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NRA Does Not Reach } Fred Henderson, the noted British economist and Socialist, was atked by the Columbia Broadcasting Syetem to give his impressions of the NRA after his tour of...
...day with an artificial | flower pinned to her coat lapel...
...A movie actress ventures forth I on a brigh...
...thus the suspender industry is reborn...
...The executive h-d none...
...NRA Does Not Reach } Fred Henderson, the noted British economist and Socialist, was atked by the Columbia Broadcasting Syetem to give his impressions of the NRA after his tour of the United States...
...The movie man tells his old pal to leave it to him...
...to get good...
...Your whole preparation for illegality consisted*in securing the continuity of payments of salaries to the apparatus people...
...No alliance with others workers to meet the common dangei was permtited...
...The trouble now affecting economic life is not local or national: not an accident of mismanagement in the affairs of one or another nation...
...Mors...
...Human physical energy has been, superseded as the measure of productive output by gigantic nonhuman physical energies...
...Since 1919 the Socialist Party in this country has been driving Communism out of the front door only to permit it later to enter by a back window...
...With Stalin ditching the "world revolution" in exchange for peace pacts with capitalist powers, the Trotsky faction ssserts that the Communist parties are transformed into "frontier guards" for the Soviet Union...
...Even before the German disaster and the Litvinov-Roosevelt sgreement, the American ) Communist Party has had an annual turnover of members as high as 90 per cent in recent years...
...Some Cali- j fornia party branchea raise the window when it is obvious to informed Socialists that Communism is mortally stricken...
...It ind'ets official Communism...
...His address, over a coast-to-eoast network the day before he sailed for home, follow*: By Fred Henderson J AMI to speak about NRA as I an economist and it is with I the soundness of its policy I have I I to concern myself, and not with I the high personal qualities put I into its working...
...over, the few Communist parties in other countries are going through s similar crisis and it is no exaggeration to say that I the Communist International is passing into the discard with the loss of its one big section, the German party...
...It ought to mean plenty for everybody...
...Scarcely spy of the rank snd file enthusiasts of ten years ago remain...
...A change in styles conceals women's ' gs, takes the artificial flowers from coat lapels, eliminates most of women's underwear, and tens of thousands of human beings are thrown on the streets to beg or sta...
...She returned to them with—nothingl Need it surprise us that Ruasta—"the fatherland of the proletariat"—has few Communist refugees...
...The Communist International has been strangled by Stalinism, is bankrupt, is beyond recovery or rcstorstior on Marxian foundations," deckres Max Shachtman in a pamphlet of this group...
...Incidentally, one obtains an insight into the mental anxiety of many Communist workers in the last few tragic months before the Fascists ascended to power...
...Style changes its mind and reveals only the ankle, and instantly mills shut down and tens of thousands of hosiery workers are tossed out of jobs, and who caresT The Hcsiery Code authority recognizes the situation and decrees a threeday week, to reduce production by 40 per cent (and cut the earnings of tens of thousands accordingly...
...and it is important that we begin by seeing clearly what this identical thing is that is happening to the life of the world...
...A Tragic German Document |M[ A Ki A REESE was a devoted Communist leader In Ger1 many...
...How did the program of first destroying the Socialist organisation of workers and then destroying the Fascists work out...
...It has carried human life almost at onestride out of the immemorial ages of scarcity into a new world of almost incredible plenty...
...But we still go on trying to distribute this new abundance by the old finance devices and within the old structure of property rights over all output, which were designed solely to meet conditions of restoring to « scarcity...
...War clouds gather, the drums roll and the fifes shrill...
...afflicted with liberal reformism and sentimental Communism...
...We have had a complete revolution on the producing side of world economy...
...How about arranging it so that human beings may live in comfort and contentment just because they have a right to, and not as a uere by-product of profit milking...
...her picture appears In countless papers, and within a month a new industry is born, the making of artificial flowers...
...But for some reason we are having to go without them...
...Other documents of a similar character are coming out of Germany which reveal that Communism Is going into the discard with the old force anarchism...
...She had intended to get the plans snd go to Communist wo-kers who were waiting...
...You conclude alliances with foreign lords and ladles who have as much interest in our fighting cnmraJea as the Hitler barons...
...An earthquake hits Southern California, a~1 out of the destruction there are jobs for thousands...
...If our party membership were generally acquainted with this irsgic history they would avoid all contacts with Communiem instead of dragging at ss s cadaver into their councils...
...It is...
...She avoids "cnora and the document is all the mors effective for it A womsn who lived snd worked and dreamed for the working i'ass, who trusted the bombast of the Co.nmunist lead.rs, writes like one who had received a fearful blow from a trusted friend...
...We get our new plenty by But when « procesaea in production which translated in« render human tune service In pro- onC4) up igauH ductlon less necessary in ratio to j„ our sjSktM output...
...If there had been no snowstorm, if December 26th had been a clear, sunny day, millions would have filled their lungs with fresh air and gurgled with Joy over the glorious postChristmas weather, and 20,000 idle men would not have had a day's work and a day's pay...
...The windev.- has generally been opened by inexperienced or new members...
...he gets one of his brighteyed he-stars to venture forth coatless, his pants held up by suspenders, and .gain th, ubiquitous cameraman is there...
...They are not wanted by Stalin, and the vast majority of them are in other countries...
...born, thousands of girls making women's neckwear...
...Millions suffer In a terrible snowstorm, and scores die of cold and exposure, but 20,000 idle men get a day's work clearing away the snow in a single city...
...A long letter io the party executive and to the Moscow executive announcing her res gnation is tl a most pathetic to be found in modern revolutionary polemics...
...All that has been made obsolete by the revolution in production...
...Such members should be requested to resign, end if | resignations are not forthcoming the party should enforce the proper discipline...
...The Red Aid treasury, which the rank and file did not control, paid salaries of functionaries and no funds reached victims who required, help...
...As the barbaric hordes prepared for their work and the hour of final struggle approached, Maria Reese and other Communists inquired of the party executive as to what its plans were...
...Another screen beauty, ballyhooed by the press department of a i ivul picture firm, ventures forth into the sunshine and into the , range of cameras ths by a curious coincidence happen to be about, and within a couple of days her picture appears with lace collar around her pretty neck...
...The Revolution in Production Clearly that ought to be good for us...
...The Left Opposition declines to be liveried servants of a national bo'shevism and it now makes war on the Communist Internationa...
...We were surrendered," she cries...
...It is at this period of more bitter war among Communists, i with pitched battles already fought in Brooklyn and Montreal, that some California Socialist Party members become afflicted 1 with this Communist sickness...
...Many Communist part) members sre bewildered, i some raise questions, snd others have left in disgust...
...and we have so far completely neglected the adjustments required to fit the distributive side to the new conditions...
...while at the same time our erty iyit«m ta distributive system gives to the consumptien k mass of mankind no right what- for tne Ter> g| ever to use or consume even a BCt 0f consum...
...An producing system no longer re- time perfectly quires from us...
...Why did Communism fail to act...
...I The Left Opposition (Trotsky faction) once considered itself a faction of the official party, although outside it, but it hasl given up this claim...
...human productivity was the physical energy operating as the physical energy of production and as the measure of output...
...lies are flung forth from chancelleries and men march against each other to slaughter and destroy . . . and factories open, men begin to work wages rise and there is prosperity...
...Science has discovered for us that the natural resources of the world include not only the materials which have to be shaped and fashioned for our use, but also the powers which can do the shaping on a vastly greater scale than was ever before possible, with the result that for every hour o'f human timeservice rendered in production, we get an output anything up to a thousand times greater than before the revolution...
...Our need for them is urgent, Our power to produce them is ample...
...ends are to hi Our Foulty Dl.trlbutlon mlstakably um In these circumstances the main financing of t task of NRA is to devise means form or otherfor getting to consumers the NRA I authorisation to take and use Up to the ¦ goods which our ordinary distribu- faced that las tive economy, functioning through core of all on these finance and property rights, j(s proposals is now showing itself to be no purchasing polonger capsble of disbursing...
...Its remnants hope for revival through a Wood transfusion, the Socialists to provide the blood...
...business is rotten, for men are wearing belts...
...e. . There is peace and prosperity, there are bumper crops, cattle and hogs wax fat and the bread lines lengthen and black despair is in the air...
...And in estiI mating the soundness of a policy, what an economist has to begin Iiy asking is whether it is based upon a clear understanding of the trouble with which it has to deal...
...And now the Stalin faction gathers in Paris cafes and heaps sbuse on Torgler, who rcma ned In Germany, expecting word of definite plans, and is sacrificed to Hitler) "I spurn the fleshpots of Moscow," Maria cries...
...It presents the same problem everywhere...
...relies upon d It is all to the good that it should the same old i be thus recogniied that the res to- of money to ration of prosperity is a matter of leaving it to A Pretty Ankle, a Flower and Jobs for Thousands CTYLE decrees that women must wear short skirts, and instantly millions of female legs come into view...
...Converts were made, they joined a nucleus, they were thrust into a bedlam and left, disillusioned...
...for these millions of girls would rather die than fail to follow styles set by the reigning movie queen...
...A world for human '-eings to live in and to be happy T Or deeper and deeper iles.ilat.ion until the mire, collapse, and ebaosT Editor's Corner Review of and Comment on Events Here and Abroad, Critical and Otherwise ———— By James Oneal The California Ailment *I*HE Socialist 'arty in California is djiturbed by sn ailment * of which there are symptoms in a few other states...
...Frequently a person has both ailments at the same time.' Upton Sinclair ia an example of this type...
...The revolution, so far as our power of production is concerned, has Anally and completely solved the problem of poverty for mankind...
...She answers, because M-scow rrsde the German party members "mental slaves" ami "sacrificed the world proletariat" to the needs of Russian foreign policy...
...There can be no tolerance of it...
...sustenance allowance of this abun- on w„jPn ,„•» dance except by rendering the mortgage obfl service and production which the advanced...
...Which is it to be...
...It is just this—that the peoples are being disabled from getting into use and consumption the things they all want and can quite abundantly produce...
...New Communist Schisms IN thia period world Communism has gone through two splits snd since 1928 it has held no international congress...
...Till quite recently in the world's British Socialist Found Much That I Proponents of New Dc life, the measure and limit of...
...Thus is created overnight the vast silk stocking industry, employing tens of thousands of workers speeding up in countless factories and creating, colossal profits for employers...
...One of the movie magnates has an old friend in the suspender business...
...What is amusing in the breaking out of the Communist rash Is that it comes at a time when American Communism ia shaken by recent events, the treschery of the Comintern to its German party and the ftsct pact signed by Litvinov and Roosevelt which practically outlaws the Comintern in this j country...
...instantly a new indust.-y...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 27
