An International Review of the Socialist and Labor Movement of the World
Feigenbaum, William M.
MELLON'S ALU ¦y Sidney Hart QF alt the tales of ruthless plunder that make up the industrial history of the United States since the Civil War none is more thorough-going in its- devastation or...
...even now it is divided,,but Socialists look forward confidently for victory in the elect':ns to be held shortly...
...The C-ommunists polled 3,082 votes, but elected no deputies...
...In 1884, aluminum cost as much as silver, $16 an ounce, and was used as jewelry...
...He reaps profits that do not belong to him...
...His "individualism" became swallowed up in trusts and mergers...
...That is the essence of the NRA...
...The party has suffered several splits and heavy losses ai"er great victories...
...Workers will contribute 21,000,000 kroner, the government supplying the balance...
...Sweden—In this country the Communists gained a nong foothold among the workers following the Russian involution, and split the Socialist Party...
...The governing powers which the working masses voted into the hands of the owners of corporation capitalism then reached out to save this capitalism...
...Out of this vat he ladled vast funds for these "individualists" like a mother feeding mush to a helpless child...
...The ten Socialists together with the 15 members of the P: jgressive Party constitute a majority of the Althing of 49 members, and will form a government...
...Under the auspices of the Australian Labor Party a hxga demonstration was recently held in Sydney to protest against wage cuts and a lowering of the standard of living, and to lanch the election campaign for the Federal Parliament...
...denouncing t) smiled above tinued to pile was content U people have t little to him t "perpetually things in oni able to do thi in other ways on his millior the glory...
...Then everybody will be happy...
...Organized merely as a political expression of the needs of labor back in the early Wb, the various state parties rapidly acquired a Socialist point oi view, growing more radical as they grew in numbers art influence...
...Judge Taft found for the Mellon company in a patent suit and thereby ended the first and only period of competition in the history of aluminum^ production...
...His monopoly was safer than any patent rights could have made it: all the bauxite in America was already in his hands...
...to a skit-bid, meht owned and Pansms, Mississippi, j acres of forssl ing plant In th< oil land;, Since the turned million...
...This is ™> Government tl Valley Autho* selling sleW private intsta...
...Uncle Sam Goes AMERICAN capitalism is being dosed with government ownership and control in a number of new fields^ This gives the owners of industry the shivers...
...But when it could be produced for 60 cents a pound, all the ingenuity of American sales ballyhoo contrived to put it to a thousand and one uses...
...They are striking against a complete, tightly-organized monopoly—perhaps the only 100 per cent large-scale monopoly in the country...
...the Socialists more than doubled their representation at the election ia-t month, electing 10 members with 11,229 votes, as against 4 deputies and 6,864 votes three years ago...
...Those who are splitting the movement think it advisable to preach unity If they want unity, why do they not take the course indicated by our International, where the principle was laid down that negotiations on this question must be conducted internationally...
...Czechs Rebuff Overtures Chechoslovakia—The Czech Socialists replied to the Communist request for United Front as follows: "In view of all that you have done against the Social Democratic Party in this state and all the activities that you haive organized against our party, in particular quite recently, and finally in view of the decisions of the Ninth Plenary Session of the Central Executive Committee of your party concerning the campaign against the Social Democratic trade union organiaztions and for the destruction of our political organizations, we cannot regard your proposal as being serious and accordingly reject it...
...He made agreements with the existing aluminum companies in Europe in which the world markets were nicely divided up—Mellon always managing somehow to get the lion's share...
...The old story of the thief who cried 'stop thief!'" writes Het Volk, "is always repeating itself...
...Holland — The Socialists answered the Communist request for United Front with two words— "Nothing Doing...
...Lawrence River...
...Opposition to fascism," the invitation says, "would not be strengthened by any alliance between the labor movement and the Communist Party, which, in any case, is small in numbers and lacking in public influence...
...The foundation of the monopoly's strength was laid in the early Ws by the ever-obliging William Howard Taft at the time he was still weighing down a Federal court bench in Cleveland...
...In the meantime, new uses were being found constantly for this remarkable new metal...
...United Front" Rejected r\ESPlTE the fact that in France, because of specific " circumstances, the Socialist Party has entered into a united front with the Communists—upon Socialist U .mi and on the basis of a definite written repudiation by the Communists of their old tactics of villification, spit and slander—Socialists in other countries have 1 ,nd no reason for entering into similar arrangements dv-pite the world-wide desperate drive of the Communists i such a united front in every country...
...He described the breed as one that receives an unearned income and that takes advantage of other's weakness, ignorance or necessity...
...Horiut Demokraten, the official Socialist organ, says In reply to the Communist demand for a united front that "Unity, even In regard to a limited objective, demands unity in regards to ways and means...
...Say No Great Britain—Here the Communists are noisy and exceedingly active, and have succeeded in virtually destroying the once-great LL.P...
...The powers of government were subservient to its demands...
...Social Insurance in Socialist Scandinavia A VOLUNTARY unemployment insurance plan pro*" posed by the Swedish Social Democratic government, approved by the Riksdag in June, is being put into operation...
...It is a fact little known outside Australia that the first Labor government in the world was formed in 1899 in Queensland and lasted three days...
...to starve, the in its work entered the These include and mattress sewing rooms preparing m« developing * providing csfl pair work...
...I-or example: If the owners of the Steel Trust will only be good capitalists and not engage in any crcoked practices, everything will be hunky-dory...
...The trustbusting interlude meant nothing more to the aluminum trust than an increase in legal fees...
...Aluminum has found its way into every kitchen sink...
...MELLON'S ALU ¦y Sidney Hart QF alt the tales of ruthless plunder that make up the industrial history of the United States since the Civil War none is more thorough-going in its- devastation or more cocksure in its arrogance than the growth to invincible power of the Aluminum trust under the quiet guidance of that silver-haired art-lover and grousehunter, Andrew \V...
...To the complete protection of patents provided by the judicial arm of "our" government was added a tariff of 15 cents a pound provided by the equally-obliging legislative section...
...Harvey O'Connor, in his book "Mellon's Millions," gives the details of how Mellon and his coterie of Pittsburgh pirates battered their way to supremacy...
...Cheap power 90ui!:es and cheap labor were found along the St...
...The /party began its notable career in 1884, when it polled...
...The Socialists have 1,0X9,24...
...There ar* also 27 Socialists in the Landsthing, or Upper House...
...British Worker...
...Cimrade Jonsson's forecast has come true...
...If the big corporations selling machinery to farmers will also be good Christians, the farmers will have nothing of which o complain, Well, we can see little difference between the two...
...6,806 votes and elected two deputies to the Folkething...
...We are unable to understand how, after you have been stigmatizing us for years as 'Social Fascists,' you can call upon us to take part in a joint campaign against fascism...
...The London Socialist movement, in cooperation with the unions and cooperatives, have organized a vast united front against fascism, but in inviting organizations to participate the Communists were specifically excluded...
...Tugwell would polish and refine the ways of cannibals but leave them to eat the fruits of labor just the same...
...Nice lo'ol "rugged" rted However, Oi investor in I enterprises, kick...
...He should be encoursged and protected...
...Even today it is one of the lew industrial products which still has a field for wide*expansion: aluminum railway cars, aluminum ships, airplanes, auto* and even aluminum bullets with which Mellon can shoot down his strikers...
...In 1900 patents on the processes of the manufacture of aluminum expired, but that date came and went without contributing to the silver in the Pittsburgh artlover's hair...
...T The Wo r Ice rs A b roa d ______________ * An International Review of the Socialist and Labor Movement of the World By William M. Feiaeabaiim (Batting for Murk Khinoy) Fifty Years of Danish Socialism TPHK Danish Social Democratic Party is celebrating its * fiftieth anniversary...
...Over 700,000 workers will be eligible for the benefits of the plan, and its annual cost will be 36,000,000 kroner...
...There is a nice man, he declared, who also reaps profits, but his income is the reward for his services, his time and inve.-tnient...
...But the individual capitalist long ago pooled his capital with other capitalists into big organizations...
...President Hoover had a big money vat which he called the Reconstruction Finance Corporation...
...With the situation well in hand in the domestic field, Mellon proceeded to comb the world for bauxite from which aluminum is made...
...There is a gulf between the 'revolutionary* line of Bolshevism and the peaceful road of Social Democracy...
...Now the .purpose of the Roosevelt administration is to transform the cannibals into good people by regulation and control...
...Then this corporate capitalism went to smash...
...At the same time the National Joint Council, representing the Labor Party executive, the Trades Union Congress and the executive of the Parliamentary Labor Party, • adopted a motion to the same general effect, quoted here last week...
...Mellon...
...This meant that,the individual capitalist .should own the plants of production while the individual worker should tie dependent upon the owner for a joh...
...At the last election the party polled 660,839 votes and elected 62 deputies...
...And the Germans of Czechoslovakia The reply of the German Social Democratic Labor Party in the Czechoslovak Republic was as follows...
...Today, some 15,000 workers in the various plants of the Aluminum Company of America are on strike to call the bluff of the NRA on the question of union recognition...
...Socialism "Down Under" PJIOST Socialists have a vague idea that there is a " powerful Socialist movement in the two great 'iriiish commonwealths of Australia and New Zealand, but beyond that general fact few knew very much...
...The Socialists will supply the Minister of Commerce and Education in the person of Haraldur Gudmunsson, former tor of AUydirbladet and a Socialist deputy since 1927...
...Every Australian state has at one time or another been under Labor rule...
...The united front slogan is simply a maneuver to increase the influence of* Bolshevism over the masses at the expense of the Social Democrats and the trade unions...
...The Labor Call, Socialist weekly of Melbourne, has been running a series of articles called "Labor History," giving the story of the Socialist movement in that country, a fascinating recital...
...Over 30,000 workers attended the meeting, wMch was preceded by a vast parade through working class sections of the city...
...in the belief, no doubt, that the Almighty intended him to be the mortal overseer of bauxite he had quietly proceeded to implement God's will by ing control i could find lyl With the s thus sewed Federal cour minum Comj doing this o with the proi anti-trust lv fective asd dead...
...The Communists themselves are advocates dictatorship.....If, as the Communists hope, such an alliance led to the strengthening of the Communist Party in this country, the growth of Communism would in all probability be accompanied by a corresponding growth in fascism...
...We are unable to conceive how, after you have calumniated us as instigators of war and as 'Social Imperialists,' you can Invite us to take part in a joint CANNIBALS One of the "brain trust," Rexford G. Tugwell, recently told some New York farmers that we have "economic cannibals" in this country...
...It was only yesterday that they were singing the virtues of "individualism...
...While the country...
...In the course of its inexorable growth it made use of all the vicious methods a vicious economic system made necessary and condoned...
...We are astonished that, after, all you have done for years past j to prevent joint action by the) entire working class, you should address such 'a proposal to us...
...they control the government with Comrade Thorvald Stauning as Premier...
...The Norwegian Storthing, in which the Socialists have by far the largest delegation (69 members out of 159, w;'-h 81 Conservatives as the second party), recently approved a motion calling for a survey of the social insurance system, The Mowinckel Government, frantically ---king to hold power in the face of the enormous and '•apidly growing Socialist strength, is considering the gradual introduction of an old age pension plan...
...But after eral years of confusion the workers again rallied to tb« Social Democracy, with the result that they are the strongest party and form the government...
...Icelandic Socialists in Government DEADERS will recall atf interview in this paper with *^ Comrade Kinnur Jonsson, member of the Icelandic Ai:hing, or Parliament, who visited this country several rrjrrths ago and predicted substantial election gains...
...No.5II mush they esj vestor Uncle I owner of km* Even befor...
...The principal celebration was he-id in Copenhagen July 24th, with well over 100,000 people In attendance, while demonstrations were held in avery corner of the country...
...by their "strategy," but they have made no headway in the Labor Party or in the unionss...
...Such an alliance, besides stimulating confusion in our own ranks and weakening our hold over public opinion, would be ineffective in the struggle against -dictatorship...
...Since then Queensland has been almost solidly Socialist, as is Brisbane, its principal city...
...votes and 104 peats to 8 Communist deputi...
...It thrived on adverse court decisions and even sneered at fellow-capitalists who balked at paying monopoly prices...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 34
