Farmers and Consumers Join to Fight Milk Trust
OLIVER, BRYCE
Breaking the Monopoly Farmers and Consumers Join to Fight Milk Trust SHE FFIELD-BORDEN-ROCKE FELLER CONTROL SEEN CRUMBLING AS NEW YORK COOPERATIVE PLANS NEW LOW MILK PRICES WHILE ASSURING FAIR...
...To the student of the theories of historical causation, therefere, the book is tantalizing and baffling...
...In fact, he declines to formulate one, being contest to merely present a final chapter on "Some Principles of Polinsal Dynamics...
...It is a veritahh encyclopedia of all Russian poets, including the most obscure ome, of writers and philosophers of all countries...
...Perhaps, more so...
...These qualities and defects seem to hold true of "The Spatter" as well...
...Once again, the people of the city were handed, s over to the monopoly \j for exploitation...
...It may be nine cents—or eight or seven or ten—whatever the lowest price is elsewhere...
...The bargaining was supposed to be an independent operation, but in reality the whole organization acted something like a company union in industry...
...av«i>« fully understand the Socialist strength in Czechoslovakia both the Czech and the German Social Democratic Parties must be considered of course as one force...
...The old power of Gorki is felt...
...And now, when with the dictatorship of the proletariat ia Rnssia, Gorki himself had come to be regarded a kind of prole, tarian dictator of Soviet literature (a benevolent dictator, indeed), a tragic and ironic feature enters the symbolic picture...
...But still the milk monopoly fought all efforts to correct the situation by legislative action...
...The farmers of Wisconsin and Minnesota discovered that long ago,—hence the Farmer-Labor Party—but New York's up-state farmers have an age-long tradition of individualism, and it took the shortsighted policy (or inefficiency) of the milk monopoly to introduce the city and farm factions to each other right on the brink of bankruptcy for the farmers and undernourishment for the children of the workers...
...The way this is done is by distributing the profits back to the members of the cooperatives at stated periods...
...The Specter" deals with the period from 1906 to 1917, bow— the two revolutions...
...Paraphrasing Marx, the specter of Gorki k haunting Soviet Russia, as it is haunting its rulers...
...and Writers By ELIAS L. TARTAK Gorki's "Specter" MAXIM GORKI'S work is done...
...IIP to now, the' cooperative movement in the United States has been backward, as compared with Sweden, but the movement has been quietly expanding...
...The party feels that it has gained considerably because of Boncour's decision since he has wide _____ influence in French political life...
...They were contradicted in the figures shown by the New York State Attorney General and by a Congressional investigation, which disclosed huge profits...
...WPV * % BONCOUR JOINS SOCIALISTS PARIS.—Paul Boncour, former prime minister, and Leon Blum's foreign minister has rejoined the Socialist Party of France...
...His heroes are apt to become veritable machatguns of aphorisms, not always equally felicitous and witty...
...ML "'" v"J :'..:ure...
...farmers have now discovered for themselves the thing that Labor has been preaching all along—that farmers and the city workers have every reason to stand together...
...But how they talk, and, above all, how they quote...
...Folklore of Capitalism" 117HEN an enthusiast assures us that a new study of capitilif " is "miles ahead of Marx" we are very much interested...
...Note the word "some" which implies an incomplete statement of his major views...
...crowned tht triumph of the young heretic...
...In more recent times Gorki was to write magnificent ante* biographic stories ("Among People," "My Universities^) sal reminiscences of his famous contemporaries, on Tolstoy, Chekher and Leonid Andreyev...
...Breaking the Monopoly Farmers and Consumers Join to Fight Milk Trust SHE FFIELD-BORDEN-ROCKE FELLER CONTROL SEEN CRUMBLING AS NEW YORK COOPERATIVE PLANS NEW LOW MILK PRICES WHILE ASSURING FAIR PROFIT TO FARMERS...
...leaders of the Rumanian Communist "Party Chordnormorgdnik, Brigadir, and Varish...
...The jester himself need not be always consistent or logical'* be effective...
...Otherwise we are landed hi that confusion of thought which the author so effectively exps** on many pages...
...SEEKS RE AFFILIATION LONDON.—According to one of its leaders, John McGovern, the Independent Labor Party of Great Britain, which splintered from the Labor Party in 1931, will shortly petition the Labor Party for ire-admission...
...Thus, the yardstick is intended to show that more can be paid for milk on the farm and less charged the city consumer...
...In the case of this new Consumer-Farmer Milk Cooperative, two-thirds of the profits will go to the city consumers...
...An important example is the word "capital...
...If they made infinitesmal profits, as contended by the companies, or no profits at all, as they now claim, then the entire monopoly is one of the most inefficient business organizations in the world and deserves to go the way of all inefficiency...
...As soon as 10,000 members are all aboard, the new cooperative—the first big milk cooperative in the nation—begins to function...
...The cards were always stacked against the farmers because the bargainers for the farmers had to say "Yes Sir" to the companies...
...Urged that Poland seek the friendship of the democratic countries ancbeo shape its foreign policy that it in no way appears to,cooperate with Hitler's...
...In 1923 the Norwegian* Labor-Party split with Moscow, and another group within its ranks, t&e Communist Party, broke off...
...A strong ^minority, disapproving, left the party, founded the Social ^Demoof^c Labor Party and joined the L.S.I...
...It has been out of the L.S.I, since 1921...
...And so, may the mighty specter of him who has stirred M' delighted so many millions of minds, may it find peace...
...But Gorki was always an uneven writer...
...The Specter" is the fourth of a tetralogy of novels, built' around the life of the central hero Klim Samgin, a Russian intellectual whom Gorki takes up from his youth in the nineties aad around whom the author builds a vast panorama of Russian lUe, from the nineties to the revolution of 1917...
...IJ...
...With those exciting storka of his rebellious, defiant tramps and thieves, with "Makar Tchudra," "Chelkash," "The Scoundrel," "The Former People," Gorki brought a new and exciting world into Russian and European liter atari, the world of the "lower depths" hating the "upper crust...
...This book does this...
...He induced independent milk companies to sell milk, direct from trucks, for nine cents a quart...
...the hil!s ^Uling tne -^azi days of m—^ m4m The strength of the party is ^^¦mkfK^j^RljsS'aH remarkable in view of the con- 7^8S$SB.-li^^^^ stant threat to party members' PRESIDENT BENES, lives which the Nazis often who pleaded for European carry into action...
...The fame of Gorki rests secure on his earlier works, on ah short stories, on some of his dramas...
...D. Applet on-Century Ce^ London, New York...
...That the ruling classes of * old order become the beneficiaries of the popular myths, prejudiesi and superstitions that develop with that order is a commoaphMi fact for students of history and when jesters laugh at this folkkea and puncture the pompous bladders who market it we may he sure that the old system is decaying...
...iZgRWW...
...He justifies his work if he makes us think, if T» convinces many that the folklore has no more reality than phs*" toms, and that it has become a barrier to needed social, econoeak and political changes...
...The future will show whether the...
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...If they made the profits shown by the investigating committees the people and the farmers were being cheated...
...At the same time, national and state legislative investigations were showing that the price received for milk by the dairy farmers was just a little bit below the cost of production, and so the public had a double-barreled weapon of destruction aimed at them...
...His people live and have heiaj...
...Last November, the average price of milk on the farm was about five cents a quart...
...Milk and the milk monopoly long have threatv ened to become a political issue in New XfdjC, aa<t the members of the New York State Constitutional Convention at Albany this week were confronted with what looks like a fait accompli in the milk situation without benefit of polituians...
...They are set up to make private industry behave, by showing how much money can be made at the lowest selling price...
...This plan was smashed by the milk lobby at Albany, and William Fellowes Morgan, New York City Market Commissioner, tried another tack...
...i i / NORWAY LABOR APPLICATION DRUSBBLS.—<The Labor- and • Socialist International has been askad*-by the- Norwegian Labor Party to accept its application for reeJdraisaien...
...It was a remarkable literary...
...Russia's troubled intelligentsia, struggtaf with the aftermath of one revolution, with the war, with the ev> coming storm of another, greater revolution...
...As a matter of fact, Archie Wright, head of the Dairy Farmers Union, while a farmer, born and raised, has also been a union leader in some pretty lively industrial struggles...
...And the very title of Gorki's last and posthumous novel...
...The ConsumerFarmer Milk Cooperative has been organized by representatives of the farmers, the New York labor union, and prominent social workers...
...JAMES ONEAL *THR FOLKLORE OF CAPITALISM, by TkurmaniW...
...with the understanding and consent of the leaders of the International...
...It is a mighty specter, not easy to appease...
...and in concentration camps the J- » **?rMi*1r*Bt^- Wsm ' Soviet dictator has added the PAULBONCOUR, following former leaders: who rejoined the Socialist General Secretary of the Party...
...GORKI'S NOVELS The novel was never Gorki's forte...
...b# to assert that it is "miles ahead of Marx" is exaggeration...
...It wasn't possible...
...Professor Arnold's critical and satirical dissection of the bast' ness man...
...secret political police...
...They aren't intended to drive private industry out of business...
...When the price of a commodity—from electric light bulbs to autos— seems too high, a cooperative is formed to distribute at the lowest competitive price, if there is any competition...
...And the drama "The Lower Depths" (1902...
...We art told that Gorki did not die a natural death in 1936...
...At the end of peace this week...
...Therman W. Arnold's book* on the folklore props of capitalism fe certainly amusing and informing...
...The J| JIlpSPanHKHSa newly chosen executive commit^^^¦a ¦l^j^'^f^a^^M tee, under the new party President Jaksch has been given full Jmt W&ElS^&SsM power to negotiate with other ¦j IjyHH political parties and to decide the ^^^^W^^HI^^" Social Democratic tactics in the...
...E^JSfPSfcfcw The 584 delegates ignored all ^AWmf**" HSmv questions of principle and re-^ A^Mf, . »: BHH^ organization and dealt only with Mi » 'V A the urgent political problems...
...the leaders of the Communist movement of Germany, Neumann, Wolenberg, Reismann and Stein...
...Economists base so used the word that it has lost all intelligent meaning...
...He gives one the impression ef a mischievous boy whose doddering elders so annoy him that at gets compensation by blowing peas at them...
...There was no opposition to the shift, which was forced by the continued raids the Sudeten Nazis are making on the Socialists in that area...
...RG^^mSrtSmfHI came to power, in his short -^Hp^^SSP^^mlH^^S Irved cabinet, Boncour ordered '/^^^^S^^^^PHfc French warships to escort sup- -4r' * ^vIHBH The'sudden halt of the Fascists llri at Tortosa was forced by the ar- ¦ peg , ajflPtj rival'of invaluable war material B. |. .<v -: '$QjM which Boncour, and of course ^L- sPH Blum,-sent through...
...COINCIDENTAL WITH COOPERATIVE DRIVE THE emergence of this liberal program at Albany is curiously coincidental with the opening drive in New York City for a milk cooperative, which, if successful, would break the back of the Borden-Sheffield Farms-Rockefeller-Millbank monopoly—a monopoly which at one time last year forced the underprivileged to pay 14 cents a quart...
...COOPERATIVES SEEK LOWEST PRICES IT will be a yardstick, similar to the great co* operatives of Sweden...
...The other third will go to the farmers...
...The companies insisted they made no profits, or very little profits, even at that spread...
...THE WORKERS ABROAD By DICK REYNARD CZECH SOCIALISTS REORGANIZE .jWRAGUE.—A complete change in the leadership of the German fSkf$ Socialist Party in this country Vas effected at a General Party congress here recently...
...But the structure of tat , navel is quite clear, and the minor confusions, due to the unfinished state of the manuscript, do not detract from the novel's complete, ness or from the clarity of the delineation of its characters...
...Was he really poisoned...
...Ia the novel Gorki was apt to become diffuse...
...uwu fore us...
...Powerful as "Foma Geedieyev" and "The Three" were, they lacked the go and dash of his stories...
...8. A resolution against anti-semitism and an insistent demand that pogroms be stopped immediately...
...ArwtUi Yale University Press...
...career, one of the most unusual ones in the annals of the world literature...
...Death interrupted his work on the last chapters and stopped the "Specter" in mid-sentence...
...For bam was not only one of the founders of the proletarian trend hi literature, who by the authority of his art came to commantf^ attention of the world to his tramps, thieves, street-women and lumpen-proletarians: here, symbolically enough, was the proletariat itself rising to the topmost heights of literature and world fame, 20 years before the actual rise of the Russian proletariat to 9* position of the ruling class of Russia...
...And the challenging personality of the man behind his literary work was no less origami and picturesque than the work itself...
...In the last general election their combined vote topped 1,374,000, or about 20 per cent of the fatal vote...
...This week offices opened at 215 Fourth Avenue, and consumer members began coming in by the hundreds...
...In order to provide each of two children, in a family of four, with a very necessary quart of milk a day, the breadwinner had to spend almost $100 a year, for that one item...
...Together with mt shrewdest power of observation, with vast and cunning knowiedgp of human type and character, there was in Gorki a more thai occasional immoderateness and turgidity of phrase and diakgm a hankering after striking and bold effects, a tendency to overm, to say too much...
...It is interesting to note that in 1928, when it was affiliated with the Labor Party, it had almost thirty thousand members, of which MS were in Parliament...
...i \ . t POLISH SOCIALISTS DEMAND ELECTION TtfARSAW.—At its annual conference, held recently, the Polish ""Socialist Party adopted several important resolutions, the outatanding being: A demand for the dissolution of the existing parliament and the holding of completely democratic elections...
...The "Lower Depths" were to engulf "The Cham Orchard" and "War and Peace" Russia...
...members of Parliament, only 14 voted at that time to leave the Labor Party because "it wasn't revolutionary enough...
...The Specter," indeed...
...In short, this book is serviceable in awakening thought, sad we suspect that the author has, like some social historians, a ftetf* of weapons and let only a few slip from his fingers...
...Comintern, Piatnitsky...
...members of the Central Committee of Finnish Communist Party, Makinen, Maner, Ruling...
...By BRYCE OLIVER WEVD'S News Commentator FARMERS of six states, New York labor, and - consumers of over three and a half million quarts of milk per day will soon be linked m a bond of mutual interests by the creation of the first great city cooperative agency to purthase and distribute a basic commodity...
...ilmHiPlw The Czech Socialists were ¦ Hftm ? greatly stirred by a parade of ¦ mj# their younger members, many of '• iJ^M8g|fe*'^^^^2B whom carried the red flags of the ^^^HhHJP'w*"* i German Socialists which were ^ V B|^^ A brought into Czechoslovakia over ^^R1*'^ MJfc...
...That's the situation that resulted in the growth and finally the militant action of the Dairy Farmers Union...
...Here, then, begins a merging of the interests —a practical, working' merger—of the interests of the worker on the farm and the worker in the" city factory and offce...
...Some of the liberals at Albany are interested in a program which would favor the creation in " New York State of a cooperative movement, similar to the program which has now made social democratic Sweden the country where a man gets more for his labor than almost any other great nation on the face of the earth...
...Through the Dairy Farmers Union, and the milk situation, the...
...the Japanese Communists Tanako and Okojo...
...Of the 14, three, Mosley, Beckett and Forgan, became fascists...
...The same milk, at the door of the consumer, cost fourteen cents a quart...
...If the milk cooperatives for New York City, with a potential market greater in population than all Sweden put together, is run anywhere nearly as efficiency as the Swedish cooperatives are run, it means the end of high price mirk for the children of the cities and bankruptcy prices for the men on the farms...
...The price at the stores for milk will be equal to the lowest price of milk sold elsewhere...
...And it may be the beginning of cooperatives along other lines...
...v * * * COMPANIES CROOKED OR INEFFICIENT WHATEVER the case—whether they made " profits or did not—there was something decidedly wrong...
...J In Jfi27, leading Socialists brought the Social Democratic Labor Party arod the "Norwegian Labor Party together, and in the interest of unity the Social Democrats withdrew from the L.S.I...
...Only in this way can there be intelligent reasoning...
...He begins with no fundamental philosophy tf interpretation nor does, he attempt to present one at the end sf his survey...
...Is that ah* a symbol, a sign of the proletarian dictatorship dying from the inner poison of a dictatorship, from the blight of the despotk rule of one party, of one group, with its spies, firing squads, executions and treason "trials...
...Its membership rolls listed some 82,425 of which 24,000 are women...
...the leader of the Communist Party of Denmark and members of the executive committee of the Comintern' Munk-Peterson...
...the American System, of upper-class learning and A? pitfalls that yawn in the use of papular speech, are in the meJ> effective, and his occasional clever turn of phrase serves him as an iconoclast, even though we may not in each instance accept his conclusion...
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...We are told by the Soviet courts that the proletarian dictator of Soviet literature was murdered, was poisoned by the chief of the nest dreaded, all-powerful G.P.U...
...1937 the party had 1,397 local branches throughout C z e c h o - Slovakia...
...Books...
...executed, exiled, improsined ¦''^^^•sBj&'i/mmJw^SiB...
...leader of the Hungarian Communists Bela Kun...
...The antifascists fear a repetition of the terror which hit Danzig and the Saar during the last weeks before the League of Nations plebiscite...
...It seems to us that one phase of rolmf folklore is that it consists largely of undefined abstractions...
...Probably they fought too long...
...mm rcB Tb the long list of those ..JJS&gJ BaP^HB^mm...
...This actually did result in a price reduction by Borden and Sheffield Farms, but the monopoly managed to scare the independents out of the agreement with the city...
...They did force some increases for the farmers, and for the first time, farmers cooperated with industrial unionists on a movement affecting them both...
...His posthumous novel* it he...
...HjL "«j|H NEW SOVIET PURGES ^ Hl'MM ^ respondence from Russia, in I feJ|h!^*emeaL lished in Paris by the Russian I I Social Democrats, the purge there continues unabated...
...Hectic quarrelsome days set in after it decided that it could move faster without the British Labor Party and today its membership comes to about 1,000 Of the original 142 I.L.P...
...In their jargon it may mean a savage owning a few spears, a garden* possessing a spade or a hoe, a worker owning a wheelbarrow, • dressmaker owning a sewing machine, a workman owning a thaj* in an industry, or a man owning a large, industrial plant, <* these illustrations "capital" is also "capitalist," or owner of capttal Our definition of an economic factor or social institution amf not be satisfactory to others, but at least others can undu stead us once we define it and stick to the definition...
...Leaders of the Polish Communists Lensky, and Brankofsky...
...that is its merit...
...There is no denying that the author explodes many pupsisT political and economic fetishes that serve as intellectual suppsrtt of capitalism...
...A procession of male and female charaeMt pass before the reader...
...Sin<}^ Mdrcif, 1935, there has been a purely labor government in Xcrwuy.j . Th^ Norwegian Labor Party which was organized in 1887 de* cided ip J&fiJ to affiliate with the Communist International...
...One way or the other, the companies were shown up, and the attack on the monopoly set-up was launched by Mayor LaGuardia and the American Labor Party in a campaign to establish a municipal distribution plant, to operate in competition with companies as a yardstick—a yardstick which would prove what milk could be distributed for in New York...
...llhe tarty now has 150,000 members in 3,200 branches and in the Norwegian parliamentary election in 1936 piled up the , record labor Vote of 618,000, about 42% per cent of the total , vote* The party has 70 out of the 150 seats in parliament...
...THE SPECTER, by Maxim Gorki...
...members of the Latvian Communist Party,' Baladis, Bowzer, Martin...
...The difference was supposed to cover the cost of hauling, pasteurizing, bottling and distributing...
...The bulk of the people couldn't afford to buy, and the farmers were merely traveling toward bankruptcy by producing...
...UTEKAWRE—A PROPHECY Gorki, an orphan reared to ignorance and abject poverty, later a starving painter-apprentice, baker and tramp, becoming tat friend and peer of Tolstoy and Chekhov, was in himself a symbol, foreshadowing the revolution of 1905 and the October 11 miliums of 1917, foreshadowing the downfall of the Russia of both Chekhov and Tolstoy...
...Now and then we firmly disagree, as when he MBP that the observer, when writing about social institutions, "should never define anything...
...symbols and prophecies read true to the end...
...MONOPOLIES BACKED COMPANY UNION LAW WEANWHILE, at Albany, carefully drawn *™ laws—all sponsored by the milk monopoly— set up fake bargaining between the companies and the farmers...
Vol. 21 • April 1938 • No. 17
