Where the News Ends
CHAMBERUN, WILLIAM HENRY
Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERUN The: Return of a Native COMMENCEMENT at Haverf ord College ^marked the end of a "return of the native" fcanW^aes^ "&t this writer, tt waa from...
...4. Who is going to resolve this conflict...
...Haverf ord is just one small segment of a whole American system of higher education that is betas...
...How there has been a very noticeable change in the direction of greater knowledge and appreciation of international political and economic trends...
...lewis' would hsve been impossible inside either one of the great federations...
...We hsve independent pdlrtkai ks» movements in New Jersey and Pensir>nss> Michigan and Connecticut promise soor M tor the field...
...i EDITORIAL COMMENT Time for a Nation Labor Party WINNING the war will be our big job for ** a year-or two- or three...
...It to a lot of money...
...This, to^nfUhg tiie cart before the horse, the little sad the temporary before the great and the permanent The election of 1940 proved that the politics of Mr...
...I believe that from the economic standpoint all of us are dual personalities...
...Ham...
...Many foods, in fact, are up 60% or msec...
...In the past fe** studies have shown, toessnin* labor productivity has aa**** wage rises while increased P1** have gone into profits ssd**** dividends...
...v, pasaad this lew—you Republican* and Dea, ocrata...
...So long* sfe*** are mainly on the delivering eod of this transaction I suspect we shall find ho nation so cumadgeonly as to refuse to co-operate...
...Let us suppose sn ideal alumnium company union...
...If, finally, th* patience gives out if they its art to viekas on their own behalf, it will be against Msw lini...
...Bat thsr coma fit most of the nut The qui hart art auvssi to he very quiet and orderly: "Seivattoe ad justice are not to be found in me ulottos ef in an evolution through concord \ lokmavs* ever achieved only destruction...
...Food costs hsve risen 7% since September— snd the increase to proceeding steadily...
...Canada, Greet Britain snd Australia...
...Perlman, "the unionist's conception clashes with the humanitarian's, at present specifically, with the New Dealer's...
...It to ia aha nature of a wexsm « the world...
...fjJL, nay duos...
...The moment the wsr to ended, all the combined and perfectly synchronized forces of management will be turned loose in one final effort to crash it completely...
...These thousands of long-suffering werkkf men stood in the monumental Behridamflm den of the Vatican...
...noscries and failures of all those years only to drew from them their lemons for tomorrow...
...The votes on the new down-with-labor bill prove there has been no fundamental change...
...frkeade of labor" in Congress...
...Offhand I would nag that the outstanding difference between these student age-groups is the greater awareness of intemtional problems on the part of the student .'life at Havegford between 1914 «hd 1917 was pretty cloistered and secluded, so far as the outside world was concerned...
...For three yean they Ss* endured the violence of war...
...It is a good name—American Laser a— This to the time to make it Continental MmZ while the workers are exasperated, frmiaaj, outraged...
...the day's news...
...Roosevelt wss help-full in overcoming bureaucratic obstacles and prejudices...
...Government repraaentntltea, controlled by consumer attitudes, want lower prices...
...rTJm...
...No other way to accompltob the desired end at this late date to even suggested by the President's opponents...
...We wosM, k*> ever, point out one fallacy II at Bashian's thinking...
...What it amounts to to -that the Ahaaihinm Company of America to having aa enormous Canadian sower plant handed to it by the governments of tile United States...
...Thus far nothing hss happened...
...Andrea gave ear* readers a comprehensive account...
...For twenty years violence has bam am against these men...
...Lewis...
...V A dozen miner questions erg swept off the beards by one question: Are we to sit still snd endure a Congress in which (1) both parties are definitely reactionary and where (2> there to no minority with s strsight-for--Wln^-^sa«as|sJs».4Pnliay .ss, defense ef labor snd where, (3) h. the battle hast ended, not ea^^asjt^d^ ^and determined l&WVEn htmea* explodes for the seventy-fifth time in seventy-five years the old myth at t...
...Krutikov (whom some wag christened Instruktikov) and that tike Russians repaid this palpitating attention with an attitude that, to put mildly, was rather brusque...
...This is the only method...
...It to the antav keroos anti-New Deal politicians who snap in fine-spun and theoretical aigumcntoam PAPAL PRECEPTS OP ma "THE address of Pope Pius to 2f..0O9 Mm...
...We are both producers and consumers and as such we have conflicting interests...
...Leader a few questions...
...This to partly the inevitable result of our involvement in a second, and bigger global war, a war which hss affected or will affect in the most direct snd intimate way the life of every ablebodied Haverf ord student Out of some eighty FreShmen of four years ago only a handful of eight asd been sUe to complete the regular course and receive their diplomas at the Commencement, i •' i ¦' .• * *¦ COME credit for the new orientation toward ^international affairs also goes to the President of the 'college, Felix Morley, who came to Haverf ord three years ago with a background of journalistic activity and' has laid special emphasis on courses snd extra-curricular activities that would put the students In closer, touch with world trends...
...e * QIDE by side with the PMs, who rnarfilr-to and from classes in uniform and ltntbeT^drnTtbeir muscles on a so-called "commando course,* which involves jumping over obstacles and ditches and scaling of Wans, Haverford is carrying (en*ss a centre of training for future reconstruction work...
...In opposing the acceptance of the miners into the Federation because John L. LewtolW s Republican or an anti-New Dealer, hjMst and devoted labor leaders seem to be advocating the introduction into our labor movement" of some such mischievous principles of division...
...Where the News Ends By WILLIAM HENRY CHAMBERUN The: Return of a Native COMMENCEMENT at Haverf ord College ^marked the end of a "return of the native" fcanW^aes^ "&t this writer, tt waa from this institution, founded by the Society of Friends in 18S3, that I graduated as a duly attested AB in 1»17...
...Nee ¦ the the time...
...1 received from the students to certain columnists, authors of books and even moving-picture producers as useful models of factual accuracy and intellectual honesty...
...It will be our reveille It will rouse us, stir aa, put us in fighting oap nlhsta, It was the intention of the tranters of that trade unions should be wiped eo*»jpnt an end to, hnaddttH . Wfflhun Ores* HA Philip Murray are storing plain fact when they say that this is the beginning df Amer, Mora than 40,000,000 Americans work for wages or "salaries," which are no more, on sny count then wages...
...Perlman poses then these two: a free mar-kater adtotnatnahspt v~v-,- , The Hew Leader and all af our liberal papers and organisations should begin st once to solve these practical problems...
...Where were we an electe* -_, Whai^were we doing...
...This to more thaw merely disgusting, a a amazing...
...it has been an interesting experience, because it gave me a chance to draw a few comparisons between the Haverf ord student of to-day and his predecessor of the last generation and it also gave ma an inside view of the problems which ef«y« Amortoaa college, Isrge and small, is facing in connection with the war...
...If yon reject a free market as the arbiter of this conflict it seems to me you are limited to two alternatives: Some kind of ail ads* benevolent bureaucarcy free from control by either proeaosit or consumers, self perpetuating, and all powerful, or a coop era ties or utopisn type of people not hare now and not available to the near future...
...And I would not hesitate to commend some of the better papers which...
...A number of Congressmen have raised the question of an investigation...
...This work will be continued next year snd will be expanded for the benefit of a group of conscientious objector relief workers who are destined for ambulance service in China...
...Men like Wolfgang Stresemann, son of the former Chancellor, "Robert Ulich, educational expert in the Government of Saxony dudgg the period of the Weimar Republic, Max mrauer, former Social.Democratic Mayor of 11 talis have given talks on various aspects of German Republican politics and-culture...
...As producers we wish higher prices...
...The gifts snd depreciation allowances amount in all to more than $200,000,000.00...
...They get benefits frost Z And in Congress not a single msa «r who could and would rise up and a*T2 anti-strike bill, as it deserved, into ansa...
...When I go out to buy aluminum I can buy only from the company, a monopoly...
...Tim §00,000 miners are enormously more Important than John L. Lewis...
...It to small wonder that the stocks of ALCOA have jumped in one year from 66 to 135 on the stock market This company to making profits during the war out of the Operations of a plant paid for by the people of three countries...
...LEWIS AND THE A. F. OF L THE problem of the re-admission of the United Mine Workers into the American Federation of Labor should be considered from the point of view of the long-term welfare of the labor movement Labor to facing right now s fanatically determined attack in Congress...
...Unless something definite snd drastic U done soon, the whole situation will be out of hand The labored argument aa to whether prices should be controlled from the producer end or the market cad has now become academic...
...What had aaajanj msin wrong...
...Edmund Stinnes, son of the famous German industrialist sad himself an anti-Nazi liberal...
...Our part in tins generosity was token care of by Mr...
...Working with that the only wsy to keep distribution going and, at the same time, to hasp prices somewhere near where they are, is.to pay graduated subsidies to producers and dealers so that they can keep to the ceilings and still stay in business and on their job...
...5. Are there, in fact any practical alternatives to the solution af the prnhltmS Mr...
...The union wants high prices or high wages for themselves, snd I want low prices or high wages ^ Here are the questions: 1. Should we, by eminent domain, nationalize the aluminum eompsny, eliminating the stockholders eomoletely...
...but there was little effort to integrate courses in history, government economics and similar subjects with what waa going on in -thf world...
...ex ument It obviously had reference te fin s ternsl affairs of Italy...
...A group of young people, moat of them conscientious objectors, received training hurt winter in European foreign areas subjects, including languages, history, contemporary politics, national psychology, etc with a view to fitting them for future relief work under the auspices of the American Frleude Service Committee...
...Despite all the talk about unity in the face of war, the old enemies are right there with their knives sharpened for labor's back...
...Without any investment its assets .have grown in three years from $126.-000,000 to $350,000,000...
...Boston, Mass...
...There are two obvious eeanjaaami te en* from aB of this...
...Permission to let these men go abroad was obtained with soma difficulty from the State Department and the War Department Some unobtrusive Quaker diplomacy was brought into play and Mrs...
...he would be subject to a certain amount of labor discipline...
...In addition wo have about 8,000,000 farm families ssst-eosas mil— lions of assail shopkeepers snd hsjadharafta men...
...In those difficult times of the past slmost everything in these United States worked against labor...
...How could sock a thing asm*.' We elect these Congressmen, hot the," 4^ represent us...
...Perlman says, "the unionist lives under two governments, his ' nation's and the union's...
...The news-hawk was more sceptical...
...All very nice...
...Academic standards were above average...
...Lewis are not those of the miners...
...Legislators have, presumably, been too busy studying the sins of labor and debating the Connally-Smith Bill...
...Te each una, av der such circumstances, the head of me fast Roman Church addressed this massage...
...And whatever eflset fix admonition may have will be a help to sh> solini and a hindrance to the Asms to sflsfi on fortress of Europe...
...During the seminar period every aspect of the Soviet order, from how the worker and peasant have fared during various phases of the regime to what prompted Stalin to conclude his pact with Hitler, was discussed with the utmost freedom of expression for several divergent viewpoints...
...He was by no means the only student who needed, the...
...tatters...
...foree **s aluminum company lato cnarfart-• tpsnsspMli other aluminum producers T^Thto can be done by adoptand by msking the Bsuxite resources equally available in the market 3. This means more competition which would negate any tendency towards socialism...
...His impres-sio waa that the British snd American delegates hung on the slightest word or gesture of the head of the Soviet delegation...
...Selig Perl-man in the June 6th New Leader haa raised these same questions about the future of unionism...
...The whole matter may be dealt with indignantly tea years after the wsr to ended...
...With eighteen ss the draft age only a few youthful prodigies or physically incapacitated students, along with a small number who "will be" deferred for scientific courses that are regarded as militarily necessary can expect to complete their courses...
...Typical of this tendency hss been a seminar on postwar planning conducted by Dr...
...says Mr...
...We will nave ear sat party and will pssa etor own tows...
...For more than tame years they have endured one ef tht sax and most tyrannical governments in tht want Against their 1 wills they were d-aggei m> wsr...
...Either we shall use large subsidies or we shall have rsn-way prices with all of their tragic consequences...
...Inside the A.F.ofL...
...As a source of danger to the country be would be cut down s good many sizes...
...Too damn interesting, 1 say...
...Cant be without a paper now," he explained...
...They are lined aa...
...lie sjnesTtoa to: How long will American labor stand this...
...The official waa full of praise for the Russian attitude snd felt that the conference was a milestone on the road to international collaboration...
...Louis Fischer had s wise wort to'say » this connection when he recently remarked st a radio forum: "Stalin has been ready to eo-o^rate with us to the extent of unloading the ships that bring him lend-lease material...
...impact of war to- shake him into an effort to find out what eras in...
...profoundly shaken up snd transformed by the wsr...
...Their homes art ana) bombed...
...There says good reason why they should be —|—jaJ.B this dramatic moment The aeVice to fit Italian workers about their behavior h fit present crisis wss evidently the xaasm which the address wss designed to carry...
...The strength of our labor movement to based in part upon its nonpartisan character...
...They are s well-disciplined snd Substantial part of the organized workers of this Country...
...This must be labors answer...
...For years life has been a dsnasm struggle against starvation...
...Bashian's letter deserves hope The New Leader rank" wfll take up the problem to pan The editors of The New La«« hope to take those ay » future issues...
...Unless we ore completely deaf and dumb, this bill will serve the same purpose here...
...When the war to ended it will have this plant including one of the greatest water-power installations in the world, to use for its own ends...
...Aa a persistent rebel and nonconformist in my own undergraduate days, I was delighted to find that the students in my Russian seminar were independent-minded, unwilling to take anything on trust snd eager to get st original source material, so...
...This to no longer a matter of choice on oar part We are under the drive and lash of necessity...
...They have not been controlled from either end...
...The shameful shenanigans of Mr...
...1 workers must be judged as a polities...
...in favor of the Allies, in favor ef s ekm» to live peacefully, to take the fbpes sip and work coopertively toward higher ami standards...
...It would seem to me that in any final philosophical analysis of this production problem we should, all of us, belong st once either in s Thurman Ar-noloWsmp or en Earl Browder esmp>—either in a free market economy regulated by the marginal theory of values or in a completely controlled market regulated by the labor theory' of values...
...This to a tale to stir the blood of citizens, who, beginning on July 1st erOl have one-fifth of their wages deducted to pay for the wsr...
...Even from the point of view of short-range advantage the re-affiliation of the miners offers definite gains...
...That machinery to all that we hsve...
...In this esse it a at New*Deal "professors" who are 11 ii|iinang 1 simple and practical solution...
...We need not forever nma\ the marvel of humanity for asms itssssa Wa have the American Labor Part} aZ York...
...Very well...
...Their sons and brothers have dkd a African deserts...
...The vacuum in regular student enrolment in the higher classes has been filled up, at Haver-ford, as in almost every other higher educational institution, large or small, by the staajonjag at the college of a military unit This consists of so-called - PMs, young soldiers who are being trained for pre-meteorological work in the air corps...
...It weald be added to the food costs of the nation...
...LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Raises Question of Unions and Monopoly and Free Market From ARAM BASHIAN To the Editor: For s long time I hsve been wanting to ask The New...
...The acceptance of this unit wss more of a wrench for Haverf ord than it would hsve been for the average college, because of the Quaker 11 adamant However, the alternative to the ntesptanra of the unit might well hsve been the closing of the college, because of the dearth of Tegular students President Morley, a consistent opponent of American involvement in the wsr before Pearl Harbor, made the point in his Commencement address that, while an individual of" strong pacifist convictions might be able to tooata Mafittf from a total war, an institution with semi-public responsibilities could not praeticslbjr do 'thjagrtiC...
...At present trade unionism st collective bargaining conferences are controlled by producer attitudes and want higher prices...
...He asyi *»" labor demand for higher ***¦ forced higher prices...
...Mw*, would he improved...
...It has never been Republican, Democratic or Socialist We hive been saved from the existence here of such "Christian" or "Catholic" unions as have 'divided and weakened various European movements...
...far as they could...
...How are we going to use the political power of the fourth New Deal so that more aluminum will be produced...
...OLD-FASHIONED ARMAMENT GRAFT fy* April fird our Canadian correspondent ^ A. R. Andres, revealed in The New Leader the main outlines of the Shi pshaw aluminum scandal, Since then newspaper men hsve been sant up there and gradually the whole story hss filtered out Last week Mr...
...They will play then- part long after the meteoric career of their leader has come to an end...
...Jones, of the Reeonstrutcion Finance Corporation—and in strict privacy and silence...
...If Italian workers wen e* growing restive snd hopeful—ready » as* something—no such address weald ken Is* delivered to them...
...Quito incidentally during my visit to Haverford I encountered two rather contrasted views of Russia's role at the Hot Springs food conference from two men who had been present, one in sn official capacity, the other as a reporter...
...I still remember a genial and not too scholarly classmate who began to read a newspaper regularly for the first time after America had entered the First World War...
...X Or shall we, within the limits Of civil libertie...
...Winning tint peace is a different item of business...
...To judge them by his record to to do a manifest Injustice...
...Though it wssJHs charity and wisdom, its social views woods traditoinal ones of the church...
...That will h»heaadao with the eoMssal task of winning labor's big fight right here at home...
...More than 18,000,000 men aM^waasWaiw in trade unions...
...The Canadian Commonwealth Federation to on the tnaf,wnd Canadians are getting excited—even if citizens en this side of the line still seem wVrianshi unmoved...
...Our machinery to set up to manage them backward from the point where they are sold to the consumer...
...As consumers we wish lower prices or more production...
...reasons given against the re-admission qsj^BFfaBBtrs all have to do with the eharac-tejE^snd the politics of Mr...
...This may east $2,000,000,000.00...
...Only s unified movement can hope to survive and grow...
...Let us WJSW Uk...
...A PRACTICAL WAY WITH PRICES ALL of the elaborate arguments against ••the use of subsidies to hold prices or to roll them back—shatter against one stubborn fact...
...The Little Steel formula wss calculated on the basis of aversge prices as they existed in May, 1942...
...Is this competition »considered s greater evil by The New Leader than nationalization and its probable dangers...
...How far wfll she reaction aries be allowed to go...
...The true test of the willingness of Russia (snd not only fif atysto,) to "co-operate" with us will be whejfSm are unable or unwilling to continue to plsy the role of international Santa Claus...
...B*t;** the pest year labors rrooaeuo* hss risen snd fewer work** en turn out more goods fine * larger number of worker* fine" years ago...
...And during the last few months I have jnnhy flyflaw* conunuting between my home to Cambridge, Msssachosetts, and Haverf ord in sfimw (•"•sWa lecture-seminar coarse on Russian history and Soviet institutions...
...said they have a right to a of living, "a dwelling worthy of hums* pa-sons . . . possibility of securing for tht sat dies sufficient instruction • • ex fmssnag snd forestalling times of stress, ttrrmw as old age...
...In a theoretical sense, adding to the cost in this way would be mftoaesm But the people' as s whole wsnM be Mart out of taanWfifiipiiiatiilon toabilityssski And prices woaW be kept within rxsnah-lk workers could buy their necessary nukei Spontaneous strikes would decrease...
...When will the ntfl-bons of orgsnixed and unorganised workers get excited enough to act T In England sway back in 1*02— it was the Taff Vale decision that served as last straw...
...It was aa a maverick that he kicked up has heels and 'stampeded a section of our war-workers...
...We're living in interesting times...
Vol. 26 • June 1943 • No. 25
