REVERSED ARGUMENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 14

REVERSED ARGUMENT

"NOT STEALING MEN'S JOBS"

Women are not stealing men's jobs, declared Miss Earlene White, presi- \

dent of the Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Inc., in a letter to President Roosevelt, criticising interpretations placed on the recent Biggers' unemployment survey, states the "Christian Science Monitor." The Biggers' postcard survey showed 2,740,000 more women seeking work than Lad been anticipated on the basis of the 1930 Census. As a result John D. Biggers, retiring head of the survey, urged study by the "monopoly" investigation.

Miss White's criticism follows that of officials of the United States Women's Bureau. Mrs. Roosevelt also has expressed suspicion of the interpretations put on the report, and President Roose-, velt, at his Press conference on Tuesday, said he was giving much thought to the figures, and said he' hesitated to take them without further analysis.

The Women's Bureau argues millions of women wrote "Yes" on a questionnaire asking if they would tak« jobs who have no real thought of seeking them.

"Headlines which indicate that you find 'women cause a glut in labour' give an emphasis to your findings which will undoubtedly cause hardships on the millions of women who work to support themselves and: those dependent upon them," wrote Miss White. (

"The implication: placed upon your report is that women are to blame for the unemployment which exists among men by • competing with then* in labour, rather than the opposite and true picture, which is that the depression has forced millions of women to work because men were no longer able to be the breadwinners."