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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8, 1940

MIRROR OF WORLD

OPINION

HAW HAW

THE UNEMPLOYMENT FUND

The Unemployment Fund is now making a large profit of nearly £500,000 a week, which is rising as

It requires no great skill or insight on the part of "Haw-Haw" to play upon social inequalities and economio anomalies, to quote the British press unemployment falls and the number

of insured-workers attacks upon its own government, to

grows. Up to December last the fund had accumu- rake up old promises unfulfilled, lated a balance of £67,500,000. What though of course conveniently forget is to be done with It? The employers ting the trail of unredeemed pledges felt first that it should be held in re- :serve against the post-war slump; left behind by the Nazis.

later they asked for a reduction in Many are the suggestions put for- contributions to offset the increase ward for counteracting the Haw-Haw which the new pensions charges will propaganda. Some have suggested a impose. The trade unions asked that the surplus should be used to improve debate between him and a British an-

rates and conditions of benefit. The nouncer. But this shows a poor ap- Unemployment Insurance Statutory preciation of Nazi tactics, for it would Committee has taken a middle course, and the Government has accepted it. give Dr. Joseph Goebbels first-rate

In the past the Committee has been -propaganda-opportunities before an rather given to making interesting audience of millions and almost for prophecies about the trend of unem- ployment. Now it confesses itself-in nothing. Those who would simply affect baffled. It foresees while the "blot out" the Hamburg and Bremen war lasts a period of diminishing un- senders, also lay the authorities open employment and largely increased in- to the charge of wanting to "conceal surance income, followed after the war by " à great rise of unemploy- something" especially after the more ment:" It foresees a 'slump even more or-less official encouragement to listen intense than in 1921-2, in part because of mechanisation to those stations. Nor will the solu- the higher degree

to-day calls for a larger number of tion be found in adopting "Haw-

armament workers whose dismissal Haw's" own methods. Behind him is will create "a greater distortion of the a tongue-tied press and people; here a industrial structure," A natural argu- ment would be that the fund should free press and people which regards

keep intact its large balance against individual and national treedom as the rainy day. This would be open to one of the great ideals underlying the dangers; it would be a perpetual source present struggle.

The ideal answer naturally lies in having such a national community, so, well-informed and with such an intuitive sureness that it is imper- vious to all such propaganda. "Christian Science Monitor."

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NEW ORDER

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of temptation to politicians and to ad- vocates of higher benefits or lower contributions. As the Committee points out, there would be the spectacles on a growing accumulated balance and an unpaid debt of many millions pounds (the legacy of the weak finance of a decade ago). Its solution is, therefore, to pay off £37,000,000 of debt, with the knowledge that when the slump comes it will have to bor- row-again.

What is dent children. The Statutory Com- have only mittee (which includes those two

stalwarts of the cause Sir William' and

STALIN-BY TROTSKY| Beveridge

thus puts into effect an instalment of family allowances. does not ȧt- tempt to relate benefit rates to the

Mrs. Stocks)

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It is a solution more ingenious than "Those old ossified and desiceated heroic. It has one good outcome. The nonentities babble of a new order saving in interest is to go to increase in Europe. "The new

order will the allowances for the first two depen- come, but without them." this new order to be? We to look at Ger- many, Austria, Czecho Slovakia, and Poland for Most our answer. revolutions'. become less savage. with the time. It is mark of the Nazi revolution that each dis- phase new covers some bru- tality that had been overlooked by the last. Religion, learning, culture, leadership, public spirit, private dis- tinction all of these are punished with death, star vation, and the tortures that men who have become experts in the art of torture. can devise. M. Herriot recalled happily the other day. taire's definition. of a

The personality of Stalin and his career are different: · It is not Stalln who created the ma.... chine. Thè machine created Sta- iin. But a machine, like a plano- la, cannot replace hùman crea- tive power. Bureaucracy, as bu- reaucracy,

Is Impregnated through and through with the spirit of mediocrity, Stalin la the most outstanding mediocrity of the, Soviet bureaucracy. HIB strength lies in the fact that he ́expresses the Instinct · of · self- preservation of the ruling oaste more firmly, more dealsively, and more pitilessly than anyone else. But that is also his weakness. He seda olearly for a short dis- tance, but on a historical scale he Is blind. A shrewd tactician, he ́is not a strategist-Leon Trotsky.

rise in the cost of living or even to the recent increase in the Assistance Board's rates of pay, but the in- crease to the un- employed man with children is

to partial offset the change in the value of money. On

of grounds general policy there is something to be said against

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very raising unemployment pay at a time Vol- when all possible pressure should be tyrant put on people to take work and when. in his Philosophical Dictionary. their services are urgently needed by "We name as tyrant a sovereign who the State. It is questionable wisdom at knows no law. save his own carrice, this time to raise the "wage stop”— who seizes the property of his sub- the point above which unemployment jects, and after that enrols them to pay must not go. In the case of the go out and take the property of their agricultural scheme the Committee in neighbours." Voltaire was writing in giving the higher children's allowances the middle of the eighteenth century. raises the "wages 'stop" from 33s. to He added a sentence to his definition. 355, a week, though it admits that "the "There are no tyrants in Europe." rates of benefit which can be claimed What would he write to-day? And by men with familles will in certain what would he have to write to-mor- parts of the country approximate very row if the new order in Europe is closely to their earnings created by the man who has brought work." This is particularly so in back into four countries slavery and Wales. But Wales, with its higher rate torture and who moves great popula of agricultural unemployment than tions, and fro across the map to suit any other part of reat Britain, needs ure, is a strong his pleasure, just as the great Russian - special attention. landownery used to move” thair meris suspicion that the unemployment from one, or their states to another? aurance bysten

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THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 8, 1940