A Worker’s first problem (1974)

From the June 1974 issue of the Socialist Standard

The 70th anniversary issue of the Socialist Standard carried throughout its pages a series of snippets from old Socialist Standard articles highlighting the SPGB's unique position on issues of the day. Where possible, I've provided a link to the full article.

Mr. Andrew Carnegie in his rectorial address to the Aberdeen University students said:

“Youths should have a decisive voice, if possible, in the selection of their future occupation.”

There is another thing he might have advised them to do, viz, choose their own parents. If they did what large families the Carnegies, Rockefellers, Goulds, and Morgans would have ! Why, no poor man could have any children at all, unless some foolish young man chose a labourer on 16s. a week to be his father.

[From “Jottings”, Socialist Standard, July 1912]