BRITAIN AND AMERICA-A SOCIALIST VIEW
Berger, Victor L.
BRITAIN AND AMERIGA-A SOCIALIST VIEW Victor Berger's Closing Address In Congress Traces The Forces That Are Making For War By Victor L. Berger Am Address in the House of Representative* KIR...
...BRITAIN AND AMERIGA-A SOCIALIST VIEW Victor Berger's Closing Address In Congress Traces The Forces That Are Making For War By Victor L. Berger Am Address in the House of Representative* KIR SPEAKER, just dow we bear sod read a greet deal about the KeCogg pact, miina la'kin of wax, disarmament, arbitration...
...Whose sea power will Great Britain try to annihilate next...
...In other words, while there can be no doubt that workmen and farmers could jae all the surplus—or at least most of it —if they had the means with which to ouy, our workmen and our farmers can sot do ao...
...The third la to Invest money profitably In undertakings outside of one's own country...
...That speech was assde to am...
...More may hare to be said about its future work, therefore, the more tee know about it the better...
...Mrs...
...The employer must make a proas, or the employer would have to go oat of bUBJnosi And the more profit bbb esspioyer can make, the more sueoaaaraf at he as a business man...
...4 - ' *: We Bad...
...9 Aaaerlran Economic Power \ ' M The causes creating American hspsl rial ism are the same...
...She seemed to believe that the recent introduction in Congress of a bill to provide a basic eight hour day for men in the District of Columbia (the bin has not yet been considered), proved the feasiblity of passing such laws in the great industrial States where manufacturers' fight all labor laws, and forecast a favorable court decision upon their constitutionality...
...We find now that two years ago war between Great Britain and the United States was undreamed of...
...for IimbbIb*, 'that as ioaar *» Great Britain had s natural snonopoly of Has raw materiala sod of the amrkets of the world...
...The World War did not delay, although In July, 1914, when the German ambassador, Prince Lichnowsky, had his last interview with the Prime Minister of England, Mr...
...To a certain extent they could exchange their products, of course...
...and that it would involve endless cost of time and effort...
...So far in history sea power was aW deciding factor in these matters...
...You are only mterested In controlling my thought andVthe thinking of those who accept employment from you...
...With the Increasing competition.-however, and with the entry ot the manufacturers and merchants of the UHtted States, and of Germany, and even of Japan, into the world market, the'British point of view ^^ngt* Thus, for instance, John Bright, manufacturer in Manchester, In the middle of the nineteenth century—a period when British cotton goods had the undisputed control of the markets both In England and abroad—was a pronounced pacifist...
...Germany had grown Immensely strong economically and had a population larger than the agriculture of the country could support...
...To begin with...
...The Empire la Commerce" f But Joseph Chamberlain, of Birmingham (the father of Sir Austen Chamberlain, the present Foreign Secretary of England), Blight's successor in the leadership ot the radicals, 50 years later was just as convinced that pacifism was a fallacy and he was wining to consider a high tariff...
...And therefore factory laws would henceforth have to be acts of Congress," concluded the Chairman...
...Asqulth, Mr...
...That is usually done at first by "concessions...
...L. C. Page, President, 53 Beacon street, Boston, Massachusetts...
...The United Stela today is by far the richest and Strang** economic power in the world...
...Eeraal Risjhu'' and Labor Laws AN overwhelming opposition, some phase* of it unexpected, met the National Woman's Party and Its to-called equal rights amendment to the Federal Constitution ft a. hearing in Washington before a subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee of the United States Senate...
...I am a Socialist and the Rand Book Store is an enterprise of the Rand School of Social Science...
...PAGE WRITES L. C. Page Ac Company, Inc., Publishers 53 Beacon St., Boston, Mass...
...Lewis C. Page, President of L. C. Page & Company, publishers of Boston...
...The underlying principle is exactly the same...
...SUvabT of the Ptawderers The English capitalist class and the French capitalist class and the German capitalist class sod the Belgian capitalist class, and ao forth, all produce more with their improved machinery than they can sell in their own country...
...the profits of slave cotton did not paralyze their pens or o-g their lips...
...Exactly...
...The light has gone out...
...financiers, and trusts wastsf conquer the world market, or at least tab a big share of it, and, at the fiturar prove, they are making rapid hsBSsaai And there you are...
...There are several hundred thousand farmers In the West who have lost the fruits of the labor of a generation and who are dissatisfied Are they disloyal if they choose to act politically in s manner not agreeable to you...
...But there is the rub...
...but for sale—producing only for those who can buy...
...For the same reasons I approve of the continued occupation of Egypt...
...Great Britain bat annihilated the sea power of Spats...
...Germany then naturally became a manufacturing country anfl - trying to procure her share to gj -for a place In the sun...
...hrrpcriallarn, Anglo-French agreement, and to forth...
...In non-factory occupations, such as ticket-selling on street-railways, some women have been displaced by night-work laws, where todiscriminatingty applied, Miss Winslow said...
...Very truly yours...
...You are afraid of ideas and when that tear possesses those who live in the upper range of society the mind becomes a useless appendix...
...In order to stimulate a demand for their products the business men assist in sending out missionaries to make Christians out of African savages—ao as to make them ashamed of going without trousers, or shoes, or hats, or other things of which civilized nations have a surplus...
...The Senators themselves, who are lawyer*, questioning speakers on both sides of the argument, raised constitutional objections to the amendment not hitherto brought out In s public hearing...
...One thing he always tin-rut, that there is rottenness where he appears...
...How about the political...
...So far ss England is concerns!, Birkenhead was sure that England dal not especially require any advice, fag...
...Is it surprising then, that these two governments soon find themselves in strong antagonism* The situation reminds one very closely of German economic penetration of the world before the World War...
...They want no foreign imports to come Into their own country, because then they would produce still less, and their own people might be unemployed...
...Where are your Emerson* today...
...This country must remain' a greet power or she will become a poor country * • * But greatness la relative...
...Which simply meant that many people had come to think about it...
...Questioning Miss Emma Wold, legislative secretary of the National Woman's Party, and Mrs...
...Moat of these countries put up high tariffs...
...as a matter of fact, we all know that when In the first six months of 1914 German world trade became as large as the British the World War did not delay...
...And this is the English view: The EngHsh simply claim that American business Is developing with speed a new policy of Imperial son on s targe scale...
...Page's answer to Mr...
...Much has been said about she doings and undoings of the National Woman's Party...
...Her figure on this occasion was 50,000 such women in New York alone, and she demanded that/'"we working women" be given "the*Tlght of a free person" to work as they win...
...The Americans who desire to compete there, or to make Investments, if they are permitted to compete at all or to invest at all, must do so at an enormous disadvantage...
...they look for them in Asia, Africa, South America and wherever there are backward peoples who can not produce these things themselves...
...In other words, uniformity of rights for men and women everywhere in this country and its territorial possessions...
...The world over...
...The same is true of many thousands of unemployed miners in the bituminous coa' fields...
...That **wmt bird is not there tor nothing.—He indicate* great wrongs which must be revised...
...For these reasons, among others, I would never lose the hold which we now have over our great Indian dependency—by far the greatest and most valuable of all the customers we have or shall ever have for England...
...because under the present economic system we are not producing for me...
...But she reduced Mrs...
...These noble men and women are remembered while your politicians in office who seized fugitives and returned them to the South are forgotten...
...How else can you construe 'equal rights throughout the United States, and every place subject to its jurisdiction...
...Because there is also this: Theae backward peoples have a moral code of their own, and they do not enter willingly into lasting business relations with civilized men...
...Of course, some will say that the United'States took Porto Rico and the Philippine Islands, and we have troops In Haiti and Nicaragua...
...But what Is of more Interest to me is your last paragraph wherein you aay: "We only employ true-hearted, loyal Americans who are satisfied with the political and social conditions In the country in which they live...
...It would be Impossible for this publishing house to consider for a moment anyone affiliated In the slightest degree with red or pink coloring...
...First, I wish to say that I am not a Communist and that the Rand Book Store has no Communist affiliations...
...Now...
...It is getting increasingly harder to get a market anywhere...
...physical limitations' alone forbid that these islands by themselves should retain the same relative importance among the vast empires of the modern world which they held in .the days of the smaller states—which England held before the' ' growth of Russia and of the United States—which England held before united Germany made those giant strides In prosperity and commerce, whioh have been the direct result of the development of military and naval strength...
...be more easily exploited than their fellow citizens at home, who are apt to resist if the screws are put on too hard...
...mt particular Interest to the woman ef the labor movement...
...Since you have unwittingly ill «*—i1 Communism into your letter to me, peg* fact that you have subscribed to a fundamental dogma of Communism— dictatorship...
...American business is simply trying peaceful penetration—seeking investments in great new areas ot the world...
...We Britons of all people depend for our very life not on the . product* of these islands alone but on world enterprise and commerce...
...And President Cooiidge expressed Vast American point of view very clearly at' his last Armistice Day speech when h* said: We have not only a long coast Une,distant outlying possessions, but aba a foreign commerce unsurpassed at importance, and foreign tavestmeoav unsurpassed in amount...
...Titers were some British aosawsatSaJ and politicians who regarded most of their colonies as rather useless encumbrances, involving an expense upon the British taxpayers...
...The attitude of the American Federation of Labor In opposition to the Woman's Party amendment wss put before the Senate Committee in a letter from President William Green, presented by W. C. Hushing, legislative representative of the Federation, and by Miss Gertrude McNally, who Is secretary ot the Women's Union of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, secretary-treasurer of her national union, and at the last convention of the A. P. of L. was elected secretary of the Committee on .CgEaSaaBBniatfai...
...The free functioning of the human mind Is not permitted in Russia and you will not permit it among the employes of your publishing house...
...Burnita Shelton Matthews, one of Its attorneys, the Chairman said: j "The proposed amendment reads: 'Men and women shaJl have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.' Does not that vtrtsily take away from the States the power to legislate anywhere In the whole field of the rights of men and women alike in Maine and California...
...The word "iraparium" in Latin signified the world rule of the Roman ReIiaonr After the downfall of the Roman Bknptre, in the early Middle Ages, the Arabs ruled a considerable part of the world and held the "imperium" Later, during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, it seamed that Spain would rule the world...
...This Is what many intelligent people are thinking of Boston aad your letter to me Is a spiritual camera that photographs the Boston mind...
...Senator Waterman, of Colorado, who out special emphasis upon a constitutional objection to the proposed amendment v.nich has previously been but little discussed...
...Equal Rights**: States Rights "That is to say," put in Senator Steiwer, to the Chairman, "with the amendment in effect, Michigan, for example, could not have a different factory law from Pennsylvania...
...But where...
...Since when has it become an offense for-one to be dissatisfied with "the political and social conditions" of this country...
...and Belgium about one-third of that of France...
...One might as well expect to nourish roses in an ash heap as to expect genius to be nourished by the cave that Is Boston...
...Abe Belsky 94 Pulaski St., Brooklyn, N. T. Dear Sir: We have been considering your application, as you know, and our Mr...
...Emerson sensed what your fears really mean In a noble passage in his essay on "Compensation...
...wherTabs'asBBI do business not by toleration or sat saw] grace of England, but by bar own rajt*v An sggresslve and expansive policy j...
...and lastly, it is for the same reasons that I hold that our navy should be strengthened until its supremacy is so assured that we can not be shaken In any of the passssslnni which we hold or may ewer hold hereafter...
...Pes/ for ages has boded and mowed and gibbered over government and property...
...And now any student of history and political economy wm ten you that sa enduring peace a rathrnksbs* If ~p4t-"-~ is to last...
...Nor is this all...
...Lord Mitner aald in an address to the Manchester Conservative Club in 1906: Ton cannot have prosperity without power...
...Even little Holland and Sweden hold she "imperium" tor a short period...
...France about $2,187,943,000...
...Investing Inrperianant And there la also still another reason: In every civilized country the capitalist class is looking for fields to profitably invest the surplus capital of which I have spoken before...
...THOUSANDS SHRINK TO 166" Miss Mary Winalow, director of the recent special study by the Women's Bureau of the United States Department of Labor, showed that limiting the daily and weekly hours of women's labor in manufacturing Industries, as do the laws of 44 of our states, has not lessened women's opportunities for employment, but on the contrary has increased them, because establishments shifting to the shorter schedule added to their force of women...
...I bring this letter to s close by commending this passage to you...
...It was created by commerce, It is founded upon commerce, and it could not exist a day without commerce...
...Germany exported that year about $2,560,144,000...
...Diet, to H. THE SOCIALIST ANSWERS February 23, 1929...
...Throughout the British Empire, for example...
...very civilised country, or at least every country that is highly developed industrially, la In exactly the same fix...
...Americans are not granted, as a rule, the right to prospect for oil wells, or to operate them, to mention only one thing...
...Your boasted "Americanism," therefore, Is deeply tinted with the very Communism which you claim to oppose...
...Today Boston submits to a censorship of which your dogma of dictatorship is an essential part...
...War was then on the point of just breaking out...
...that is practically the case with •very western European country and with the United States...
...LEWIS C. PAGE, PRESIDENT...
...Having few fueling staw tions, we* require ships of large toanage: and having scarcely any oarchant vessels capable of mounting » or 6 inch guns, it is obvious that, based upon positions, we are enUUsj to a larger number of warship* than a nation having all these ad vintage...
...The Boston blight makes it Impossible for them to flower...
...Thus the export of capital to such countries becomes much more attractive to the profit-making capitalists than its use for the extension of manufacturing facilities at home...
...that it would swamp the courts with lawsuits to determine the meaning of the language and its effect upon existing law in each and every state in nearly all the relations of life and departments of the law...
...to no purpose that could not have been attained without it...
...Markets we must have, aowever...
...1 And he added: If we could secure a more compass, reciprocity in good win toward tat final liquidation of the balance of oar foreign debts, and such further Unit*, lions of armament as would h*' commensurate with the treaty renoua-, clng war...
...And every drilised country Is continuously on the lookout for new markets...
...British-American Rivalry But that is just the trouble...
...Thus the surplus production must look for markets elsewhere...
...Let us follow mainly stogilsh sources, If for no other reason than that we do not wish to be accused of any anti-British bias...
...lowed, and England started a* early a* early aa 1903 to "encircle" Ocnaany lit her enemies...
...Herewith follows the correspondence, Mr...
...Not so long ago England even had two wars with China—one from 1839—1842 and another in 1863—because the Chinese Government refused to permit the importation of opium from India to the Chinese Empire...
...Servile American* Wasted You are not interested In my character as a man or at my ability to serve ss an employee la a publishing house...
...Continued Nest Week) . A NEW BOSTON EXHIBIT A Young Socialist Applies For Employment With a Famous Massachusetts Publisher "fkNLY true-hearted, loyal Americans who are satisfied with the political and social conditions In the country in which they live" will be permitted to work In Boston so far as one of its leading "culture" merchants can exert his power to enforce this policy...
...The fact is, however, that in the "rest of the world our business men, financiers/are not seeking any military conquests, but simply concessions, contracts, and markets...
...In other words, your policy as an employer is to use your economic power to dictate the economic and political opinions of your employes...
...And...
...One is the continued janlBaWs diapoaa] of the huge output of surplus coBBsSPswaaal of sfi industrially developed nations...
...You want servile Americans, servile to you, not "loyal Americans" who think and act for themselves...
...This Is called peaceful penetration...
...There la always a surplus of products in every cfrtllaed country where the wage aystem prevails that must look for a market aaaiwhBTi1 outside of the country— look for a market any place where the people 'win buy that surplus production, nils means that it must compete in the world market...
...our confidence in the effectiveness ot any additional effort* on our part to assist in the further progress of Europe would be treaty increased...
...Whether he has worked out a blank form for applicants on which they record every idea they subscribe to we do not know, but Page's letter Is an excellent portrayal ot the upper class mind that has utterly destroyed Boston's former fame as a center of the nation's culture...
...And for the simple reason that capital, which Is not profitably Invested, very soon ceases to be capital...
...John Bright was also a convinced free trader and an antimilitarist and a radical leader...
...The noble lord said, in aubstaSan They had s few days ago a speech of the President of the United States la Us direction of advice to the European ens* tries...
...Page was very frank in his declaration that he passes upon the political and economic opinions of those who work for him...
...Th* following is a summary of a story taken fr Life and Labor Bulletin, the monthly publication of the National Women's Trade Union League...
...This powerful bat "stwde ;4mpaTBdMn of the leading stogBsb ststBsataii of, that time was ratofnriisit by the ram ponshed utterances of other...
...Aad yet these producers form the bulk of She buyers of the nation, since they are to the great majority...
...And how could you get such uniformity by the state action...
...I am saying all this in order to warn this House and the country in general, because the rivalry between Great Britain and America has grown during the last two or three years with a speed that is simply uncanny...
...Aaf while the Allies appreciated the tmmm contribution that the United State* mast and the moral effect It had on Oersae", and her sines, they shn remember that* million English men were killed anu,l> 500,000 Frenchmen, and that the As> erican soldiers were carried in Eog]tt ships...
...The Boston Blight But that sge of the Boston mind Is dead...
...What can BegSza about ft...
...But this speech of Mr...
...As such it Is as much entitled to publish and sell books on Socialism and related themes as the L. C. Page ind Company Is to publish and sell books that may appeal to it...
...Very truly yours, ABE BELSKY...
...Murray's "thousands" to 149 women ticket-seller* and 8 women printers who lost their jobs just after the war, following the enactment of a night work law in New York state, and 9 women factory workers in Wisconsin, who were dismissed because the law did not allow them to work ten hours a day...
...Dear Mr...
...We employ only true-hearted, loyal Americans who are satisfied with the political and social conditions In the country in which they live...
...Hoover, whom you probably supported last year, conceded that there were about 2,000,000 unemployed workers In this country...
...There are thousands ot textile workers in Massachusetts who are also disss t1s fled...
...America wants no colonies, and desires no actual annexation of new territory, except in cases of absolute necessity, like, for Instance, in Panama, for the canal...
...Are they "loyal Americans" If they make a noise about it Your am using letter confirms what many Intelligent people in other parts of the country are thinking about Boston and the "Boston mind...
...Goodwin speaks favorably of your personality and possibilities...
...land had not asked for the United States ao far ss he was sware, to do saythtaf for her...
...It was the Chairman of the Committee...
...And these prospectors and Investors naturally look to their respective governments to support them They say that a government Is not here just for the purpose of receiving taxes and customhouse duties, but the government is also here to protect its citizens when they do business...
...Savage and barbaric peoples are in possession of very valuable lands—excellent for agriculture, or covered with wonderful forests, or containing valuable minerals, and, above all, containing oil—oil which has become one of the greatest assets of the present day...
...A warlike front becomes absolutely necessary all the time...
...Organized women and organized labor were, as heretofore, a united front in opposition to the Woman's Party proposal on the ground that it would not bring about equality, but would Increase the inequalities that now exist...
...To say more about this last: When capital has accumulated In large fortunes, when the rate of interest la beginning to fall at home, then the capitalist* discover that there sit many uncivilised race*—or even races that have a very ancient civilization—that are weak and can not defend themselves, all of whom can...
...18, 1929 Mr...
...I think it would be of interest to this Houae and to the country at large to have theae question* discussed from the Socialist point of Ttew...
...At first only peaceable, economic penetrations is the rale...
...This member of the Boston dictatorship made this attitude known in answer to a letter written by Abe Belsky of this city, formerly connected with the Rand School Book Store, who inquired of Page whether the latter could employ him...
...our "Brother Jonathan," as they call him in Europe, comes late...
...Miss Wold contended that the destruction of women's labor laws could be prevented by making those same laws apply to men...
...There was a time when Boston was the cultural center of the United States, s time when thinking flowered in the gmius of Emerson, Phillips, Thcreau, Brooks, Chinning, Margaret Fuller and other noble men and women...
...Belsky-s inquiry and the hitter's rejoinder to the Boston oligarch's reply...
...Continuing the Woman's Party side of the argument...
...He is a carrion crow, and though you see not well what he hovers for..there Is death somewhere...
...Brtttah manufacturers and merchants were rathsr todiffwrent as to the growth of the British ttnpare...
...The other is the necessity of * """"*mffnrs the aourcea of supply of the raw materials for these Industries...
...There Is no other Interpretation to be placed upon your statement...
...The classic, land to study all this is Or*** Britain...
...Great Britain has ao far been very aaaf cessful in destroying its competitors top the world market...
...These investors get the right or the privilege to build railroads, operate mines or oil wells, to start big ranges, to plant fruit trees, banana trees, start sugar-cane or pineapple plantations, according to the nature of the country...
...But these are mostly accidents, although If another canal is built, America Is apt to make sure of Nicaragua...
...According to official figures, the United 8tates exported in 1927 products to the amount of $4,864,806,000: in 1927 Great Britain exported about $4,160,840,645 worth of products...
...Even Mr...
...Our property is timid, our laws are timid, our cultivated classes are timid...
...L. C. PAGE & COMPANY...
...And...
...This imperialism is developing on somewhat different lines than the old European- imperialism, which was usually followed by colonizing and acquiring new territory...
...France, Holland and Germany...
...Page: I am in receipt of your letter of February 18 and the view you express in relation to one seeking employment is so extraordinary that I am impelled to write you further regarding It...
...Office of the President Feb...
...Of late, also Japan, ilnce Japan has accepted our capitalist system, is competing in the world market...
...Armaments and warlike demonstrations have become part of the regular apparatus of business, so far as business is concerned with the world market...
...Not only manour people and our treasure be pra-, tec ted but we are also bound by late manorial treaties to defend the Pan*-' ama Canal...
...Powerful as your textile magnates were In their day...
...In Asia, in Africa— from China to Peru—Americans and Englishmen are competing fiercely for the exploitation of great undeveloped resources in the so-called backward countries...
...The mandarin who issues this ukase is Mr...
...and for the same reasons I have urged upon the British Government the necessity of using every legitimate opportunity to extend our influence in that great African continent which is now being opened up to civilisation and commerce...
...I think tl will interest the readers of this department...
...The English won the wars, and the drug that was considered poison in England was poured into China at the rate of 1 ton per hour, 12 hours every day, for some 60 years, until the Chinese revolution brought the traffic to a close...
...To begin with, let us hare a few words about the ntng- of the word "imperialism.'' Many people email to have an Maa that She word "imperialism'' was in some mysterious way connected with the TTilair And that since America has no Kaiser, how could America have imporialaas...
...The other and probably more Important side of economic imperlalslm is the search for raw materials—for oil, metals, rubber, lumber, cotton, wool, and so forth...
...Our bask ness men...
...Thus it comes that except far certain products of which this or the other country may have a monopoly for one reason or another, the surplus production must be thrown Into the world market, where all compete with each other...
...Cooiidge esss its counterpart s few days later from Lord Birkenhead, probably the ablest so* most astute member of the British Tor/ cabinet...
...He can not get ass fan value if she employer is to stay an bananaaa...
...Theae people do not understand the moaning of the term...
...94 Pasassd street, Edited by Pauline M. New/man CONCERNING WOMAN A department mt ncwi aad tI.w...
...Mary Murray, of New York, chairman of the Industrial council of the National Woman's Party, and -for years the spokeswoman for a company-controlled organization of women employed by the Brooklyn-Manhattan Rapid Transit Company, asserted, as usual in her public testimony, that "thousands of women," especially street-railway employees, had been thrown out of employment by laws regulating hours of women...
...Nevertheless, only Great Britain panVI lay claim to be a world power during the lest 150 yean, especially after the downfall' of Napoleon I. But the term 'Bsspertaharn"—as it has been used in an aanrmmir sense during the last 100 jams Is only very loosely connected with laoaavaattam in a political aense...
...To this end, cruisers, marines—and an army and navy—are indispensable...
...seeking new markets...
...Uncle Sam...
...Our PiBBsoBiit 'kvt, Herbert Hoover, could tall OS quite a HtUe about that...
...This Is only one aspect of economic imperialism...
...Now, if the adage is true that trade follows the flag—then the flag must also follow the financier and the money lender to protect him...
...CiTundng" the Natives Our business men will tell you that It is therefore necessary for the purposes ot trade and culture that these backward nation^, or ancient nations, be compelled to live up to such rules of conduct as will make trade possible and lucrative for the civilized white men who have Invested their money...
...It was "unthinkable," out It was just going to take place...
...political and social conditions" that kept three million bondmen slaving for owners of plantations in the South...
...but, we are sorry to find that, as we rather suspected when you advised that you were employed by the Rand Book Store, which is affiliated with a Socialistic or Communist group, you are of the same affiliations...
...He said: "Fear Is sn Instructor ef great sagacity and the herald of an revolutions...
...The world is already taken...
...Bjputllsg the Plunder Tsaaa It comes about that the producers of She nation as a whole under the present profit system can not possibly get aasuujb pay for their work and for their sr limits to be able to buy back with Dhetr wages what they have produced...
...Now, this is the economic situation...
...Ail factory laws must not only apply alike to men and women, but alike in aU the States...
...The greatest and richest of all areas belong to Great Britain...
...Asqulth told him that a war with Germany was "quite unthinkable...
...remember, this surplus production is growing rapidly with the improved machinery and as machinery improves...
...tosadher whth Cecil Rhodes, was largely rajBBawjtf far the Boer War...
...They are today cherished as the "loyal Americans'' who-^iad the courage to be dissatisfied with th...
...Thus what you mean by "loyal Americans'* Is employes who consent to employers regulating their thought and political action on all public questions relating to American life...
...lea* aaals for economic Imperialism is as foDowi: . trader she capitalist system—which is aa*o called the profit system, or the compaSttrte system, or the wage system—no worMsc man employed for wages In a tannery or in s shop or In a mine gets the fall value of hie product...
...They all look for foreign markets...
...That was the only reason...
...from the mast intimate domestic affairs to the most public rights of citizens ;that it would inflict positive suffering and hardship upon literally millions of women already heavily burdened, for the possible benefit of a propertied few who can get redress of their wrongs through other means...
...Capitalist nations will stop at nothing to get hold of such lands...
...Thus these capitalists—especially English, French, German, and American capitalists—have been looking around with vigilant eyes for chances to invest their capital as profitably as possible, watch these undeveloped areas, and are eager to make use of them...
...The Woman's Party speakers had apparently not foreseen sad were snorepared to answer this objection, other than to say they had not thought the amendment would be so construed, and they did not so intend it...
...A year ago we were told It was "unthinkable...
...For flaw sum, by Lord MBaar, who...
...Both enator Steiwar, of Oregon, and Senator Neely, of West Virginia, as well as opponents of the amendment, pointed especially to the disastrous effects upon labor laws for women, and the laws requiring a husband to support his wife —laws which the amendment would in all probability destroy outright...
...He aald: The empire is commerce...
...When America went into tat war it was because American nations* were being murdered by German sBb>' marine...
...Thais w* bars USsee aourcea of imperiaUam...
Vol. 8 • March 1929 • No. 9
