"Days of Profit System Are Numbered"
"Days of Profit System Are Numbered" Uncle Sam's Doctors, Treating Grave Ailments of Industrial System, Concede That the Old Order Must Give Way to Some Kind of "Socialistic" Organization ^jj^E...
...Opposition is developing from the capitalist press...
...The mills In Welrton worked even during the 1919 strike...
...Looks bad and winter is here...
...Human beings must eat...
...Destroy some, tax much of the rest, collect from those little able to pay it, and distribute it as rations among the starving...
...Queer actions, you say...
...What are the issues involved that are important from the standpoint of the 11,000 Welrton Steel Company workers Mr...
...The Labor Board, there* fore, had to be kept out In order to force the election Into the required mould...
...The most significant development is In Oconto County, where for years no Socialist organization has existed...
...Fond du I .«c...
...For this restriction and destruction the farmers are promised $1,200,000,000...
...The company could not face even a doubtful election, for it was determined not to recognize the union...
...By Rose M. Stein Pittsburgh, Peon...
...That is the task of the suffering masses, a Socialist task to bt undertaken without compromise and with a will to win...
...So it was given the code treatment...
...He apparently felt that his workers could be suf* ftciently intimidated in two months to vote for the company union 1ft such large numbers that the presence of government officials would in no way affect the result This was a miscalculation...
...Then operate it to serve us...
...He is trying to take care of 3,000,000 farmers and 4,000,000 of the 11,000,000 jobless wage slaves...
...WEIR DEFIED NRA AND GOT AWAY WITH IT-NOW, WHAT...
...Hut the owners have shifted the workers out of the picture and thai is why we have the whole problem of deflated farmers and jobless wage workers...
...National Meet of YPSL's in New York THE National Executive Committee of the Young People's Socialist League will meet in New York Cfty on December 29, 30, and 81...
...Many filed blank ballots, others voted for "Andy Gump" or other comic strip characters...
...Taxes have been levied by Uncle Sam on wheat, cotton, corn, hogs and tobacco...
...But the union also held meetings...
...It must be regulated and controlled...
...Over a billion dollars will be extracted through sales from the masses and turned over to Uncle Sam to buy bread, clothing, pork and shoes to give to jobless masses...
...Weir stated his position at the conference in Washington, October 10, when his so-called agreement with the Labor Board was made, an agreement that consisted of nothing more than permission to the Labor Board '<> supervise the regular company union election during the second week In December...
...THK National Steel Corporation broke an agreement with the National Labor Board...
...The National Labor Hoard threatens court action and General Johnson threatens to withdraw the company's 4Jltte Eagle...
...All statements pertaining to the election, including a deflant telegram to Senator Robert F. Wag ner, have been issued over the signature of John Larkin, chairman of the company union rules committee, a mill worker with very little - "hooling and quite incapable of the legal language In which his statements sppear...
...But farmers are adopting the slogan, "The best answer to the Law and Order League is to join the Socialist Party...
...Months passed...
...More and more men Joined...
...The Pierce County Farmers' Union sent a letter to the Governor requesting a special session of the legislature, demanding among othre things the creation of a state marketing board with an exclusive monopoly over ail farm product* and finance...
...This will also be held at the Rand School Auditorium...
...When a few members of the administration admit that the oM system is gone and that a "socialistic state" may have to replace it, then something important is happening...
...The Milwaukee Journal warns the farmers of the dangers of "political milk" because they are accepting the Socialist demand for a state monopoly...
...Wisconsin Socialists are getting results from a determined propaganda and organizational campaign under the direction of State Secretary Al Benson...
...More than threats were resorted to...
...When the flow is stagnant, industries collapse and millions of workers become idle...
...They did all that was possible to win by peaceful means their constitutionally and legally guaranteed rights to organise...
...If a worker would not go to vote ven when threatened with dismissal, he would be forced to bodily or pushed along with a riot stick...
...It la true that parties and speeches were held to bring the men closer to the company...
...As a result of meetings and circulation of literature, six new branches with 150 members have been organized in the past six weeks, at Spruce, Lena, Klondike, Oconto Falls, Brookside, and Suring, almost exclusively farmers...
...Actually what they did was to copy the call for a special session seat to Governor Schmedemaa by the Socialist Party nearly six weeks ago...
...That would be (or Santa Claus to buy dead horses and pay for the burials...
...IT can be done...
...These facts make headline news and, as is usual with headlines, the real issues remain obscured...
...We must plan, work, educate and organize for power to discharge the owners and take over the whole works...
...After some treatments he decided that the old system cannot longer be left to itself...
...So far a billion and a quarter dollars arc paid by consumers of the taxed products to pay farmers for holding land out of use.| Now the Secretary of Agriculture estimates that Uncle Sam might make a cheaper bargain by buying 40,000,000 farm acres and permit them to revert back to woods and grass...
...New locals have been established In Dane, Jefferson, Marinette, Rusk, Winnebago and Dodge Counties in recent weeks...
...The old system does not work...
...Farmers can be won to Socialism...
...Perhaps Uncle Sam should buy them and close them...
...This is to be on* of the four annual meetings of the body...
...Rut Uncle Sam does not get enough funds from these disguised sales taxes, so he may decide to add beef cattle, sugar and probably milk to the list of food essentials to be taxed...
...The whole industrial system is changing under our eyes...
...E. T. Weir, President of the National Steel Corporation, Chairman of the Wcirton Steel Company's board, and bad boy in this controversy, like the rest of his brethren In the Steel Institute has always been frankly and firmly opposed to the unionization of his workers...
...Something like a "socialistic state" may have to replace it.| It will take time, but the groundwork must be prepared...
...Farmers realize that old party politicians, Including the LaFollettes, have used the farmers as stepping stones to political careers and left them flat on their backs...
...So some of the doctors reason...
...The results arc expressed in many new party branches and adaption of Socialist resolutions by many units of farm organization...
...The Oshkosh Northwestern tells the farmers to beware of "Socialist racketeers" who are trying to strengthen the Socialist movement in Wisconsin at the expense of the farmers...
...Company officials supervised the election and counted the votes while section bosses, superintendent, and mill police rounded up the voters and forced them Into the polling places...
...The farmers receive Uncle Sam's checks partly to destroy or to restrict the crops which the 4,000,000 wage slaves need...
...Active work is being carried on In many counties, the only drawback being lack of organizers...
...The powerful Milwaukee organization continues to carry on in every section of the city and is lending its resources to the state work...
...The Yipsel NEC will consider the major problems of centralizing the action of the league, of creating more circle activity, of new educational and Industrial projects...
...In some counties company unions of farmers are being organized as the Law and Order League, an attempt to stop farmers from fighting the dairy trust...
...The New York circles of the league are preparing a gala event in the form of a dance at the Rand School Auditorium, 7 East 15th Street, Friday, December 29...
...The state office is paying the expenses for organising work by comrades in their own localities...
...Clark, Shawana and Marathon Counties, where good Socialist organizations formerly existed but have been dormant in recent years...
...Sure...
...That would shift the owner* out of the picture, we arc told...
...It compels us to produce for exchange, to buy and sell...
...The growth of the party among farmers is no accident...
...AH party members and Yipsels are expected to be present...
...Then it maintained an even rate, only to decline and become almost as stagnant as when we began...
...It is also not at all ualikely that when the case comes into the court*, as is inevitable, and especially if criminal action is taken an effort will be made to make Larkin the goat In the meantime the controversy has already had an extremely important effect It is bringing to a focus and making clear the fact that the Weirton employees produced a perfect example of absolute compliance with the rules and regulations of the government...
...Locals like those in Racine, Kenosha and Madison, which never ceased working, are redoubling activity...
...Never was there a more brazen or farclal election...
...Those who think that the days of capitalism are numbered reason thus: "We tried to start capital flowing...
...So Santa Claus with one hand distributes gifts and with the other he orders the restriction or destruction of the source from which gifts can be made...
...I Watch Wisconsin next fall...
...A spirit of militant optimism pervades the entire state organization...
...He is blind who does not see it...
...It la true that a number of union men were laid off or discharged In the course of the two months...
...Now it is a world collapse...
...But the farmers come in ever greater numbers to Socialist meetings and the demand for Socialist literature grows daily...
...Recently 500 farmers attended a rally of the new branches and listened to talks by Al Benson, Charles Brandt, County Milk Pool President, and Andrew J. Biemiller, Socialist Party educational director...
...If they don't eat lood they may turn against the system...
...At first there was an increased flow...
...Days of Profit System Are Numbered" Uncle Sam's Doctors, Treating Grave Ailments of Industrial System, Concede That the Old Order Must Give Way to Some Kind of "Socialistic" Organization ^jj^E are in the fifth year of the breakdown of our, industrial system...
...Leo Vernon has done excellent work in Dane and Jefferson Counties, and William Harvey is organizing Rush County...
...Others think that this view is diabolical...
...WISCONSIN FARMERS FLOCK TO THE SOCIALIST PARTY By Andrew J. Biemiller Milwaukee, Wis...
...By December it was almost as stagnant as in December last year...
...This activity is having its effect on city branches...
...It is the result of activity, in the recent milk strikes, in which many So cialnts served as speakers and on the picket lines...
...Too much wheat, too much cotton, corn and tobacco...
...If those means have failed, the fault must lie either in the means or in the opposition to them...
...So the treatment was changed and Uncle Sam turned Santa Claus...
...That would mean an area almost equal to all New England...
...Organizations in Green Bay and Oshkosh, which have been slumbering, are coming back to life...
...Uncle Sam and his assistant experts became worried...
...Treat capitalism as the doctors may, its ailments are fatal...
...Yes, but the queerness does not end with these actions...
...Many farmers now realize that the profit system exploits thehi as it does the workers, and that solidarity of the two groups can free them from economic slavery...
...All efforts to bring capital into action have failed...
...Why n6t take .over idle and necessary plants and arrange for their operation in a democratic way that will be useful to workers who need theni...
...A great anti-fascist demonstration is arranged for Saturday, December 30 ,ftt 2:80 P. M. at which Norman Thomas, Leo Kryzcki,' Winston Dancis, Art McDowell, and Aaron Levenstein will speak...
...It worked after a fashion for more than a century but it collapsed on an average of every thirteen years...
...The workers must new not only be free but must have public support in their effort to pursue more direct means to attain their rights to Join a union and to have the union'of their choosing recognized...
...The United States News last week reports that they are of the opinion "that the days of the profit system are numbered...
...Some capital began to flow to the end of July, then the flow became less and less...
...Organizers are at Work in Brown...
...If an organizer appeared he was met by the sheriff or company gunmen and promptly escorted out of town...
...If Uncle Sam is going to buy industries, why purchase surplus plants and close them...
...The four million are being pro-vided public works jobs and are to be paid about enough to enable them to eat...
...To produce goods capital must flow throughout industry...
...Capital is the bloodstream of the system and the system's veins are withered...
...So capitalism has produced this absurdity...
...One reason for success in Oconto County is the untiring work of and the socialisation of industry Local Organiser Jesse Winters...
...Uncle Sam turned doctor...
...It is also suggested that there arc some surplus plants in some industries...
...these taxes do not bring sufficient funds an even more general sales tax may be considered...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 26
