Fruit Crops Rotting Away in Orchards While Hundreds of Thousands Hunger
The Insanity of Capitalism Fruit Crops Rotting Away in Orchards While Hundreds of Thousands Hunger EVERY week the reports relating to agriculture show the oldest industry of mankind sinking. ...
...Picking and packing cost 40 cents...
...If this be the fact, it to one more proof of the extraordinary sober Judgment and freedom from emotional illusions by which our party in Spain...
...The fruit growers have their labor for nothing...
...So fruit rots and the fruit grower sinks into debt Wheat wastes in the grain belt while the jobless perish...
...Collective ownership of our powers of production, distribution and exchange and managed for the use and service of the masses would wipe out these tragic contradictions...
...The relief fund raised by Labor and Socialist organizations all over Prance amounts so far to more than $46,000—which is as good a a quarter of a minion would be in our country, considering the difference of wages sad every day contributions are pouring in...
...Whatever I see of French Socialism reminds me of ,a certain quality which our party Ir the United States once had, and which I hope it will yet regain...
...Except the hermit and a few people isolated from civilization, we do not produce things with the idea that we are going to use them...
...Then began Incessant strikes of a Communist nature...
...The middlemen who stand between the growers and those who need the food insist on taking their toll...
...Influence of Socialist Parties Eased Europe Through Crisis French Socialists Win New Seat in Chamber —Other Notes From Europe By Algernon Lee ¦f^APUS.—Over the portals of Jl public buildings all over Paris today (July 20) 'one sees the red-gold-black of the German republic displayed along with the French tricolor...
...Not a bad suggestion, to be sure, but how are the growers to get the fruit into the cities...
...They cannot stand the costs of shipment and the workers cannot migrate tp Georgia, the great fruit area, where the fruit is going to waste...
...All useful workers should be recruits in the Socialist struggle to destroy our insane capitalism and realise this commonwealth of production for use and human welfare, the hope of the world...
...The latter was overthrown by Ibanez in 1925 and was forced to flee the country...
...Millions of workers and their families without good shoes could use shoes but they cannot buy them...
...Here is an illustration...
...If there is any man who can prsteat a catastrophe pregasatt wW tirastalsbls evfl...
...Refrigeration and freight costs on shipments to New York total about 80 cents a bushel...
...The same situation faces the tillers of the soil...
...So it goes...
...The middlemen at the terminals take over the commodities not because they want to use them, but because they want to sell them...
...American mines were forced to pay msay thousands of dollars to miners who were hurt in accidents...
...Bread sells at the same price today with wheat selling at 35 cents that it sold for when the farmer received three times what he now receives...
...They are only pieces of bunting ,it is true...
...Then let nobody deceive himself that we will nave only one task...
...More than 100,000 textile workers in and around Roubaix—the old Guesdist stronghold in the north, on the Belgian frontier—are now in the tenth week of a bitter strike against the attempt of the employer's association to reduce their wagee...
...and the scene in Paris illustrates the meaning and the task of the gathering at Vienna...
...i same note was sounded by r in an eagerly awaited a on the position of Central pe...
...In this historic hour," it says, "the eyes of the world are fixed upon one man—upon Arthur Henderson, who was an iron molder until the confidence of his comrades made him secretary of the British Labor Party...
...ast however, consider *<Mastrophe in Central Eu*"ad mark the beginning...
...Allessandri's election in 1920 brought about a complete transformation of the Chilean political "panorama...
...If the catastrophe comes, ¦we must exploit It with an our strength for conquering political power for the working class, for the overthrow of capitalism and the establishment of a Socialistic civilization...
...Vienna points to its yet greater tomorrow," Roland) Mane, writing on "The Future of Republican Spain" in La Vie Socialiste for July 4, makes the interesting statement that the Spanish Socialists could have had aa even larger delegation in the constituent assembly than they actually have, if they had not deliberately limited the number of their candidates...
...The fruits and vegetables index followed wheat to lower levelsthe net decline being four points...
...No matter where the fruit grower turns, capitalism stands in his way...
...per Urges finish Fight On Fascism jgjaji Leader Says iternational Will e Revolutionary ipportunities -_jjjgfr>"TATTVES of Seemail Peasant Organmet tat Vienna at the ^ u the Congress of 'jljmul Socialist Internawe believe that Oris is jprt thas in the history of p^ggjt movement that such jtuun has been held...
...Georgia growers will be glad to give them to the unemployed or the needy if some one will pay for picking and shipping...
...We would produce fruits, grains, bread, clothing, shoes and other things for our use...
...That is the significance of the scene in Paris...
...Let us look forward to a system of production for use and comfort, for the welfare of all who do useful work...
...Vienna,—The Vienna ArbeiterZeitung for July 19 has a striking article dealing with the manifestations of internationalist tendencies occurring simultaneously at Vienna and at Paris—in the former city the Labor Olympiad, to be immediately followed by the congress of the Labor and Socialist International...
...It is a case of buy and sell or sell and buy...
...WHl Use Crisis Amid deafening applause, Dr...
...and the red-gold-black is after all the flag of 1848 and of 1918...
...Employes could not be discharged until they had received a month's salary for every year that they had been employed, with a minimum three-month bonus...
...The Socialistic Radicals, it should be understood, who are always spoken of as "Radical Socialists" in American newspapers, are not Socialists at all and are not radical enough in any way to make a fuss about) At the first balloting on July 5 no one of the five candidates had a majority, but the Socialist led...
...Our way is not the < tenor and dictatorship, e sot wish to sacrifice freem the sake of Socialism but ?j»tae fight for Socialism...
...This fact is symbolic:—The conflicts between bourgeois nationalisms have brought the capitalist world into deadly peril...
...The fruit is rotting in the orchards...
...Then the owners of railroads enter the picture...
...Bauer continued : "Either timely help for Germany and Europe succeeds in restoring its economy, either democracy is saved in Europe and therefore peace in the world, in which case the working class win continue to march in the way of democracy, or perhaps our influence wul not be strong enough to achieve it or the capitalistic governments, while trembling before that which is to come, nevertheless, are not able to overcome their inner contradictions and catastrophe comes...
...They cannot use and cannot sell and the city workers cannot use because they cannot buy...
...Labor and Socialist International, the actual spokesman of Socialism in the council of the capitalist powers, the one-time iron molder, Arthur Henderson...
...aocratic means of fighting are barred from the working class will we conduct the fight by other means...
...When, the International Socialist Congress last met at Brussels, in August 1938, it was Henderson, as president of the International who opened its sessions...
...They feared, he indicates, that the popular enthusiasm of the moment might give them so large a representation that they would be compelled to assume the responsibility of government and would men be expected to achieve far more than the economic condition of the country and the political development of the masses would make possible...
...They transport commodities not because they want to use them...
...Was there ever such lunacy since the first nut was placed in a padded ceag ' Food Not Grown to Eat...
...But the tricolor, like the Marseillaise, can never completely cease to speak to one's heart about 1789 and 1793...
...This is the insane capitalism that condemns us to unemployment and starvation...
...Refuses to Leave Country Business and Industry have not forgotten the Alesaandri regime and they are taking an active part in the opposition to his returning to the Presidency...
...An ambassadorship in Europe has been, offered to him, but before leaving Buenos Aires he is reported to have emphatically stated he would not accept such an appointment...
...No, We are sane human beings living in the craziest social order that ever emerged out of history...
...Capitalism reduces everything to merchandise...
...The peach crop alone is estimated at 78 million bushels, an excess over last year of 25 millions bushels, yet the growers do not receive a price that will pay the cost 'of crating and shipment...
...A victory of Fascism, Ed by Osrnimi industry, d destroy si hope of peace kfftpt aid international disunent, at said...
...The sight of this array of intellectual ammunition, together with a regular reading of the Populaire, Socialist daily paper, during our abort stay here, shows me how little faith to put in the Judgment of those who have been telling us that our sister party in France has ceased to be proletarian and revolutionary...
...General Ibanez, is a conflict aatweaa the students organised in the Student Federation, which played a leading role in the revolt and the working class...
...The rest are standing firm, despite the hardship and suffering which such a prolonged strike entails...
...And only those who are obstinately bund can fail to see that this victory is hugely due to the wholesome and humane tmmsmee of the French Socialists, of the German Social Democracy, sad perhaps above all of the British Labor Party...
...tat debate on the motion, po zksa...
...a few months later, through the victory of the Labor Party at the pons, this iron molder became foreign minister for the British Empire...
...Great shoe plants are owned by capitalists who buy labor power and sell shoes...
...Owners cannot use and cannot sell and workers cannot use beeause they cannot buy...
...Capitalism no r h at a position to make s! its own resources, he aaL Bauer Hits Fascism a dsnpad large-scale internal crept action for Ger1 bat W4H not permit it to be atsd with political condiIt is the task of German atn to defeat German FasAithough the cooperation dahst* with bourgeois parWtains' serious danger we t wish in this serious hour »t the freedom of German km I Socialists have always deI ws am not the guarantors * injustice of the peace a but although we consider B*naoa necessary there is •he we consider still more * to peace...
...In this exchange of pommodi...
...3) Miscenaneous...
...Do not ¦» -opes on Fascism or on ¦seam...
...that Chile Bosses Fear Return Of Allesandri Ousting of Dictator Ibanez Traced to His Devotion to the Upper t' ______ YfNDERLTING the revolt in U Chile Which ousted the dictator...
...It counts for nothing in the system of capitalist production...
...All labor disputes were heard before special labor courts and the laborer or employe was always right Radical elements soon got the upper hand and the situation got beyond AUesandri's control...
...That is the Socialist aim all over the world...
...Until then the country had been ruled by a small oligarchy of wealthy land owners who occupied all the higher offices of the government Allesandri'a election was a proletarian victory over these wealthy landlords, and he was looked upon as an apostle of the working classes He was elected on a platform for separation of church and State, votes for women, taxes on incomes, a special code of laws to protect the working classes and government control of the nitrate industry...
...If some charitable organisation will pay for the picking and packing and the'railroads will haul the peaches without charge, I will obtain ?all they want...
...Several thousand have gone back under settlements with particular employers approved by the strike committee...
...if by any means the economic life of the world can be protected from an unprecedented sharpening of the crisis and a frightful increase of unemployment If by any means the democracy of Europe can be protected from further inroads of Fascism, if by any means world peace can be protected from the menacing intensification of nationalistic antagonisms—it can be only by the wisdom, the will to peace, and the unifying force of international Socialism...
...We visited the party's book store a few days ago...
...The capitalist owners of industry have commodities produced to sell, not to use them...
...The month of Jury closed as the most tragic month that has - faced the tillers of the soil inlwo decades...
...While Workers Go Hungry A. D. Jones, director of the Bureau of Markets of the Georgia Department of Agriculture, made the following answer to this proposal: "It is good idea but not practicable...
...We say to the s> working class...
...iu a warning to the Fasgd monarchist elements who Samg in the troubled waters Kfjnany and other countries i tht economic crisis is seIUT...
...in the latter, the conference of American, British, French, and German ministers to find means of avoiding disaster in Central Europe...
...The fruit growers are willing to give and the workers are eager to accept, but the fruit is rotting and wHl no doubt continue to rot...
...He sent all agitators to Robinson Crusoe Island and there was no labor trouble while he was in power...
...I am not going to live in exile again, even on a salary," he asserted...
...Five years of this produced the reaction which gave General Ibanez his reactionary backing...
...Whether this is said in praise or in blame, it is not true...
...We will no longer have this crying injustice: those who labor do not own while those who own do not labor...
...The fruit growers will see their financial resources disappear as the fruit rots and the bankers will foreclose on mortgages and loans...
...Paris is the great today of Socialism...
...ties human welfare is completely lost...
...Thousands of acres of peach orchards are being abandoned in this State and half of the State's estimated production of 8,000 cars of Eiberta peaches will rot on the ground...
...Since then the world has learned to know htm...
...For the first time in 17 years it has become possible for them to hang here side by side...
...It is not easy to interpret the rift between the students and the workers but it is probable that the former are representative of middle class rod professional families who are against an arbitrary regime like that of Ibanez but are also opposed to the far-reaching social legislation which AUessandri favored for the workers...
...your only hope is 9 Of your Socialist com1 a France, England and h» Europe...
...A desperate effort was then made to combine the bourgeois left and center elements, but the voters took the bit in their teeth and our man won by a large margin...
...tfUM included the foUow* v The International Agraggaj and the* Organised I IS— nil I (?) Discussion ' .jtfemationai policy of the K anions of Small Peasants ¦ (stnre...
...The occasion, of .course, is the official visit of Bruening and Curtius to confer with the French, British, American and other ministers of state and of, finance about international measures for the relief of the economic crisis which a few days ago threatened catastrophe and chaos In Central Europe, with aU the possibilities of war and reaction which that would imply...
...Today, not the Socialist world only, bat the bourgeois world as wen, knows that if there is any man who can mediate between France and Germany and bring about such international action as will turn aside the monstrous danger that threatens the whole world...
...Our attention has been directed to the desperate toilers in the wheat belt and now it is the turn of the fruit growers to be tortured by the prospect of a season of work and no income from their labor...
...The jobless will tighten their belts and be unable to answer the eager questions of wife aad children as they return day by day from a fruitless search for work...
...So there is a deadlock...
...Workers Were Aided The new social laws providing for sick and accident benefits for laborers soon put a tremendous tax on business, especially foreign business...
...The Insanity of Capitalism We not only produce commodities but we are commodities ourselves...
...The students have announced their opposition to the return of Arturo Allesandri to the Presidency...
...Men, women and children in the cities will not then starve for lack of fruit and other farm products...
...epoch for Socialism in **i and set before it un'hskt...
...Are we all looney...
...The railroads will not ship without being paid transportation charges...
...It was the boast of Hoover and of Smith in 1928 that their respective parties would place agriculture oa an equality with urban industry...
...Motion Rejected itr rejecting a motion by the issdsat Labor Party the Coni adopted a resolution subst proposals for refusal to i ailitary credits and for ass action against governi which provoke the danger u » the permanent disarma; <onatke»on of the Internai and of the International tt UBke Congress for an imiauisjat...
...The fanner produces to sell, not to use...
...Fruit Is Rotting Away Men, women and children of the cities, especially those starving in the mining areas, need the fruit, yet vast quantities are going to waste...
...Capitalism must be abolislted...
...exiled leader of the is SSSgation, said amid ape: ¦peak for a country which is interested in the disarmaquestion, because Fascism is tad war means Fascism u st not a domestic Italian hit is an enemy to intersi cooperation, and the \fkesl must conquer it...
...They are the flags of two bourgeois states, it is true...
...The grains index declined ten points in July as a result of a further sharp decline in wheat and lesser declines in oats and barley...
...On their face, the discussions appear commonplace enough, not to say sordid...
...What's the matter...
...But I what oar American party good books and pamphlets H»aii«g with the fundamental principles of Socialism and their application to all sorts of concrete issues, as well as with the history of the working-class movement in this and other countries...
...On the other hand it is reported that some of the workmen oppose Allesandri, probably because they believe that his extensive program might lead to another counter-revolution...
...To fat *-m**r* ¦ i-'fTCitr the thing done is much more important than to win praise for it Our French comrades are rightly elated over the outcome of a parliamentary by-election at Macon on July IX, which gives our party a seat in the chamber formerly held by a Socialistic Radical...
...To some extent they are so in fact Yet whoever will recall the attitude of the French government and the general tone of the French pram only ten or twelve days ago must recognise that a victory has been won for peace between nations and friendly understanding among the peoples...
...The jobless hunger for lack of fruit...
...Thousands of the children have been taken away to other places, to be cared for by working people until the strike is over...
...International Congress I Kg asaaeas last Saturday, 0, important decisions are >t available here...
...A bright official of the New York State Department of Agri- 1 culture offers the suggestion that the fruit growers contribute something "from their abundance for the relief of sunny-faced, but unfortunate childhood...
...One of the a^asj features of the Con. m the speech of Otto r tat Austrian Marxist and t of the Austrian Socialists, Lgjared that Socialists would I jaeet the crisis in Central „ jV peaceful and democratjtmwss but that Socialists I not hesitate to use the , to overthrow capitalism and ¦agatal power if democratic pea are made, impossible...
...It is to the credit of Mac Donald aad Henderson that they claim no credit for their share la the work...
...It is a rather dingy room in a.shabby old building in Rue Feydeau, which is by no means a brilliant street...
...By the end of the month the general farm price level declined to the lowest in 21 years...
...Production for use and enjoyment, not for profits and dividends...
...The supply is in Georgia and the demand is in thousands of cities and mining centers...
...We produce things not because we want to use them or because anybody else wants to use them...
...A Socialist cooperative commonwealth must take its place...
...There Is Enough for All Remember, .there is enough produced to supply the wants of all, but we cannot get things to those who want to use them because in this system it is a case of buy and sell or sell and buy...
...Fruit will not then rot and fruit growers will not sink in debt...
Vol. 13 • August 1931 • No. 6
