Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-15
SOCIALISTS WANT REMEDY
 FOR MoNoPoLIzED INDUsTNs

The class struggle was the theme of the |
 fifth lecture in the course on Socialism | delivered Tuesday night at the Com Tiaunity House on Church street by Rev Alexander H. Abbott, pastor of the United Congregational church. The storm had some effect on the size of the attendance which was not quite as
 large as usual. 1 have attempted to say something of the origin of socialism and its develop ment said Rev. Mir. Abbott. We left our discussion last week with the third of the theories of Marks and EngIe, the class struggle. What I want to do to- night is to say something about the character of present day socialism. What do the socialists think they sec l in our modern life? The socialist move
 ment was called into life by economic
 conditions that have developed of late
 The first thing they see in our modern l life is the loss of economic independence of the workers. They trace the develop
 ment of industry from the earliest sim plest day to the present complex day.
 The socialist sees the gradual loss of s
 certain individual Independence on the part of the workers of the world.
 He 4ees that under the competitive
 system society splits into two groups. He sees it as an actual experience. Speaking of the relation between employ CT and employe, Rev Mir Abbott said
 Because the employer wants to get ser vice for the least cost and the most num- Der of hours and because the employe
 wants to get the greatest pay for the least number of hours you have two an- tagonistic interests.
 Under the competitive system you have antagonfsm between employer and employe. But you also have antagon- t;r<,, x-a are competitors. Each proceeds in a le
 zitimate way to fight to get the market. Two merchants with the. same line of
 goods are going to do everything in their
 power, using legitimate means to get
 their goods on the market.
 There is struggle going on between worker and worker. During a period Of
 demsn nd for labor you have competition : for the work. Then relapse comes and thousands upon thousands are ] thrown out of work. What does that ] mean? It meals poverty and stsrva- ton.
 | Under the competitive system you have : warfare between producer and consum- : CT The socialist says these things arc bound to be under the competitive sys- : tenn. The relation between nation and : nation is a very interesting little theme 5 under the competitive system. l f1Hc SOCldilsl VIII EdS OAN ItohAN Oi : monopolized industry is absolute power tc s dictate ter1s of employment to tho Q worker. Another result of monopolizeG
 industry is the absolute power to fix tho
 price of commodities. If thing is put
 at a certain price you can take it ol D lleave it. The socialist says that is ont = of the marks of monopolized industry ! Some of us run our automobiles. Dc . you or I ever iatter ourselves that VI o can tell the Standard Oil Company wha l they shall charge for gas? Do you O :, really believe that we run the coun Il try? We do not Theoretically we do ' but practically we do not.
 | | The socialist says under both the com u petitive system and monopolized- indus v try you have q group of social maladies One of these social maladies is the di v vision of the. people, another the con certration of wealth for a few. The
 see under both systems the casting ou III of many from active industrial If T which throws them into shiftlessness an V sometimes crime. They see all classe 2 of society brought to uncertainty an sometimes despair.
 y: The socialist says, what can we d 'l about it? For years we have done moth ie ing. Can't we change it? Must we hay y in America in normal times two mi lions unemployed and in poverty and 1 ie abnormal times five and six millions UT l.' employed and poverty stricken? Ff '; '; only thing that will save us is som ''u ,u turn that will make for the benefit A the whole and not few. Our aim ol to take from those few who control u III necessities of life the aspect of contr ue and put it where it belongs, in n
 hands of the people themselves, for il
 teneft of all. That is the whole stoi
 pf socialism. said the lecturer.
 As Bolshevism is development of socia nt ism. The l. W. W. is a development n7 socialism. There are various socialist he schools in the country but they differ " the methods and tactics they want he use, ~.
 an Next Tuesday night len Rev. N Abbott delivers the sixtW and final fe at ture of the series he will treat the met 'er ods and tactics by which the socialis ed hope to put their programme into effe'