At-Home Apparel Work Returns

In one brilliant tour de force the Reagan-Bush syndicate has managed to solve the child-care (“Child-Care Credit Is Test of Bush’s Kindness,” Op-Ed Page, Nov. 11) and unemployment problem with reinstating a home production ban of 46 years (“Ban on Apparel-Related Work in Homes Is Lifted,” Part I, Nov. 11).

The working mothers can now remain at home busily sewing handerchiefs while caring for the little ones. But why stop there? Why not get the little ones into the act? I can hear Charles Dickens rotating in his grave.

May we ask Mr. Reagan-Bush whatever happened to the Wagner Act? I assume that this is what George Bush had in mind when he spoke of a kinder, gentler (and hard-working) nation.

PAUL HENSPETTER

Glendale