TIMELY TOPICS

...It still protects private ownership of property in production goods and the operation of it for private profit But it is true that it is a form of capitalism in which the state is supreme...

...Pries fixing almost certainly should he on the basis ef a profit for the marginal man...

...The whole situation illustrates Urn difficulties of patchin...

...Since that tiwe, etcording to the records, he has not paid dues in the Party, although permitting himself to be considered a "Socialist...

...We have not Fascism now...

...it takes time, and sometimes it proves dangerous to them...

...In his campaign he was supported by a number of ex-Soclallsts...

...He was supported by Republicans, whose candidate was eliminated in the primaries...

...We can answer and discredit their talk far better in the open than by giving them a few cheap .nartyrs...

...is likely to dull the sensibilities of the workers so that the real wolf will catch them off their guard...

...By intensive measures farmers can produce more wheat on fewer acres if they want So far as cutting tariffs is concerned, the principle ought to be to use tariffs only, as protection against a flood of goods from a country which does not live up to the minimum working conditions which the Labor Office in Geneva and other agencies are trying to establish...

...Ohio city elections are on a non-partisan basis, but party organizations have a way of letting the public know who their candidates are...

...Any Fascist terrorism—Italian, German or American-must be crushed...

...We have tendencies toward it and possibilities of the development of existing laws in that direction...

...To think, however, that the-liquor question is settled is an Immense illusion...

...It is net the form of capitalism which would be the first choice of big business men...

...The newspapers hare been the allies of the manufacturers because most of them by the news they have printed and the news they have not printed have given the impression that the strike is settled...

...He is probably right when he says that the nation must cct its tariffs or reduce its agricultural output T>e trouble is that his program of a subsidy at tie expense of consumers in order to persuade fa-mers to produce an artificial scarcity does not go to the root of any of our agricultural problems and dies not even guarantee a cut in production...

...In the cour...

...The' worst proof of the toothless condition of the NRA or, at any rate, of its slowness to operate is to be seen in the way manufacturers are sabotaging settlement of the great strike of the silk workers...

...At a time when rising prices threaten all die gains, such as they are, that workers have made in wages, the price of all petroleum products is bound to be forced up...

...In reality Fascism is a stage of capitalism...

...By Norman Thomas TIMELY TOPICS Fascism and CfiirTTflHtTii MUSSOLINI, hi furtherance of his plan for a "corporative" stale, plans which fat reality have moved very slowly, now announces that the next Parliament to be elected in the spring will he expected to abolish itself in favor of government by guilds...

...There has been cut-throat competition, enormous wastes, and general chads...

...By handling our case against Fascism in a Fascist manner not only do we run the risk of encouraging a precedent which may be used against ourselves, but we also run the risk of creating a dangerous sympathy for the Nazis among the German and other sections of our population as if they were the victims of persecution...

...viduais, seme ef them la public office, has not been well taken care of in any of tbe machinery ef NRa...

...Klotz, member of the Musicians' Union and long active in state trade union circles, was victor over Mayor Addison Q. Thacher, independent Republican, on Nov...

...This has been going on for two weeks or more and nothing effective has happened as yet at Washington or in the field...

...Thus to cry "Wolf, wolf...

...Gerard Swope's plan gives business more power and the state far less power than Mussolini or Hitler | would approve...

...It is I think, a tactical mistake, and it certainly is an incorrect statement of fact, for Communists and other radical speakers to say that we have Fascism now...

...that is, for the leas if not the least efficient producer...

...This ,in turn, will make huge profits for more successful producers...

...timself would ' ive had to start proceedings for a recount, and that Klotz failed to do...

...In 10 Klotz came within 200 votes of election as Mayor, and with sworn evidence of widespread irregularities available it was believed a recount would have seated him with a comfortable majority, find the Party was prepared to go ahead...

...snd there are report* that he was also supported I. tho Republican machine of Walter F Brown, old-time political boss and Postmaster-General in the Hoover cabinet...

...The employers, or most of them, ha/e been stalling for time, hoping that their two allies, cold and hunger, will drive the workers back with broken ranks...

...It is hard for workers to make effective complaint...

...Nevertheless there is very grave danger when ariti-Fascists, whether they are liberals, Jews, Socialists, or Communists, seem to demand of government the kind of restrictions on meetings which "patriots" of the wrong sort and business interests have so often demanded against radicals...

...Hartung, Democrat, who ran third...

...Official German Nazi propagandists should be checked up on and if Hitler's government is involved it should be compelled to stop its evil work at once...

...When they do make complaints not much is done...

...The fact that Fascism is not the first choice of j big or little business men in America and the further fact* that President Roosevelt neither by nature or past experience is cast for the equivalent of Mussolini's or Hitler's rob, give us time—though not too much of it—to build the forces which would substitute the cooperative commonwealth for the totalitarian state...

...up capitalism and -of relieving one evil without creating new ones in its stead...

...Oil Prices r TPHE Independent Oil Companies Alliance of * America Is making a strong appeal to the consumers to block the price fixing of petroleum products which is to begin und»r government auspices December 1st, 1988...

...This is s principle which is very hard to carry out under a system of capitalist production for profit where the manufacturers are bound to try to exploit it and distort it for their own ends...

...of his speech he denounced capitatslm along with Socialism...

...The Prohibition Agony r\V course it a a good thing that the prohibition v agony is over and that an amendment to the Constitution consistently disregarded is finally repealed...

...We arm because we are afraid and we are afraid because we arm, and this is likely to go on until the great cry: "Workers of the world, unite...

...Nwri Propaganda FASCIST propaganda in America, especially when it includes anti-Semitism, is vicious...

...We shall not drink ourselves out of debt or into prosperity, and at least as long as there is great private profit m exploiting men's alcoholic taste's there will be plenty of trouble, political, economic, and social, out of the liquor traffic...

...This tendency of Fascists to denounce capitalism is confusing...

...7th by a vote of 35,323 to 33,116, with a vote of 23,000 for Dr...

...It is notorious that the consumer*' in...

...The last way to cure these evils is to leave oil and its products in the hands of private owners, whether these private owners compete or whether there is virtual monopoly...

...The workers agreed to accept a decision of the Labor Board pending a favorable interpretation of the code and recognition of tie union...

...Toledo Elects Klotz, Former Socialist, as Mayor (Bj ii New Ivtadrr Correairanilent) HTOLEDO, O.—Toledo has elected * as its Mayor Solon Tremblee Klotz, 73-year-old trade unionist and one-time active Socialist, but the election is in no sense a victory for the So!.:alist Party...

...Klotz, once nearly elected Mayor as a Socialist Party choice, naturally benefited by the strong Socialist sentiment in the city, but he made his campaign strictly on a "good man" basis...

...Under the law, however, the cand...

...Now the oil industry is in a bad vay...

...For instance, Mr...

...Now comes along the British Admiralty to explain that with regret it must build its new cruisers up to the limit of sise because Japan and the United States have done it So we have guns instead of bread...

...is something more than a slogan for an occasional radical meeting...

...I Houses and Warships WE Americans are told that at a time when we cannot build decent houses for the ill-housed, we must spend hundreds of millions on the Navy because England and Japan are doing it The Japanese are told that, although their workers and farmers are near the line of hunger, they must Spend hundreds of millions on the Navy and Array because England and the United States are doing it...

...On this issue Socialists and the Independent Oil Companies are poles apart, but I think that the Independent Oil Companies make a fairly strong argument for the danger of price fixing under capitalism...

...These tendencies and possibilities are so strong that the fact that Fascism is not the first choice of most capitalists' will not prevent Its coming with the approval of I such capitalists as see in Fascism a way to keep' the workers quiet Teeth for NRA A IX over America I have heard the cry: "NRA *"* lacks teeth...

...tercet la spite of the valiant efforts of certain indi...

...Farm Prices (SECRETARY WALLACE is right when he tells the farmers that adjustment and a planned program will be necessary whether America decides on economic nationalism, internationalism or a compromise between them...

...Incidentally, the strike which has been heroically carried on by the workers shows tbe extraordinary need for central machinery of relief on the part of the labor forces of America...