PATTERN FOR FACISM RAILROADS SEEK TO DESTROY ANTI- TRUST LAWS
ARNALL, ELLIS
[Pattern for Fascism iRailroads Seek to Destroy Anti-Trust Laws By Bills Arnall (.overnor •/ (,eotgia /"v N E of the moat serious and datei I 1 minad imnraa to advance monopol rrax Uunched in...
...of the 8tato and the cltiscn* of Georgia...
...Almost as active at in the days when he was on the Daily Worksr as an associate editor...
...house furnishings 47.4 percent...
...I lateral anxiety ie felt by the mo aiiiMsts that, aalesa the tw« suits ran be abated by Ceagreaeieeial later...
...The Georgia action stressed the coercion of weaker carriers...
...That it the pattern f»r Fascism...
...The Bulwinkle Bill contains a death sentence on any hope of intelligent decentralisation of industry, and would impose a fine of billions of dollars againat taxpayera, whoee investments in government built plants In the Southern and Western regions will became worthMoat ooaaoquonUal, however, It the precedent tl at would be established...
...The Bulwinkle Bill would authorise "agreements" that the Department of Justice and the State of Georgia, have challenged as conspiratorial, and would add to the coercive power of the major "official" carriers the authority of tha Interstate Commerce Commission...
...food 51.2 percent...
...ferences, boards, bureaus, and associations, which ultimately united in the Association of American Railroads...
...Work clothing produced in the South moves to Midwest markets under a 39 percent disadvantage...
...the rate differential between the labelled and unlabelled product is so great that he can profitably unload, unpack, label, repack and reload in the East at a saving...
...OPA allowed price increases for heavy winter underwear accounted for some of the rise, while most women's garments and footwear continued to "edge up...
...The language W the measure is such as to insure the Jbjtruction of such competition in trans-fh'tation as now exists because of the ¦hv agencies of transport, the trucks i*d airplanes, and because of the exist-'Pte of competing ship line...
...It is easy to see why Georgia should charge in its suit: "The schedule of rates are mere manifestations of a conspiracy in restraint of trade which has operated...
...5 percent from mid-November to mid-December, continuing the steady climb ever since the beginning of World War II...
...exardaed by the transpor tatton monopoly...
...advantageous facilities for Western ship, pen...
...Compared with August, 1939, the month before the war began in Kurope, here are how peacetime living costs have risen according to the Department of Labor surveys: all items 31.7 percent...
...It was recognised before, and it I* deetrible that ii be recognised now, that thi* is the entering wedge for the establishment of monopolies with the sanction and approval of the government in every field of industry...
...dustrialist* who becked th* Nazis weie the heads of gigantic cartels...
...the charge from Manchester, Mass, to Columbus, Ohio, an identical distance, is $l.,r>2...
...fuel 13.1 pen cut...
...10, 1814...
...Basically, however, there was a similarity between the two actions...
...The contentions of the two great banking firms—Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb—and of the rail line defendants that conspiracy and coercion are irreconcilable won a wry paragraph in the jurists' opinion: "It is aaid by the defendants . . . that a conspirator cannot...
...If the measure is...
...3) the American taxpayer, •lose investment in warplants on the ficific Coast, in the Mountain States Wfi in the South may as well be wiped ¦ completely...
...It is quits notorious that one of the most effective methods of perpetuating a conspiracy once set afoot, and fostering its purpose, is coercion of some of its own less hardy, self-seeking, or even repentant members...
...If full production is a legitimate goal, socially and economically, the war-born industries of the South and West most not be junked...
...Letter to Henry Lee, Aug...
...But ether monopolists correctly inter* pret the Bulwinkle Bill as a technique by which, one by one, various spheres may be withdrawn from the operation *f the anti-trust statutes...
...tut Jeffersonian Democrats Masterminding Michael Quill's subway atrike-threat situation for the past month, Ted Zittel has been a busy press agent...
...Retail prices advanced...
...T(> see what has been accomplished by the previous "agreements" now under attack in the courts, and assured of perpetuation if the Bulwinkle Bill becomes law, it is only necessary to super-impose the map showing the freight rate levels of the nation upon the map prepared by the Senate's McCarren Committee showing the economic and in-dust rial status of America...
...The first-class rate from Atlanta, Georgia, to Youngstown, Ohio, ia $2.13 a hundredweight...
...In Italy, Germany, and Japan the cartel-makers destroyed democracy by' destroying fro* competition...
...The retarded areat, described in the committee's thoughtful preliminary report as being exploited, where incomes are low, public services inadequate and opportunity restricted, are precisely those areas that suffer from discriminatory freight rates...
...The Jefferson School was known in the good old day* a* th* Workers' School...
...and continues to operate, to the harm...
...The big in...
...MUM»*alJtU reasons for the buatiini activities of the railroad lobbyists is i fcth» to b*»4 off two pending suits tha torptM the control ever American in dtJmlN...
...Maurice Forge, editor of the Bulletin of the Transport Workers Union, is listed by the Jefferson School of Social Science aa a lecturer on the labor press...
...It is understandable why one Georgia canner ships his product unlabelled...
...Monopoly is the first step toward Fascism...
...The legalization of a vast, unofficial bureau-cracy with unlimited power over th* economic life of the American people ie a dangerous experiment...
...and th* prevention and postponement of the development of competitive mode* of transportation and travel...
...Four times the Congress has rejectee" similar attempts to legalise cartelisation •f th* American transport system...
...Until th* conspiracy is ended, the corrosion of new schedules, established by th* collusive power of the defendant carriers acting in concert, would frustrate any action to bo taken by administrative process to redress the grievances from which the State of Georgia suffers...
...Lifting of OPA price callings or subsidies accounted for many of the boosts in food prices—butter, pesnut butter, and citrus fruits—while seasonal price rises for cabbage and spinach, and an unprecedented 21 percent rise in sweet potato prices contributed to an average riae of .9 percent in food costs in large cities, Kor the 30th consecutive month, the government survey showed, aferage costs of clothing rose...
...Zrhe immediate objective of the bill, pewever, Is to outlaw the two pending rj^ere are many differences between F* 'wo pending case...
...If America is to have an economy of abundance, if 60,000,000 jobs means more than the rhetorical expression of a pious hops, it is necessary that the human and natural resources of the Southern and Western states be utilized...
...NACTMENT of the Bulwinkle Bill Eventually would open the way to railroad financing of the type outlawed by [the historic Northern Securities decision, *nd would result in direct control over m the transportation systems of the leunfry by a single cartel...
...That position involves an oversimplication of the technique of conspiracy...
...The suit brought to the Department of Justice, striking ¦V the "Western Agreement," allege* among other things fha "prevention of tha construction and introduction of...
...be the victim of a coercion or repression...
...The teachers at the Jefferson School, no doubt, subscribe to thie statement by Thomes Jeffereon: "Men have differed in opinion and have been divided Into psrties ia all governments where they have been permitted freely to think and to speak...
...enacted, the future looks very black indeed for three groups lit Americans: (1) all little business men, Including the "independents" producing Aluminum and magnesium...
...Letter to John Adams, June 17, 1813...
...It is small wonder that Georgia, for alt its cotton mills, has not a single fine-goods bleachery...
...It taint th« fori jf the ctahrlnkto 101 (HS 2636), whic would relieve ail corporations engage |a tlM»Wt*ttw all foolvidual SljllHlltoll with the financial or rati psking artlvitto* of auch corporation /rem the provisions of the Sherma jkn^Truat Art, the Clayton Act, an 2^«tB«r law* for th* control of m« iMpoUe* and tn prohibition of eonspirs in restraint of trade...
...Southern dairy products move to ports for export under a heavy differential...
...Ted, liks Miles, denies any formal connection with the Communist Party...
...And perhep* they teach their students that Jefferson wrote: "i am no believer in the amalgamation of parties, nor do i eon-aider it either desirable or useful...
...tOf—H, the orderly reconversion proe-' ***** wUl lead to the imperative de-centralisation of indnetry la the United 'State* and thereby end their life-er-death newer ever the economic devel-j eaateat of the various regions...
...Each attacked the enormous, hierachlal, unofficial bureaucracy of the rate-making con...
...clothing 49 percent...
...Ted and Mike or*) not Communis ft...
...rent 3.8 percent...
...Georgia's exhibits in its freight rale suit tell part of the story...
...Theae two action*, thi ¦«it Of th* State of Georgia again* twenty Eastern and Southern rail linei ¦iwllnf in the US Supreme Court an< that against the Western Association it* members and certain Eaatern flnan eial houtee initiated by the Department -af Justice, threaten to force competl jp« rate-making on the railroad* an« jX^HBMw to end a naif century of disci imi afction against the Western and Soutberr jtotea...
...2) all manufacturing enterprises outside "Official territory...
...The Georgia suit, whkh had tha advantage of going direct to the United State* Supreme Court, attacked the rate, making system of the lines, charged coercion of Southern carriers by the dominant lines in '•Official Territory," and alleged injury to the entire Southern economy because of tha unjustified discrimination in rates...
...Quill's journalistic aides seem to follow the seme pattern...
...Until the decision of the Supreme Court permitting Georgia's case to be tied, the railroads were confident that thay were above the Sherman and Clay-to* statutes, and that any efforts to compel them to desist from interference ia the normal development of agriculture *r industry must follow the route of top**!* to the lethargic and somnolent Interstate Commerce Commission on each individual Tate field, while the main conspiracy remained unchallenged...
...The eventual opinion of Judge Delehant, overruling demurrers by the defendants in the Western Agreement ease, turned ultimately upon this same question...
...Such a rapid rise, if It continued during 1946, would result in a riae of 6 percent by the end of the year, labor spokesman here point out They indicate this is an additional argument in favor of retaining present price controls, and keeping subsidies on important food items like milk and wheat...
...If it is sue* eesaful, there will follow efforts to ex* tmpt, for example, the light-metals industry, the food processors and similar businesses lending themselves readily to ¦onopolistic combinations...
...Pattern for Fascism iRailroads Seek to Destroy Anti-Trust Laws By Bills Arnall (.overnor •/ (,eotgia /"v N E of the moat serious and datei I 1 minad imnraa to advance monopol rrax Uunched in America it undi %U in tb* Cttgnm...
...rmci MSI CONTIMUIS Washington (lpa>—The prices of basic items in the family budget went up to the highest point since 1921 in December, 1945, states a Department of I mlmi report...
Vol. 29 • March 1946 • No. 10
