Voice of action. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1933-1936, 1935-02-15


steps in suppressing the rights
of labor. His move is a plain at.
tempt to intimidate labor in its
growing militancy, and to force
compromises that will kill any
effective strike action.
In ominous line with this wave
of reaction comes the statement
of A. Wilfred May in the Annalist
for January Is. This expert on
banking and credit examines the
New Deal credit policy and con-
eludes:
TT WOULD APPEAR that
the only alternative to economic
chaos will be, eventually, the in
stitution Of a totalitarian and
corporate state"
Such a frank admission of fas-
cism comes from no alarmist cir
cles but from one of the chief
journals for capitalistic Wall
Street.
In the same issue of the An
nalist there is an admission from
the figures of the National In
dustrial Conference Board that
weekly earnings have decreased
under the NRA.
While this has been going on,
the February l Annalist reports
that the wholesale commodity
price index of Janary %, 1884, is
at 123, or a raise of 52H per cent
from the low of February 1888.
The poor farmer had his cat
tie killed by the AAA during
, the summer and fall for prac-
tically nothing. Now he has the
bitterness of seeing beef sky
rocket in price while he has no.
thing to SELL The worker finds
his pay envelope contains less
while prices are increasing ev-
cry week. o.
Even this is not enough to save
capitalism. The Annalist admits
that the seasonal peak of steel
and automobile production is
probably here and that the next
few weeks will show a serious de-
cline. Both car loadings and ex-
ports have declined ominously,
and these are barometers of bus
mess activity. The ordinary pa
pers may try to manufacture
prosperity by cheerful words, but
Wall Street does not lie to itself.
THE FIGHT over how the four
billion public works fund is to
be expended is already breaking
into print. 1t will go the way pre-
vious funds have gone. General
Douglas Macarthur, Chief of
Staff, the Chocolate Soldier of the
bonus army eviction, and son-in-
law to Morgan partner Stotes-
bury, testified that the army
wants 405 millions of it to add
to the proposed 4l2 millions auth
Orized by the budget for 1885.
This added to the demands for
the Navy makes a total of more
than one and half billions to be
spent the next year for war pre-
parations.
Already on MacArthur's recon-
mendation there is a bill to en-
courage enlistment in the army
from the CCC camps. By this
means he hopes to create an
army reserve of 100000 men. What
is all this for? Another imperial.
list war or to use as the basis of
a fascist army at home? MacAr-
thur is one of the candidates for
leadership in the fascist march
as Smedley d. Butler testified.
n
SOME LIGHTS on the profits
that racketeering labor leaders
can make is cast by the investi-
cations of the government. Thorn
as e. Mallory was a business
agent for the Motion Picture Op-
orators Union in Chicago until he
was slain recently. The investiga.
ton disclosed that Mallory's home
had $4,000 bathroom and $1,000
bar. He had a trip to Europe
with $4,000 extra spending mon
ey and an income of $250,OO0 in
excess of that he reported from
1929 to 1892. His regular salary
was $500 a week.
Most people blame such rot
tenness on individual dishon-
esty. However, IL must be re-
membered that capitalism does
not offer such rewards for no.
thing. Mallory got his money
from business men because
those business men saw a
chance for profit.
For every man bribed there is a
briber who is making a profit.
Union bureaucrats who are
given a wage Of $500 week are
no longer workers-they are
capitalists, and the workers
should expect them to act ac-
cordin civ