Stick 'Em Into Camps
Yaffle
Stick 'Em Into Gamps By Yaffle In The London New Leader THE unemployed are going into camps. The Ministry of Labor is preparing a scheme of compulsory "occupation training" and "discipline"...
...Give the vicar a glass of water...
...We want the facts...
...That it will be a huge success was taken for granted...
...Pittsburgh Plate -Glass Company, RCA Victor Company, Camden, N. J., and many others...
...The more wealth /is produced, the fewer workers are required to produce it The wage-bill is the mother of in fcrentions, and in future increasing Hrade will mean increasing leisure...
...Interesting, but a trifle remote...
...Plans Violate Law A plan of "employe representation" proposed by the Mellondominated Aluminum Company of America and its subsidiary companies is very similar to the Dupont plan...
...Sir Arthur, who published a eulogy of Kreuger's high moral character and statesmanship a fortnight before the latter was exposed as the world's prize swindler, has thereby established his right to be regarded as an economic expert, a moralist, and a framer of I ordered societies...
...The Government has promised us a nobler vision: a nation behind barbed wire...
...And in the mornings, when I leave my flat, No more the caretaker will touch his hat...
...Norman Thomas, S. Zechnowltz, J. A. Miissinan, Charles Blackmail, l^mls Epstein, James lineal, Meyer Gillis, Ben lllumcnberg, Frank M. Hill...
...As in the Dupont plan, the Aluminum Company specifies that the company shall provide meeting places for the "Works Councils" and shall pay employes for the time spent at meetings...
...Evidence that "company union'* plans are being forced on workers was offered by a letter to employes of the Lamson A Sessions Company,* Kent, O., manufacturers of bolts and nuts...
...Plncui Si-heer, Leon Gllbson, D. Wul larb, Jerome Count...
...PROOF that great corporations are violating the labor section of the NRA has been submitted to Administrator Johnson by President Green of the A. F. of L. Many documents reveal corporations trying to force workers into company unions...
...Morris Berman mailed in a check for $300 just before going to the hospital to undergo an operation...
...And I cannot define the obvious in clearer terms...
...It will be a fine sight—ninetenths of the nation living in enclosures, guarded by military, performing the tasks invented to keep them out of mischief, while a drillsergeant controls "the right use of leisure"—by numbers...
...Checks should be sent to Harry Kritzer, 7 Cast 15th Street...
...The 4-14 A. I)., Kings,.sent in $100...
...Must Train for Motherhood...
...Hitler has shown our moralists the way...
...Tire Company Decrees "ComtiA" The same kind of move was made by the Pharis Tire and Rubber Company, Newark, O., whose general manager, in a statement to employes, said: "A few months ago we investigated the 'Factory Council' idea of the United States Rubber Company plant at Detroit, and have now practically completed a similar plan for the operators of our company...
...Full many a sorrowful Sabbath have I suffering spent by thee envested and be itched...
...Naturally, the idea of the common herd having both leisure and sufficiency gives this Kreuger fan a pain...
...To grasp its full import let us choose at random a few facts about industrial processes...
...When I was young we were thrilled by Lord Roberts' vision of "a nation under arms...
...In the same paper which announced our Government scheme I read: "Nazi Order to Girls...
...The Radical candidate was elected with 5,000 votes, as against 3,200 for the Communist and 2,900 for the Nazi...
...The plan is now used to perfection in many large rubber and automotive industries and is daily gaining merit...
...And as like as not it throws in a blood-orange for the captain...
...That strikes a homelier note...
...He is a lap ahead of us, spurring us on to higher endeavors...
...The plan, as detailed in a pamphlet, provides for the elections of "Works Councils" in each plant, consisting if representatives appointed by the management, an equal number of representatives elected by the employes, a chairman elected by and from the membership of the "Works Council" and a secretary named by the management but having no vote...
...Shall we distribute it free ? If we release even a fraction of the nation's potential wealth the people will be economically secure...
...Dearly though they love life, a ruling class would rather die than do that...
...His laudable purpose of kidding the people that unremitting toil is a necessary, condition of their existence in an age of power-driven machinery will be achieved by conscript camps, where people will buy their economic security at the cost of their freedom...
...Belsky...
...machinery has solved it...
...The Ministry of Labor is preparing a scheme of compulsory "occupation training" and "discipline" for them...
...Bertha H. Mailly, Harry W. Laidler, Josef Mueller and Irvine M. Knobloch...
...These are now made at the rate of 3,000 per minute per man, where last year only 500 or 600 were made...
...For example, Sir Arthur Salter, Mr...
...S. Maggln...
...Year in Labor Conscript Camps...
...And universal darkness buries all...
...William Karlin Dr...
...I. A. Well, Wllho lied man, August Stark, Arthur M. Guttman...
...Shall we give the people money whether they work or not...
...And the following comrades promptly, without further urging, wrote down their names for loans totaling $850, all but one or two sending in $10...
...We recently asked our readers to report eases of violation...
...P. J. Murphy, Panken and Levy, Julia PrlmoiT, Morning side Helghti Branch, Sol Low, Edward P. Gottlieb...
...Mofltn, Louis Waldiuan, Max H. 1'rankle, John L, Lewlne, Bessie S. Goodman M. N. Winkler, Dr...
...There was a question, however, of finances...
...Brown-shirt agents have been intensely active there for some time and have been well supplied with funds, and their hopes ratf high...
...I need not enumerate any of those many labor-saving inventions which, it is well known, are residing up the sleeves of manufacturers...
...Lo, backchat hovers on the housemaid's lip...
...And before I proceed, have a cigarette...
...thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored...
...f They cannot allow this production to go on spilling itself over the world with fewer and fewer workers, and (as we don't pay a man unless he works) less and less money to buy it...
...Harry Kritzer, placed in charge of the Garden meeting, suggested that if a number of comrades loaned the committee $10 each the problem of getting the big project under way would be solved at once...
...The Dupont plan sets forth that the company "shall provide suitable places for meetings of the 'Works Council' and its committees...
...Do not rely on gossip and do not exaggerate...
...Anyhow, it appears that where formerly wool had to be carried from one plant to another for washing, fluffing, spinning, weaving, etc., and that each of these processes required a different set of workers, it is now possible by a straight line automatic process to introduce the raw wool at one end of a machine, which will wash it, extract the wax and lanolin, fluff it into yarns, dye it, weave it into cloth, cut it into lengths, roll it up into bolts, and wrap it up ready for shipment...
...So smoke up and give some poor fellow one sevenmillionth part of a 40-hour week's job...
...Memoranda are being circulated to the effect that there ia no prospect for some years of solving unemployment, and that even when it has been solved training will be desirable to ensure the right use of leisure...
...Here is the list: David Breslow, Ben Llchtenberg, Nathan l'lllitt, Sarah Rules, Horry Kritzer, I mil Bromberg, E. Miller, Alexander Kahn, S. Gordon, Cell* Hotter, M. Valrnateln, Adolph Held, S. Ilalman, J. Shore, II C. Vladeck and J. Basklo...
...SWISS NAZIS STUB TOES HTIIE Swiss Nazis got the first * measure of their strength at the ballot box i.i a senatorial byelection held in the Canton of Schaffhauaen less than a month ago...
...Morris Gisnet, S. John Block, Mary Fox, Dr...
...Let us meditate upon that phrase —"to ensure the right use of leisure...
...No sooner said than done...
...J. B. Mat thews, Morris Vasllew, Henry Winter, Louis Sadoff, Al Meyers, S. A. DeWitt, William Silverman, James C. Paradise, Jack Schulter, B. Botwlnlck, I. Neufeld, Nina Hillcjult, Alexander Newmark, David M. Cory, D. Sinclair...
...He knows the "right use" of the masses' leisure: No use...
...They have invented reason after reason for not distributing this wealth...
...Some at least of these surplus goods must be used, and, terrible though it must sound to an economist, some at least of this surplus food must be eaten...
...But economic security, together with freedom means the end of class distinctions...
...MacDonald's pet economic expert, writing on "The Framework of an Ordered Society," says that every invention which displaces workers "will cause chaos and unemployment unless the economic system is so elastic as to . . . transfer and absorb displaced workers...
...A Lesson for Blanshard STORIES of the NRA Do you know of any cases of nibbling at the NRA in a code industry...
...Despite this endorsement, he actually lost three votes in comparison with what he had received at the first balloting, while the Radical gained 300 and the Communist 100...
...How the Comrades Rallied to Aid Madison Sauare Garden Rally TTHIS is a story of the way the * Socialist party gets the cooperation of its members...
...Go to, thou mortifier of the flesh, thou staple scourge of saints...
...Here, for instance, is a rayon factory in New York, designed to run without human labor save for one man at a switchboard...
...But once let the masses regard it as their natural, inherited right to be fed, clothed, and housed adequately, and at the same time allow them to retain possession of their leisure hours and private addresses, and what happens ? That's an easy one: Lo...
...Plans similar to the two just mentioned and included in the documents were offered by Remington Rand, Inc., Ilion, N. Y...
...Freedom is all right so long as the people are economically insecure and can't do anything with it...
...I know thee, Wool...
...Light dies before the uncreating word...
...As you...
...Smoke for Employment is my motto...
...ALL these facts are now becoming obvious to our rulers...
...J. M. James and H. Vosel...
...Works Councils" set up under the plan would be composed of elected representatives of the employes and an equal number of appointed representatives of the company...
...Charwoman, drawing divis from the Bank, say that they are my equals, save in swank...
...Another provision says that employes attending meetings of the "Works Council" or any of its committees shall receive their regular pay while absent from work, "for such time as they are necessarily absent from work for these purposes...
...It's a story about New York activity, but comrades everywhere can take note and act accordingly...
...On the letterhead of the company, George Case, president, wrote: "The officers consider that an employe representation plan is now desirable and will inaugurate such a plan August 1." No mention is made on consulting the workers on the establishment of the plan...
...And though most of the people wouldn't notice the difference, our rulers do not want to live in caves themselves...
...This Las been considered as the most favorable of all the cantons for Nazi activity, as threequarters of its frontier is German and only one-quarter Swiss, and its people are economically and otherwise in close touch with South Germany...
...The porter shrugs, uncowed, before my tip...
...Here are a few reports from tke NRA front...
...They have either to distribute it somehow or go back to cave-dwelling...
...8. RJawsky, Dr...
...When the Campaign Committee enthusiastically voted to wind up the 1933 campaign at a Madison Square Garden rally there was no doubt about the outcome...
...Typical of the company union schemes was one submitted to its employes by the E. I. Dupont de Nemours and Company of Delaware and subsidiary companies...
...Economists have done their best to postpone the dread decision...
...rightly say, my Lord Bishop, Gosh...
...UR leading moralists have seen the danger...
...and last about a week...
...Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall...
...And the difficulty which confronts them is this: That unemployment has been solved...
...What's rayon to me or I to rayon T Ah, here is wool...
...L. s«h loir, J. L. Maims, lsmlore Rubin, Max Krimstadt, Alexander Schwarti, Albert Halpern, Harry S. Davis, Jacob Goldner and Henry Greenfield...
...But they can do no more...
...Combines may keep them at bay for a time, as they are still keeping off the market the new razor blade which will cost 30 cents and last a lifetime, and will replace the present ones which cost 4d...
...Before the final election, in which only the Radical, Communist, and Nazi candidates ran, the Catholic organization officially endorsed the last-named...
...There is, by the way, need for a few more, and the need is urgent...
...But how is it to be done...
...He's fainted...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 14
