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Danger of Corp Feudal Baron of the General k1w Of Organized Capital and Finance j By James Oneal QERARD SWOPE, chief of the General Electric empire, with the support of Henry I....
...Sad Confession by a Defeated Candidate By Ben Blunsenbcarg I AM glad that the election is over...
...What is your favorite recreation or don't| you read the Monday newspaper reports of political sermons ? Do you believe that campaign promises will lower the price of fertilizer...
...Answer yes or no and be quick about it...
...VILLED in action"— Once it meant a ghastly thing That stumbled on without a head Or waved a bloody stump and gasped for breath— And all the world was shocked and said "This m u s t n o t come again...
...OUT we forgot— And now another crop is ripe To make a blinded sacrifice...
...This is not said in a spirit of sour grapes...
...How does the honorable candidate (that is, or was, yours truly), stand on the burning issue of a kiddie in every home...
...Yes, these retainers of capitalism know very well that the mirrors are no more reliable than the system that has crashed about their heads, but they assume an academic air as though nothing had happened...
...Not a bad comparison," Bill replied...
...On the contrary, the interest in my candidacy (as I recall, I was nominated for the office of alderman), was intense...
...Capitalism has many mirrors that produce similar distortions...
...Vast numbers of wage workers receiving the minimum, wages of the code industries will find that their scanty dollars will buy less...
...Joe Is No Longer Glass-Conscious *J 1 certainly is,' 'said Bill...
...Swope would organize a nationwide executive with delegates from the trade associations permitted by the NRA...
...This is the most frmasses by a plutocnj Swope leaves us ia si leadership, he says, dj tinuous partuipatim] We look for the] plutocracy of capital] as an executive woo] dustry on legislative | and transportation...
...The mail box was crammed with letters and questionnaires beseeching my stand on momentous issues or to subscribe to various letter services or patronize various printers...
...Can you read and write or would you make an able alderman...
...The distortion is even worse than that," said Joe...
...Which outfit do you believe has the best show ? That was an easy one...
...1 "It works out that way for the wage workers, too," ( said Joe, "for they also face a price mirror...
...What effect would the election of Yimka McSpivins, candidate for sidewalk inspector of the Gowanus canal, have'on NRA and trade relations with Russia...
...You have nothing to lose but you're brains and who told you you had any...
...Ever think what happens to money ?" What We Call "Sound Money" "JT'S the same distorted price mirror only it 'reflects money instead of men," Bill replied...
...i The executive would methods of promotion tinuous relations wttl their representatives...
...That is tragedy," said Joe...
...When each sees himself reflected as a fat man and his misery tells him that he is lean, he often turns against his own brother in misery...
...AH the time I am the same human being...
...The Swope plan would take over the NRA...
...Well, let's hear the sequel," said Bill...
...P.S.—With several voting machines and an army of repeaters missing, it appears that the voice of the people, etc., has been heard and it appears that I will not be a member of the Board of Aldermen the coming year...
...The sad thing," Bill continued, "is that before the price mirror and wage mirror the farm workers and wage workers often charge the deceptions to each other instead of to the ruling racketeers who alone profit by the distortions...
...If the two groups united to eliminate the robber barons and became the collective owners of raw materials, industrial plants, machines, railroads and so on there would be no robber barons to set up and maintain curved mirrors to distort reality and confuse their minds...
...i "You said it," Bill replied...
...Danger of Corp Feudal Baron of the General k1w Of Organized Capital and Finance j By James Oneal QERARD SWOPE, chief of the General Electric empire, with the support of Henry I. Harriman, president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, proposes that the great bankers and capitalists take over the administration of the NRA1 Administrator Johnson likes the "idealism" of the proposal and thinks that it is the "ultimate ideal...
...Assume that (he admin- 1 istration fixes prices for the farmers...
...Fat, Although Hungry...
...Take those four western governors who visited President Roosevelt to obtain, relief for the farmers...
...Before one I am a long string bean and before another a dwarf...
...The wage mirror will then reveal a healthy and happy worker although he ia still living on the same level of existence that he lived before the new wage was fixed...
...Are all candidates thieves, liars, crooks and grafters, or do the honorable candidates ' employ these terms in order to exhibit their knowledge of political science...
...Politicals Kept at Hostages DUISBURG.—The recent murder of a Nasi storm trooper near Recklinghausen by unknown hands has given the authorities the long looked for opportunity to postpone the announced liberation of a number of political prisoners...
...The ruling kings, dukes, barons and princes of steel, banks, copper, power and so on would take over the NRA through this executive...
...That's what the economists, politicians and editors call 'sound money,' isn't it...
...Do you believe candidates should make a political issue of religious controversies or have you a sense of decency...
...You are becoming class-conscious and have emerged from those who are still glass-conscious," said Bill as they farted for their homes...
...They want . to bring the price of corn, wheat, hogs and other farm ] products up to something like the 1926 standard...
...Well, every ruling class in history had its mirrors to distort the thinking of bondmen, slaves, serfs, peasants and wage workers," said Joe...
...Hold a dollar before it and the mirror will reveal fifty cents at one time and a quarter at another...
...The wage mirror distorts reality for the wage worker as the price mirror does for the farmer...
...According to an official announcement, these prisoners will be kept in a concentration camp for another three months in retaliation of the unknown murder and the growing anti-Nazi propaganda in these districts...
...Included in the questions sent to me by organizations, were the following: Do you believe in miscegenation, infant damnation, vaccination, transubs tantiation, inflation, sprinkling or total immersion...
...In the price mirror the farmer will then ! look fat...
...It reminds me of the palace of mirrors I recently visited...
...Joe inquired...
...rabbits fear the lions...
...Now doesn't capitalism distort things in the same way...
...The Manufacturers' Association has many lesser I *• • I 11 * capitalist kings as affili1,11 lit* Kings ates who fear the upper NOW OppOSe why^the manufacturers The Proposal - - «not want to lose their identity in the huge oligarchy that Swope would organize...
...Never has there been such a protracted silly season...
...For a stimulating, sincere, dignified performance, Hubert's flea circus has it on the others in every way,.save noise...
...Both divisions of the labor army produce vast quantities of wealth and most of it is filched from them by the banking and capitalist classes...
...Still another mirror reveals me as a misshapen creature whose legs curve like the limb of a tree...
...1 Assume that the administration arranges for an increase in wages to correspond with the increased cost of living...
...The government would retain a veto and also a supervisory power—at least in theory—but soveignty would be vested in the ruling capitalists and bankers...
...well-being and secttrl This "executive wot Reporting U The ..eignii Executives tional code provision^ such interpretations empires of capital aj tions under their resj and the ruling barool production and consm to a greater degree ol There is the progri dalism that has ever masses would becom Old Pals' Corner Farmer and Worker in a World of Curved Mirrors Think and Act ForThose Who Rob Both Groups "|T'S positively a nutty world," said Joe Jto Bill as they met in the street...
...At this writing, the proletariat in the baliwick of that* departed statesman, Boss Murphy, lived up to the grand old slogan of our late comrade, Terence McSweeny: "Working men of the world you're a fright...
...QONE in the dark of earth, Yes, rotten gone long since: And all our shame and pride And cruel remorse have gone As they who lie forgotten...
...BUT vi the P"ces °*tne thing8 the farmer buys go up j in the same proportion," Bill continued, "he will be a lean and hungry human despite the jolly fat person i the price mirror will reveal...
...QH, there are stones and crosses, Yes, and flags—and wreaths ate Before a name— But what was flesh and blood That ate and sang and lusted Lies forgotten in some crumbling hones...
...Sanity, or any semblance of it, was left at the post...
...Robert L. Lund, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, does not approve the proposed super-organization...
...Do you favor Home Rule for the Island of YapT Are you educated or did you attend school...
...By enlarging the present U. S. Chamber of Commerce, dividing it into several departments, and by associating the Secretary of Commerce and Assistant Secretary-on a governing board with the delegates of the chamber, an would be set up...
...The idea is to assure an income to the iarmers and they are entitled to it...
...They have a certain independence now under the reigning kings and barons of finance and capital...
...I pass in front of various curved mirrors," said Joe...
...and the higher corporation magnates would administer it and the codes...
...I pass on and see myself as a huge hogshead almost bursting at the middle and a swollen pumpkin .for a head...
...Again it may reflect the dollar as it is and yet the fifty cents at one time may purchase more than that dollar...
Vol. 26 • November 1933 • No. 20
