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REALITIES

In a recent issue of the Lon- don Observer, Mr. J. L. Garvin,

Governor of the State of themselves.

What will be the outcome? If these men fail to reach agreement the fight is on. And boy, will it be a fight!

Out at the occupied plants the

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on

more like

mass pressure or ment legislation to improve his conditions.

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S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. Japan and Germany have with-ment of emergency police, so the

The plant of General Motors at Flint still blazes with light, but inside are the strikers. FLINT (Michigan). strikera organisation, and the negotiation with the directors Article by a correspon- Tis snowing gently, Michigan.

General Motors Corporation, dent on the spot telling and this town seems It has already lasted two which employs some 85 per asleep. Passing cars,

whole days and most of the cent. of Flint's workers, is the you what it is like in the night, and it is the first time, first point of the attack. But town where America's mostly going to and from that the two sides have come to the strike is not, as the strikers Labour Movement - is occupied plants, are muffled. gether.

intended, a simple struggle be- tween workers and employers in fighting its vital battle, All the evening there has

this town. It feels

what chance it has been comparatively little

the beginnings of a civil war,

of winning, what its one of the most realistic poli-traffic and few walkers on tical commentators of the day, the streets, even at midday.

music and dancing is over and It is the struggle with the difficulties are ruthlessly scores the iden of The shopping centres are very meetings are being held. One ranks of Labour for and against collective security under the quiet and the shops are almost is guarded by militia. who have organisation and for and against further difficulties from the op- auspices of the League of Na- empty. Quiet, ominous, expec- lo tramp round and round it to the particular organisation of the position of workers who dislike tions. Not that he is "anti-tant rumours fly around con- prevent any access. At another, Committee of Industrial Organi- its methods. It is ruthless and undemocratic and its financial League," but he faces the facts tinually. One is that citizen strike pickets themselves are on sation led by burly John Lewis.

The reason for the lack of dffairs are not unlike those of n as they are and shows how an bodies called Vigilantes are be- guard in front in a temporary solidarity among the workers ja big trust in their secrecy and emasculated League cannot hope ng mobilised to the tune of two hut.

But whatever the conditions not far to seek. Firstly, there lavish outlay; but how else is it. to impose its will on powerful thousand to turn out the strikers.

There are already about five by which a particular plant is is the natural opposition of in- possible to meet the methods of nations outside the organisation, thousand millin in the town, being held, nothing will move terests between skilled and un- the automobile and steel com- The driving-wheel of the whole including some cavalry. If Gen- these men out except a real skilled labour at times of ex- panies with their millions of re- panding business with a shortage serves? They make no secret or overwhelming League machinery, when first eral Motors press for eviction agreement

and their discrimination against designed, was intended to be the Governor will probably be odds. They are spoiling for a of mechanics and electricians as of their claborate spy systems

fight, and the agreement will at present. either the unanimity of the asked. to use soldiers.

have to provide very sound The skilled man can sell his active union mon.

Those here who oppose the Great Powers or an irrestibile

skill at a high price. The un- guarantees of fulfilment, for majority of them, including the

The strikers allege that the United States. To-day, the truce with the City Government United States is not a member, has been violated by the enlist-

They feel, however, that they drawn, and, as a result of the pickets are again carrying clubs have already won the first round

Second and more important is very first attempt to apply the made of wood and rubber tubing of the battle, for the present that a large proportion of Ame

and leather whips.

discussions must at last have got rican workers are still foreigners, principle of collective security,

The idea of collective action is Perhaps it is wiser to stay off down to the final terms of settle--many-of-them-speaking-foreign-not-yet-generally-accepted even Italy's membership, though of the streets. If there is a row it ment. formally cancelled, has become will be a big one. Old hands

languages; others are negroes in this purely industrial town as What is the fight really about? from the southern States who it is in Great Britain. Resent- nominal and almost · null. ` Mr. from the unions of the Clyde This town is the microcosm of only a few generations ago were ment is much more bitter against Garvin thus contends that it is and Wales (it is striking how a struggle which is being pre- slaves; and still others are every real hardship resulting an idle hallucination to imagine many of the organisers here hail pared in all the northern indus southern whites whose neeus., from the strike. The anti-strika from the old country) tell you trial sections of the United tomed standard of living is lower. movement may be led by the that, as things stand, any num. ber of smaller nations, scattered that this is a tough place and States.

than could be found anywhere in hirelings of General Motors, but heads are two a penny.

Broadly speaking, Labour is the British Isles. all over the globe and incapable.

it has genuine support. This is - Nevertheless, it is significant asking for the right to bargain of any kind of solid cohesion, that the public authorities and collectively in the major in- into a united whole, but gradual there are instalments on goods This is a motley crew. to form a bad time to be.unemployed; can be a substitute for that com-the company have shown more dustries-iron, steel, motors, ly the barriers are falling bought with the Christmas bonus mon action of the Great Powers respect for life than on past rubber, and electrical manufac partly as a result of education to be paid for, and it is a season which was contemplated at the occasions, despite the violation ture.

and partly of mass production when earnings are normally good the of property rights by

These industries are entirely and mechanisation. outset វទេ the

in the motor industry, of core

the

strikers.

dominated by enormous cor-

The gap between skilled and guarantees The theory that

unskilled labour is widening, but ing on only by the skin of their Many shopkeepers are hang- the League can command the

graduation in unskilled and semi- tee on resources of over fifty nations is

skilled work is disappearing dismissed by this commentator

Whether or not the strike was The result is that men of all justified in the first place, or las a fallacy. Of these nations

types and races are being thrown But as the control of these on to similar work at similar was well or ill-timed, it is now The majority, it is claimed, could

A mere handful of police got large concerns is highly cen- rates and cannot fail to realise being handled with courage and never give support in arms for into trouble with pickets at one tralised and the final responsi- their community of interests. good sense. The local leaders the purposes of a struggle in plant, and the result was a riot, bility for labour policy lies not. Europe: Instead of being able to Townsfolk and workers them with the local plant manager but count on "over fifty nations," selves feel strongly that if force with the central executives, the therefore, the number would is going to be used at all it should strikers are asking for direct tion movement encounters still support by their restraint. probably not be more than be used efficiently and avoid

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towns all over the State to help the strikers. Unionists glory in the proof of the unity of their organisation.

This change reflects the no- porations which so far have tion's changing attitude on social only been willing to treat with questions, but it has meant also individual men or in some cases that when measures have been with elected Works Committees taken they have been half- in individual plants: hearted..

bloodshed.

At union headquarters even at this late hour there is a constant coming and going by men seek-

Bre no puppets, and despite. bitterness and resentment they But the industrial organisa-are winning public respect and

Private Thoughts Of Public Enemies

ten. "To call this by the grandiose term 'collective' in a mockery," says Mr. Garvin; "to assume that it necessarily means security in a wide war of the ing union membership and passes TN the spring of 1930, a man named

It happened like this, quite aç- air-age is a delusion, and might into the bealeged plants. Every Frederic's Field was sent to the Why A Crminal cidentally; for it must be borne in mind that Lombrosa begon Hfe as be a tragedy for the nation and one is suspected and his creden- gallows for the self-confessed murder

doctor without any interest in the Empire." But whilst Mr. tials have to antis crefully of n. woman in a London fat. Two Takes To Crime

years previously he had confessed to

crime or the criminal. Garvin argues thus, he does not scrutinised, for he may belong the murder of a girl named Norah

As a young Army aurgeon his envisage the League as utterly to an anti-strike organisation or Upchurch. At the subsequent trini

for some subject with which to oc-.. useless. It may still play a be in the pay of General Motors, he retracted the confession and was By OSCAR F. MILLARD relicss, inquiring mind cast about acquitted for want of evidence,

cupy hie leisure. For want of same- predominant part, he thinks, by For almost the first time though, there was no doubt of his consultative and conciliatory women, mostly wearing red guilt in the mind of the police. In of a missionary. Moreover, he pos- thing better he began studying the to few men of great talent and strong objective manner much as an ex- methods if its membership is berets or scarves, are taking a neither murder was there any dis-sessed the rarer moral courage given Italian soldiers among whom he was enlarged so as to include nearly large and active part in a strike. comible this kind, abnormal convictions, of recognising and ac might study a strange tribe; all the Great Powers and if its They throng the

knowledging his mistakes. meetings, yet not certinably insane, who pre- Notwithstanding his Roman name all their habits and peculiarities. coercive claims are abandoned. parade the streets, and helped sent criminologists with one of their he was a Jew. But he was born at The first thing that struck him And what is the lesson for Bri- very materially in the capture of most blogs one of the most absorb- Verona, educated at Turin University was the fact that the vicious, unruly

baming problems, and make of. tain? "The only line of sense the Chevrolet plant.

and spent the whole of his long life soldier was invariably distinguished ing subjects, and sobornèss," says 'Mr. Gar-

from his honest comrade by the. Seventy years ago this fascinating in Italy.

quantity and obscnity of the designs" vin, "is for Britain to confine

field of Inquiry into the workings THE HUMAN TOUCH

tattooed on his body. He drew no her automatie. obligations to a This evening the air is elec. of the criminal mind was virgin

Though crime had forced itself on conclusions from this fact, for he wIE The father of criminology, ground. minimum; to adjure all en tric with expectation. Some the scientific stuffy, of crime as a the attention of men all over the seeking none, and shortly afterwards tanglements, direct or indirect,

was the first man to whom it oc- 'Department of Public Health, where conference is. In progress be- broso, tween Knudsen, of General Cesure Lombroso was a man with curred to study the criminal as a he plunged into the study of

the mind of, na scientist, the soul of human being, Instead of crime in psychiatry Motors, John Lewis, of the a reformer, and the tenacious courage the abstract.

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in Eastern Europe; and to keep out of every conflict in which vo are not inevitably drawn.an

molive.

It is men

working, noting inn detached,

plorer

sixty miles away in Detroit a social proble was Cesare Lom- world for many centuries, Lombroso he left the army and entered the