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NOTES OF THE DAY
CHURCH & STATE IN GERMANY
JUNE 5, 1934.
TOWARDS A PLANNED ECONOMY IN BRITAIN
By G. D. H. COLE
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ench manufacturer decided what
The Very Idea!
WAIVING THE ISSUE.
So
lly George
The fresh challenge thrown out
now doubt that panding their operations to the to Reichsbishop Mueller by the DW people
far we have met 14- opposition elements in the Evange Great Britain ought to have extent of actually taking them over Heat Church cannot fall to be of a plan for the organisation of and running them as public con-
people whose Juling tic- vital importance in the future of industry. Business men and selen-cerns if they cannot be made to. Germany. The Free Synod is pre-tists alike used to contend that no respond to communal needs in any kets bore the number next
other way. pared to recognise the political plan was necessary.
Secondly, we have to overcome to the winning number. competence of the Nazis in Ger
It was believed that if each con- the diflculty that the cost of Seeing that our own was one many, but refuses to accept Nazi Humer decided freely what to bus thing to the community in very religious pretension and rejects in advance the new church constitu- the limits of hla income, and different from its coat to the em- of them, competitors. will tion now in course of preparation. to produce, in the light of his ployer. If an employer introduces have to prove their entry
How machines, and thereupon Herr Hitler is thereby faced with intelligent anticipation of what reduces employment, the cost of into this side competition by a problem, the decision on which consumers, would demand, there maintaining the workless falls not may be his making or his undoing. sult would be that the highest upon him but on the whole body of producing the tickets at our It was an unfortunate day for the possible output of goods would be taxpayers. It may pay him to dis office. Consolation and tea Nazi leader when he Inspired, secured.
charge workers for whom no alter will then be served, the for- allowed or surrendered to, his
No such results are to be ex-native jobs can be found clse- pected to-day. Indeed, there is nowhere: but it rany be very farmer gratis and the second at
the office boy's pleasure. conditions from which these re-
- We ourselves had no luck at
party's exuberant claim to spiritual dictatorship na well Пр political
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The subject of racing scems to me, as near as any to the import of the following letter which has just been delivered at our office:
Sir Pardon me to put a few commenta on employment. which appeared yesterday headed "Police & Work" of one of the several issues lately. It Is an English newspaper will accept much of the scope partaining the British welfare. And much praise is, therefore, due to the British youth who points his right involves the, necessity of human subsistence, as it is, and a pressing need of one after long deprivation call for relief In human dietroas,
I am as well an Easterner and wanting its languages 1 am Kiven the freedom of this issue, Jet our able managements take regard to meet our needs and traditionally maintain the re- source, however in what degree, we have strifed to build the colony in ite picturesque memory the just pride of our unceasing efforts make possible its beritage.
dictatorship. A thousand years of Possibility of re-establishing the from paying the community. German history have proved the sults were held to proceed, To- THE SYSTEM TO BLAME
This dimeulty in inherent in the of Kulturkampf. of a Katbering at Bromen shows clearly hundred different forms of com- present industrial system; and, as the races though we heard who
spiritual Independence in bination
employers, of long as we keep that system, the again to prove impregnable. If powerful trade unions among the only way round it is for the State, Herr Ilitler attempts to fight, he workers, and of a great many by housing schemes and other
kinds
publle works, to expand forms of State intervention on will succeed only in mobilising an Impregnable force against himself, which not even the most extreme the openings for employment for which would be an irrevocable individuallata rebene question of from private industry.
to go those who have been displaced This mitigaton the pull, but does a return to the old condition of LABOUR WARS IN U.S.
"price" competition. We have to not cure it, for it rales out the several fronts choose now not between "plan-solution of reducing working hours Labour wars on
ning" and laissez-faire, but be-all round, without reductions in have occupied the attention of the
tween having a large number of pay. The obstacle to this, as we United States in the last week or isolated, sectional, and often con- have seen, is the existence of inter- two to the exclusion of almost all leting plans, each laid down by national competition, and the else, except the disastrous drought.
or for some particular group or failure to reduce hours in all coun- Officials are striving hard to "keep interest, and an attempt to plantries by international agreement, the lid on" and several peaces have comprehensively the general polley Falling such agreement, reduc- been patched up, with the
real
which industry as a whole is tong hours involves subsidising eattse of the trouble unremoved,
exports, which leads to all sorts of rendy to boil into strikes and
Planning of this latter sort is international complications
to possibly violence at any moment. being forced on us both by world retaliations. We may be driven
own conditions and by the character of it as other countries have been peculiar manifestations. They are technical tevelopment. Sectional driven; but the objections are very related to one another in virtually
plans made by particular groups strong. Yet short of it, there is, nothing except that all are CX- are almost all so designed as to ander our present economic sys- pressions of the persistent and keep up prices by making things tem, absolutely no answer to the THE GENEVA CRISIS tough-rooted contention between scarce. The result is that, when problem. We cannot reduce work- employers and employed over the new technical processes are ning hours in the export trades To-morrow's meeting of the ratio in which they shall share introduced, restriction of output is without reducing pay as well, be- of General Commission of the the rewards of production. brought into play by the producing cause we are caught in the toils Disarmament Conference should
interests, and the displaced labour a competitive international system. With a third difficulty we are in give some definite indication of LABOUR BARGAINS
is not absorbed but left idle, to be the likelihood or otherwise of a
maintained at the public expense, a far better position to deal. As a Recent eventa in America have Some of it is, of course, absorbed Socialist, want to see both a real crisis being averted. In the showed conclusively that the in certain new industries which nationalised banking system as the interpretations which are being dificulty about labour bargains is placed on the latest develop that if they are
are developing fast-such as the instrument for financing industry to be reached running of garages, the making of with short-term credit In accord- ments, there is
regrettable peaceably and at that delicate gramophones and wireless sets andance with the requirements tendency to view the situation balance which represents economic electrical equipment, and, above national industrial plan, and also as one in which an endeavour is Justice and stability, there has to
rll, the distributive services, whieh National Investment Board, em- being made to isolate Germany be reasonableness not merely on have been increasing their labour powered to borrow money from the from
one side but on both sides. If the force for some years past at a pace public for long-term investment in other Continental
disputants will not supply the that cannot possibly be expected to approved schemes of industrial Powers. Even the diplomatic
development. But, short of So- correspondent of the London and social-mindedness the interests
necessary quota of reasonableness last.
elallam, many people favour a have ample cause to' Observer remarks that British Cabinet is faced with the entitled to throw its weight into
the of the public are such that it is know that these new opportunities National Investment Board as a are not nearly enough to absorb necessary instrument of plan- reformed even under a necessity of deciding whether, the balance. The Government has
ning," the available supply of workers,
capitalist system. It was pro- and to what degree, Britain is been trying to do that, but bus PLANNING FOR PRODUCTION sed, for example, in the Liberal prepared to support the Franco- not been conspicuously successful. In these circumstances ive have Yellow Book", a few years ago. Russian enterprise for organis-. The ideals expressed in certain to consider our attitude to the ing European security against Presidential speeches 'and in N.R.A. propaganda, have not al- Germany. We cannot for
ways been faithfully employed as moment-imagine that the Brit the guide posts. Such settlements ish Government looks at the as have been reached have been situation in that light; indeed, mainly brought about by
the any handling of the position leaders of the American Federation from that angle would be fatal. of Labour, who have fallen in with The cause of permanent peace the wishes of Government and in Europe will not be served by employers, on securing small con- any understanding bused oncessions, and the rank and file have military alliances or aiming at returned to work still dissatisfied. avenues to employment are barred scarcity and dearness, and thus rejoicing on our natal day though
the
one
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WORKERS' DISTRUST
reverse
90
the isolation of any one country, What is needed is a general will towards peace and concord-a
Close observers of the situation positive move in that direction, cannot have failed to observe the not a building up of groups and growing distrust of organised alliances specifically directed workers in the United States with against any one country. Such many of their present leaders, a conception is that put forward Some newly prominent figures in by Russia in the proposal that the Inbour movement have been re- the Disarmament Conference ferring to Mr. Green, in terms the should be transformed into a frequently so that indications of
of complimentary, permanent organ for the super- vision of security. Under this in personal slight and tentative inclination to the Left have not plan, there would need to be latterly been absent fron! Mr. clear definition of aggression, an Green's recent activities. Tt equally clear determination of is impossible, ton, to miss the sanctions to be taken against the significance of the
Voting the. an aggressor, and a supplementat
Detroil meeting of ing of the Kellogg Pact, by the American Socialist Party. The regional agreements reached for the "United Front" with the Com- Left Wing declared themselves for the specific purpose of preser munists, for the dictatorship of ing peace. In this way, as M. the proletariat and the repudin Litvino T has claimed, the tion of "bourgeois democracy." Disarmament Conference would resolution to establish this as tho be changed from an institution clear policy of the Party was de- which ends war to one which feated by margin of no more than averts it. So far as Britain is 513 vetes in a total of 10,175. The concerned, Mr. J. H. Thomas has normal composition of a delegates' interpreted the Government's meeting implies a solid vote with attitude as being one involving least one-third of those present. the administration group from at no commitments binding Britain Among the untrammelled to go to the aid of any country presentatives there was a majority should war break out. This for direct action. It is, in fact, must obviously refer to the frankly admitted that the rank and question of fresh obligations, file fully endorse the extremist since, under the Locarno Pact, resolutions. There was certainly Britain has already entered into sufficient of sucess to rouse the an obligation to assist the victim Leftists to redoubled vigour.
re-
remove
of aggression, provided sho s satisfied that a given attack is gested, would unprovoked. That obligation the danger Inherent in still remains. There was, how any Anglo-French alllance that ever, a hint some weeks ago that it would appear to group one set Britain might be inclined to of Powers as rivals of another agree to some system of guaran-group. Unhappily, since then tecs of exccution of any the prospects of any form of disarmament convention which disarmament agreement being might be reached, such as a reached have distinctly lessened, promise to take action with but it will be surprising If, other Governments against any whether agreement on one Government which threaten-limitation is attained or not, eil the pence of Western Europe Britain lends herself to any -bystring==bcyond-elkämezzadegundertaking directed opet klonky-
limit. This, it was sug-against any ono nation.
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It is common knowledge to evade what might detriment to those who merely put their appearance in the officialism, but to the interest of the colony one must see best to do. Many young energetic persons like to initiate an open chance.
Contracting an intimacy by writing will be made to:-
Anguish.
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As usual we' celebrated His Majesty's birthday by working but question of "planning." Clearly,, NEED FOR A PUBLIC PLAN though we were not even present if we are to plan at all we ought lo
The conclusion, then, is that theat the parade, we found it a con- plan on a basis that will provide character of modern technical devenient excuse for a short ndjourn for the use in production of all the selopment in industry is such as toment to the bar to flick the head off suitable Inbour, as well as all the force upon us a publicly-planned in nint of good health. suitable plant that is available, and economy as the sole means of pre- if we find we have surplus labour venting the growth of unemploy
The age and guns and pretty we do not need to use we ought to ment. For, without a public plan, little soldiers reminded us a little take steps to reduce working houra (4) we cannot prevent the wistfully of our own birthday-the until the supply balances the need. growth of sectional monopolies contrast, we mean, of course. But we cannot do this if tite main which displace labour in periods of
There was however, considerable by sectional "planners" intent on destroy the purchasing keeping up prices by restricting which is needed to make alterna-it has never been repeated, and we are reluctantly forced to the con- output, or if any proposal to reduce tive jobs available;
clusion that the cheers must have working hours is vetoed on the (b) we cannot use the oppor- ground that it will raise the cost of tunities which rising productivity been because was Crippen's production.
offers so as to decrease working hanging day. Here are the difficulties that hours, and enlarge leisure; and have to be overcome. In order to (e) we cannot make any attempt deal with the first we need means to replace the existing obstructive of curbing, Instead of encouraging, control of international trade by combines which pursue a restric-constructive arrangements for the contro tive policy. This involves public mutual exchange of gooda between over prices, and ulse countries in accordance with the power to direct the activities of needs of a planned system of industries which ought to be ex-national production.
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For while there's a drop to be
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Fun at the Talkies
Sir Thomas Beecham's exploit on the opening night at Covent Garden reminds me of one of my
own.
I was when 1 was conducting the Bacup Philharmonic, in their season at the Boeotian Hall. How well remember that night! Lady —was in the front row, munch.... ing a banana.
As Bacardi got up to sing she enid to her companion, "Did you bring Fido's biscuits?"
I turned round angrily. "Shut
up, you," I said. "The opera's.