The Workers Abroad
Khinoy, Mark
The Workers Abroad An International Review of the Socialist and Labor Movement of the World By Mark Khinoy "Socialism in Our Time'' Wins in Belgium MOT even the professional optimists among us...
...In the * general elections of 1929 the Stalin tendency obtained 43,271 votes and one seat, the Trotsky tendency 7,237 votes and no seat...
...84 art to serve a total of over 100 years imprisonment...
...16th) ths general idea of this plan was first adapted by the above mentioned highest bodies of the Labor movement...
...I, aged 50, died of wounds caused by brutal boatings...
...But it has happened...
...had for a long time...
...Th* Socialist press of Europe generally places th* minimum at 60,000, with a probability that at leait one-third should bt added t* this estimate...
...An important step in this direction was recorded November 16th, when a special Joint meeting of the General Council of the Labor Parry and the National Committee of the Federation of Labor unanimously adopted a report that calls for the immediate introduction of a socialized system of production and distribution in this industrial country...
...2 are acquitted...
...Hitler's Prisoners.- Estimates of the number of persona shut up in Hitler's concentration, camps vary widely...
...A Growing Party Til E party had a duei paying membership in a country of * less than nine million of 600,965 in January 1931 (it is now more), of whom 530,575 are members of their respective trade unions...
...In addition to this, it contains sis important changes in the parliamentary system of the country, and winds up with dec* laration that the party now "begins a struggle for the conquest of the government" "by all constitutional means" and will not accept any participation in the government unless this Working Plan of Immediate Socialism will be ths base of its activtes...
...Those store* contributed from their profits in the depression year of 1931* 193 eleven million francs for Socialist propaganda, education and other socially useful activities...
...The trade unions in this country are opposed to legislation that would outlaw strikes, but Mr...
...NRA Counsel Sees Ideal in Fascism A RECENT address by Mark *¦ Eisner, general counsel for the NRA in New York City, shows how close an NRA official may be to the views of Mussolini...
...According to the documents and "open letters" the Opposition published, it appears that this split is ths most serious ths CP...
...The committee consisted of seven representatives of the politics] branch of the movement, seven from the industrial organisation (Federation of Labor) and one from the central office of the workers' cooperative movement...
...Communists of Poland Split Again THE Socialist press of Warsaw reports ¦ now split in the * official Communist Party of Poland...
...According to the official organ at the party, LePeupleof Brusselli (Nov...
...They studied «U the theoretical, political, economic and technical aspects of the proposal, prepared a detailed plan, and, after adopting it unanimously, they offered it to the Joint Council of the party and the unions...
...There is attached to this report a very elaborate plan for, among other things, the complete elimination of the capitalist plague—unemployment— through a system leading to a 100 per cent increase of the domestic market in five years...
...Its parliamentary representation consist of 70 deputies out of 117 and 54 senators out of 153...
...Eisner makes a comparison between the Italian corporate syndicates and the trade associations under the NRA as Gerard Swope of the General Electric Company would have them...
...It owns 6 dailies, 30 weeklies and 39 monthlies...
...Eisner believes that "the day will come when we will have a machinery for the settlement of labor disputes in the hands of men without political bias and without the possibility of sinister approach...
...He is charmed by the "peace" and "order" this despotism has brought to the workers of Italy...
...1,696 Workers in Secret Confinement THE Tokio correspondent Reuters reports a very singular * tale from Japan...
...Heavy Sentences for 89 German Socialists THE first mass trial against an illegal Socialist organisation * in Hitler Germany brought ths following sentences I I condemned to 9 yssrs 9 months imprisonment each...
...The author of the plan is the eminent Socialist writer and thinker Henri de Man...
...It leaves in private hands the small enterprises, artisans and formers, although it puts them too under the general control of the Stste and its central planning agencies...
...The complete failure of Communist tactics la Germany seems to be the most important cause of the latest romp...
...Borlln news agencies say there ar* "only" 22,000, but no one believes this semi-official statement...
...Eisner is the law that forbids strikes and lockouts by making them criminal offenses...
...Tho whole tenor of his speech indicated a sentimental regard for Italian Fascism with the expectation that if it is introduced here it would be welcome...
...One feature of the Italian dictatorship that appealed to Mr...
...THE Communist Party has 500 members, at most...
...A special committee of IS was then elected to work under de Man's chsirmanshlp...
...From somo outside sources figures as high at 170,000 are obtained...
...This implies men without economic interests and views, something that exists only in the phantasy of Utopians...
...The Workers Abroad An International Review of the Socialist and Labor Movement of the World By Mark Khinoy "Socialism in Our Time'' Wins in Belgium MOT even the professional optimists among us could have * ' dreamed that of all the Socialist parties of Western Europe the Labor Party of Belgium would be the first to make the slogan "Socialism in Our Time" a practical issue for its every, day policies...
...Eisner was much impressed by the castor oil statesmen when visiting him in Rome, and he told Mussolini that the NRA "was an adaptation of the Italian plan...
...It seems ths police there last February arrested 1,696 radical workers, and during all these 9 months kept them in secret confinement, forbidding tho local press to mention this hugs mass-arreit...
...In addition it has an exceptionally strong cooperative movement with 298,799 shareholder-consumers whose 1,161 stores did last year a business of 63 million francs...
...Since this body, under ths guidance of its chairman, Emile Vandervelde made this plan its own, it will now be presented to a special convention of the party at Christmas, The plan calls for an immediate "economic and political transformation of the country," gives a detailed plan for the "nationalization of credit" and also for the "nationalization of the basic industries" and socialization of ths means of transportation...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 24
