Unemployment, a Disease Of the Capitalist Order
Unemployment, a Disease Of the Capitalist Order By Morris Hillquit UNEMPLOYMENT is not a natural or necessary modern oi industrial life, but a specific disease of the, capitalist order. The...
...J. O. * * * Pseudo-Science Flayed GENETICS AND THE SOCIAL r ORDER...
...The theatre party beisg held this week, from all indications, will chalk up another success to the credit of tin Women's Committee and help pay the Vm of the conference...
...They seem to think that business is something marked off, apart from the rest of our social existence and that it has a fence around it, marked "strictly private...
...Just take the facts, sort them out and see where they fit with rights and wrongs...
...Diminished production affects the transportatiot mnfiaai | and most other lines of induahfd activity...
...fa, _ - ¦ .t: - . . • ¦ " w Graubard then presents a short exposition of the scientific view of heredity and evolution...
...And there is enough for all...
...Speed its passing...
...He demonstrates the futility of attempting to rigidly define such loose terms as race and nationally which are the stock in trade of the Muisolinis, Hitlers, Goebbels and Streichers...
...The people always need clothes, food, buildings, fuel, tools, means of transportation, amusement and countless other things which go to make up the requirements of everyday modern life, and workers are always needed to produce these things...
...But he cannot then dissociate himself from the praise which Sirovich lavished On the "cultural achievements" of Italian fascism, nor from the cynical speech of Cotillo, justifying the slaughter of Ethiopians to serve official Italy's economic needs, nor from Pecora's clear intimation that he is*J?roposing to support a fascist movement here, nor from the utterances of Pope before the meeting, in which there was no attempt to conceal its real nature...
...By Dr...
...A rational and socialized system of wealth production would be based on an accurate determination of the needs of the whole people of a country, the extent of its natural resources, and the full number of its available workers...
...The "excess" stock f goods cannot he exported...
...One cannot afford to miss Dr...
...Don't we know they've figured all that out for us ? Who are we anyway...
...He has plumbed the ocean's depths, discovered solar systems, determined the chemical composition of stars, brought millions of planets millions of light years nearer the earth...
...They have been expanded and some passages rewritten for book publication...
...No radical method can tx e» vised to overcome the evil oader a system of private esmseOWS Indus tries...
...and they must also seek close affiliation with the organized workers...
...Man has conquered the air and expired the mysteries of force and matter...
...Capitalism, hideous, monstrous and dying...
...second, they began to explain that Stakhanomism is a wonderful thing...
...You will find it very interesting to try...
...No* even any hope of anything...
...By Walter Wilson, New York: Tomorrow, Publishers...
...New Zealand had compulsory arbitration over twenty years before fascism appeared ant' a few other nations have had legislation that was a near approach to it long before Mussolini made his march on Rome...
...No sleigh bells in Georgia, either...
...CHRISTMAS IT is a sorry world, a world of desolation, a world of fears, of suspicion between nations, of workmen without work, of vast armaments, of fascist madmen, of illfed children, of idle resources, of stagnant commerce and civilization in the doldrums...
...It is a particularly interesting thing to face this just at Christinas time...
...employment are of short duration...
...that is, they have given a new name to an old thing, and Bolsheviks being what they are they have already made a religion of it...
...IntWZ like the present, when most faf...
...It is interesting that just as Christmas approaches, the lines of conflict and struggle are being drawn...
...Sktnshnas 1Q35 By Chester M. Wright i^HRISTMAS, just around the corner...
...However, the liberals themselves are divided today...
...He has built societies in which classes face each other in antagonism, one to exploit and the other to be exploited...
...This appears to -us as an exaggeration...
...The other day, I read my column about buying S sable coat, aad I want out asi bought a sable coat...
...With everything against us, including the weather, the Women's Conference on the High Cost of Living, was a success...
...Dedicated to the memorj chapters that make up this book were originally delivered as lectures at the University of Virginia...
...There is strife and the prospect of strife...
...Minton, Batch...
...But, then, that's what Bolshevism means...
...If HEN private business indulges in practices that " hurt the millions, then we have to do something about those practices...
...The privileged and over-fat will read the Christmas story and somehow they will make their privilege and their fat fit in with it, to their satisfaction...
...AT the recent communion break•fast of the Catholic Soeht Workers Guild, Miss Martha Byrne, Registrar of New York County, fa> v >red the passage of s law calling for the deportation of all whs admit they are Communists aad ate are not citizens, and for the np prisonment of all citizens noising communistic beliefs...
...but in reality it's our old friend, the sweating speed-up system...
...that's why a f err is wheel or a hot-dog stand is a wonderful thing in a "park of culture and rest" but vulgar in Coney Island...
...That's where the issue is buried...
...We still fight over food as our shaggy ancestors of the jungle did hundreds oi thousands of years ago...
...LaGuardia was proud of associating himself with Sirovich, Cotillo, Pecora and Generoso Pope, we surely do not grudge him that honor...
...third, they are beginning very uneasily and nervously to explain the difference between being sweated and worked to a nervous frazzle in an American factory and being worked to a nervous frazzle and sweated in a factory in Stalingrad...
...We have harnessed machines to do the work of the world...
...The pamphlet carries much in-" formation that is useful and helpfr.l in combatting the militarist srend sines the and oi the World War...
...Such a system would receive from each worker an amount of labor required to keep the community going, and labor would be evenly distributed, regular and continuous...
...They are willing to let the jobless ones shrivel up in their joblessness...
...How we got there, doesn't matter...
...The work is thoroughly refreshing and stimulating to all student* of this theme...
...The Hiqh Cost of Livinq IBELIEVE in miracles...
...From time to time manufactured commodities accumulate beyond the ability cf the people to absorb...
...Ova;, production is aggravated by tinea, consumption...
...When it happens to reach lama dimensions, the situation U apt u lead to an industrial crisis, whick may hut for years and throw millions of workers out of employment, j - The government may relieve the •niscry of unemployment to none extent by various measure* often suggested and sometimes trial But all such measures a-t of necessity inadequate...
...I'm glad I bought it...
...poets, dreamers, baseball fans, potential consumers—now we are "recipients of relief"—a class apart...
...There is reaction, to be sure, but all reaction is not necessarily fascism...
...T omoi row Publishers, New York...
...And they will push forward their plans to keep their privilege by fighting for it...
...The poor will read the Christmas story and they will know, too, that if they are to have the rights and safeguards of a decent freedom, they have got to fight for them...
...Recipients of public relief...
...renders it unprofitable to proeaa more...
...Says the Her- ygg^^ana^amire • aid-Tribune: "If ||| ••**'h the threat of a jBjj^^* Wbl strike is to be ' ^9 taken at all se- W?kl mmW riously, t h en ¦^~.'»<,^H the^situation is full of dynamite bfl JHBr — not for the SgfpllH public treasury, Mnl but for a whole aW^-.JJM ^Bf relief system '-ijf which can lead G ^ Kle,n to such preposterous results as a threat of a 'strike' by recipients of public relief to increase the sums they would like to have paid them...
...My sable cost happened to he a Webster's 0e» abridged Dictionary, oae of thost huge things with everything is S> with pictures, and all, that Vn wanted all my life...
...One of the troubles with a season of happiness is that so many don't have much to be happy about...
...First their daily organ printed Comrade Stalin's speech in full...
...But man has not learned how to feed, house, clothe and educate the human race...
...once we were tailors, miners, cotton growers, teachers, actors, bookkeepers...
...Mark Graubard...
...He is not a fascist and does not intend to become a fascist—but if he mixes himself with fascists now, what assurance have we that at some more critical moment in the future he will not get into the same bad company...
...Tales of woe on every hand...
...That's all the people want to do...
...There is one aspect of this new Soviet fad that may rise up to embarrass the Stalinites...
...They cannot collectively repurchase the things which they have collectively created...
...once we were the "back-bone of our great nation...
...T is a Wee time for the Supreme Court to be going * into action, too, to see just how far the people can go in governing themselves under a representative form of government...
...And so they must display pure proletarian ecstasy over Stakhanofhsm...
...The Militia THE MILITIA...
...A NEW NAME FOR AN OLD THING THE great thinkers in the Kremlin have given the stamp of their approval to a new method of industrial activity...
...In a*, mnl t iir.es all capitalist coustrfi are in the saaae situation...
...It certainly keeps a* warm, but now I cant' buy »sf more books for a long, long ua* I can't buy G. D. H. Cole'* "Economic Planning," or George Selow "Freedom of the Press" or Seletr "Sawdust Cesser" or Loroa* "History of the American Fedostion of Labor...
...private persons, advertisers, firms...
...His fatal weakness is that he tries "to be all things unto all men",,and is always getting into bad company...
...The workers get back in wage equivalent only a part of their product...
...That's where the conflict comes...
...50 cts, doth 75 cts...
...They will fight taxes for unemployment insurance and for old age relief...
...It will be interesting to see which kind of thinking the court will do in weighing issues that will have a great deal to do with-whether there is to be help for the otherwise helpless...
...once we were even "fellow-citizens" with votes on election day...
...meat* Socialism...
...Today we live in a mechanical age...
...Maybe Russian industry needs speeding up, but American workers need it about as much as they need the small-pox...
...be secured through the Rand Book Store, 7 East 15tfc St., N. Y. City...
...He has hunted out invisible microbes and made known their history...
...It was i particularly vicious mesaure and it is unfortunate *h?t the author did not include some reference to this notable struggle...
...HIS is a timely contribution to * genetic research .At a time when irresponsible politicians and fascist sycophants are busy concocting pretty theories of racial superiority to explain their excesses and mistakes this pamphlet . is of great value in exploding such j pseudo-scientific balderdash, j A. brief introduction flays the pseudo-scientific explanations of theories of racial superiority emtanating from fascist countries, Or...
...A class apart, pariahs, outcasts...
...Graubard's chanter on this subject which also appraises schools of osychology like that oi Freud...
...eign countries have been asapjf, ised by war, they have no moan to import goods...
...Where does the woman think aw is—in Russia ? Heaven knows, if i bad enough here already, waa Tampa, Fla., aad Terre Haste, Ind., and other terori^tic spots...
...1.50 HP HE most advanced liberal ir * this country is John Dewey certainly our foremost authoritj on education aad a kindly philosopher who earnestly seeks a waj out of the wreck and ruin of capitalism...
...The idle minority of the population ia «4 numerous enough to consume ? surplus...
...Their earnings are nv duced and so is their purchetag power...
...They seem to think the nation* has no right to be concerned about it, no right to impose laws upon it, no right to even try to find a knothole through which to have 8 look at what goes on...
...Factories and aisnJhi ia shut or their working forces 4*> tailed...
...A Distinguished Liberal "LIBERALISM AND SOCIAL ACTION...
...Recipients of public relief...
...I don't know how they work it, so I have to trj this rather simple, if not primitrm method of hinting...
...But that doesn't deter the valiant Stalinites...
...There is little interest in peace, for there is no peace...
...That's what business doesn't want...
...He has said and done many good things...
...The term "race'," :-ays Dr...
...Of special interest to Socialists is a thorough consideration of the concept of "human nature...
...If Mr...
...fc, LaGUARDIA IN BAD COMPANY IT would take a cleverer casuist than Mayor LaGuardia I will ever be to excuse his participation in the meeting held in Madison Square Garden last Saturday—ostensibly a humanitarian gathering for the relief of suffering among Italian soldiers, but in purpose and effect, as the Mayor well knew, a war rally on behalf of Mussolini's cruel dictatorship at home and his brigand war in Africa...
...But we cannot say Merry Christmas...
...They must, of course, give three rousing cheers for anything -that Stalin gives three rousing cheers for...
...Recipients of Relief' Had No Right to Go on Strike By Gertrude Weil Klein "J*HE "untouchables" in our complex American society are threatening a concerted movement against the starvation wages paid on WPA projects...
...Whatever yoa JaW ascribe it to, one thing is certain —a groat deal of work and quite a little money went into it Ha money that was spent was money that didn't exist...
...You see, all Mm serious books that will do mo p* But I think that's enough forw* 7 he New Leader Book Corner All books reviewed here can...
...There we are...
...Fiorello LaGuardia has many amiable qualities...
...You can write down for yourself the facts about it all and you can see which facts do not square with the Christmas idea...
...The reader will find that the advanced views of Dewey have little in common with Jeremy Bentham and Herbert Spencer...
...How they can come to the organized workers bearing garlands for the brow of the inventor of a sweating speed-up system only Brpwder can say...
...They are a great lot—those organized business men...
...Tales of joy on every hand...
...Once we were unemployed workers...
...And we outcasts presume to say how much we are to be paid on reKef jobs...
...AMEANWHILE the moguls of business are- rant *" ing against taxes...
...One who embraces the true Kremlin faith must check his brains, his initiative and his originality outside...
...When the disproportion bet*«n supply and demand is relative* mild, industrial stagnation and an...
...Joseph Mandelson...
...By John Dewey New York...
...THIS pamphlet of 32 pages tells * the story of the use of the state milit-'a agfcinst strikers and presents many caeses of the perversion cf the ure of such police fores...
...A great All-Union Congress of Stakhanoffists has been held, with a snappy 6,000-word speech by Stalin to bless the movement...
...The social content of Dewey's philosophy would make Bentham and Spencer wince and they would deny that there is any historical descent from their views but Dewey succeeds in showing thst there is a logical evolution of ideas throughout the history of the liberal creed...
...It is supposed to be the invention of one Alexei Stakhanoff, a Russian worker...
...Indeed, the shootings have begun...
...I believe in miracles...
...At a time when the greeted industrial need of the country Ua> deplete the accumulated aad ay digested stock of commodities, tkc people are least able to buy...
...Socialists will also dissent m some other views of the author* he who wou 14 understand the 1st that is in contemporary bbersfl* will have to consult this mtsnj ing little hook...
...The inevitable result is disorder and chaos...
...Not much of anything to take the mean edge off the misery of unemployment...
...And there are no sleigh bells in the Carolinas...
...Poets have made songs about sleigh bells at Christmas, but there will be snow only over a part of the country and in many places where there is snow .there won't be any fuel to make the heat required to create comfort in the midst of cold...
...The Women's Committee of the Rand School also, pot over a very successful affair last week, a Rummage Sak, which netted them over f1,000...
...Commanderin-chief Talmadge isn't bringing any joy of any other kind, either...
...Man has weighed the planet on which he lives...
...Some of the instances sited run back two and three decaies and the story is brought dewn to the present period with the consideration of dangerous bills either signed or pending at Washington > About twenty-five years ago Solists and trade unionists made ' fight against a militia bill introduced by Congressman Dick of Oiio...
...The accumulated stock of good*, therefore, remains a drag on dp market...
...So many don't have anything...
...There are certainly many who would dissent with Dewey's view that "The only form of enduring social organization that is now possible is one in ; which the new forces of productivity- are cooperatively controls and used in the interest ef tat si fective liberty and the edM development of the individuals fie constitute society...
...In that way, you can be just as good a judge as anybody...
...When James Watt plumbed the secret of steam power while looking...
...Of a Nebraska Governor, however, who threatened compulsory arbitration the author says that this is "always a sign of fascism...
...The cure for uneei piey...
...And what is this Stakhanofhsm...
...Everywhere everyone will know that struggle is the order of the day...
...Foes of what is called Stakhanofhsm are being "liquidated...
...COLUMNISTS on the daily *S^ peas get all sorts of gifts from all sorts of people...
...Harrassed, ridiculed, hounded, we are "recipients of public relief.'' Against us must be enacted "numerous clauses...
...Graubard, . . . was not interoduced into our language by biologists but by politicians and journalists...
...They seem to think they have got the hungry ones licked and that they can now be thrown over the fence without either compunction or danger...
...That's about what it comes to...
...He has told the story of his own history from the time when the first living cell floated in an unknown sea...
...That would be to mock tens of milbons of our class throughout the worn...
...It depresses price* an...
...The lectures are devoted to the history of liberalism, the crisis in liberalism and liberalism in the contemporary period...
...at his tea kettle, he never anticipated the monstrous things which would grow out of his invention...
...Iri Iowa, a convention of labor union leaders and representatives of tinemplcvyed councils has voted a statewide strike for "prevailing" wage-rates, and the reactionary daily press is enraged at the "prepc^ferousness" of such7a threat on the part of "recipients of public relief...
...How we feel about being there, doesn't matter...
...It is now btisg raised...
...Forget about labels...
...Hut our present system of producing and distributing wealth is not organised on a rational plan and has no relation to the needs cf the neople as consumers or producers Our industries are managed by numerous competing and conflicting private interests, individual or corporate, operating planlessiy and purely for personal gain...
Vol. 18 • December 1935 • No. 51
