Professional Men'?
Professional Men'? i Buries —*v »'mmm * « fr * pdlUnver, i banering of jjtP- For It, gigantic **» if the nth pti, the new ii front-line Hit system? | to meat of n and pub|hb...
...Not a hint...
...it curdles the blood even to read the lunatic ravings of those who today control the German nation and who have the world by the throat...
...but it was too late...
...Not men -but SOCIALISM...
...If there had been time, if the Socialists in all countries had been able to work out their plans the mischief done at Versailles might have been undone.' * But the crash came in 1929...
...But those ravings are but the echo of the campaign slogan...
...Not a line...
...Dumb, silent on the organized, legalized crime against the workers of the world!—a silence that is perfectly satisfactory to the boodlers, bankers and buccaneers of capitalism...
...has had no more party, but he has a past, and let ue hope, his memories...
...there alone was salvation in 1919: there alone is salvation today...
...ipse aa, Trotsky, tell as Sort all leading •wed power ave that Soalited in a nevikliteraJ» hark idea th* itroggle and Trotsky pen struggle tied the year «*r Trotsky *• Central • he wag an ¦ rated and ••antsy" be»ans theory ¦aat eonse•*M revolu•Daboration men "irre¦l and po...
...In October, 1982, the executive held twelve Sessions and adopted resolutions, but they did not appear at all in Itveetia, while Pravda published them, but only as a reprint from L'Humaniti, organ of the French Communist Party...
...And admit it...
...There alone was salvation in 1914...
...It is not enough to be a good man, an interesting man, a "colorful" man...
...and now he is out again— off again, gone again (to cut a new set of eye-teeth...
...If the Divine Providence csused you to be deprived of work, He did it for your own good...
...among newspaper editorial department workers...
...And considering what had been happening for four agonizing years, was there any doubt of the outcome...
...Nearly nine million British lads had been put into uniform...
...It may make the Welshman uncomfortable to realize those facts Jf he docs...
...The fact is that the Communist International has suffered an eclipse and It Is significant that it has held no congress since 1928, the year when the Five-Year Plan was announced and Stalin ventured upon the program of Socialism In • "single country...
...He won an overwhelming vote of confidence for hit program, and backed by his majority he went to Versailles, there to help write what was whimsically known as a "peace...
...The cost of the war was some $127,000,000,000, but in the.treaty it was scaled down to a mere half...
...And that is the Socialist way...
...Postal employes and many other classes of "white collar" workers have organized...
...I have before me Upton Sinclair's single-page, carefully formulated, twelve-feature "Epic Plan—to End Poverty in California," his dream for the workers—printed without the union label...
...of Lloyd George of 1918...
...Much that appears In the book sustains the critical interpretation made by Trotsky, slthough, to repeat, the suthor Is not a partisan but the historian tracing the evolution of • policy and an idea...
...The people of Germany drove out their Kaiser and established a free republic...
...Walter Duranty, Moscow correspondent of the New York Times, commenting on the hvettia editorial, wrote that no other interpretation is possible than that the Soviet Union "will take no aggressive action should Germany, Poland, or Rumania be faced by a revolutionary movement," and that is precisely what happened in the ease of Germany...
...What appeals to him at a certain moment ia what he does, regardless of what appealed to him a Jew moments before or what will appeal to him later...
...Not a whisper against the capitalist system...
...The end came...
...Excited people ceased to be excited...
...Those who incline to laugh at Sinclair's expense should remember that it is ungenerous to laugh at a gentle genius now innocently assuming the role of a political trick bull to lead tens of thousand* of confused worker* into the political slaughterhouse of capitalism...
...The voices of Socialists in Germany and in the victor countries were not heeded as they should have been, their noses were rubbed in the dirt...
...And those memories can tell us a great deal, and those who can learn from them are by no means confined to Great Britain...
...Too Late...
...This blue print of Sinclair's plans to end poverty in California is a sorry conglomerate of a worn-out colonizing scheme, a taxation voteteaser, and a pension votewheedler;—without a single whisper or a vague suggestion that the capitalist system should promptly be damned and destroyed because it produces poverty,—damned and destroyed because it shouts of overproduction while tens of millions are hungry and in rags,—damned and destroyed because it arrests human progress precisely when Science has burst upon the world with potential plenty and peace for all, with leisure and culture for all,— should be damned and destroyed because it shrouds mankind with fear and sorrow when Science offers security end joy for* all...
...Passions rose high and L. G. conducted his election campaign—the "Khaki election" they called it—on the issue of the war...
...The little Welshman is an Elder Statesman now, a hoary old sage, the Father of the House of Commons...
...Upton Sinclair as A Political Acrobat By George R. Kirkpatrick JpOETS dream epics, even political and industrial epics...
...workers," "steady workers," and so on...
...Even teachers have organized in some cities, having had brought home to them that in organization there is strength and that they, as teachers, are workers, too...
...Thus, In newspaper stories concerning strikes we frequently see strikebreakers and "scabs" referred to ar "loya...
...hvettia MM...
...He is for war and peace, for the workers and the bankers, for narrow nationalism and a broad internationalism...
...The German people were disarmed, they were humiliated, they were compelled to assume unbearable burdens...
...The young scions of the "better families" go into newspaper work for a few years after leaving college "to gain experience...
...Are Journalists really "professional men...
...But why worry T Why sneer ? Those who weep should remember that political and facial evolution will not be seriously or long delayed—in a crisis like the present—by the defection of a poet who suddenly dreams that he eta (aa ha announces) wipe out poverty in a few months, only a few months—with a program that timidly omits bold denisi or even mention of the capitalist system that produces poverty rampant throughout the world,—and by means of a political party he has belittled and bludgeoned a thousand times...
...Old slogans of the Commintern still find a place in the theses of the executive as though no change had taken place in Bolshevik theory and practice...
...Being without work you therefore will be all the more appreciative of work when it returns...
...aid that P» la aimed r» country P»a, but in IJhV under ana to intervene in a country where there is a counter-revolution...
...Politically, Sinclair is interestingly nimble...
...Yes, indeed, L. G., governments should not interfere with the internal affairs of other nations...
...Squeaking Their Pips Once L. G. Wanted to 'Ang The Kaiser, But He Is Very Sorry Now "J PROTEST...
...It's Good for You to Be Without Work A famous ecclesiastic to a group of unemployed workers...
...yiME passed...
...Tragedy and comedy, tears and laughter are Induced in about 50-60 proportions by Sinclair's latest political somersault...
...And the same old jackass is now lustily hee-hawing again as bewildered Uppie climbs aboard the long-eared member of the political > gold-dust twins, the ass and the elephant...
...But the treaty stood...
...We will squeeze them until their pips squeak," he said...
...908,371 had been killed and over two million more wounded...
...According to the NRA Eagle, journalists art "professional men" —meaning that they can work just as long noun as the owner of the paper wants them to work, with no wore security as to their jobs than they ever had, and putting them, as "professional men," in the same category as established physicians and lawyers, many of whom pay their chauffeurs more than their (^-"professionals," the journalists, receive...
...Today he is opposed to war and in his white-haired senescence plays the role of a broad humanitarian...
...But, a* before, he will find it uncomfortable riding the Democratic donkey backward...
...THE BRAY of THE WEEK Now It's All Clear...
...1 would entreat the Government," he added, "to proceed cautiously and not get mixed up in another Denekin or Wrangel business, whether it be by blood or blockade...
...Non"%»ad with **¦» while in ' '»»**Mo, in|* titvinov Jr...
...The terrible burdens still broke the backs of the German people...
...It is a terrible time...
...In England it has become quite a fad for young aristocrats to become "pressmen" for a while, just for a "lark...
...In 1918 he was at the head of a government waging , war...
...A "Colorful" Feller j^LOYD GEORGE is what we in America call a "colorful" man...
...Submitted by Victor Harris, Hsrtford, Conn., who was the first of a half-dozen readers to select this Item...
...He has no one to follow his noble leadership there except his son, his daughter and his son-in-law...
...Hut aren't you a little late in finding that out...
...Incidentally, it must be said, the Communist International has carried out a policy of refusing non-aggression pacts with the Labor and Socialist parties...
...More time passed...
...but outside of that he cannot be labeled...
...No condemnation, no explanation of the wage-slave, profit-plunder system...
...The work of Lloyd George and Clemenceau, of* Poincarc and of Wilson, of the uncompromising nationalists on all sides had been done...
...He has no particular principles, but rather plays politic...
...The war came to a close, and immediately thereafter there was an election...
...Not a word...
...Are they Men...
...Socialists were heard more and more...
...The maniacal demagogue!, listened to with amused tolerance before 1929, now began to get serious hearers...
...Loyal" to whom?—to what...
...The pips squeaked...
...The underpaid reporter who write* the story would not be permitted to explain, even if he could...
...There must be a program, a policy, a WAY that one goes...
...by ear...
...Hitler leaped into the saddle, and the world was flung back into the Middle Ages...
...We will hang the Kaiser," he said...
...wage-slaves into the Democratic party...
...He has been in the Socialist party, then out, then in again...
...to meat of n and pub|hb aerely i er great t luceeaiful it Mat and ¦papers, not ker political •wseri and if,- taor hire writing for mm, the new Ra whom we I File tf the new • smeap the •tkitt collar • tier was a iprobably a a, if he has Merer payI sever hope itr which he sting op the ! politicians, iloao neat" •f cops and endow hapN the daily at American lamnpaper netives a k that of the i Mg res tanalitiea which ana newsf the newsr, never go ¦tut never Irndal realities, because it would not do lor newspaper readers to begin to' think...
...There remain the newspaper workers, whose wages sre lower than those of many other divisions of "white collar slaves," and who, except for a few sporadic attempts, have steadfastly remained unorganised, although they might have linked forces with the Typographical Union, one of the most powerful anions In the United States...
...We will make Germany pay the cost of the war to the last farthing," he said...
...The burdens broke the backs of the German people...
...Even if he could...
...Meanwhile, there lie* Jimmie Higgins, betrayed again, hungry, ragged and lonely, so lonely, hurt to the heart—Jimmie Higgins, (tabbed in the back, by his father...
...says David Lloyd George, "against outside interference in Germany...
...They know what constitutes the frontline of their defense 1 Professional Unions Many actors have organized in onions allied with those of the musicians, the motion picture projectionists, the electricians and the stage hands...
...But there is something even more important: Unless parties and statesmen have definite policiei they flounder and serve brutal, savage, crazy reaction...
...Waving this weasel-worded, political milk-sop banner before the workers and small tax-payers- of California, Sinclair i* now volunteer errand boy for the Democratic party,— astride the famous jackass that brayed with joy when Sinclair leaped into the saddle with Doc Wilson to fight for J. P. Morgan and his pirate crew of parasites and profiteers...
...The bitter paradox—and inevitable result—of it la that in many small cities and towns the unionised linotype operators working in newspaper composing rooms receive higher wages and work shorter hours than the managing editor or city editor of the newspaper, not to mention the reporters...
...But he was not always white-haired...
...Those who have worked for various newspapers over a period of years are impressed by the increasing prevalence of the "college boy" type, the "little Fascist...
...A copy of Henderson's "Case for Socialism" goes to him as the winner this week...
...Imagine Jim Maurer, Morris Hillquit, Victor Berger or 'Gene Debs wheedling...
Vol. 16 • October 1933 • No. 15
