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TUESDAY, JUNE 5, 1934.
NOTES OF THE DAY TOWARDS A PLANNED
CHURCH & STATE IN
CERMANY
blunder,
Ger-
ECONOMY IN BRITAIN
By G. D. H. COLE
other way.
The Very Idea!
WAIVING THE ISSUE.
By George
So far we have met 14 people whose Juling tic- kets bore the number next
to
We ourselves had no luck at the races though we heard who had.
The subject of racing seems 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 fow comments on employment which hended yesterday appeared "Police & Work" of one of the several issues lately. It is an English newspaper will accept much of the scope pertaining the much And British welfare. praise ia, therefore, duo 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 Tellef in human distress,
The fresh challenge thrown out
now doubt that įpanding their operations to the to Relchsblahop Mueller by the NEW people
Great Britain ought to have extent of actually taking them over opposition clements in the Evange lien Church cannot fail to be of a plan for the organisation of and running them as public con- vital importance in the future of industry. Business men and selen-cerns if they cannot be made to Germany. The Free Synod is pre-tista alike used to contend that no respond to communal needs in any pared to recognise the political plan was necessary.
Secondly, we have to overcome the winning number. competence of the Nazis in
It was believed that if each con- the diflculty that the cost of a Seeing that our own was one Nazi many, but refuses to accept sumer decided freely what to buy thing to the community is very
in religious pretension and rejecta up to the limits of his income, and different from its cost to the em- of them, competitors will advance the new church constitu- each manufacturer decided what tion now in course of preparation. to produce, in the light of his loyer. If an employer introduces have to prove their entry
now machines, and thereupon Herr Hitler is thereby faced with intelligent anticipation of what reduces employment, the coat of into this side competition by a problem, the decision on which consumers would demand, the re- maintaining the workless falls not
be that the highest may be his muking or his undoing. mult would
Consolation and tea taxpayers. It may pay him to dis-office. It was an unfortunate day for the possible output of goods would sapon him but on the whole body of producing the tickets at our Nuzi lender when lo inspired, secured.
charge workers for whons no alter- allowed or surrendered to, his
No auch results are to be ex-native jobs can be found else will then be served, the for- party's exuberant claim to spiritual pected to-day. Indeed, there is no where; but it may be very farmer gratis and the second at dictatorship as well as political possibility of re-establishing the from paying the community.
the office boy's pleasure. dictatorship. A thousand years of conditions from which these re- German history have proved the sults were held to proceed. To- THE SYSTEM TO BLAME
This dimculty is inherent in the futility of the Kulturkampf. The day, in view of the growth of a gathering at Bremen shows clearly hundred different forms of com-present Industrial system; and, as that spiritual Independenco 1a bination among employers, of long as we keep that system, the again to prove impregnable. I powerful trade unions among the only way round it is for the State. Herr Hitler attempts to fight, he workers, and of a great many by housing schemes and other will aucceed only in mobilising an fornts of State intervention on kinds of public works, to expand the openings for employment for impregnable force against himself, which not even the most extreme which would be an irrevocable individualists really expect to go those who have been displaced
back, there can be no question of from private industry. a return to the old conditions of This mitigates the evil, but does! LABOUR WARS IN U.S.
"price" competition. We have to not cure it, for it rules out the choose now not between "plan- salution of reducing working hours Labour wars on several frontsning" and fcissez-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 wo United States in the last week or Isolated, sectional, and often con-have seen, is the existence of inter- the two to the exclusion of almost all
licting plans, each laid down by national competition, and else, except the disastrous drought.
or for some particular group or failure to reduce hours in all count- Officials are striving hard to "keep interest, and an attempt to plan tries by International agreement. the lid on" and several pences have comprehensively the general poing hours involves subsidising Falling such agreement, reduc- bean patched up, with the real which industry as a whole is to
exports, which lends to all sorts of unremoved. cause of the trouble
pursue. rendy to boll into strikes and
Planning of this latter sort is international complications and possibly violence at any moment. being forced on us both by world retaliations. We may be driven to Each of the stews has its own conditions and by the character of it, as other countries have been peculiar manifestations. They are technical development. Sectional driven; but the objections are very related to one another in virtually plans made by particular groups atrong. Yet short of it, there is, nothing except that all are (x- are almost all so designed as to under our present economic sys- pressions of the persistent and keep up prices by making things tem, absolutely no answer to the tough-rooted contention between scarce. The result in that, when problem. We cannot reduce work- employers and employed over the new technical processes are in- ing hours in the export trades ratio in which they shall share introduced, restriction of output is without reducing pay as well, be- the rewards of production.
brought into play by the producing cause we are caught in the toils of Interests, and the displaced labour a competitive international system.
With a third difflculty we are is not absorbed but left idle, to be maintained at the public expense. a far better position to dent. Recent events in America have Some of it is, of course, absorbed Socialist, showed conclusively that the in certain new industries which nationalised banking system as the interpretations which are being difficulty about labour bargains is are developing fast-such as the instrument for financing Industry placed on the latest develop that if they are to be reached running of garages, the making of with short-term credit in accord peaceably and at that delicate gramophones and wireless gets and ance with the requirements of a tendency to view the situation balance which represents economic electrical equipment, and, above antional Industrial plan. and also as one in which an endeavour is justice and stability, there has toll, the distributive services, which in National Investment Board, em- being made to isolate Germany be reasonableness not merely have been increasing their labour powered to borrow money from the Irom the other Continental one side but on both sides. If the force for some years past at a pace public for long-term investment in schemes of industrial Powers. Even the diplomatic disputants will not supply the that cannot possibly be expected to approved
development. But, short of So- correspondent of the London necessary quota of reasonableness last.
But we Observer
have ample cause to cialism, many people favour a remarks that the and social-mindedness the interests
of the public are-such that it is know that these new opportunities National Investment Board as a British Cabinet is faced with the Entitled to throw Its weight into are not nearly enough to absorb necessary instrument of "plan-
even under ning,"
a reformed necessity of deciding whether, the balance. The Government has the available supply of workers.
waa capitalist system. It und to what degree, Britain is been trying to do that, but has PLANNING FOR PRODUCTION posed, for example, in the Liberal prepared to support the Franco-not been conspicuously successful. In these circumstances we have "Yellow Book" à few years ago, Russian enterprise for organis-The Ideals expressed in certain
consider our attitude to the ing European security. against Providential speechies and in question of "planning." Clearly, NEED FOR A PUBLIC PLAN one N.R.A. propaganda, have not al- if we are to plan at all we ought to Germany. We cannot for
The conclusion, then, is that the moment imagine that the Brit-ways been faithfully employed as plan on a basis that will provide character of modern technical devenient excuse for a short adjourn- ish Government looks at the the guide posts. Such settlements for the use in production of all the velopment in industry is such as to ment to the bar to flick the head off situation in that light; indeed, have been reached have been suitable labour, as well as all the force upon us a publicly-planned a pint of goed health.
mainly brought about by the suitable plant that is available, and economy as the sole means of pre- any handling of the position leaders of the American Federation if we find we have surplus labour venting the growth of unemploy The flags and guns and pretty from that angle would be fatal. of Labour, who have fallen in with we do not need to use we ought to mont. For, without a public plan. little soldiers reminded us a little The cause of permanent pence the wishes of Government and take steps to reduce working hours (a) we cannot prevent the wistfully of our own birthday-the in Europe will not be served by employers, on securing small con- until the supply balances the need. growth of sectional monopolies contrast, we mean, of course. any understanding based oncessions, and the rank and file have But we cannot do this if the main which displace labour in periods of are barred scarcity and dearness, and thus military alliances or aiming at returned to work still dissatisfied. avenues to employers Intent on destroy the purchasing power the isolation of any one country.
by sectional What is needed is a general will WORKERS' DISTRUST
keeping up prices by restricting which is needed to make alterna- towards peace and concord--a
output, or if any proposal to reduce tive jobs available; Close observers of the situation working hours la vetoed on the (b) we cannot use the oppor positive move in that direction, cannot have failed to observe the ground that it will raise the cost of tunities which rising productivity not a building up of groups and growing distrust of organised production.
offers so as to decrease working alliances specifically directed workers in the United States with
are the dificulties that hours, and enlarge leisure; and Here against any one country. Such many of their present leaders. have to be overcome. In order to (e) we cannot make any attempt conception is that put forward! Some newly prominent figures in deal with the first we need means to replace the existing obstructive by Russia in the proposal that the labour movement have been re- of curbing, instead of encouraging, control of International trade by the Disarmament Conference ferring to Mr. Green in terms the combines which pursue a restric-constructive arrangements for the should be transformed into s Joverne of complimentary; so tive policy. This involves public mutual exchange of goods between also countries in accordance with the frequently so that indications of control over prices, and permanent organ for the supera personal alight and tentative power to direct the activities of needs of a planned system of vision of security. Under this inclination to the Left have not industries which ought to he ex-l'national_production. plan, there would need to be a latterly been absent from Mr. clear definition of aggression, an | Green's equally clear determination p | We the sanctions to be taken against the
THE GENEVA CRISIS
To-morrow's meeting of the General Commission of the Disarmament Conference should give some definite indication of the likelihood or otherwise of n real crisis being averted. In the
ments, there is
regrettablo AL
LABOUR BARGAINS
•
recent activities, It
inicance of
100, to miss the Voting of
the Detroit meeting
an aggressor, and a supplement the American Socialist Party. The ing of the Kellogg Pact by Left Wing declared themselves for regional agreements reached for the "United Front" with the Com- the specifle purpose of preserv munists, for the dictatorship of ing peace. In this way, as the proletariat and the repudia Litvinoff has claimed, the tlon of "bourgeois democracy." A Disarmament Conference would resolution to establish this as tho be changed from an institution clear policy of the Party was des which ends war to one which feated by a margin of no more than averts it. So far as Britain is 513 votes in a total of 16,175. The concerned, Mr. J. H. Thomas has normal composition of a delegates
solid vote with interpreted the Government's meeting implies attitude as being one involving least one-third of these present. the administration group from at no commitments binding Britain Among the to go to the aid of any country presentatives there was a majority untrammelled re- should war break out. This fur direct netion. 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. of aggression, provided she is satisfied that a given attack is gested, woukl unprovoked. That obligation the danger Inherent in still remains. There was, how any Anglo-French alliance that ever, a hint some weeks ago that it would appear to group one set Britain might be inclined to of Powers na rivals of another agree to some systent of guaran- group. Unhappily, since then any the prospects of any form of disarmament convention which disarmament agreement being might be reached, such as AL reached have distinctly lessened, promise to take action with but it will be surprising if, other Governments against any whether agreement one Government which threaten-limitation is attained or not, ed the peace of Western Europe Britain lends herself to any by arming beyond its agreed undertaking directed specifically limit. This, it was Bug-against any one nation.
tees
of
execution
of
remove
on arme
to
I want to ace
"There's nothing In this book of etiquette I don't already know."
As a both a
pro-
I am as well an Easterner and wanting its languages I am given the freedom of this issue. Let our able managements take regard to meet our needs and. re- traditionally maintain the source, however in what degree, we have strifed to build the colony in its picturesque memory the just pride of our unconsing efforts make possible its heritage,
vast
It in common knowledge to evade what might detriment' to those who merely put their appearance in the offcialism, 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
made writing will be
to:- Anguish.
As usual we celebrated His Majesty's birthday by working but though we were not even present at the parade, we found it a con-
There was however, considerable
rejoicing on our natal day though it has never been repeated, and we are reluctantly forced to the con- clusion that the cheers must have been because it was Crippen's hanging day.
•
*
THE CREST OF THE WAVE,
In answer to enquiries,
Wo beg respectfully to state, We're feeling fine,
And though there's others going, Leaving long and poignant
diaries,
(And small local estate) You needn't pine.
For while there's a drop to be
drunk
"By George" we'll not be sunk--- "What's yours? That's mine!"
•
Fun at the Talkies
Sir Thomas Beecham's exploit on the opening night at Covent Garden reminds me of one of my
OW11.
It was when I was conducting the Bacup Philharmonic, in their season at the Bocolian Hall. How well remember that night! Lady ---was in the front row, munch- ing a banana.
As Bacardi got up to sing she and to her companion, "Did you bring Fido's biscuits?"
I turned round angrily," "Shut up, you," I said. "The opera's begun. And put that infernal frult away."
Lady--went on talking to her companion. "Theso fellera aro very tiring," she said in n fatigued valce. "They seem to think they've bought the place."
Well, I lost my patience with her-who wouldn't? - Metioning to Bacardi to stop (which was dimcult to do, as he always Ignored the orchestra), I sent for the Commissionaire and had Larly --thrown out. The manage- mont offered to return her money: but it turned out she was only "paper" anyway,
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