A Socialist View of the Week Viewpoint
Ward, William Allen
A Socialist View of the Week Viewpoint By William Allen Ward 1*HK lady in the fur cost * Observed the stars m they shined On a bitter cold night. ... , She tmiled gracefully and aaid: "Stars...
...In the Meantime the railroad managers art eliminating workers by, every means possible by using mora powerful engines, longer passenger coaches, "bump" freight yards snd other methods...
...But each resists discarding its economic armament until the other does...
...By the end of the year they were calling for armed Insurrection...
...The atari seemed to hang in remote Corners of apace...
...can »it be sold at a profitable price...
...It has made that class rich and its promise of that happy state to the working masses was like the farmer who attached an ear of corn to a stick and hung it just beyond reach of the mule's mouth...
...Capitalist Allies of Hitler Face Extinction AS we predicted in these columns sine* ^* the first few weeks of the Fascist counterrevolution in Germany, the capi-talist allies of Hitler are now feeling tha noose coiling round their necks...
...In 1923 we were denounced for participating in the Conference for Progressive Political Action and the following year they tried to get into it...
...Thai straggle wfll be s test of the New Deal...
...I On the other hand basic codes regard-i ing wages, hours of labor and other con-s ditions of interest to workers "which are in themselves satisfactory, will be t subject to approval, although such eon-, ditions may not have been arrived at by i collective bargaining...
...No ruling class and < its agents ever volunteered to step aside, j They hang on to the last ditch...
...lective bargaining may aleo be approved...
...Uncle Sana ] becomes a paternal father in relation to j capitalist enterprise...
...They may be right or wrong but that does not concern us for the present...
...Conflict is certain to emerge as to policy in each industry and it is prac- ( tieally certain that the steel crowd may carry th'eir case into the courts if at-tsmpt is made to liberate the workers from the steel open shqp prisons...
...The "good intentions" of capitalism were the apod intentions of the mule owner and nothing more...
...Socialists laughed at all this and went their own way...
...Production for sale, however, makes an insane act reasonable...
...It is an easy way to sweep aside the terrible disaster which capitalism has brought to hundreds of millions of people but its premise is not true...
...I It emphasizes the right of workers to...
...The cotton textile masters propose to Administrator Johnson that jthe minimum wage in their plants be fixed at $10 per week in northern mills snd $11 per week in southern mills...
...it a ' money phase is deflated and capitalism i requires that the uhysical product must i be desfroyel in large quantities...
...Uncle Sam Become* A Paternal Father T) what extent the workers of the United States will be served by the legislation for industrial control will de-pend upon the action taken by the trade unions...
...Government economists state that a rise of 40 per cent in wages is necessary to a recovery from the depression...
...Railroad Workers May Face Big Struggle jD AILROAD workers are likely to meet the first shock on the labor front...
...That is the answer of capitalism...
...It means cheap food, wretched living quarters, snd daily privations that outrage all sense of decency...
...The Saar Basin is now the only | German refuge for revolutionaries because it is under the control of a com-1 mission of the League of Nations...
...She tmiled gracefully and aaid: "Stars Seem friendly even on a winter night" On a park bench a jobless nan sat Shivering...
...High tariff countries are unwilling to lower these duties until exporting countries promise they will not dump their surpluses...
...What we have in this announcement - is a declaration that neither the com-t pany union nor the trade union is prej¦ udiced before the board but corporations • must not coerce workers to join the first f nor deny them the right of organising ' or Joining the second...
...By 1921 the Communists were abandoning these "fundamentals...
...There is nothing j surprising in this...
...Douglas is a reactionary and with March they are generally recognized as spokesmen of Morgan...
...i The legislation thrusts the government i into the heart of American industry, i Each corporation is required to report its costs of operation, including all wage data and central office salaries based : upon uniform bookkeeping which will , reveal the profits made...
...Today they fill their platforms with so many immediate measures that they are the most opportunist movement in our history...
...Let's sacrifice the inhuman civilization and save the human beings, the workers, by organizing for the creation of s Socialist Commonwealth in which inch contrasts will be a hated memory...
...It is the old problem of which comes first—security or disarmament...
...Yearning for an "open party" they organized it in 1922 and included immediate demands...
...The only things not eliminated are the watered stock and results of former crimes that have made railroad history in this country a record of chicane and loot (Later...
...Hugenberg is reported as conferring with other Nationalist leaders but their funeral is now a matter of weeks unless Hindenburg uses the Reichswehr against Hitler...
...Some History ris a carious fact that some comrades think that if ( ommunisU do something we shoald do it This appears to be an inferiority complex although it is not widespread...
...The bottom hat \ dropped out of the price of cotton...
...no compromise with this idea...
...The ateel kings and the head of the I National Manufacturers'Association have , announced that they will not tolerate unionization of non-union plants...
...Eventually the mule was worn out and hig progpective heaven collapsed but hig owner in the meantime waxed fat and sleek...
...In these instances the capitalist will hold j the pen for the corporation and the j union...
...That would mean civil war...
...Thirty Socialists were arrested for attending a secret meeting in Hamburg and the Bavarian Minister of the Interior has ousted the remaining Socialist members of local and provincial bodies...
...he had no overcoat...
...The 21 standard railway unions in Chicago late last week have announced that they will resist the demand of the transportation kings that the workers hand over about a quarter billion dollars per year in a proposed wage cut...
...No matter how hard the mule pulled the load the corn remained the game distance from it...
...In 1929 we formulated the first program for organization of the unemployed and they laughed...
...Bridging the class struggle has never been accomplished yet...
...nothing less than civil war would suffice...
...World Economic Conference i Now Facing Acute Disputes '' DASIC conflicts have arisen in the *^ World Economic Conference in lx>n-don and this need occasion no surprise but it is dangerous for the peace of the world...
...Capitalism did not set out to make everybody rich, no more than the I nited States entered the World War to save democracy...
...Basic codes that i may not have been arrived at by col...
...Here the Socialists began publication of a daily this week, Die Deutsche Frciheit...
...Capitalism, at least in this country, get out to make everybody rich and happy, in order that they may buy more automobiles and electric irons...
...The United Textile Workers demand that it be not less than $12 for North and South, which ia little enough...
...The prospect of a meal made the mule produce more...
...we had a Socialist philosophy and marched straight ahead and observed the Communists abandoning one position after the other...
...If it cannot, destroy it...
...The Federated Press reports that anti-union employers have predicted that company unions in the steel and other industries will be recognized and labor m<;n were anxiously seeking to disprove this view...
...Every nation and every interest can justify its actions by pointing to those other nations and interests...
...They are invited to submit proposals regarding hours, wages and other ( conditions for each industry but the , employing capitalists and corporations , will also be on Hand with their suggea- ( ticms...
...Of course this is a minimum base rate but the mass of workers who may receive it cannot feed their families upon such an income...
...Export* ing countries are inclined to think it ia unfair to ask them to reduce production when one cause of their trouble is the tariffs against their goods...
...organize and to function through their [ unions and declares that no worker seek-, ing employment shall be required to join r a company union or be denied the right i of organizing or joining aji existing ' union...
...One day before the Nazis coined the slogan, "One Party, One Conviction, One Goal," which pronounces the death sentence on the bourgeois gang...
...So reasons the New York Times which adds that it is the Hitlers and Staling "that set out to ride over human beings and crush them...
...CapitaJIsm is a social order, one of many that has appeared in higtory, and it is dominated by a class that own its main property stakes...
...A heavy blow was struck at the bourgeois' gang 'that financed the Nazis when on Tuesday they raided the offices of Hugen-berg's Nationalists, seized documents, and banned their troops...
...In 1919 they denounced all immediate programs as "bourgeois...
...When President Roosevelt in a press conference announced the members of the board he avoided using the word "advisory" in referring to its powers...
...Whether the I cotton serves mankind or not is not essential...
...political action was a snare for the workers...
...It is j clear that workers must fight in the in- , dustriea and before the board for a place in the sun...
...There are i millions of unfortunates wearing ragged I clothing, but no matter...
...The official order declares that they are members of a party whose headquarter...
...The disarmament conference came near foundering upon this obstacle and it presents a similar danger for the economic conference...
...Our answer is, destroy capitalism and enjoy what is produced...
...Railroad Co-ordinator East-funeral is now a matter of weeks on less man has arranged a truce to July, 11)34...
...One paragraph in a cable to the New York Times tells the story better than we can...
...Some interesting history may be cited to show the results of snot her course...
...In fact, the representatives of the em- j ploying Classes were on the ground as , soon as the bill was signed and some of them were seeking approval of "agree- ' menU" signed by servile company unions...
...j Now consider another method of sav- 1 ing the system...
...In other words, for a decade they tried to imitate as...
...Sacrificing Cotton Workers for Capitalism 1I7HILE we are considering this sub-"* ject of cotton another aspect of the lunacy is before us...
...If ' the only motive for producing were to ' enjoy, such a proposal would bring its ' advocate before a commission of alien- 1 ists...
...We first met sneers and the usual falsehoods and then the Communists followed our lead...
...Good Intentions /CAPITALISM isn't cruel although "It may have wrought considerable mischief and confusion in the last few years, hut it did it with the best of intentions in the world...
...The next move will be to expel Hugenberg and his allies from the government...
...I Here is the crucial issue and it will > be well to watch its decisions...
...Regulation of the production of foodstuffs and raw materials, stabilization of prices snd currencies, and conflicts between high tariff nations are in dispute...
...The demand is for a wage reduction bf 22J4 per cent which includes the present 10 per cent cut negotiated last year...
...j - ] Industrial Control Board Faces the Class Conflict THE composition of the Industrial Recovery Board consists of five cabinet members and Budget Director Douglas and chairman March of the Federal Trade Commission...
...Through s whole decade, 1919-1929, the Socialist Party framed its policies without any regard to Communist criticism and action and with what results...
...This would im-, ply that the board has power to check Johnson's policies, but will this board as constituted check in favor of the work-1 ers in the matter of unjon policy...
...Destroying Cotton To Save Capitalism j •T'O save the capitalist system from the , * consequences of its own disintegrate | ing laws is the unstated purpose of the ( legislation we have considered in the , three items above...
...If we have confidence in our own movement we will again laugh, move on, and display a solidarity of opinion and action regardless of what our "friends" gay or do...
...Late last week the Brunswick Hitler government forbade a Stahlhelm rally and ordered four local veteran bands to dissolve...
...are in Prague and belong to a "renegade party...
...What is your...
...The agreement expires November 1 and the two partial to the conflict will rlaifc j, s joint conference on July 12...
...All Labor parties were composed of labor fakers...
...Board Outlines Basis ' Of Industry Codes ¦ WEDNESDAY'S papers carried the i " text on "basic codes of fair competi-, tion" issued by Administrator Johnson...
...The order has gone out for this de- 1 struction and it throws a vivid light on 1 the system of production for sale...
...We had no inferiority complex...
...icy cold...
...What can the workers expect from this set up...
...cotton is to be destroyed to save capitalism human beings are also offered as a sacrifice to the same system...
...then they took it up and messed it...
...The Secretary of Agriculture proposes that the government j lease ten million acres of cotton, paying < $150,000,000 to the owners, for the pur- ] pose of destroying the cotton...
...Secretaries Wallace, Ickes and Perkins are regarded as the "liberal" members, the other cabinet members being conservative...
...This makes the board one of five to three in favor of so-called conservative views, including Hugh Johnson, the administrator of the law...
Vol. 15 • June 1933 • No. 25
