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...The events are easy to foresee when we remember what happened in Minneapolis and in Kohler, Wis.— human lives sacrificed there in the interests of "law" and "order," the bosses' law and the bosses' order...
...Well, several local* have initiated a proposal which includes armed Insurrection...
...alliance at Detroit The trend k back to the force romanticism of 1848...
...COMRADE ALLEN concedes the futility of violence in considering one aspect of the Detroit resolution.' Wo shall also consider this one phase...
...perhaps it was a couple of other fellows...
...Stone's zeal was rewarded by hie appointment to the Supreme Court...
...Such a charge, declared Roy A. Hunt, vice-president of the Aluminum Company in a paroxysm of righteous indignation, is ridiculous,on the face of it because anyone could have manufactured aluminum since the patents expired in 1909...
...A protest of the labor unions and of the friends of labor is being organized in the county now...
...I have compared the Left Wing Program of 1919, which split the party and galve birth to a dozen Communist sects in the following two years, with the R.P.C...
...The only cure for the •unburn in the West is Socialism...
...ism retired ral Governin Alaska nes on the 60 million rgest printmd valuable capitalists W industries Ckwernment Wjects has production, ft factories canneries, l"(t clothing, [ vegetables, lj gardens, * house re!¦» Federal * Tennessee ^Ming and cities and «*Wd in the manufacture of fertilizer...
...The profits on invested capital during this period of patriotic service ranged between 25 and 30 per cent, according to the company's own statements...
...With scarcity now, the cost of living is going up, making it more difficult for city workers to live...
...Still more, when you go on to interpret our proposal in terms of insurrection, dragging in armed violent revolution at if it were the same thing as massed war resistance, both of the Aliens leap—no matter how futilely—to the typewriter...
...It took only* a few months for the new Attorney-General, John Garibaldi Sargeht, to absolve the Aluminum Company of America of all charges in one of the most dazzling jobs of white-washing ever performed...
...And although I do not share your position, I do not feel aggrieved when you label this 'rabid' or otherwise express vigorously your honest opinion of it...
...President Finney, an old-time college administrator of the Middle West, when once submitted to the same ruthless treatment, finally roared at his inquisitors 'Don't quote Finney to me!' Nevertheless, after noting that the two Aliens whom you would sever are not at all talking about the same thing, both of them have calmed down and now Join in patient protest...
...No doubt you would honor the courage >f the indjvidual conscientious objector, as of course I do...
...If 'M'/, of the people in Piermont decide on union recognition and on a certain standard of hours and wages, their collective opinion counts for nothing of 1%, or even a fraction of V,'<, namely the mill owners, decide on something else...
...to Big Business inch, these nblic funds, became an and other big shots lake all the it as an in•ecome part rprises...
...Maybe it was all a grand I joke I Editors Corner Review of and Comment on Events Here and Abroad...
...And, of course, anybody could—if they could not And any bauxite it was just their hard luck...
...But the Robert Gair Co...
...but surely you do not trust to the efficacy of scattered war resistors as a war preventive...
...is taking no chances—they perhaps intend to reduce wages, and intend to resist union recognition...
...ownership of stock in railroads, banks and trust companies makes the Federal Government part owner with a voice in various enterprises throughout the country...
...How he think* that a war can he broken by non-violent means is a mystery to us...
...Mellon triors of the it mattered nnpany was from doing ken he was I effectively nncentrated i could take 120,000 con-1 cern of 1888 now had a stock capitalization of $20,000,000 which could bring $150,000,000 in the open market in 1917...
...The village accepted the "present...
...Should Protest But the arming of the local police and the preparation for trouble will go on through the philanthropy of the bosses unless and until the working people make a sufficiently loud and effective protest...
...Human life is for them cheaper than fair wages and honorable dealing with organized unions...
...will lead the working class Into an Ambush of reaction...
...It was on the debate in the U. S. Senate on the Smoot-Hawley tariff of 1930...
...Ceorge I >. Haskell, the -planum, got a verdict awarding him $8,000,000, but it was an empty victory for the verdict was set aside by a higher court on a technicality...
...You can kid me about hlfalutln language, as in an earlier issue, and I can take it...
...Restated for sake of brevity, the argument was then and is now supported by the Allen of 1934, that the ratio between Authority-Power and Ruvolutlonary-Power has been transformed by mechanized weapons of combat and the possibility of outside capitalist aid, until violence even on grounds of sheer expediency 'is licked before it starts,' "But what has this to do with the belief that the Socialist Party should endorse, and prepare for, massed war resistance...
...but guilty terror creeps up my spine whenever some one begins to search through my written and spoken words for literary garbage...
...The Detroit resolution speaks of "massed resistance" and a general strike...
...Maybe it's unnecessary to write this, though I should be grateful if you would print this when you can, tearing it apart by any comment you may care to make...
...He does not see any relationship between violence and his resolution and yet it talks of "breaking up the war...
...Maybe it's* unnecessary, because possibly it wasn't the 1931 and 1984 Aliens you were thinking of...
...In any case, it was certainly a •on pie of other arguments...
...In the meantime, Secretary Mellon was having a bit of unpleasantness in the Federal Court...
...These figures come down to August 1st, and Old Sol has remained on the job, burning more crops...
...I am not accusing Comrade Allen of being an accomplice in this but it logically follows the vagueness of the Detroit resolution and the "mllitant"R.P.C...
...Worker...
...An attempt to give the U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee authority to investigate the trust was susbequently defeated in that body...
...they are frankly looking for trouble...
...But it seems a fair surmise that they plan to help "persuade" their employees to accept non-union conditions and lowered wages, with the aid of bullets and blood...
...This was also calculated to be news to the Secretary of the Treasury, one Andrew W. Mellon, who had resigned as director of the company in 1921...
...When you definitely link it, however, with 'hurling back artillery' in an attempt to reduce it to an absurdity, the Detroit Allen, I confess, feels faint stirrings of resentment...
...That is, state capitalism is eating into the old "individualism...
...yet we find the big interests of the county inviting and preparing for warfare in a peaceful community, and in the employers' democracy one bullet is worth several votes...
...promote industrial recovery is arising a new type of government in America...
...The most liberal estimate of the total amount the Mellons had invested was $2,000,000...
...Uncle Sam and Old Sol having cooperated in destroying foodstuffs, our uncle will remove all restrictions to crop production next year...
...If we are so blind as not to tee the emergence of a force philosophy in the movement, we will pay the penalty for it within a year...
...Senator Copeland, the sanctimonious medicine-man and Tammany's gift to Washington, made a touching plea for a higher tariff on aluminum...
...Critical and Otherwise From Devere Allen pOMRADE DEVERE ALLEN sends us the follow ing letter: "Your heading in The New Leader of August 11, ^Allen Answers Allen,* threw me into a panic the moment it caught my eye...
...After the war, the practices of the aluminum trust became the subject of some investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, a product of Wilson's "New Freedom,.!' In 1924 the Commission made the astounding discovery that the Aluminum Company of America had a "complete monopoly of the production of aluminum in the United States...
...Summing up, we may quote the United States News: "Thus, from the efforts to...
...I can understand your position against organized non-cooperation with war, or a general strike against war, or to continued war resistance, such as the refusal of labor unions to transport munitions, even after war has begun...
...Is not organization of an "armed guard" consistent with it...
...Now "massed resistance" without careful definition 1st consistent with the stupid resort to violence which Comrade Allen rejects...
...The latter is acceptable to all Socialists, especially where workers are sufficiently organized and class-conscious, but undefined "malted resistance" is vague and provides a place for the /eat and the police agent, The St...
...Starting early last winter the unions have succeeded in signing up a majority of the men, although the union has not been given formal recognition and the mills still operate as open shops...
...Machine Guns in Peaceful Piermont ly Thomas W. Davis THE forces of law and order in Rockland County, N. Y., are being equipped with the very latest types of machines for "civilized" murder through the kind generosity of the biggest employer of labor in the community...
...While machine guns are old stuff in the cities, they are new medicine in a quiet, peaceful community like Rockland County...
...On another occasion the aluminum magnate and Tammany Hall seemed to have something in common...
...Both Aliens are glad that you approve of what the Allen of 1981 said in the Little Blue Book about the practical futility of violence as a means of revolution in an industrialized state...
...Wheat cut to 490,000,000 bushels compared with a normal 880,000,000...
...Not from choice, Necessity dictates...
...The Little village of l'iermont boasts of a large and prosperous paper mill and card board box factory, operated by the Robert (Jair Co., employing upwards of a thousand men, most of whom come from neighboring population centers...
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...Well, that was urged by a "militant" in a debate with me...
...Thinking that the village police force—there are two regular officers—might want to do some rabbit shooting, they presented the village recently with the latest machine gun, and ammunition...
...There have been no labor disturbances in Piermont in the history of the town, and it is only recently that the unions have tried to organize these mills...
...The destruction of pastures has also been so extensive that between 5,000,000 and 7,000,000 cattle and nearly 5,000,000 sheep must be removed for slaughter...
...Uncle Sam ordered crop restriction or destruction and Old Sol burnt up much of what was left Cotton cut to 9,195,000 bales compared with a normal 14,000,000...
...it it ancient and...
...la not "armed insurrection" consistent with It...
...The rest was profit...
...It was not long before Mr...
...The Electric Home and Farm Authority even finances the sale of electrical appliances through local dealers, and its charter permits it to manufacture electrical appliances...
...Aside from variations and additions to what was already known of the trust's operations, the trial produced the interesting spectacle of the benign Mellon in the role of a trapped Tammany politician...
...They are going to let the police do the dirty work, however, and avoid direct responsibility themselves...
...The utipia to be ushered in by the NRA didn't say anthing abotit machine guns...
...The old capitalist order SUNBURN AND SOCIALISM The crop ruin in the West has wiped out surpluses and brought production to the lowest since the nineties...
...The World War found the aluminum trust at attention and ready to serve all comers...
...The local Rockland County papers frequently haive occasion to refer to what they call the "violence"' of the Socialists and of "agitators," of their deliberate misrepresentation of facts and their desire to destroy democracy...
...We certainly do not approve of "scattered war resistance," for in the New York resolution we define our view as organised and disciplined resistance...
...The population then was 75 millions and today it is nearly 130 millions...
...Altruism (!) One can only guess at the cause for the altruism of the Gair Co...
...Even Debs at his trial mentioned one phrase in the St...
...I/)uis resolution which he would have changed...
...program...
...program looks forward to a conflict of a "violent character" and it is tolerated at a group in the party...
...I assert that the latter program not only parallels the 1919 program but ie more distinctly Communist than the one in 1919...
...In fact, 90 per cent of its production during the war consisted of the manufacture of aluminum time fuses, aluminum radiators for air-cooled machine guns, acieral, an alloy used in French trench helmets, and other useful knick-knacks...
...Then tbe R.F.C...
...It was still the Coolidge era...
...Louis resolution in seven see* tions carefully defined forms of action against war...
...What actually was shocking, however, was the fact that Attorney-General Stone, one of Secretary Mellon's fellow cabinet members, was unsportsmanlike enough to order an investigation into these charges...
...It it not modern...
...And all the constituted authorities must recognize that the law is on the side of the fraction of l'/r, and the machine guns are to be used in coercing the 99',r into accepting something they don't want...
...the Detroit resolution leaves it vague...
...Corn cut to 1,007,000,000 bushels compared with a normal 2,000,000,000...
...If normal production returns next year the price level will fall so low that working farmers will suffer...
...The R.P.C...
...He very rarely talked business with anybody and seemed to be given to signing importantdocumentsinvolving millions without reading them...
...During the last year and a half the role of officialdom as the regulator of industry has been supplanted to a large extent by the role of officialdom as the director of activities...
...The Tennessee Associated Cooperatives is also vested with broad powers to engage in activities that have been usually carried on by private corporations...
...The degree of hie forgetfulness was endless...
...His company was being sued for $15,000,000 for conspiracy in restraint of trade and the maintenance of a monopoly...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 34
