Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR SUBSERVIENCE Secretary of State Dulles seems to have come around to the view that the Soviet Communists are prepared now to work toward stabilizing peace although the Chinese...
...There is not and never has been any socialism in Russia...
...Today, however, this opportunity seeoms to be available only to those with access to large accumulations of capital...
...in that he would thereby mark himself as "ruthless...
...As we all should know, use of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service by labor and management is entirely voluntary...
...Washington, D. C. Sol DAVISON E. G. Shinner in his article on Fair Trade laws says, among other things, that "Liberal labor legislation, minimum wage laws, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service...
...I am not an expert on U. S. tariffs, but from my daily work I know how the many protective tariff rates applied by the United States not only severely curtail but completely stop the importation of a large variety of products...
...New York City Richard H. Anthony Executive Secretary, The American Tariff League, Inc...
...Kansas City, Mo...
...Perhaps there might have been if the Russian Revolution in the spring of 1917 had not been followed by the reactionary Bolshevik counter-revolution in the fall of that year which killed a lot of the Socialists and drove a lot more of them out of the country...
...Many point to the internal economic "weakness of Soviet Russia, especially the sad state of its agriculture...
...life-long democratic socialist, would undoubtedly agree with Mr, Work...
...Votaw says, has remained inviolate at 10 per cent since 1930, although the automobile manufacturers have been beating the drums for tariff reductions for other products on the theory—false, as Mr...
...Great Neck, N. Y. Max M. Doner REAL SOCIALISM In the article "Forced Repatriation, and the Austrian Treaty, [NL, May 9], Mark Vishniak referred to Russia as "the country of socialism...
...For many years, the United States has been a living example of the fallacies of part of the Marxian thesis...
...Labor laws, including minimum wage laws, are designed to meet the complexities of our modern industrial society, and are a long way from mere police acts, as indicated by Mr...
...An injury is done to the cause of human hrotherhood, genuine socialism, when the reactionary Soviet fake called socialism...
...On the contrary, there has been a fluidity of class lines, enabling the enterprising to move up the soeial and economic ladder...
...Shinner...
...Shinner is that he does not go far enough and discuss the socioeconomic implications of this question...
...The point Mr...
...As soon as a tariff is prohibitive, imports of the items to which it pertains do not enter the country...
...Probably the non-importation of those items reflects in the submitted figures, because usually statistical figures are extracted from factual imports...
...New York City Ph...
...This may incline Moscow, it is said, to engage in "agrarian reform" instead of a Far Eastern war that would further strain Soviet resources...
...It has become obvious that the discount houses, with lots of cash to lay down on the line, have been able to buy at greater advantage than the average dealer...
...We have had no rigid class lines and consequently no permanent class-conscious proletariat...
...For the past two years, I have been operating a record shop...
...How does this situation come about and where does it lead...
...His reference to Russia as "the country of socialism' was sarcastic En...
...It would be accurate to call it Faseist...
...It is here that we ought to stop and think of what this means to the socio-economic structure of American society...
...Small retailers are finding it more difficult to survive this kind of competition...
...Albert N. Votaw's article shocked me very much...
...DEAR EDITOR SUBSERVIENCE Secretary of State Dulles seems to have come around to the view that the Soviet Communists are prepared now to work toward stabilizing peace although the Chinese Communists are still fanatical revolutionaries...
...Votaw points out that their export markets will be increased thereby...
...Most of all, apology is in order to the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, which mediates and conciliates without carrying the torch for good or not-so-good employers and good or not-so-good unions...
...Shinner's statement with regard to this service were accurate, then no employer should ever use it...
...The traditional opportunity of every boy to become President and the Horatio Alger tradition have been part of the wholesome fundamentals of American folklore and part of the traditional foundation of American society: The reality of this folklore was the opportunity available to the enterprising, with a small amount of capital, to cease being wage-earner...
...This is a highly competitive business, protected by no Fair Trade laws, and beset by a blatant discount-house sector (the discount-house, of course, is the antithesis of "fair trade"), whose market, through their mail order business, has become a national factor...
...were all created to prevent ruthless and unseionable employers from exploiting labor...
...At this point, New York discount houses are selling records at or below ordinary dealers' costs, and even below some distributors' costs...
...Such a topsy-turvy situation exists only because record manufacturers have purposefully refused to have their product covered by the Fair Trade laws...
...FAIR TRADE I read E. G. Stunner's article on "Fair Trade Laws," [NL, June 6] with great interest...
...Milwauker John M. Work Mr...
...Those who referred to the Chinese Communists as "agrarian reformers'' have been denounced for denying their subservience to Moscow, although General MacArthur was not when, in his historic April 1951 address to Congress, he spoke of Red China's "own purposes" in being allied with Russia...
...Samson Soloveitchik...
...Although I would take issue with some of the things that he says about the American tariff, I want to congratulate you and your editorial group for making a real contribution to clearer thinking on a very important matter, Albany Isador Lubin Industrial Commissioner State of New York I found Albert N. Votaw's article ably written and well presented...
...Vishniak...
...Of course I am a consumer and I like to descend upon a bargain as well as anyone and Fair Trade laws would not permit that but my views on this subject, like those of Mr...
...Shinner, to put it mildly, is using stock phrases which do not apply, labor legislation in a democracy is an essential of the emplove--union relationship, so that the area of dispute may be resolved by an orderly process and respective rights and remedies clearly established...
...KUDOS I have read The New Leader with intest for many years and I find in it information that is not to be found in any oilier United States publication...
...The Soviet regime is just the opposite...
...Votaw's article, in my opinion, is very one-sided, entirely incomplete and serves only to strengthen the opinion of isolationists and those in favor of protectionism...
...We would insist, of course, that tariffs are important as safeguards for individual domestic industries even though total trade is not greatly affected by tariff policy, particularly at the present low level of U. S. rates...
...You are doing tremendous work...
...Votaw makes that tariffs do not of themselves determine the overall size of international trade and that trade follows more fundamental economic forces is one that we have been making for years...
...again, a means of controlling great aggregations of capital -curbing the power of concentrated wealth.'' Mr...
...My major criticism of Mr...
...Your excellent cartoon illustrates that countries can earn dollars despite tariffs...
...Real socialism is human brotherhood and it is thoroughly democratic...
...Those who now hope that from the ''summit" will come peace on livable terms may wonder if some subservience may not be a good thing...
...The record manufacturers, seeking large volume, on the one hand have declined to place their products under the Fair Trade laws, and on the other hand have made special deals with all those able to purchase in large volume...
...Some day one little fellow, unafraid of antagonizing his sources of supply, will probably make a test of this whole practice under the provisions of the Robinson-Patman Act...
...The Fair Trade laws will enable the small retailer to survive and help build the barrier to prevent our becoming society of wage-earners on the one hand and large business on the other...
...Unless something is done about this situation, we may see some fundamental changes in the structure of American society...
...Votaw points out with many excellent illustrations, there is not much real relationship between the level of tariffs and the level of world trade...
...If all employers were saints, and the small minority (I assume) Mr...
...Shinner speaks of non-existent, we would still need legislation on the subject...
...Its objective position on tariff and trade is all the more remarkable because it appers in a publication with which we would not often find ourselves in agreement...
...This fact has an amusing angle to it when you consider that the automobile tariff, as Mr...
...Moreover, all of us know that not only the tariff but also a long series of additional import-preventing measures carry a prohibiting influence on America's imports...
...As a result, the corresponding import figure of these items is nil and no bearing on the statistics is even visible...
...If Mr...
...Clevelund WHAM j. CORRICAN The NEW J EAER is the best of our political weeklies, Every American who considers himself a liberal should read it...
...J. Gomperts Executive Secretary The Netherlands Chamber of Commerce in the United States, Inc...
...Shinner, arise out of personal experience in the business world...
...Washington, D. C. Sidney Koretz RECIPROCAL TRADE I read Albert N. Votaw's article "World Markets and Reciprocal Trade," [NL, June 6] with a great deal of interest...
...Free trade as a Utopian ideal is pleasant to contemplate, but, as Mr...
Vol. 38 • June 1955 • No. 25
