− Review 2:680 Je 30 ’20 420w Spec 124:494 Ap 10 ’20 400w
“Mrs Ward does not make these women seem very real. She idealizes their ‘trim’ appearance in pseudo-masculine attire and at no time visualizes their lives and pursuits from their own standpoint. Sympathy, and an earnest effort at understanding, however, are always apparent.”
+ − Springf’d Republican p11a Ag 22 ’20 460w
WARNE, FRANK JULIAN. Workers at war. (Century New world ser.) *$3 Century 331
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From a dispassionate, conservative point of view the author reviews the present industrial situation with its resultant high cost of living. He accords high praise to the statesmanship of President Wilson in controlling the situation during the war and to the activities of the National war labor board. That the government now fails to realize the three essentials of industrial justice: a fair profit, a fair wage and a fair price is due to the present autocratic system of corporate organization of production. The remedy lies in the democratization of the corporation and in an American federation of consumers. A partial list of the contents is: The workers and the world war; The government as the employer; The Wilson administration’s labor policy; The National war labor board; The government, wages, and the cost of living; The vicious cycle and the labor union; Democracy in industry; The three parties to production; Industrial autocracy and the corporation.
Booklist 17:95 D ’20
Reviewed by G: Soule
+ Natlor 111:534 N 10 ’20 370w N Y Times p15 N 7 ’20 140w + Springf’d Republican p8 N 9 ’20 60w