The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1943-11-26
is NATURALIZATION OF
INDUSTRY In PROSPECT?

and, under our great American system
MATING AN APPRECIABLEOUNT
of Free (booting) Enterprise" eIimi-
mating an appreciable amount of pur-
chasing power which is essential to
the maintenance of the profit system.
Faced with the certainty that the
old system of FREE (booting) EN-
TERPRISE canot long utilize the sup
ply of mass-production energy and at
the same time keep the human labor
supply sufficiently employed to pro-
vide sufficient PURCHASING POW
Err to purchase the products of in
dustry capitalist leaders daily provide
additional evidence that the "Capi-
talist Utter" is growing in intensity
and malevolence.
Russia alone of the allied nations
has nothing to fear from the post
war period so far as depression is
concerned. Her general scheme was
mapped out long before Handsome
Adolph' seized Austria, and does not
include such disturbing elements as
profit" loss of purchasing power,
"overproduction" or unemployment
The war is loked upon as an irritating
interruption of their plans, disagree
able interlude, something to be termi-
mated as quickly as is humanity posi-
BILE so that they may proceed without
interruption in their plan of making
the world in general, and particularly
the Russian portion of it, more en-
joyable place for human being to live.
Capitalist postwar planning" thus
far consists mainly of surveys" to
determine the extent of consumer
demand" with additional surveys"
as to the equipment and facilities of
private industry" to supply this de-
mand. These surveys" in them
selves are commendable as indicative
of planned production Capitalists
seem to have learned one thing at
least from the lawful Russians"). The
disruptive element in the entire
scheme however is that under our
system of Competitive Enterprise"
each dealer in the community, each
rugged indiyidualist" or industrial
leader" hopes to secure for himself
or his firm at least 75@o of the bust
ness indicated by the survey and will
even make a frantic effort to get as
much of the remainder as thigh pres
sure craftsmanship" will permit him
to acquire. This will inevitably re-
suit in mad scramble for speed in
a sudden flood of COM
modities, "gluted" market and in a
comparatively short time another pc
riod of "overproduction' with a re-
sultant reduction of surplus labor
stock" unemployment, depression"
and panic.
Our American public, kept constant
ly in an advanced state of misinfor-
nation by capitalist leadership, either
overlooks or ignores the obvious fact
that the something for nothing" item
of PROFIT is the one factor which in
exorably upsets the even and perfect
balance between production and pur-
chasing power and makes such peri
DDS of depression" inevitable.
III INC ihdtttl VI pOSl-WdI plduHluS
and power politics" Russian leader
ship is sitting behind the largest
stack of chips" ever showed into the
pot" on the conference table Capt.
talist leadership of the Allied nations
bitterly realizes that the Russian
production for use" cooperative sys-
tenn, with its elimination of the some
hing for nothing" PROFIT item, need
have no fear of "overproduction,
or lack of purchasing
power" They realize the advantage
hat system offers to everyone Tex
,ept of course the beneficiaries of the
something for nothing profit'), wit
ness their belated (the commendable)
adoption of the Survey of demand
md production facilities" and the
most violent, soul shaking and nerve
'acking capitalist Utter" of all time
S caused by their highly justified
ear that under the force of economic
evolutionary processes the socializa-
ion, or naturalization of industrial
production will inevitably spread to
he rest of the world.