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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW (1856-1950)
Autograph letter signed and autograph postcard signed to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Hindhead and 10 Adelphi Terrace, 24 January 1899 and 26 May 1902, together 2 pages, oblong 8vo, and 2 pages, 4to (traces of guards); with a retained typescript copy reply by Conan Doyle, n.d..
Shaw's postcard suggests a concerted programme from the speakers at a proposed public meeting [about the South African crisis], 'If we don't, we shall find ourselves landed with a string of rubbish about disarmament, truces of God, and the like', referring to an objectionable proposal by the Tsar, and proposing a version of the League of Nations: 'what I do believe in is a combination of the leading powers to police the world & put down international law'. The letter is a detailed discussion of 'the question of wages and foreign trade', accepting that the problem of underpaid factory girls is not to be solved simply by raising their wages: 'The real difficulty is that cheap labor means obsolete methods and ignorant management, which gets finally swept out of the market by competition ... You have probably observed in recent developments that what is really cutting us out in international trade is highly organized, highly mechanical, highly skilled enterprise; and that the five shilling woman is displaced, not by the half crown girl, but by the thirtyeight shilling man'. Conan Doyle's typescript copy reply voices the concern that an increase in minimum wages simply loses unskilled work to less scrupulous countries. (3)
Autograph letter signed and autograph postcard signed to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Hindhead and 10 Adelphi Terrace, 24 January 1899 and 26 May 1902, together 2 pages, oblong 8vo, and 2 pages, 4to (traces of guards); with a retained typescript copy reply by Conan Doyle, n.d..
Shaw's postcard suggests a concerted programme from the speakers at a proposed public meeting [about the South African crisis], 'If we don't, we shall find ourselves landed with a string of rubbish about disarmament, truces of God, and the like', referring to an objectionable proposal by the Tsar, and proposing a version of the League of Nations: 'what I do believe in is a combination of the leading powers to police the world & put down international law'. The letter is a detailed discussion of 'the question of wages and foreign trade', accepting that the problem of underpaid factory girls is not to be solved simply by raising their wages: 'The real difficulty is that cheap labor means obsolete methods and ignorant management, which gets finally swept out of the market by competition ... You have probably observed in recent developments that what is really cutting us out in international trade is highly organized, highly mechanical, highly skilled enterprise; and that the five shilling woman is displaced, not by the half crown girl, but by the thirtyeight shilling man'. Conan Doyle's typescript copy reply voices the concern that an increase in minimum wages simply loses unskilled work to less scrupulous countries. (3)
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