To Build Socialism,
To Build Socialism, International Federation i able Statement, Sees No in Recovery Program Jo Build Socialism, International Federation i able Statement, Sees No in Recovery Program "THE...
...asked Joe...
...bread and butter was at stake...
...On the whole, for every dollar's worth of goods exported a dollar's worth of goods must be imported...
...However, the same big capitalists and their politicians who have used the pauper argument have always favored mass immigration to break strikes and reduce wages...
...The Hawley-Smoot Tariff was passed to end the depression...
...By all the gods on high Olympus I'm a free trader," h;io I Joe...
...If that is true, as much employment of American workers is provided by the purchase of imported goods as by the purchase of American-made goods...
...That's the dark side of it, and troth to tell most of it is dark...
...asked Joe...
...Most of the parade has come to a standstill...
...There was great jubilation as we walked over to union headquarters...
...Girls, It Appears, Will Always Be Girls By Gertrude Weil Klein T H E very first day of the strike there was a fight between two of the girls, "(josh," I groaned to myself as I drew one of the girls away to tell mc all about it, "this is a fine way to start a strike...
...Two supreme demands are contained in the resolution, two unmistakable conditions which clearly mark out and characterize the demands of Labor for economic planning — the economic planning must be international, with a view to the supplying of needs, and secondly, its final goal must be the establishment of Socialism...
...Girls who couldn't be bribed by individual deals that would benefit them and leave the others out in the cold...
...It Certainly Is a Bughouse World " Q N the whole it is a makeshift that accomplishes little and creates jealousy and suspicion between all dambuilders," said Bill...
...Here was a chance to fight it out, and fight it out they would...
...asked Joe...
...To these girls, new to unionism, yet loyal...
...International trade is a matter of exchange of goods for goods and only relatively small balances are settled in gold...
...Northwest Go "Postcarc PINE CREST, Colo.—The Rocky Mountain Regional Conference of the Continental Congress, representing New Mexico, Arizona, Wyoming and Colorado, at its encampment here passed a "postcard ( platform" of three paragraphs: "Our final, immediate and only objective is the socialization of all natural resources, means of production, distribution and means of communication, including banking, and the issuance of a medium of exchange, thereby abolishing rent, interest and profit forever...
...That means passing from one padded cell to another," Bill replied...
...that you can't go dashing around cutting telephone wires...
...Each of them tries to bore holes that will favor itself so that more of its goods will float through other holes than through its oivn...
...And girls who refused to take money for their carfares and lunches, though they needed it badly...
...Quickly we hailed some taxi-cabs and bundling them all in, drove over to headquarters...
...And the others acted as though some one was going to kill them, too...
...American imports and exports declined and by 1933 the United Stales lost about three-fourths of its foreign trade," said Bill...
...Girls who were ready to dash in anywhere and do anything...
...No nation can export without importing...
...How does this boring of holes in the clams work...
...It was distracting, it was nerve-wracking—hut, girls are that way...
...asked Joe...
...It's like the flow of water in a circle," Bill replied...
...What was the result of that decline...
...To Build Socialism, International Federation i able Statement, Sees No in Recovery Program Jo Build Socialism, International Federation i able Statement, Sees No in Recovery Program "THE Sixth International Trade Union Congress, held at Brussels from July 30th to August 3rd, 1933, happened to coincide with two important economic events—the final collapse of the Ixmdon World Economic Conference and the beginning of the great experiment now being made in America by Roosevelt and his "Brain Trust...
...There wasn't a single day that some shop didn't have an internal revolution because of quarrels among the girls...
...Raise a dam anywhere in the flow and it is not the water immediately behind the dam that is affected but the whole stream...
...Does a protective tariff produce a revenue for the government '(" asked Joe...
...The trade union congress, in the above-mentioned resolution, sternly reprobates the mistaken economic policy of past years, viz., the "attempt of capitalists to save their system at the expense of their partners in the world economic order...
...Petrified...
...But a closer study of the I.F.T.U...
...He ha these decisioi he is not int life for the » is merely yi necessity, for the terrible I presence of 1 employed, whl talism and its brink of ruin...
...It wasn't long before we realized that the shop which had just been taken down would have to be guarded like a precious Jewel...
...We jack up the tariff walls so that imports are almost stopped...
...I had just thrown off about five pounds of nervous and physical energy explaining the meaning of solidarity, and the minute I got through here we were in the m i d s t of a n e a r - r i o t . What was the fight a b o u t? S o m e t h i n g purely personal that had been i s t e w i n e and brewing for months...
...It's commonplace knowledge in economics," said Bill...
...WISDOM of the POOR FISH men's sons, bankers' partners and other members of the better classes are willing to sacrifice themselves and take public office to serve the lower orders even when the...
...and was desirous of putting into effect the working class demands for economic planning submitted to the Congress and approved by it as guiding principles for the economic aims of the next few years...
...Labor and American production must be protected from foreign competition...
...In recent years they have favored closing the gates not because they love you, but because they fear admission of radical workers...
...How do you reach that conclusion...
...in Oscar Amerir Snyder, W. C DO not t social i the matter poverty...
...Jobs were at stake...
...We agreed last week that the capitalist system makes an insane asylum of the whole world and that even its Ju'gli hat keepers are mentally unbalanced," Bill replied...
...The failure and fiasco of the world economic conference is only one proof more of the long-recognized inevitability of the present course and events...
...Roosevelt's ex]>erinient has shown that capitalism is turning to measures of economic planning to save itself from falling to pieces...
...Girls who refused to understand when we painstakingly explained that you can't rush into a shop and bop the boss on the bean...
...In trade between nations it is impossible for one nation to sell without buying...
...Old grudges, bitter disputes about unfair division of work before the strike, arguments about who started the rumor that so-and-so was the fore man's sweetheart, jealousy over ' who had been asked to help the organizers with taking the registrations, with answering the telephone and to help with the detail work...
...Against this attempt, which may appositely be described by the term "autarchy," although that does not cover them in their entirety, the Congress declared that it considered it as its "imperative duty again to point oat to the world that only a system of international economic planning managed with a view to the supplying of needs and with the ultimate object of establishing a Socialist economic system can lead to success...
...but it didn't matter...
...Forty out of the fifty flrls would have to have some one constantly at their sides to keep them from running back to work...
...The day the strikers of one shop took down the workers of another shop was a lulu...
...weak, yet courageous, I humbly offer my respect sad friendship...
...Lots of laws...
...Not if it really protects manufacturers as they desire," Bill answered...
...t "Righto," said Joe as they returned to their work...
...We shall proceed to the accomplishment of our objective by concerted political action, by pressure on existing powers, by education and by joining together all who | suffer from I justice of the an organixati pared to eital Cooperative C i. Speaker...
...the experiment in economic planning in America is of the utmost importance to the workers of the whole world...
...Still, when it came to striking, to carrying signs and picketing—"My husband will kill me when he hears about it," one girl said...
...Well, we can't let goods come in from other nations .without throwing workers out of jobs," Joe replied...
...Scared...
...But what about competition with foreign pauper labor...
...One nation would propose to another that it would make a hole in its dam to permit some goods to float through if another nation would bore one it its dam to permit some commodities to pass through...
...ar« so ungrateful as not to appreciate the sacrifice that Is being made for them...
...I'm getting dizzy," said Joe with mock concern...
...Again it was some gossip one was supposed to have circulated about the other...
...You would think that this would bring the fat-heads to their senses," said Joe...
...And, finally, girls who ab•olutely refused to go back to work unless they won union recognition...
...Whether workers produce excess values | o r the capitalist class to sell in a free trade or a tariff world, we will be exploited and crises will occur just the frame...
...A superficial observer, watching the events in the United States, might almost come to the conclusion that the capitalist Roosevelt has studied the economic planning demands of the I.F.T.U...
...Joe Gets a Dizzy Spell " D U N K . 1'aupcrs do not produce enough to sustain themselves, to say nothing of producing anything for export," Bill replied...
...That's new to me," said Joe...
...that it's not such a good idea to grab the girls' clothes from the lockers and make them come down for them if they won't come down any other way...
...And yet they knew they were miserably exploited and they sensed that organization would help them...
...Both incidents had tlu*ir effect on the congress: the collapse of the Economic Conference showed the workers of the whole world —as is declared in the Congress Resolution--"that the government representatives and economic leaders who hold the fate of millions in their hands and bear the responsibility for thel existence in the world of more than 30 milium unemployed are acting solely in defense of thevr oivn individual interests...
...tariff walls are so high as to stop imports they will block exports...
...But there were some brilliant flashes...
...In another minute we would all have been holding our meeting in the police station on a charge of obstructing traffic...
...Suddenly a pause...
...Two of the girls are fighting it out...
...Therefore, while our whole objective is the help of those who suffer from the present system, we demand no relief or palliation of the present system but recognize the NRA as an effort of those in control to save themselves and their system by palliation and relief...
...They were willing to break the laws and take the consequences...
...It is full of absurdities...
...Yes, there were some girls like that...
...That W H S the first fight among the girls, but there was a new one practically every day...
...What's the matter...
...Maximum relief will be obtained only when those in control fear the success of an organization dedicated solely to the establishment of the Cooperative Commonwealth...
...I he tariff is like that balance of trade we were discussing last week," said Bill...
...AH Rooee^ the 40-hoon'| the workings...
...wages and tU tion of econosj old demand of his proposali production, coi and stabiliutJi demands of tkl not alter the j fundamental!} tinuing the h i brought so mi world: the •« "to save their pense of the world economi But even f point in the pi of Roosevelt will not reft hours and si because they capitalist in i system from i What realr/ veil's plans fr the fact that to save eapit talist eeonoa hoping that provide s pi them on a m His slogan nomic I'lannii the reduction i the raising of set off by coi prices—are V means among: an attempt fat come the crid nomic machin down...
...Some of them sobered a little," Bill replied...
...The other nations raised their own tariff dams in that circling stream and made a bad situation worse," Bill replied...
...After three days of a virtual siege the shop was taken down...
...girls to whe m the bosses' promises of increases, of back pay, of better conditions meant nothing •aless they had union with it...
...That there's such a thing as a law...
...This certainly is a bughouse world," said Joe with a gesture of despair...
...To obtain a revenue, goods must be imported ; if not imported, there is no revenue...
...Boring Holes in Tariff Dams " T H E whole capitalist world is reeling with dizziness," Bill replied...
...with the rl G. Bernard Joe Turns Tariff Philosopher, But Gets a Dizzy Spell as He Faces a Maze of Absurdities • By Autolycus — — • — * — * *JI' we could settle the tariff question perhaps things would pick up," said Joe to Bill as they stopped work for lunch...
...Let's see about that," said Bill...
...Each nation wanted a normal flow of trade and each did its best to make the flow impossible...
...What happened...
...asked Joe...
...demands for economic planning and of the general tenor of the resolution dealing with the subject and a comparison of these with Roosevelt's experiment will make it very clear that, in spite of apparent and, in fact, actual identity in many respects, they represent two worlds with an unbridgeable gulf between them...
...Girls are like that...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 13
