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Letters to the Editor: Pleas* ntMt fill ium aad uMnn. W« wUl with bo Id beta If rtqoeiud. PRAISES WORLO-WfDf news in new leader Editor of The New Leader: I enclose money TorThe 'circulation...
...commendable...
...Articles such as yours serve an excellent pupose in this connection...
...There was an apparent effort on your part to deal with the matter reasonably and objectively...
...His recent nation-wide broadcast is an example...
...The j common conception of an outsideV ^s often heard: "Well, after atHthere are no profits in Russia, there is no exploitation— so Russia has made the great step...
...Under democratic operation that task alone will require knowledge, patience and time...
...Salt Lake City, Utah...
...The conclusion is that the differences are in degree and not in kind...
...35l . WHERE THE NEWS ENDS By EUGENE LYONS CT8.AV THwLArHib: Ones upon a time the revohitioaajj mo...
...v. Does economic determination explain all, as the vulgarises<ef Karl Marx would have us believe ? Are there not racial memorial, psychological predilections, national traditions, historical osnjjj...
...If Americans want to know the truth, this is a good man to listen to...
...Editor of The New Leader: Good luck to the best newspaper published in America...
...In view of the proposals coming from the C. I. O. to the joint conference, it is safe to say that these unions would never subscribe, to any such supervision and control...
...27) that I am desirous of extra copies of this number to be sent to friends who should have the information here to be obtained...
...They brood over their fate and as a caste it is probable that they are a permanent group in society until the latter is reorganized on ajftarisl Democratic basis...
...PRAISES WORLO-WfDf news in new leader Editor of The New Leader: I enclose money TorThe 'circulation department efthe paper...
...By Calvin B. Hoover...
...iilj*'1*" j ' - W&Sm DEPRESSION OUTCASTS Al .RECENT government report on migrant labor reveals various tragic phases of men, women and young people jjjjfjajftas4 by the depression and wandering from state to state...
...One may disagree with some of the critical judgments expressed by the author here and there, but on the whole he apparently approached his task objectively and ha* written a book that is informative for all who want to understand the American Labor Movement...
...Her SjMSaod was stationed in Italy for years before Mussolini gfabnajpB asasg, and could not continue his work after that Similarly...
...To make it really effective will require either a so far undemonstrated spirit of self-discipline or delegated authority to make decisions binding...
...Everett, Wash...
...Shades of the Founding Fathers, Theodore Roosevelt Calvin Coolidge and the sacred principles of private enterprise...
...sjatliiiiiiiii employment throughout the year, while the e^sasegws should also reduce the coot of materials...
...New HHven: Yale University Press...
...He sheds no tears over anyone's suffering...
...How about the pamphlet...
...For me, Mr...
...Serious human problems cannot be solved by "wisecracks" or quotations from Shakespeare...
...Once representing a ruling class informed and united by a solidarity of material interests, it is today a rope of sand...
...It was the poet's parable of the injustice of the State, la relation to the heresy trials in Russia, that parable deserves to he revived today...
...Letters to the Editor: Pleas* ntMt fill ium aad uMnn...
...He can settle with one union only at the expense elf provoking the other...
...PEACE Editor of The New Leader: Time permitted me to read only a few in your series of seven articles pertaining to the conflict over organizational structure...
...George Q. Lynch, General President, Pattern Makers League of "North America...
...Hoover and his jails iiing favor no such compromise with the dreadful Roose-Vejtian theories and they regard such statements made by Hamilton as a sin against the holy G.O.P...
...We miinf the shindy and Sim***it...
...k-' meat ~aas underground...
...The thunder in Wall Street in 1929 was the end of these boasts and leadership of the party passed from the skilled politicians into the hands of amateurs, with /oho D. Hamilton of Kansas as the national chairman...
...It is...
...His former detailed studies of Russia and Germany prove that he knows "his facts...
...There are instances on record in which an employer has transferred his allegiance from one union to another three times in a short space of time without reaching a final or satisfactory settlement" This situation is appreciated by an increasing number of responsible men in the Labor Movement who understand the need of reducing these disputes to a minimum...
...Mowrer's very readable and entertaining volume provide* a unique opportunity to study and compare the rise MKMpsak of Fascism in Italy and Germany, respectively...
...Where the power of the competing unions is, evenly matched the position of the employer is comparable to that of a flying shuttle in an automatic loom...
...If a Russian worker can't get enough bread or clothes, he probably gets little comfort out of the thought that the fellow who has a nice house and a car sprang from the working cuss...
...Even where they are not answered, those qusspeat are significant...
...tionings far beyond the strictly economic, which help detoemiae mass behavior...
...Only a wide knowledge of the movement and its problems will serve to guide the worker in his decisions...
...It continues to this day, and these leaders must 'wring their hands in sorrow every time Hamilton delivers some solemn speech...
...Chiefs of building trades unions reject the proposed reduction of hourly WpjAd: point out that following the crash of 1929 they made this concession, but contractors held back in the hope of ?prciN?jj$aa lower wage scales...
...It squints at collectivism, a trend that is hated by the masters of capital and finance...
...The upshot of his analysis is that the three governments—of Russia, Italy, and Germany — are much alike in origin and are much more alike in operation and in results...
...while the Wages and- Hours Bill faces rough sledding and it may be killed in the iouse of its former New r~-^Npost becomes more aggressive each day, but it will be S)ttMMp(sy bt> un«n H how willingly the top hat gentlemen with oodles of dollars turn to the big opportunity the private housing program affords them and how much they will try to gouge the Ipsa^Mlisa n^'isaMtnag on excessive wage' reductions...
...Deprived of health protection and educational opportunities, without legal residence and ^tyeaaaaVto vsMft**l aad other infectious diseases, these by-jMnisfe^l M^pjfUaaaad industrial system tend to form a perma-Satssfc-east* is>' Aenc ric a n society...
...You say you want the government In let you alone...
...It would be interesting to learn just bow many unions would favor such a self-imposed supreme court for Labor...
...It must be faced...
...VfHEN an* old-style individualist liberal like Senator Borah joins with Senator O'Mahoney in sponsoring a bill for ^adjaaal aeon sing of big corporations engaged in interstate ¦jgsnjaaroa and proposes to coordinate, stabilize and develop '-fb* basic industries" in order to obtain "a more equitable distribution of the earnings of commerce, trade and industry" among workers, owners and investors, we are astonished...
...Washington, D. C. Books • • • and Writers LABOR MARCHES TO POWER By JAMES ONEAL IF...
...All Dictators Look Alike OROFESSOR HOOVER is an accredited economist...
...wife of a-egflS-Edgar Ansel Mowrer, of the Chicago Daily News...
...2T., * * * * K'" THE most exciting book that has come into my bands in recent months is "Goliath: the March of Fascism," by G. A- Borfeje (Viking Press...
...Go to it I" The message, however, again and again criticised the alleged high building coats of materials and labor and urged a "larger apatsfj M|i for labor," the implication being that the hourly rate of wages in the industry should be reduced in return for I Bill...
...The problem has a most COffSMMJiMf ring...
...Yale University Press has discovered the cooperative movement by publishing two excellent studies, it now appears to have also discovered the Labor .Movement by the publication -of *a" well-written arid-syrnpathetic work on the trade unions, their types of organization, problems, finances arid struggles, especially in the modern depression period...
...Prosper Schetting...
...f**V .'..'».- - ——~— A NEW LITTLE N.R.A...
...in a sense, ths snswar to those radicals who say: "Let's forget Russia and go about oar own business...
...KIOTES ON READING: The atmosphere of the Vienna cafes *v jsnaaaates "Plot and Counter-Plot in Central Europe," by M. W. Fodor, the well-informed correspondent of the MsmftasJar " Guardian...
...Mt «ss4a Berlin for years before Hitler took control, and was expelled br the Nazis soon thereafter...
...Leader very much...
...J iu The proposal would also outlaw child labor, assure and protect collective bargaining and even provides that under certain conditions surplus profits must be shared with the workers unless it is proven in court that the surplus is needed for a legitimate corporation purpose and that, if so spent, it will not end stager the hours-and wage standards prescribed by the act...
...In seventeenth century Milan, as in Moscow of 1987, there whss the Josephsons, the intellectual stooges, to glorify the enthroned . tyrants...
...Beat wishes to The New Leader and the Social Democratic Federation...
...He may have willingly accepted collective bargaining with one anion only to have another bring a strike to bear upon him in an effort to force him to deal with the rival organisation...
...The advancing business depression and mounting reactionary sentiment now reinforce sHMy argument made for peace and union solidarity...
...It is as though he said: »; "Very well, gentlemen...
...Mrs...
...The Kremlin can aaTffrd.*jS"lar S Fascist overturn its course...
...Stalin may dictate, but everybody gets the benefit" Professor Hoover * Dictators and Democracies...
...to "move on...
...and its sacred "principles...
...It is a partial surrender of this policy which is dictated by the movement of enemy forces against his New Deal both in Congress and outside...
...Matthew Josephson, in reviewing s Washer of books about Russia—among them my own—in the "Ns*/ Republic, waxes eloquent in explaining away the recent trials aM purges under the hammer-and-sickle on the theory that ordinary decencies must not be expected from Russia, accustomed as tt is to horror and injustice for many centuries...
...She sees the real alternative as between totalitarianism and...
...THE PRESIDENT'S HOUSING PROGRAM PRESIDENT ROOSEVELTS message on new housing marks ,' a turning point in his policy of governing controls as an aid to industrial recovery...
...Tbey hses ftewi oust the expression of tyrannical power, and are no lass lovely m oat country than in another, in one political sotting than in another...
...They may even have been workers, or their fathers may have been workers...
...The impact on industry of the changes from the individualist to the corporate form of organization, the invention of new machines and processes, and the resulting jurisdiction disputes between unions, culminating in the split in the Labor Movement, are also adequately covered...
...In .a large volume of over 300 pages, the author also sketches the earlier period of the organization and development of local unions into nationals and federations, the corresponding development of antiunion organisation of' employers, their methods and strategy, into the period of recent strikes and the activities of employer spies and propaganda as revealed in the La-Follette Committee investigations at Washington...
...It appears that there ¦Wfyiaaiiaii of the profits and gains taxes as a concession mBjl^ Assssnar...
...R. Brooks...
...Crammed with titillating information, sophist****** fcj its manner, spilling over with anecdotes, the book makes stusa-lating reading...
...Fodor's chapter titled "A New%cejaj' " Looms on the Horizon" was especially interesting...
...Looking back upon this living history, Mrs...
...MacmiUan Co...
...He did not worry over -^?hs> new- casuals have been uprooted by the decay of industry and they are not reconciled to their lot...
...began when President Hoover began to boast of the number of bathtubs, radios, cars, garages and telephones in use...
...Borgese...
...The only consolation it has is that its rival, the Democratic Party, is also becoming a rope of sand...
...In Germany representatives of the former capitalist class still get some of the gravy, a decreasing amount In Russia the individuals who get the nice incomes are not descend-ents of capitalists...
...wants series printed in pamphlet form Editor of The Nas> L**oV*: I have greatly en joyed, your articles on the "Labor Conflict Over Industrial Unionism" andhope that you will get them out in pamphlet form for wide drntrrbution: I have held up sending *y: renewal m order to get a few more-to send with it...
...Since the rise of the Kansas prodigy to power, the factional war between the amateurs and the eastern leaders has been pronounced...
...Now it is so far i ¦¦giiiiwu...
...It is to be recommended to the editors of ths'XSO Republic, among others...
...The last ofTdanzoni's works was a small book cajjftl "fQ*-tory of the Infamous Column...
...Ail books reviewed in these Rand Book Store, 7 East 15th Stn makes a careful analysis of distribution of income in Germany and Russia...
...saat^j| ^^M^^^SalHi'ns books suppressed^brt Ssa^thore*a» 1HMb$EbsbM^ old proverb: "Iases as, asva^ag'--4tBWNti^h Soon the Christmas season win be with us, and ssaatoyats will or throwmgt^onderdogs^a bonus...
...I feel quite certain, that if experience were allowed to throw more light on the subject and inexperience and ambition would employ less heat and cheap sarcasm, ' a long step would be taken in the right direction...
...It was "the paaricaatejaajBAAf a trial held in Milan during a pestilence of the seventeenth asa-tury, when a few poor wretches were tortured into asaflausgSHpt they had, by means of some ointment, spread the black^'jpijdjfc, and were thereupon legally murdered...
...Facing the pressure of the reaction's troops against the New frKjsV a^pag surrenders are being made...
...New Jersey...
...the evidence, says the report, "suggests that an increasing proportion of the workers who move from state to state are native white Americans, members of families, relatively young s^ssV highly employable .g^Jsjabyejaan|iiMnrTii.s treat these unfortunate workers as pariahs ^jfcslnVadvlee...
...Her article, supplemented by a series of documents, presents one of the most tragic chapters of modern history...
...It cannot afford to permit thp asllBSJ development of a workers' revolution, since that would be a>caal' lenge to its own monopoly of proletarian truth...
...What is to become of state rights, individual initiative, and the holy rights of property if this new Little N.R.A...
...He knows just* how business is run, who gets the benefits, where the controls lie...
...Am enclosing a few stamps, asking you to send as many ae yov< feel able to for the amount enclosed...
...George C. Christenaen...
...Russia cannot be discounted and ignored, hses see it is a terrifying force for mischief, intruding wherever soaal revolution raises its banners...
...I enjoy The New...
...I have received at any time...
...In both countries the government exploits the workers, takes the main part of the income, and deals out the rest so as to keep small groups in comfort while the great masses are next door to hunger...
...It is the most informative paper on world-wide news that...
...8.00 union workers is so well pat that the paragraph is well worth quoting: "He has nothing to gain and everything to lose...
...He has no prejudice against Communism or Fascism...
...becomes law...
...Does not the radical thought which diseotmat ethical systems and deeply cherished patterns of hope, the Writy of leaders and the lust for power other than economic power, become unreal, empty of human content ? These are not spsejpsajlg the problems treated byTrof...
...Pertinent questions come insistently to mmd as one reads this eloquent story of Italian cultural and psychological development from the dawn of Rome to its twilight under tat Blackshirts...
...A NYONE who has missed Anita Brenner's article m ths Ssa-*¦ tember issue of "Modern Monthly" on the Stalinist counter- • revolution now under way behind the Loyalist Unas in Spam, is cautioned to make good the omission forthwith...
...The morbid "hobo" was a rare bird...
...By Ft...
...He is just looking at three governments as you would look at a new sort of refrigerator or radio set...
...The JfJ^'*' Russia's monolithic nationalism at this juncture is to give Mtscov the role of policing the capitalist world against every fMSSBP threat of social revolt "Miss Brenner's documented story of Stalinist terror caaastAj avoided by sticking one's head ostrich-wise into the sands of despair...
...In that eaapag the author discusses the growing possibility of a Hitier-StsSa alliance, economic and military, and the implications of Baca a development for the world at large...
...Your suggestion for a "standing committee on adjustment" is...
...Will endeavor to remit with a larger amount soon...
...M. L. Brown...
...Wiffiam R. Snow...
...Will do all in my power to boost your splendid, educational and informative paper...
...THE QUARREL IN THE G.O.P...
...A section on union finances might well be read by union enemies who contend that unionism is a scheme run in the interest of low persons who exploit the members and pocket handsome slices of graft...
...Wail it's none of our affair if the ruling cliques of the "only fajjj fit to govern" cannot agree...
...yHE effort of the Republican Party to restore unity within its ranks and agree on a program has brought one futility after another...
...1.50...
...In both countries the state has absolute control of distribution...
...Not that we object It may be worth a trial, but for Senator Borah, the individualist liberal, to be a sponsor of the bill is beyond bur ken...
...You want recovery by private initiative...
...Manzoni's little bask might remind him that idolatry of the State, torture of, its choose victims, the selection of symbolic scapegoats for a aafeien's suffering, are not curious Russian phenomena...
...We shall revise the Federal Housing Act to liberalize its provisions for financing housing projects while you provide the capital...
...We shall...
...Hamilton declared his sympathy with many New Deal alms, but questioned the methods of realizing them...
...The detailed stories of these tare eases*, told in intimate close-up and with intelligent commentary, are aw more interesting thus placed side by side...
...liberty, rather than betwess different brands of tyranny...
...The troubles of the G.O.P...
...It pleases me to know that they will appear in pamphlet form in the near future...
...nioftunates are not of the "hobo" type that was typical of the pre-depression era...
...Mowrer calk dews "the woolly-minded people" who "assume that Europe—perhaps the entire world—has no choice but between two brands of oppression," namely Fascism and Bolshevism...
...110 pages...
...Yet they fmerge frsjn nji* substance of his book...
...From the outset of the conflict The NpT Leader followed a consistent peace policy while various 'left" and "liberal" organs egged on the fight These organs uSjuyeJ it...
...last week's ISSUE brings request for EXTRA copies Editor of The Neva Leader: So many especially informing and stirring articles are found in the last number of The^New Leader (Nov...
...W. E. B. orumns may be purchased at the rt, N. Y. FOR LABOR PEACE AND SOLIDARITY IMHATEVER may be the outcome of the meeting of President _ Green of the A F. of L. and John L. Lewis of the C. L O., it is a victory lev those who, from the beginning of the split, sttseel ronninn aad peace...
...Eagle Bridge, N. Y. * * * good luck...
...The new housing needs for the next two years make possible the expenditure of from twelve to sixteen billion dollars...
...The "hobo," generally, was ajMKS^'S^n Ixcame accustomed to the road, and many of MnHaW jaj?p$ad his wandering life as one of rough adventure...
...If all the state is supreme, profits go to those favored by the dictators, and power rests on propaganda and terror...
...He tells how the poet Manzoni, a century ago, reacted aseisst the Machiavellism of certain of his countrymen, against ahsspMia that ends justify means...
...SUPREME court" for LABOR SEEN AS WAY TO A.F.L.-C.I.O...
...The idea ia satrfL j|W fetched as it sounds____ T " ' A aew kink in the fashion of books by foreign correspondentr "Journalist's Wife,-- by Lillian T. Mowrer...
...No form of unionism can avoid the many problems which will be referred to such a committee...
...The danger to the whole movement of organized workers because of jurisdiction disputes is well depicted and the plight of the employer who is willing to employ * When Labor Organizes...
...The method has much to recommend it After reading her book, many t corre-spondent whose contribution to the lush literature of his itfiifisaS is already in the works will regret not having 1st his wife d» the job...
...Well, here is your chance...
...we considered it a tragedy...
Vol. 20 • December 1937 • No. 49
