The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1917-01-11

Staining Quoted AS Saying
That MARKS Ideals Have
Been OvershadOwad

lnpOUoIc II. iolhunlnPt lcdtcl Oh
Dcnmark's Socal-Democracy, mem
Der of the Hahc radical cabinet, un-
der an intcrparty compromise ar
ranged to carry through the West
Indies islands sale, and the first Sean
dinavian Socialist to become a cabinet
minister, boasts that the war has
transformed Denmark into u Social
istic state, according to correspond
ence from Stockholm in the Evening
Post
The monarchy still exists, declares
the correspondent, and the political
program of Socialism is not yet real
lied, but the state Socialistic meas
ures taken in economic domains as
result Of the war transcend the pro-
gram of Karl Marx, and next year
will be realized dozen other ex-
treme Sociaistic plans of kind new
err dreamed of by Marx"
The article says, in part:
ALREADY the Danish state has tax
en- control Of all vital industries. 1t
regulates production and consump-
ton, eXpropriates excessive profits
for public use, enforces a living wage
and guarantees a minimum standard
of comfort for all classes. Staining
promises that these measures will be
developed in still more drastic forms,
and Prime Minister Zahle agrees. He
has warned a Copenhagen mass meet
ing that the economic crisis caused
by the war will become much worse
than it is and that no country which
does not take exceptional measures
will survive.
Staining, at the end of Novem-
Der, delivered an exposition of Den
marks war Socialism to a meeting
of Swedcs at Malmo. He declared
that the chief Socialist measure of
1S1 will be the standardization Of
products in the interest Of economy
This makes inevitable the standard
shoe. State experts will evolve a
model shoe, which will require the
least possible material The shoe will
be Of absolutely Uniform kind, and
will he sold at fixed prices according
to size. II will be d penal offense tn
buy Or sell any other kind of shoe
II the textile famine gets worse, state
tailoring artists will produce stand
ard suit Of clothes for men; and
Danes when they have worn out their
present clothing will all be dressed
alike. Probably there will also be q
standard costume for women, con.
tanning only absolutely necessary ma.
tv,ini Of cheap quality.
Denmark's newly founded State
Necessaries commission and Price
Regulations commission have com
plete autocratic power. Through the
Necessaties commission, the Danish
state is now the chief import mer
chant for wheat and corn. Alread,
the Necessaries commission controls
the import OF colonial wares and next
year it will itself import on a vast
scale. The Price Regulations com.
mission has established its contro
over all factories and workshops, al
so over farming, which is Denmark.
greatest industry.
Producers and distributors are ne
longer allowed freely to determine
their mutual relations. Where the
state finds that one party is getting
the best Of the bargain it intervenes
The states latest coup is to prevent
excessive profits by exporters.
Prime Minister Fable declares thai
the state must accept full and direct
responsibility for the health and wei.
fare Of every citizen. His cabinet
backed by the Radical-Socialist ma
Jority in the Folkething, is taking
measure after measure to embody
this principle. These measures in
volve vast expenditure for small
country like Denmark, but they are
being unshrinkingly carried through