Old Pals Corner
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Old Pals Corner A Favorable-Unfavorable Trade Balance Convinces Joe We Are Living in a Bughouse World By AutoJycm ————^— "II' we could only sell more goods to other nations than we buy we...
...But what do you think of your balance of trade now...
...1 Iqve a heart, Bill...
...iet a grip on yourself," said Bill...
...And if it is sold so cheap, then it must be worthless...
...I deay such a |a the ease rail (trih a short* every tU themserte of today | meat of t 1 will oi ticality b who is ai met him , time that such a h and he mi ing his pa his best p "I want a book of publish on sell them Don't yoi hundred p purchase I of the eg ten dollan I agree...
...I can't Stand it...
...I t is further significant that Justices Dunne, Brower, Stein* brink, Churchill, Strong and all the others HAVE THE POWER TO ISSUE INJUNCTIONS ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE ON THE BENCH AND THEY ARE ON THE BENCH ONLY BECAUSE THEY WERE FUT THERE BY THE VOTES OF WORKERS...
...Oh yeah?'' said Bill...
...WE DO OUR PART," say the workers who continue to build up their unions, to Btrike, to picket j AND TO WIN despite the frantic efforts of enemies of labor to use the Codes and NRA as the exploiters in an earlier day prostituted the 14th Amendment and the Sherman Act, twisting the abolition of slavery and the anti-trust law into measures to safeguard their exploitation and to fight the workers in their struggle for organization...
...right...
...You keep daubing the picture until it is as black as night...
...I wish I could paint it in alluring colors, but that job awai:- the artists of the social revolution," said Bill...
...Besides, it is not the six billions alone that arc involved...
...Every one would think: If the author himself really knows the rescret of achieving wealth he wouldn't tell it to anyone anyway...
...After all, he only way to preserve peace is to >e prepared for war in a big way, an't it...
...One was issued to restrain the Shoe and Leather Industrial Union f r o m picketing 16 shoe factories...
...IT WILL NOT BE HANDED TO THEM...
...The International Poker Game " T H E Y did," Bill replied...
...A Decision Despite the decision of the National Labor Board in the case of Berkeley Woolen Mills of Martinsburg, West Virginia, that the workers have the right to be represented by representatives of their own choosing and to organize in a union of iheir own the wave of anti-pieketing injunctions is becoming alarming...
...These are but a few of the recent cases in New York City alone...
...On this debt a billion has been paid on the principal and two billions in interest...
...So we do not want the goods with which they can pay and they do not have the gold which we would accept," said Joe...
...asked Joe, staring at bis pal...
...they can probably be matched in every part of the country...
...We don't want the goods, but to gel the gold to pay us they must sell the goods...
...When one tells me that it is necessary to be practical I immediately agree with him—but I want a definition of practicality...
...Joe Is Frightened "COR Gawd's sake...
...I find it necessary to repeat this every time when the muddleheaded who think they are Socialists sing odes to practicality...
...A favorable balance over a period of years knocks us off the balance...
...An Unbalanced World "MOT at all," was Bill's rejoinder...
...They worry about the program whi today...
...They don't throw away the bread and butter of today for the broiled squabs of the future...
...I t is important to realize that NRA does not by any means safeguard the right to organize, to strike and to picket...
...I agree...
...But it please yi people ww stead of oi The Two Inte For Ceas text of the Resolution of the Joint Disarmament Commission of the Labor and Socialist International and the International Federation of the Trade Unions, Paris, August 2ith, 1933...
...It is too expensive a secret to be sold for such a nominal fee...
...Well, that's some progress, anyway," said Joe...
...We draw gold from oilier nations to pay the balance until they have little gold left...
...In the unions of the American Federation of Labor, he told me, they are practical...
...The United States has all but six billion of that 26 billions of gold, and President Roosevelt has prohibited exports of gold...
...The war debts owed to the United States during and after the war are over ten billions...
...You know what happens in a j>okver game when one player wins all the (hips," said Bill...
...The total amount of gold used as money throughout the world is less than 12 billions, less than half of that 26 billion dollar debt...
...WISDOM of the POOR M S II Isn't it wonderful that the dear President has told us to restore >rosperity, and he is having so nany warships built...
...T H E International Federation of Trade Unions and the Conference of the Labor and Socialist International note the fact that the Disarmament Conference of the League of Nations has not yet secured positive measures the other violation d League of Treaties lij Fascism I advent of to pow ef open desi which is Fascism, at one si an incrd which lai have col themselve bilities of: These fl pies and i ticularly 1 sider the-1 tion, which by the ri which, wb ocratic in favor well as 1 home, an...
...And injunctions will cease to be issued WHEN THEY VOTE AS THEY ARE BEGINNING TO STRIKE...
...Am I living in an insane asylum...
...I have as yet not received a satisfactory reply...
...We do YOUR Part" seems to be the motto of many of the judges before whom employers appear in quest of such injunctions...
...One who believes in a certain kind of practicality knows that it is much more practical to belong to the Democratic party than to the Socialist party, just as, five years ago, it was more practical to belong to the Republican party...
...You said it...
...Many Injunctions Only a few weeks ago Justice Selah B. Strong enjoined 2,000 members of various locals of the Bakers' Union from picketing, adding the gratuitous remark that picketing is a nuisance...
...maybe he'll g^t more tomorrow...
...1 have heard it said that Roosevelt is "all right," that we should begin to lie practical, quit spouting revolutionary phrases...
...I» hut does practicality mean in general and fot us Socialists...
...Bill, you like to torture people," said Joe...
...In poker the winner can cash bis chips, but when a nation draws most of the gold from other nations the chips of international trade (gold) become almost useless...
...A practical man would never have written such a book...
...Don't get discouraged," said Bill...
...In ten years six billion dollars, chips in international trade, were loaned to foreign nations...
...another enjoins members of the Food Workers' Industrial Union from picketing the plant of the East New York Fish Dealers, Inc...
...The vital right to organize, ta strike and to picket—FUN DAMENTAL TO THE WORKERS— is theirs only I F THEY TAKE IT BY THEIR OWN ORGANIZED MIGHT...
...One of my Socialist friends who is inspired by President Roosevelt and his "New Deal" attempted to explain to me the meaning of practicality, but he didn't know what answer to make when I asked him why he doesn't join the Democratic party...
...Wave of Injunctions Can Be Stopped Only by Workers _ _ _ _ _ _ _ By William M. Feigenbaum ————— " W E do our Part," say the manufacturers as they paste i Blue Eagles on the windshields i of their automobiles...
...The favorable becomes the unfavorable," said Joe...
...That debt is $1,500,000,000 greater now than xvhen it was contracted because of default in payment of interest zvhich is added to the original debt...
...said loe, "but it seems that more chips are at stake...
...I can't stand much more," said Joe...
...They try to get today as much as possible...
...war of rel The ference of must rest* ther delsf to secure armamsnl of diminial The LJj affirm thai favor of if duties ofl which cssij any degral any c...
...That looks bad," Joe exclaimed...
...Is ihat it...
...How Does One I am not enthused about President Roosevelt and his socalled "New Deal" and if a presidential election were held tomorrow I'd still cast my vote for a Socialist candidate...
...Therefore, in the unions of American Federation of Labor they don't bother their heads over programs for the future...
...He cited an illustration from the American unions...
...The favorable-unfavorable balance helped bring on the world collapse," said Bill, "and to loan more simply builds the favorable-unfavorable structure higher and solves nothing...
...1 was about to suggest that the six billions be written off...
...Shortly before that time Justice Meier Steinbrink—beneficiary of the notorious McCooey bi-partisan judicial deal—enjoined members of the Retail Clothing Salesmen from picketing the stores of a certain clothing firm...
...You arc living under the capitalist system, which is the -atne thing," Bill replied, "and the ruling statesmen are our keepers...
...when you add the private loans and the •war debts they make a total of 26 billions," Bill replied...
...We do our Part," say the employers as they wiggle under the Codes, and try to stretch the | Blanket to cover a multitude of things...
...It is significant that A. F. of L. organizations defended the right of Communists to picket...
...How's that...
...Jews in J hundred purchase I pages that "Well, I young poet should I | edition of sell them look for s make little ten dollan them mock profit...
...That's a balanced judgment of an unbalanced civilisation," said Joe as they passed out of the school on their way back .to the shop...
...Then we sold them goods and they must pay for them out of the loans, but, in international trade, balances are settled either with goods or gold...
...I t is an old story, that of the American who wrote a book on getting rich and himself wore torn shoes...
...When I am taunted that I am not a practical Socialist, that I still cling to revolutionary Socialistic theories, I ask: What is, really, practical Socialism...
...The more favorable the balance of trade becomes for us the more certain it is that the balance will he smashed...
...At about the aame time employers in the electrical industry have petitions Supreme Court Justice Brower In Brooklyn for an injuacinjuaction restraining makers of electrical equipment from picketing the plant against which they are striking...
...Old Pals Corner A Favorable-Unfavorable Trade Balance Convinces Joe We Are Living in a Bughouse World By AutoJycm ————^— "II' we could only sell more goods to other nations than we buy we would have a favorable lalance of trade," said [oe as be met Hill in the Hand School lobby...
...I t is a significant and stirring fact that the moment Grover Whalen sought to outlaw picketing against shops with Blue Eagles pasted in their windows the entire labor movement flew to the defense of the right to strike and picket BY ANY SECTION OF THE WORKING CLASS...
...In New York State, upon the urgent demand of the Socialist Party through Louis Waldman, state chairman, Governor Lehman promises to "take action"—"action" being a request that the Commission on the Administration of Justice "investigate" the wave of Buch injunctions...
...THAT RIGHT IS INHERENT ONLY IF THE W O R K E R S ARE STRONG ENOUGH TO TAKE IT FOR THEMSELVES...
...Can't they borrow more...
...That's the end of the game with this difference...
...But there is more to this story of the •favorable-unfavorable balance...
...It's unbalanced, the ruling statesmen are unbalanced, I'm unbalanced, and we're living in a bughouse tvorld," aaid Joe...
...We, the workers, have squandered our power...
...For he would realize that no one would busy such a book even if it contained the best advice on getting rich...
...An acquaintance of mine, a union leader who considers himself a practical mar, once explained to me that the ABC of practicality is to grab today as much as possible...
...Within a single day Supreme Court Justice James A. Dunne in Brooklyn issued two injunctions barring picketing...
...We do our Part," says Grover Aloysius Whalen of the Wanamaker store as he tries to make it illegal for strikers to picket firms that display the Blue Eagle...
...These debts belong to the dead past and the living generation arc asked to pay them and that means the workers...
...Why can't nations that lose also borrow and continue trading...
...But we haven't -completed the picture of that favorable-unfavorable balance," said Bill...
...But losers in poker can borrow from the winner and continue the game," said Joe...
...Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Churchill, former President of the New York Board of Education, not long ago granted a sweeping and drastic injunction against members of the Cloth Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers' Union under particularly galling conditions...
...That's why the international poker game did not come to an end till 1^29...
...let's teach our class to use it to abolish the capitalist system...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 12
