brought forth by this vital Hal issue In Jn capitalist society woman plays a a. role First as a a. com competitive conflict conflict- eti- eti tive worker In Indu industry try and nd second as the medi medium m through which h ex- ex x- x capital cital produces produce the phenomenon phenomenon phe phe- of redundant working class eias population Uon with increased sed competition and resultant hunger and l-iId mi misery V V In Inthe the first role she shie displaces manIn man manin in by y Introducing a no noche che cheaper per form torm of labor In the sec see ond role she becom becomes become l' l temporarily a a. dependent ot of the male niale worker as wife and mother and thereby breeds the hum human n m material t rial for the Industrial Indus Industrial trial bial l' l reserve serve army army of unemployed d labor Then when th the cycle of capit capitalist accumulation again fills its coffers with the tIle exploited products products prod prod- of her bread wInn winners winner's rs r's toll toil the intensified c competition in the struggle struggle gle ghe for tor markets bet between een the capit capi capitalists capi capi- t force a reduction she responds responds re respond re- re spond t again aln to the competitive d demand and n for fr cheaper labor tabor and leaving leav leav- ing log h her r love dreams to the gods of chance hance and the day nurseries she fhe enters entera industry to take li her r husbands husbands' husbands husbands' hus hus- bands' bands place plate Wh What t becomes of the husband We workers know Every Ever court t t of domestic relations knows td too tob He lIe HeIs lIei FIeis i Is cast cut upon the street during th the period of Industrial depression and he finally succumbs to the deteriorating deteriorating deter deter- orating influence of ot long tong periods of f Idl idleness ness lIe He abandons the futile struggle to maintain a family To Tobe Tobe o obe be sure he does not succumb b Without without with out a a. struggle however There are many stages in this descent First h heroic effort then discouragement ement apathy despair drink Then petty crime or VagranCy varan vagranCy va- va granCy ran J follow and finally a a. wanderlust wanderlust wander ander lust calls him to leave the scene of his defeat and migrate ov over r th the theby by by byways ways of ot the earth known to the Itinerant and the hobo But the woman remains with the children In them she has given h hostages stages to fortune and sh she cannot es escape ape There Js is left eft to her h her r mother love hove and the factory or shop and the re rearing of th the children which the cruel sod god od of capitalism has forced upon her ORDERLY Y |