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YOUTH IN FLAMESWHAT DID YOU DO FOR US IN THE GREATWAR. DADDIES I

The Leiters of .. L,ICJ cr,"IT has become a cornmonplaC( of bourgeois thoughtduring the post-war period to combine with anobsequious lip-service to manual labour" a verbal cultof youth, In abdicating responsibility for the future onbehalf of his own generation, )'lr, Stanley Baldwin, thathigh-light of the" banale, has gone so far as to shift theonus of the next war- which to the" bourgeois mind mustbe 3n inevitable outcome of their capitalistic economicson to the shoulders of the new s.eneration,This was the implication of his Messalinian dirge onair-warfare before the present House 01 Commons, themembers of which had so recently proclaimed themselvesas the men destined to save the country.

As the young men thus addressed by our cider statesmen,we may, therefore. wen ask oUfJ,Clves what is Youth andalso what is the destiny which we are invited to look afterfor ourselves. Youth is in this crisis of history a corporateentity-aU over Europc--such as it has never been before,And for this reason. that there is a generation missingnow, whieh would, in a normal phase. have linked uswith those elders, who now find themselves. through theirown faulty navigation, cast up out of the sea of a wo rldwar and stranded upon the rocks of an uncharted future.The generation who wou ld normally have stoodbetween the men of fifty and the men of thirty thosemen who might have sympathised with the old and haveunderstood the yonng lie rotting in fifteen million graves,or are scattered, broken, blinded. crippled or insane ove rball tbe world from Ireland to the Urals

TJwse mM telw might hal-'e filled the gap b e t u : u , ~ lhe old111m and the youuC, have filled (I lwUSQlld gaps upo alumdrui of yOM fronls, alld lhey are 11 10llger th


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WI,.t did you do for us in the Great W .r I ar, Daddies P'rom 1 H.' school they st'nt me to tl beand half or them WCfe d e a ~ ~ i x III th f ys went out,' \ . lll s n ~ t US If old IIINI lilat ~ t I ' / ~ ' ~ s f ~ e ~ c r }hey had lcrt.

'::;:', " t liS I I { ,rcal. drstillY to die, ami l t , , ~ a ~ ; t ; ' ~ ( ' ~ ~( . .'''' t l i l t ~ l f t ' S hkt' t iS It. o hll1ulrrd miles IIt (I ,1 0 ~ l e l ~ P Wll h girls ou s.1.id was bad' to ru J'bI I I J , , n a ayonctt lroug 1 t i l ' ... tomach of m all that was Ille . I I I 'I .. , . ng 1 t lingto ( 0 . So great was home ". thc British home- th at\'un sent u to bomb other homes thcn crash II I I. I f t lTOUgl t lCaIr ourse \ cs- ammg youth we were indeed.~ ~ while we starved upon the streets. you stuck tothe honour your bond ; and cut aUf wages downan d pushed us Ul the gutter to drag our bones around the" buroos " and spit our lungs away, that you might holdon high the plighted word of Bankers, and pay foreverfive per cent. on all the shells that had been used to blowour limbs off,

Yes we a re a different ge neration. We are bad-as bada 'o you a re good. We s ta re at you ac ross the corpse of the)l issing Gl'nerat ion th at might have saved you and haveguided us. We challenge all you r standards, we despiseyou for your va lues: we Jaugh at your beliefs; we thankyou for the one grea t tnuh you have taught us- that youare awful fools. We arc what you have made u hard andcold and ruthless of all the things that you hold dea r.HoPCl' .. w m y be, yet we have themen; faithl ess you can think li S, but ,veourselves; reckless you believe us, reckl ess you have madeus ; res tless you may find us, but we have. t1 U ; t superbserenity that grows out of the stones of old JlJuslons.W e do not jear Ihe ti'ar Ihal yOIl are so ajraid oj. jor )'0/1m'e lallght us June to die, h ~ l l i t t l ~ U C may ~ o p e to l J ~ e ;muJ U'c may rely Ot you, thai j we lIVe, lhere tnll be lIo/hlllgto have iit'elJ jor. We u'il jor YOII to opell liP 'he rsella/s,jor VOlt hal'e /(mghl liS, Daddies. how to lise I[,e gmts..\11 over Europe are rising up the genera.hon of the menwho were bred so well in war; with liqu id fU""c for mother:smilk and bombs (or cri cket-balls. They know only thClrown ' unity , and thcy have only their.owl1 belief in hedisciplined of th ei r generat Ion - the generationthat musl break and build.

In the coulltrie.. that hht (arne to ( n ~ l s I I I Italy, inGermany, and for that matter, in Ru ..... ia the neW gcne:ration has marched to power through the smoke of greatstreet battlcs.In the countries economically victorious in the Warin Britain, France and America- the old men of the oldsystems are still staggering towards the recovery of all

these old ideas and these old methods that must now beswept away,In the victorious c o u n t r i c ~ , the battle of the new Fascistgeneration will be longer, harder and more seve re becauseof the very fact that the tJld ~ y ~ t c m s were not so sc\erclyshaken. But it is well that the t o u g h ~ t struggle shouldhave fallen on the toughest nation' of the three; for ofthl'SC victorious nations it in Britain that the Fa.


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1 1 lIu ,' ,It-Y(sls III tile j i tmria F ._t h l ~ ~ h l l ( t - I r ~ \ t t . ' s of ill''' . rom (hma to Pl'fUQ Inl'lll Wl'r' -I' . ,upt.'n to the t.'conomic :marchi"ts .' l ~ l to be I ~ l r ( ) \ \ n\,ho dcspl '>t' it nation whicl r.hre.ldllcedh Strt.'tt.lise fvr Britishl'f .; is to Ii;.;: t ; I ~ S ~ 1 0 ~ I h c l l ~ , nd whose only1)"lYIllt.'1l1 of the I>fuli s h I ",)Ollcts which enloret.' the. l e i tiC JondOJ I .PU.I :SUl S from Hne l 'nd of the I - I ntcrnatlOnaJz ht Tory P",,)' iIJ Britain is ~ ~ ~ : a : o the OII,ICr. ,I t IS mOTe t l tmgt:rol iS IIum II, C J ,leNlaluma Jst Purly.

morc: i ~ ' ~ i d i ( m . s l y i I l I C I a I i ( ) I l ~ / . ( l 1 I ~ ~ ~ : : 1 ? J 1 ~ a ~ y b ( ( ' ~ l I s r it is'''(' Bn/lsh lJrtlllr/J of lite r ' . or) J arty IS tncrdyrOll/ro/lt'd from Wall Sirert " U l 7 . ~ I ( ( ' Jutcm< liol/(ll, u-llirh isi . ~ from ,1[QUOti . as t t Omm'"J1sl hllrTl/a/jollal. Fm;cism oPPOS(s Tur)'ism (I r III I '(.ommlmism, altd Dilly l I I ~ o ~ , t 1 1 / ' I (S5), as, , I I Opposesa d ;lklllSI,,'al prodllcers ,, / flSCfSm ,Call BY/lis" jarml'TSPolie 0 B ./ . F ' t .jorcc (I ('OlllwIIO"S (I"d r i ' I C I I l l r J ( u n 51." ,

Rtprilllcd jn .. TIlt: Blackshirt, .llay 18, 1933.

TH W SHINGTON WASHER.WOMEN

.. SLINKING HENCHMEN' OF A BANKERS'CONSPIRACYI ly ,. LUCI a,"A s ~ h c crisis in Western Civilisation approaches pcak-, heIghts the ~ o n t m s t , between the national-revolu_tlonary, and the I . n t e ~ n a t l o n a l - c a p i t a l i s t attitudes to the

c ~ o n ~ m l c > . r ~ b l c , m IS laid bare for all to. sec. bourgeoispart) p o h t l ~ J a n s of E n g l a n ~ l . a n d .\menca dellied or ignoredtill' v e r ~ eXIstence of a cnsls in capita lism until, in 1931t l ~ e p..1.flIC-screants of. all the Stock Exchanges at last c o n ~

\ , 1 I l ~ e d them that thtngs were not really going well. Thepatient had to reach delirium before th e doctors could evenagree that he was ill. I t ha s taken these gentlemen twomore years to discover symptoms which they now mistake

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\, hidl i . prinMrily Olll' uC t ) v ~ ' r p m d u l ' l i Tariff n'l ion . \II ,h lt 'f Plt 'Sl ' l l t N ' ~ ) t,'mu ition" f an onl _dU11'l'\'t'f:-'lUn tn thl' wor t nlluliliuns of ""'CO'II' II 1 HUp Yt' I . . - n l'( l I lh'rn : ~ l, lHU ( 1 I 1 H ) ( . ~ l t l l J l l . .\nwril';m "ulxr-pruduction willfUl l \\ It:-. \ \ . \ f \nth Ihl ' sWc,.'ah'd lJr


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thl,.')' have for so long ~ m o t h l r t . d the rwhich Ow)' arc now slowl)' c),ok, ,," I) I peoples, and in)' ) . . . g ICIllS(.'ivcs I ) )tt l l T l l 1 t i \ t o ~ and satc-lIit".s all the wa r { . . 11 e ~ l c l ry a l ~ rOUI\t1 .t ll:m in piddling panic. rom H,nh to SlamI. ',lt:' l){.h,ltcJ:\I\S of the principal Coulltries rc r .:laH bt.-c11 n co nstant contact and comlllullic.lti f : n : ~'''it, (oufteen years, without achieving through .. Ienatlo:ml CO-?Ilt'fation " any action whi ch has not ~ ~ c : c ;tard) that I t ~ result has been to accelerate dctcriorat"rather than to effect amelioration. IOn

What objects call be achieved by the present conferenceother t ~ to aHord. Nicarnguans and Paraguayans ano p p o ~ u u t y of attelldmg a Royal Ascot is beyond the witof ordinary man to conceive.)'Ir. . o ~ d c l l Hull has found it ncccss..1.ry to cross theAtlantic I I I orde r to state with superb American self.

~ o m p a c c ~ c y that in. thi s modern age the economi cII1tcrcsts a ll countnes arc recip roc..'l.l. . . ." ~ I r .)'lacI?::mald, o( course, is morc in telligent. The Lossieloon ? nce trod the s treets where all men tread, and dimmemones of the ache a nd growl of millions that havegr own old on ~ m p t y hopes may ye l penetrate to theh ~ U ~ S I ? n o f Londonderry House.I-rom Ius ~ l r ; . H . a m s a y n a l d . who presided, "wrote ~ h e Dati , Mad . could sec, as It were, na tion talkingnation at ?6 cama tlon-


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BOTTOMLEY, MORGAN ANDOTHERS

MAKING A BANKER S HOLIDAY

TOW,\l{1> thl' end of )lay, tilt.' ;Ist'ing w r ~ c k that hOldOI,lCt' ht't'l\ ",lom tio Bottumlt,y I.l\ dying in a Londonh v : - . p , ~ . \ 1 . Dunng tho:,l' I m c d a ~ : , J ohn Pierpont ; Iorgant le. ~ n l f l d to give him his dynastic numeral ," \\'a"s , t t l l l ~ un a l ~ ordi,narr h a ~ d l',lIle-backcd chair faCingtht, St.'n.th' lommlttl'e wlult, there wa.." unfolded before

~ h o ~ Ull l < l y and cmbarm. ed gl'ntlemcn thc most damninglll{l ctmt.nt of modern dCIll()cr:ttic methods which has yetbet'n rt'w,lled to the peOpll' wt'ar\' with the na tional talcof corruption, ineptitude and cr iticism.A certain comedy of values wlderlies the timing 01these two events- the pathos of Bottom1ey's death, andthe gentlemanly discomfiture of the omnipotent, impassiveMorgan. From time to time i t is good that one manshall die for the Capitalists and Hatry, Kreuger,Bottomley and many lesser fish have in their day beensacrificed to make a banker's holiday. These sacri.tioes serve their purpose.Ther at ( ~ n c e l i m i ~ a t and penalise those hardy spiritswho ha.w smnt'(i agalllst the system. The samc nemesisawaits those who ovcrride thc rules of the Stock Exchangeem-mo, as attends those who commit offence in the cardrooms of London Clubs. But thcse sacrifices serve thefurther and more important purpose of causing the thoughtless multitude to think that social ju::;ticc docs in fa ct exist.Thus the hammcring ,. of a few outsiders I' :tnordinary phenomenon of Capitalist method and a nOtunimportant part of thc big" bourgeois bluff of justice ..

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In other. words, o ~ a n '8 allowed a substantial nkoH on thelt own profits 10 their lriends who happen 10he responsib le for lile administration 01 tbe allain 01the Uniled Slales 01 America.T ~ e Capitalist Pn. s-s in Great Britain reported the pr(}

C t ~ d l n g s of the Inquiry with unwonted discretion, ndw ~ t :so Car as to symp..1.thisc with the unfortunate MrMorgan in the humiliation which the" O.G.P,Ij, ml,thod,,of the Inquiry impost'd upon him. What the BritishPress faill'(l \.'ither to "dmit or to indic 1 te was he comp/tltmorallhmkrllplcyoj . 1matti. demmcy which was reveak-d11\ the COliN of the Inquiry. We do not hesitate to extendthe parallt'l to England, and to proclaim that in the Parliamentary c o u n t r i l ~ , the leaders produced by the system

~ v c r e with few individual exceptions- -psychologicaUrlOcap.1.ble of either simplicity of living (which implies ant'Col\omic independence of its own) or of singlene 's ofpurpo:'C. The :Marconi scandal, and the repeall'd.. Honours" scandals are, of course, only straws whichshow the way the wind of silent and impudent" influence'1" always blowing_ Fascist :'tlinisters in Italy are p.1.idwdl U l ~ d e r 1.000 a year and their private means an.dexpcnchture are always subject to examination, t ISonly by Fascist methods that Government can be cleansedthe corruption revealed by the : tlorgan Inquiry, and itonly the F a s c i ~ t spirit that can produce a ruling typeImmune from the seductions of the money-magnates,Immune by the very (act that the men of th e FascistState will c.1.rry out their work in an atmosphere whichwill prohibit the futilities and hypocrisies of inflatedprivate expenditure.,As for the Bottomleys and the Morgans of Fascist Italy,they share with their opposite numbers the democraticpoliticians of the pre-FaSCist period, the u b r i o u s climateof the Lipari Islands.

A Fascist Government in Britain might more appropriately relegate our own sensitive " Reds " to theSciUy Islands where they would be quite happy nmOllgthe daffodils. The financiers, on the other hand, mightfind their spiritual borne in the Faroe Islands, where inthe cutting 01 peat, they would at last have nn oPpOrtunityof doing lat work of " national utility" for which theyhave so often proclaimed their own aptitude.18

Repriflfed from The Blackshirt, Ju ly 22, 1933.SHUDDERING CISSIES SEE RED

The Letters of t LuciJer.

THE recent revolution in Germany has produced a wailof hysterical lamentations from our inteUectualSocialists, who have for SO long been discussing revolutionat the Countess of Warwick's summer schools, and thecocktail parties of Bloomsbury and Montmartre. SylviaPankhurst writes on .. The Filth that is Fascism" in theSocialist Ret/iaD : while little Harold Laski gibbers about" Bully Goering, " and our old friend John Strachey hascome out with a neat red-cloth volume entitled .. The: tlenace of Fascism." The New Siaiesmau "-organ ofall that is most gentlemanly in Social Democracy-warnsit s readers that" an active Fascist movement, SCient ificallymodelled on the German pattern, is to-day being permittedto develop in England.".\trocity-mongering is, of course, in full swing. Stracheydevotes the first 27 pages of his book to extract::; from theCapitalist Pre ss on "The Brown Terror," and the FrcnchSocialists, with that combination of realism and pornography which always characterises their polemics, havebrought out a little volume of photographs of sections ofthe posterior anatomy of their German colleagues, iUustrating the Nazi's practicc of applying the penalties of theschool-room to those who do not agree with them. Stracheyquotes the JI a c/tcslu Guardiat. to the effect that. the Brown Terror is, both for the number of the victimsand for the inhumanity of the methods used, one of themost frightful atrocities of modern times, and in no waycomparable with the Red Terror of revolutionary Russia."Two pages previously, he has a1rea.dy quoted the same organof Liberal big bm,incss, that the number of people who" have been systemat ic.1.lly beaten by Brown Shirts sincethe last election ,. is 20,000. Really big John a.nd littleHarold ought to steady up. or they will begin to look asridiculous as their Germnll friends who have been lucky toescape with a sound spanking as the punishment formisleading and exploit ing the Gennan workers for the lastfourteen years,


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n StrRc1ley really imagines that Ule I Red Terror I Iis lighter than the II Brown, he sbould consult withLady Snowden and Mr. Kerenski and a few other Sociale m ~ t s who bave written quite authoritatively 011RuSSIa.lIt' might l 'wn rdt 'r to tilt IXbt repor ts of t he &:co ndIntl'nl,Hil)nal, in which Ow Socialist Pa nics of the WestInnwnt the l'xtinction of the ir fcllows w ithin the SovietUnillil. Two million t'xt'cut ions in the Rcd Te rror wO\lldlx- l11'ar till mark to sl't a g a i l l ~ t the 20,000 n k i l l ~ of theBrown Tl'rror. Pos...ibly our Laskis and Strachcysprdl'r the tiring squad '. of till' 0,G, pU and the guillot inc

of the French 'l\'rror, to the effective but lcs-'l harmfulpt..'ll1litic-s of the rod and the castor o il bo lt le.It is, of COllrst', ralha difficult Jor t i l i lel/eelllnl lo en, ,),th,- rrou' of martyrdom o , ~ Ihe sclll oj his trousers.But we arc not conccrnoo here with the re lat ive degreesof atrocitic:-. .\ trodtics are characte ristic of periods inwhich the anger of the people has been inflamed by mi seryand exaspcmtt . d by the continued corrupt ion, incom pe tenceand h y p o c r i ~ y of the political class,

Each nation carries througb its vengeance in its ownway. whether it be through the bestinl savagery of theSlav. the boyish brutality of the YOlmg Nazi, or theoynical humour of the sophisticated Italinn. The English,a nautical race, have sometimes seemed inclined to taror duckings but we bope that they will always maintainthat good-humoured tolernnee in victory whicb is socharacteristic of them.We are concerned ra ther to expose and to hold up tothe ridicule of the norma l young men and women of Britain,the hysterical psychology of these f l a b b y ~ t e d in teUectuaL..-whose prescnt ludicrous te rror is only paralleled bytheir past ove rbearing impudence.

Both characteristics are typical of the Wlbaianced mindwhich several generations of life in cities nnd universities,detacbed from all reality, bave produced in this class ofmental eunuchs.These miserable pedantic in tellec tuals , who skulked in

c c t u r e ~ throughout t he \-Var , have now discoveredthat Germans can commit at rocities.20

rllt lllt oj t (;amltll ' l I m . ~ t trmla, like hrml/ Q'Kkr,enll JII 1)e to tt'himp,.,illg p r o t t 'he erelllllTtS lL Q lisped ll riril/credlllf'l)' oj the CTlItsomt' i ridnlls of Ihe (;e ,um O ( c I l P t l l i o , ~of Belgilllll.They chos/. to ignore till' I'Xl"CUliull of Xur:'>t fa\ dl, yetthey twittt'r with execration bccauM: " at Worms a numberof Jews were arrested, shut up in a pig '>ty, and b.'akn Oil

thl' buttocks,., and tlwn l I l a d ~ to hit anI anuther,The real truth i ; that thl ..e mell gt.'lI ing frig-httned.JU j t as economic anarchy i..; the direct product of LiberalCapitali>m, iO is political and intelll.'Ctual anarchy itscounterpart in the social lifl' uf the country, .\11 sorts oflittle odditits sprout and spout in those hot-housc ') ofDemocracy which arc so rich ly manured by tilt' people'smisery, When the spoilt body of capitalbm is put into the

t r a i l ~ j a c k e t of the F a s c i ~ t Slate, th(.' '>c little b ) ' ~ p r o d l l c t s ofthe politic..1.l system which Capitalism h:Ls made )lOS >iblewill, of COUl'S


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~ h u s ~ y e n ~ n t Empire.building family, like theCoeds,. Identified WIth aU kinds of u1tra-democratifantasies. and n IIOwer-graspiug Whig house like theR u ~ e l l s . collnpsing in pnroxysms of s P i n e l ~ i n t e U ~

t " I ) ~ l s m . n what they fondly imagine to be H theSPlllt of t h ~ Age, they dissolve the already deba,edmetal of thm class.Til\' trait of chlldishul's..." of conduct, which we ha\'eam;ady o b ~ ' n c . d to be a sure -oign of c J ; : L - S ~ n i l i t y , and

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liquIdity of OutlookAs Under-Secretary for F o r ( i ~ l Affairs, Doctor Hugh

Dalton wa. a figure of SOIne prommencc in the last LabourGovernment.His aHabl i somewhat feline- personalily, and bisingratiating manners, combined with a certain liquidityof ouU ook, secured his popularity in the genteel ranks ofParliamentary Labour.

He wa.. a .. don of some kind or other. the SOil of aDean of 'indsor and a scholar of Eton College, and a highdestiny ::>l ( med to await him, when in the ordinary co urseo t . Wllh .. a wave of proletarian enthusia.. m should deposithim nn the Front Bench of the British Empire - to carry

o u ~ , together with the Buxtons and the Trevelyans, iheCnppses and the Stracheys, a further deferment of iheBritbh Hc\ olution. Beside Morrison, .. the man of thepeople, and the resJ>Cctable ).1r. Greenwood, Hu gh Da ltonwould stand as the eternal representative of the lily-whiteconsciencl.' of the English governing class. Th is was , ofCOttf'Sl', all before the crisis of 1931, which gave t he last jerkto the neck of the Parliamentary idea in Britain.Doctor Dalton may regard himself as lucky if he managesto keep hi .. chair at whichever University he decorates;he i , hardly likely to find a seat in a future British Cabinet.

But in this we must sympathise with bim, for he isonly an ordinary politician following an ordinary tradi-tion, and in the ordinary course of events, he wouldhave had the ordinary career, to which his ordinaryabilities entiUed him.He rema.ins an i n t c r ~ t i n g mirror of bou rgeoisSocialist mentality, and I have to confess that i t was witha certain amount of curiosity that T turned to his paper on.. Financial Institutions in the Transition. I was disappointed, however, to fmd that there is really very littleabout finance in the twenty-seven pages which DoctorDalton contributes to :' H'h 're Sflmds Socialism To-day,There arc a.few platitudes on Death Duties. which mighthave been enutted by any rather dashing Liberal. For lherest we arc referred to the resolutions of the LeicesterConference, and we know very well that the whole objectof Labour leadership is to evade the implications of resolu

t i o n ~ p a ~ s ( ' d at Labour Conferences; so that to rdcr us to26

the Leicester Conference docs not really give Us any guideas to what a future Labour Government proposes to do.should it have the power to act on its programme.There are, however, three specific proposals that DoctorDalton has to make. The first is the raising of the schoolleaving age. .. JUSl wIry," he protests. the lale LabourGoverllllle"t made sue , a mC s of thai very simple initial bitof policy I do 110t k1low. t slwuUl have been ill the firstKillg's Speech; Qlzd it should have bcm dotle in tile firstParliamentary Sessioll." How is i t that Doctor Daltondocs not know-since he was one of the members of the lateL.. l.bour Government-he simply docs not state. Thesesecret reasons of state are not for Fabians. Doctor Dalton'.ssecond suggestion is for pension.s-particularlyfor minersat sixty years of age. This seems to take us back to SirOswald )'[osley's carly ).Jcmorandum on Unemployment,before he resigned from the Labour Govcrnment, becauseof their refusal to adopt any of the emergency proposalsembodied thcrein.

The third of Doctor Dalton's proposals is really the mostenlightening, and we shall proceed therefore to quote it infull ... TJu'rdly," he says, .. still i l ~ this enlegory of ideas. Ihueu'as drafted 101lg, 10llg ago, a1J ins/rument called the Washi"g/ollCOllvClJtiolJ, which prooitlcd that the Iwurs of labour shouldbe limited tt) forty-eight a TCUk. Ji'e always used 10 say tltatlhe Lab(mr GfJVemmet/t lCOlild ratify tile I f ' a s h i g t o l ~ /JoltrsCOllvclllion. B1I1 it was not rallfsed whe" last teC tcere il1 office.1,zlematio1lal agrecment might citable liS 10 go still fllrlherin tile rctiuclion of hOllrs. But al allY ralc 'he forty-eight hOllrweek of the W a s h i l l g l o l ~ C01lVellIt'01l seems to me the l cry leastthat ought to be al/aitted al a t'ery earl)' slage."

Comment on this passage is really superfluous. Wewill only recall to our readers the fact that last year theGovernment of which Doctor Dalton's former associates.Messrs. Ramsay MacDonald and Thomas, are members.secured the rejection, at Geneva, of the Italian FascistGovernment 's proposals for a compulsory internationalForty.Hour Week. Even the purely capitalist administration of Mr. Roosevelt has already gone far furtherthan Doetor Dalton hopes that the next Labour Govenlment (i ever there is one) will go H at a very earlystage,

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otSocllllilit MellisuresDoctor Dalton concludes with the view that" raising the

s c h o o l ~ l e a v i n g age, providing earlier pensions and d i m i n i s h ~ing hours of work are none of them Socialist measures,but he docs not go on to propound any measures which hecan dt,scribc as such. In spite of the fact that his essay isdevoted to future Socialis t fmancial policy , he makes noattempt to define the new attitude of the Socialist Party tofiscal questions; although he declares himself in favour oftaxing oil imports in the interest of developing a m e ~production of oil from coa l.That is at any rate something, but there are otherparties in the state who are prepared to do that far moreeffectively and far more wholeheartedly than DoctorDalton's. But short as his essay is, Doctor Dalton canhardly complain of lack of adequate space in which todevelop his ideas since he devotes five pages to an ir relevanteulogy o( the Soviet Union.Doctor Dalton concludes his examination of .. lV/unStands Socialism T o ~ d a y with the just observation that.. het air and cold fut halle often gOtle fogether. The SocialistParty certainly had cold (eet in 1931, but to-day they haveno feet to stand on at aU. The t r a 1 l s f o r m a t i O t ~ of thiscountry, says the Doctor, .. 1111 a plmmed Soei'alistCommolltl'Cnlth is a job which is much too big for b l l h e r ~SkYles. 1t is, and even the achievement of the mildameliorations of working-class conditions outlined byDoctor Dalton, c.. lnno t be attained within the frameworkof the i t l i s t ~ d e state. Doctor Dalton is cleverenough to realise this, but he is too good a Parliamentarianto admit it.Only through the stIait-iacket 01 Fascist discipline canthe anarchic elements in Capitalism be brought to order,and tbis discipline can be imposed, not by the palliddebates 01 the Fabian Society, but by the grim FascistMarch to Power.

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Reprjllted from The Blackshirt, 8eptember 2, 1933.DOPING TH DOWN AND OUTYESTERDAY I happened along a street which I knowpretty well in one of our great industrial cities. Theysay that even to..day there is an average of three

e:rservice men in each of its poor hOllses. Certainly,after one of the big Flanders baWes, they had to mourna man in almost every one of them.There are many men along that street who have not

had a chance of work for the last eleven years. Whell Lileyask YO l itJSide ally of those holtses, ),011 w ll filld f h ~ m s p o l ~lessly c I ~ m ' In many of them they have portraits ofKing, polished bits of shell and German helmets, or theirmedals pinned over the mantelpiece. But there is hardlya stick of decent furniture in any of these houses, and th.ewalls are peeling rom the damp. Rickets and tuberculosIsplay havoc among the children of these old heroes of theSomme.

Half.a.mile away is a brand new public buildingupon whieh over a million powuis bas been spent duringthe last few years for the comfort and ease of the localrepresentatives of the city.The p r c s s ~ l o r d s with all the cynical cruelty of e:xploiters,know well enough that if any news will make these menpart with their last 5C. lI'ce pennies, it is any news of anychance of a job. Lord Bcavcrbrook, as he has recent ly

told his readers, is away on his palatial yacht, studying the. trade conditions" of the French Colonial Empire, inthe salubrious a nd sunlit bu t also very expensive-holidayresort s of North ACric . Meantime, the circulation of the.. Daily Express must be maintained, and o n ~ of t ~ ebest ways of scUing that rag to the unemployed 15 to stirin their broken hearts the false glimmers of the hope ofwork .And so we fmd, on this hot September day, in this streetof little hope, the waU s placarded with

BlllTAlN'S NEW TllADE B O O ~ I .This is the consolation that the limping veteran of theWar, just entering on his second ten years of o y ~

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.. Brita in is spending more money. The wave ofconfidence which is sweeping the country back 10prosperity has resulted in at least one industry experiencinga boo m at a period which is usually its leanest. t is inthe building and decorating trade that history is beingmade. "The above is all in heavy black type, and that is aboutall there is to it. The ar ticle continues, in les..'i impres..


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itt this c()u1Ilry u ithc)JIt t lt support of the majon ly oi Iiproplt.C l y n ~ s ,is perfectly right. Fascism docs not createchaos, hut t a movement that ari ses as the reaction ofthe people ~ a l l ~ s t the hopeless )tntc of a capitalist chaO s-a chaos IS made permanent by the conditions of ademocratic system, which simply functions as the politica ldepartment of CapitaJism. And when it comes Fascism

I. l l o m ~ \\;th .. the support of the majority of people."B o ~ h ~ r B c a v ~ r b r o o k and Mr. Clyncs fmd it necessary tomamtam a condition of capitalist democratic chaos and toexplain it away. The methods they lISC arc to work on thehopes and fears of the people and they contribute to stokeup the smoke-screen of Capitalism, every day and everyweek of every year.

But it is becoming more and more difficult (or thcm to~ l a i n t ~ i n th e hopes o( the unemployed with the prospect ofrep..1.tntlllg woodwork and . repointing brickwork," orto rouse their enthusiasm for a system of government whichkeeps them living in forced idleness in the utmost condilions of misery and want.

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A pair 01 hom-rimmed spectacles gave added tone to anOldord accent and ,minded briefless banisters th tnowadays on8 can join the Labour Party without beingexcluded from the neighbouring golf club. Even hisnose, which is slightly red, was nOI too red for thoLabour's spinsters. and inspired that sympathy which sso willingly accorded to dyspepsia., without rousing thealarm which might have come from nny suspicion 01 ataste fo r beer.Here was the man (or the summer schools-here was thelord of the Church baz..laI'$-hcrc was the man that would

~ h o w the Tories that Socialists Prc er Ge ntlemen " evc rytime Jack Jones w a ~ rude. Cripps had barked at theb . l n k e ~ , but banks were everybody' ) pigeon; and thelong-haired lads of the Socialist League expected something really big to evolve out of the grey matter under thatgreat big powdered wig. It was not unnatural that a manwith the ability of Cripps. the lawyer. should tum to thatNationa.l Policy which, somewhat over two years ago,had been put forward by Mosley to mcct the situation whichthen existed. So Cole and Wisc and Cripps and Dalton,not forgetting L'lski and others that the simple ranks oflabour think can think, got together and turned out apolicy.Preventing Work

They dished up great chunk., of the New PartyProgramme, and found that to make the whole thing workthey would have to get over the rather importnnt snagthat the present Parliamentary system has been carefullydesigned and evolved to prevent any policy from everbeing worked. That is what Parliament is for.

h ~ y su'allotad all ilems 01 Nn./ Pari)' polic)' u-hichllI1jsaged direcl anti {Iie/aloriaf actioll, (llul II 101l1ll1 Malt h ~ Tory p(l.pers U CTe callinc it dictatorship.

. \ t first Cripps rather liked it. He strutted round thecountry proclaiming the new creed. and rushed into printto elaborate it. Cripps was hardl), cnst lOT a IJie/atOTralher a Leslie NellSOll vCTsioll m'y/ultu, f we may SllY sowilholll olle'lcc to Ihat illimitable eomttiiml. But Cripps likedit until he found he had gone too far. t was worrying therank and fale of sturdy democratic Labour. and the Torypapcrs would not let the subject drop.

Perhaps it was Hitler that really did in the idea. Hitlerwas a dictator, but he had got thEre by methods other thanOrders in Council. In fact by methods that had shownthat the fountain-pen is not always mi ghtier than therubber " kosh. " .Little Laski came right out against the na


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Repriuttll from Blackshirt, . 1 gust 12-18 1933.HOUSINGIN the next four articles we shall show how FasCism c nbuild within the British Empir e a civilisation far higherthan the world has yet known. That high standard of lifewill provide our people with n purchasing power sullicientfor them to buy the products which modern industry canproduce and consequently to employ the labour 01 mennow unemployed.

We sha ll show at thc sallle time how this national orEmp.ire orl?anisat ion will lead to safer and more p c a c ~ freia.tlons With the rest of the world. In th is first articlehowever we will take an instance of the methods by whid;Fascism would rebuild our own land of Britain.The irs /(Isk which there arises is the housing problem. 1Jis. " U 1 e ~ e s s ( l r i ' for I/S 1 stress fhe d i s g r a c ~ t l l hOl/siflg COIt-d1hOllS f1I w/llch masses 0 ollr proplc ha ve lIVed since the u-ar.

Con tructlvo Remedyt is the habit of Socialists and others of their breed to

:>pcnd hours in discussing these disgraceful conditions andthus to avoid advancing thei r construct ive remedy. ForFascists. it is unnecessary to st ress the conditions becausewe and everyone else know they exist. What Englandexpects of a revolutionary movement is a constructiveremedy. We believe that the housing problem has notbeen tackled and wiU not be tackled under the presentsystem because the methods employed cannot possiblylead to any result s. It is useless for our old politicians totalk about a great c rusade against the slums in ap..1.lpitating peroration unless they arc prcp..l.rcd to adoptthe executive ins truments by which the slums l.n bewiped out.

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In fact the Government has for years past aupplie4larger or lesser amounts of money to thousands of dillerentlocal governments to tackle the slum problem. We havebad a democratic machine at Westminster and a demo.crane machine in the local authorities both of whichhav e hopelessly broken down. The result of the systemhas been endless talk but a complete absence of anyeHective action.Fascism would make the slum clearance problem anational task in the following manner: IVe wo1i1d formulateollr programme for clea ring Ihe shIms and rmi/di c at er apenod oj. say, three years. For Ihis pm'oll, We would git,tgflarmJ/ud employment n the {mild; g trade at good rtliesof fcages, wln:ch would absorb Jhe labour 0 fhe 295 000 tlOU1unemployed m that trade. We would divide the sblms 0each 0 the creal cities into sections to be glllled and rebuiltover the spuified periOd. Outside the city we wou ld ere


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$ ~ i e n (,. ha , so i n c r ( ' a ~ the power to produce that produc.lion greatly excC C ds the prescnt power to consume.~ s a result, ruen are wleruploYed throughout the world,while large masses of the population live in desperatewant of the goods which the unemployed could produce.Men who can make boots and clothes are unemployedwhile not only they and their own children, but man;other people, urgently require these goods.

This situation is a disgrace [ Ou r civilisation. Scienceand industrial technique have solved the problem ofpra:ctuction; it remains to create a system of the Statewhich solves the problem of consumption. TO-ecause the lu?her purchasmgpower will be balanced by a higher production. ln stea.d o{

the new credit going to speculators who { ~ r c e up pnces:the new credit will go to industry {or the legitimate purpose::.of production and consumption. . .1 is argued by our oPJ C?llent.s that the hl8:her wages ~ din industry will result m h ~ ~ h ~ r costs, a n ~ thus. \\ illjeopardise our export trade. 1Ins argument IS fallaclO.us,because the cost of productioll in modem mass-producmgindustry is determined, not by the rate .of wa:ge, b ~ t by therate of production. The rate of production will e m ~ ~to serve a larger home market. and spite of the nsc Ulwages, prices c.. m actually e reduced If the rate of production is sufficient.To take a sjmple instance, Ford, in America, was able,by reason of his rate of production for a large homemarket, to pay the highest wages in Ute world and at Utesame time to produee the cheapest article in the world.

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In (;:\( t, b ~ ' reasun of. the I:(rcatt.r ratl of production for; l lMg.t. hom . mark . t. I I l d t l ~ t r ~ will bt abll' to low('r ih,,:u:o.h t i l t hl' t ' pur t 1radt.'.

In additiun to this adyantagt. to our CX1vlrt trati .. I Ir II Y . Itutpor.lh ' S ~ : . I . l m , WI. provide anotht.'r advantagt" TIl('dfl-ct of u r g a n ~ ~ \ t l l l l \ . III the CoqXlTations will be to unif\'and to l'on '>Ohdah,' IIldu",try. and to enable the Briti ..il(. llC 1r1 tra(h. to slx'ak (or tlu. lirst time with a united voin'Thl'n thl' pO\\ l ' r of Covt.'rnml'nt can be mobilised behind o u ~l"Xpoft industril's tn . c u ~ c (tH . ir cnt ry into foreign marketsWt.' .. an ~ l ~ . (01 the hnot t l lne. our o t ~ ' e r as a buyer /0 s lpportOf T POSI IOI l us t sdln. Ollr t,ade sloga,. will be .. BritainBuys from -rhost" who Buy from Brita; , If cOlm/,itsu Iw ~ r ( 1 I ~ ( , cCtmjldi K 10 Mil /0 us foodsillfls and 'Quuwte',w/s .wIll 'lOt tlcrept ollr mmwfaclurcd goods ill rdlll e t i',11 lin't'rt (Iur purclursts cisrrd,crc. They will in (act Ix-con(rontl-d with ruin unless they give us a fair deal byaccepting our good . in return (or the (oodstuffs and rawmaterials which tlll'Y 5('11 to us. 1n (act (or the fin;t iimc

t 1 ~ ( u n i l i ~ a t ion a'.Hl co nsolidat ion o( the Corpomte systemWIU provI?e us with a powerful means o( blowing away thebarbed wire ('ntangleml'nts which bar the entra nce of ourgoods to foreign markets.Thus Fascism will solve the unemployment problem

(1) b)' ,,,c-rtt/sing 11'f hOllle markd ''''ough a raisi g 01U"ugcs ""d salanes O1'er the whole field of industry;(2) by orctmisatio /0 support ollr declilling export trade,,?i1c the Corporate system is being organised, we shallproVide a system public works unequaUed before in this

c ~ ~ t n t r ) ' , on the h ~ C S s ~ g g c s t l , . < l by Sir Oswald )Io:-.Iey inIllS Speech of nesignation from the Government on tit('

~ I a y 28 h. 1 9 ~ . This policy of public works. which \\'3., .th('n r l ' J c c t e d ~ IS now being accepted as sound sense by( ' a r J y ( . ~ r ) : Government in the world, The Government of(,reat Bntam alone pc:rsh.ts in its obstinacy.

Tbo pennnnent solution of unemployment will be theCorporate. system i the i ~ m d i n t e solution of unemployment. w h i l that ~ y s t m , IS bcmg organised, will be publicworks, which will ennch and endow our nation forgenerations to come.

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l?ep,ill/cd from The Blackshirt, A ug,lSt 26, 1933.THE FASC IST EM

IN the last article, we dealt with the solution of theunemployment problem through the Corporate system,Two measures were proposed;1) to raise wages and salaries over the whole field ofindustry in order to provide a larger home market;2) through the Corporate system to unify and to consolidate our export trade, in order that we might bargain withot her nations for the acceptance of our manufactured goodsin return for their foodstuffs and raw materials.

We should naturall.y turn first to our own Dominionsand Colonies to build our economic system. Within theBritish Empire we have an economic system which couldbe entirely self-contained. and independent of the chaosof the rest of the world.

Bu il d ing a Se lf -conta i ned Economic Marke t\Ve have already suggested means {or building withinGreat Britain a civilisation far higher than exists anywhereelse in the world in order to provide a market which industrynow lacks. We propose also to extend that area to theBritish Empire as a whole, and to build an economicsystem which is self-contained,

The Dominions are primarily producers of foodstuffsand of raw material; we are primarily producers ofmanufactured. goods. A natural balance of exchangeconsequently exists. which organisation can turn into agreat economic system.What has restrained the old partie:- from developingour great resources and from building that economicsystem? The answer is not vcry (ar to seck. The Liberaland Socialist Parties have alway:s been frankly against anorganised Empire; they embrace the international creedin preference to the idea o( developing our own Empire.The Co nservatives have always talked a lot about theEmpire. but in reality they have always been in the grip

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tu ~ l , why it is impos.. ible ~ o r ('ol1S('rvQ.tiws, whether~ i ; \ l d w ~ n ( I I ) \ t ; ' a \ ' l ' r b ~ o o k . ' to b11l1d a Sot H-conta.im:d Empire.h.llIhl ~ u c h .ill1 Empire ~ e a n s the ('xcluslon (rom the

l : m p ~ r of (orl lgn goods wiurh compete.' with British and1_mpm. products. l { those goods arc excluded, our inter.national tlnnncil'n. and fOl t. ign investors run the risk oflo ing the intl rest on the loans they have made to foreign('ountril's. { orl'ign countrit s cannot send their goods tothi c\Hlntry to p 1 y the interest on the loans they havet\. ( (iYi,. d, they may udault on that interest, and those whoha,',,' it'nt their mOlwy abroad will lose their money.British Farmers Interests Secriticed

For instance, i f Argentine beel is excluded from GreatBritain in favour of British beel and Empire beef, it maybe impossible lor the Argentine to pay interest on thelarge loans which international financiers have inductda SIDall section of the public to supply to the Argentine.Consequently, Conservatives of all brands who are su)).servient to the financial interests which support the oldParties do not propose the exclusion of Argentine beef.but merely the taxation of Argentine beef under the oldfashioned Conservative protection . ConseQuently. theBritish farmer is still damaged by the competition offoreign products, and the Empire farmer. despite his smallpreference. is not making much headway in the Britishmarket.

F a s c i ~ m stands for the definite exclusion of foreignproducts and the division of Empire markets between theBritish producer and the Empire producer. ' Vc also standquite definitely for the British producer being able to sellhis maximum production at an economic price without t.heundercutting. even, of Dominion competition. Plenty ofopportunity ,viU still exist for Dominion products if theforeigner is excluded. even when we have produced all thefoodstuffs we can in this country, at a price which yields afair return to our farmers.Ve now begin to see the reason why Fascism can builda self- c ~ u s eforeign nations were excludmg o u ~ goods.. I f we bUild asclf--contained Empire from which foreign goods areexcluded, we can within the Empire more than recover allour export trade. .The British Empire to-day Imports some 1,420,000,000worth of goods per annum. 899.000,000 of these cornefrom foreign countries. I f those foreign goods are excluded,we can more than make up the loss of our export trade tothe rest of the world , because those exports only amountto 240,000,000 per annum. . . .Here and OW it 1'S poss1'ble Ie save tire BrItish EmpfTefrom the chaos of he btu:kward Itations oj Ihe 'l.Corld b'uiidingan Empire wlu'ch 1'S self-colllailled altd holds unthut lIs bordersthe highest civilisatiou tire world has ever known. Todaywe must free ourselves both (rom the sloppy internationalismof Liberalism and Socialism, and also from the great financialinterests which dominate the Conservative Party. For thesereasons Fascism and Fascism alone, can build a self- contained Empire which is the only hope. of the f u t ~ r eAlready Fascism has begun the work w.1th a r a c h ~ lorganisation. \Ve have {ornled a New Emplre Union wh.lchis a federation of all the Fascist movements of the EmplIe.Already the New Guard, which is the Fascist movement ofAustralia, is reputed to number 100.000 m e ~ ? e r s and hasoften played a decisive part in Australian politIcs. In SouthAfrica and New Zealand, also. strong New Guard movements exist. Fascist organisations also are p r i n g i n g up allover Canada. which are being unified into a powerfl -ICanadian Fascist movement. Recently, Colonel EneCampbell, Leader of the New Guard of Australia, was inGreat Britain, empowered to speak, not only for the

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. \ \ l ~ t r a l i a n , but also for the South Afric.Ul and the NewZealand movements. His negotiations with Sir O ~ w a l d:\[oslty have n ~ u l t e d in the fonllation of the New Empireenian, which fedemtcs and co-ordinates Fascist activitiesthroughout the Empire. Therefore we now have a unitedFascist drive throughout the Empire, against the greatlinancial interests which have impeded Empire develop.ment, and towards the self-contained Empire which is ourcommon objective.These converging Fascist movements, animated by apassionate patriotism, by a common dctennination toex tricate the Empire from her economic difficulties, and bythe great and inspiring ideal of l-:-ascism, have set theirhands to building an Empire such as the world has neverseen. II'IIatever be tile fate of tile rest of Ille work/ this Empireca'f stand out, a solid rock amid tile sea of chaos, as anexample altd all i l l s p i r a t i o , ~ to mallki1ld.

Reprinted f rom The BlacksMrt, October 21-26, 1933.AGRICULTURE

FASCIST THREE-YEAR PLANIN the forefront 01 Fascist measures stands the revival ofagriculture. That grent industry, which in the past hasbeen the basis of our national s t r e n g ~ has long beenmnde the sport of party politics. Fascism comes to endthe game of party volitics by a new national uni ty.t comes also with a clear-cut policy to restore agriculture. \Ve stand, not for rcstricting British production,but for increasing it. The National Government says to theBritish fanner: .. Restrict your production"; we 5..'\y tothc British farmer: "Increase your production." \Vhile220.000,000 of foodstuffs each year are imported fromforeign cou ntries, and another [ 140,000,000 are imported(rom the Dominions, it is a scandal that the British farmershould be told to restrict production. I{ restriction must

be applied, let it be applied to. the forciS ler. Fascismstands definitely for the exclUSion of foreIgn foodstuffs.6

and the production of that 220,000,000 per annum ofagricultural products in Britain. \Ve believe that ourpresent food production can be increased from 280,000,000to 500,000,000 a year. are aware, of course, t h ~ tBritish agricultural producuon cannot be nearly doubled 10the coursc of one year. But we believe it can be done u ~ d : ra Three Year Plan, and we shall ask for t ~ e patnotJcco..aperation of the British farmers 0 that a c l l l ~ v e ~ c n t .

We sha1l plan so to increase Bnhsh production 10. thecourse of thrce years thal foreign foodst uffs can be entirelyexcluded, and this [280,000,000 of goods c 1 n be producedhere. Each year the increase in production will be plannedby Corporate organisation between Goyernmcnt andfarmer, who will be assisted in the new credtts necessary tohis task by a new Agricultural Bank.Each year the foreign imports will be p r o p o r t i o ~ a t e l yreduced, and at the end of three years the e:rclUSlon offoreign products will be complete. Tbe home r n a r ~ e twill be divided between the British farmer,whose productiC?nwill be nearly doubled, and the Dominion farmer. who willstill be able to send here the 140,000,000 per annum offoodstuffs he sends now, plus additional foodstuffs andalso additional raw materials which will be required .bythe greater demand of the higher purehasing power whichwill be created by Fascist organisation." What will happen to our export trade? wail the oldgang of National Socialism, and also the Id gang of ~ . n t e r -national Finance, who own the Conservative Party. Theforeign countries who send us foodstuffs take our exportsreturn . . I IOur answer is that the British fanners and agncu turaworkers will double their purchasing power i they doubletheir production. A home market will take he place of aforeign market for our .e:=port .trades, and that homemarket, foreign competltton wtll be excluded. On t ~ a thomc market our industries will not have .to c o m p e t ~ WIthcheap Japanese labour, as they do in foretgn c o u n t n ~New and terrible as the thought may be to ~ a h ~ band international fmanciers, we propose, by. g n c u l t u r a lreorganisa tion, to give purchasing power to B n ~ l S h farnlcnoinstead of foreign fannen;, and thus to b U l l ( ~ a. home

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\\ ' mav well enquire \Vh)' the old part' . Id ... . II S laVe nota optt'll ~ u c h a clear-cut pohc)' {or an inee.......... . .t I od " ....,.. agncul. pc u C ~ l O n . W h l ~ h most (anners agree to be possibllhe a n S \ \ ( . ~ r IS vcry ::;lmplc. Socialists and lil.- I, II , . , ~ . , II f d veTa S la\Ca \\ays ~ - - e n . 1C ncn s of e V l ' r ~ ' country but their 0and any policy which puts Britain first is a n a t h c m a w : ~l h c ~ n ... Our n ~ t i o n a l organisation would cut clean throughtheir mternattonal psychology, and interfere with theirtender efforts to enrich the aborigines of every back wardcountry.on earth in the blessed haven of the SocialistInternatlonale.

The c.xplanation of Conservatism's failure to help theCamler IS not at first so apparent, but under analysisbecomes equally clear. The Conservative Party has longceased to be a party of the countryside. and has become aparty of high fmance. Thc City of London owns thembody and soul. and that City of London has great foreignfinancial intcrests. For instance. it draws 30.000.000 perannum from the Argentine in interest on loans advancedby this country. The interest on these loans is paid byArgentinc beef sold in Britain. f we exclude beef from theArgentine, we jeopardise the interests of the financiers.So Conservatism. whether of the Baldwin or Beaverbroo kvariety. is only willing to ta..x foreign foodstuffs. but not toexclude them .

The answer of Fascism is clear-cut. n it be a choicebetween the British prodUcer and the foreign investor,the ritish farmer comes first At last a revolutionarymovement anses .to challenge the great vested in terests offmance. But thlS movement is also loyal to King andcou nt ')'. ?-nd has a policy of .. Britain first." Fascism.and I'asclsm alone. can revive agriculture and check thegreat betrayal of which both Social ism and Conservatismhave been guil ty at the dictate of the alien interests whichthey servc.. The final treaChery of the Conservative Party was well

i l 1 l s t r a t ~ d by ~ ~ r . Chamberlain's speech at the Bankers'Dmne.r .m the CIty of London October 3rd. Aga in heeml?haslSCd the n e ~ v C o n ~ r v a h v e doctrine that traderevlval can only be International. He advanced four mainpoints of the Conservative programme to secure J'ecovery :l) "The breaking down of trade barrien." Thissimply means the admission of foreign goods undel'

pacts with foreign n a ~ o n similar .t'? the recent agreement with the ArgentIne. The Bntzsh farmer must beruined in ordcr that the financiers may continue to drawtheir interest.2) .. A return to the. Gold S t a n ~ a r . d as .soon a$possible." This m ~ n s t Y I ~ g Great B':ltam agam. to theinstrument of the mternatlonal finanCiers. by which she

was nearly ruined in 193 1.3) "The revival of international lending." Thismeans new loans abroad by the City of London, intereston which will be paid to them by foreign goods cominginto this country which undercut British goods and drivefanners from the land.(4) .. The international raisin.s of prices." This m ~ sthat prices are to be ~ i s e d wlthou 3: Y c o ~ r c s ~ n d m grise in the wage level III Great Bntam, which IS keptdown by foreign competition. As a result, the peoplewill buy less than b e ( o ~ e , and the market . for w lichBritish industry and agnculture produces will contInueto diminish.

Once again Fascism insists. that the ~ i s i n g priceswithout a raising of purchasmg power IS a dlsastrou )policy. We agree that the fanner. must obtain h i g h ~ rprices than at present, and that pnces must be ft.xedadvance by the Government, so ihat he knows w h ~ r e he IS.We must restore agricultural prices to an e c o n o ~ J c level;but this is useless unless the wages and salan es o( themass of the people arc raised at the s.1.me t.imc. f pricesrise, but the standard of living docs not n sc, the p c o ~ l ewill buy less than before. In that event, a fresh I?lut wlljoccur , even on the new restricted basis of productlOn. anda new and worse collapse in prices will ensue.

Fascism alone provides the Rnswer to this pz:oble ll' inthe Corporate policy of raising wages and . a . l a n ~ slmultaneously and progressivelyover the ~ o l e field of L O d ~ " .in ortier to provide a larger purchasmg power, which LOturn will afford the new market which industry now lacks.Windy appeals to individual m p o y e ~ to. raise arcfutile. Any individual who responds W l I ~ lmmediately be

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All t 1 ~ e ~ c intemational financial interes ts are involved ina d C ~ ~ \ l r m g struggle to lend money and to command th~ n a n c m l S),st(,IllS and the markets of foreign nations TI emtemational ~ n a n c i e r s , in whose hands all the old ~ e ; : er e ~ , h a \ ' ~ agam a . n ~ again I ? r o c ~ d e d to go to a l l l c n ~ l S l ~their d ~ l r e for forelgll donunatlon and private enrichment:\Iore than any other force let loose in the chaos of t h ~modern world, they have led to war. This whole systcm or~ a n g e r o ~ l s an.arch)' has grown up under the sacred name orm t ~ m a h o n a h and even parties such as the Conservativewhich are nomlllall): n o ~ international, by their u b s c r v i e n ~to he great financial mtCIcsts are in fact a purely inter.national party.

f further proof were wanted, we need only turn to Mr.Chamberlain's speech in the House of Commons on the]ul>' Uth, 1933: We, Qurselves, still remain of the Opillionwlltcl. wc have held all a/oug, and this 1 .$ that lhe chief troublesf To, , w / ~ ' ~ h the world is suffering to.tlay are itlternatjollal illt h e ~ r oncm, and Ihat Ihey elm ouly be solved by illlematiollalnello alld aCTeemcllt.For these reasons, which could be supported at muchgreater length than the present limits of tltis article permit,the ~ r e s e n t international system has led in the past to warand IS bound to lead to war in the future.

Our Fascist national organisation detaches Great~ t a i n and the Empire from all the follies and dangers ofthis struggle. The Corporate system unifies and consolidates both our buying and seJJjng arrangementsabroad. In place ot a thousand private interests. struggling

for markets and for raw materials our industries reorganised to speak with one voice ~ d e r the supervisionof government.Organised World Trade ontracts

O u ~ contacts with t h ~ rest of the world are no longerchaotlc, but are orgfUlised. w i ~ h d r a w i n g from thes ~ r u ~ ~ l e for trade outSide our own Empu-e, we automaticallydunllllSh the prosp< (:ts of war arising from that struggle.In cases ~ h e r e we deal with f ~ r e i g n governments, such asother FasCISt governments which arc similarly organised,the prospects of clash are enonnously diminished. TwoFascist nations dealing with each other will deal th.roughorganised systems under Fascist government. In place of

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the hapha7..ard struggle of private interests, we can hav('peacefu l discussion and bargaining between powerfulorganisations.The international school argues, in effect, that organisation leads to war; we answer that it is not organisation,but chaos, that leads to war.

To tum for a moment to an illustration in the dome.:>ticfield, the prospects of industrial peace are always increasedwhen each side is organised. Similarly in internationalaffairs, the prospects of peace are increased when each sideis organised. When we have the Corporate organisationbetween all the great countries under Fascist government,it will be possible, for the first time, for nations to discussrationally and peacefully the allocation of raw materials"nd markets.Tbe leaders of those Fascist countries will be men whohave struggled through the collapse of their political

Systems to the achievement of Fascist government.They will aU further. be men who have had the experienceof the Great War of 1914. Can anyone seriously believethat these men will plunge the world into war ratherthan setUe international disputes by tbe peaceful meanswhich the organisation 01 their Corporate States willpermit them to employ? Further, they will be awarethat world war will result in world Communism, whichthey are sworn to destroy.They will have every interest to keep the peace, andthrough the Corporate system, which substitutes organisa

tion for chaos, they will have the means to secure peace.Those who challenge the national organisation of oureconomic system are in fact arguing thal chaos is saferthan organisation. We believe that lIlan can only extricatehimself from his present difficulty by the power of hismind and of his will to substitute organisation for chaos.Our Conservative opponents would rather leave thingsalone in the present muddle of the international struggle ofprivate and predatory interests, while Socialists fix theireyes on a dreamy Utopia of the future, when all nationsin the world, from Hottentots to Britishers, can be inducedby a sudden spontaneous impulse to march in step.Let us first set our own house in order, and organisethe system of our own nation and Empire. That achieve-

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mell.t will lead to other nations followingand we can then. for the first time, rationalise e r : a m p l ~s y ~ t ~ m of tl;te world under the guiding hand and . c o n ? ~ CSPirit of nntversal Fascism. mSPlrmg

RC'''r; ,,,'' from Tllf Uhlckshirl, .lpr11 I, 1933.THE BATTLE AGAINST WAGEAND SALARY CUTS

~ long pas.t. Fascism has fought alone against cuts111 w a . g ~ s anti ~ a l a r i c s . The National Government fromthe o u t s ~ t has been a government of wage cuts. The lateLabour Government led the way with cuts of 56.000 000

l l 1 o ~ t l y at the expense of th e wages and sa laries of their own\ . m p l o y e 4 . . ~ . The Communist Party is only too glad to secw.age cuts,. b c c ~ u s c they bring nearer the collapse andthsastc: winch gl\'C Communist ambitions their chance.Fa.. Clsm alone has fough t steadily and relentlessly againstwage cuts, sa lary cuts. the bullying of the unemployed andevery effort of the Old Gang to reduce the standard of life.At the las t election, our Leader s tood alone among prominent figures in pub.lic life, in opposition to every form of cut.He put the case t i l a sentence at Fenton Town Hall onOctober 14 th, 1931 : " The home market was the power ofthe people to buy goods, and every time wages and sa larieswent d o ~ ~ the home market contracted. That had gotto s top. But the electors, under the influence of Old< ang government and Old Gang press, decided otherwise.1 hese fa cts are on public record and cannot be refuted.

Belated Conversion~ o - d a y , however . w and strange allies join in the battleagaillst wage r c d u h O ~ l \Ve w e l c < m any supporl inthat ~ e , c,:,cn If . f l O I ~ expenence. we are not Sllreh ~ w long t w I ~ 1 last. J' or ms tance, we welcome. as atnbute to propaganda, Lord . ~ c a v c r ~ r O O k verybelated conver::;lOlt. In October, 1931 , hIs Dally Express

appealed to the electors to " support a National Governmentcommitted to sound finance ." On ~ l a r c h 22nd. 1933,54

he infonus us: .. ( have been fighting for some timeagainst the cuts which the Government made in 1031."rn the" Sunday Express on :\1arch J2th, 1933 . he said:.. Mr. MacDonald gave the signal for the wage-smashingattack," and " D o n a l d s Government do everythingpossible to help and encourage the general movementagainst sa laries and wages in Britain." But, in 1931 ,when, as he points out, the attack on wages began, heappealed to the electors to .. Trust the leader that theLabour movement has given to the nation in its hour ofcrisis: Ramsay MacDonald . He will not fail you He isthe man of destiny "Far be it from us to reproach Lord Beavcrbrook withthese short-term oscillations of the star of destiny Wearc glad that he has recognised that the" sound finance ..of 1931 has become the" national suicide" of 1933 . Wewould only ask him to study just a little harder. and thento tum again." i he applies just a little more thoughtto the situation, he will discover that wage reductions canonly in reality be prevented by a new form of nationalorganisation. t may be a very good press stunt for the.. Daily Express to carry headlines against wage reductions and to persuade trade union leaders to writeplatitudinous articles on the subject. This campaign mayeven increase the circulation figures of the DailyExpress as did the campaign for Empire Crusade a shorttime ago. In reality, however, wage reductions will beresisted. not by press stunt, by sentimental appeal or bygeneral flapdoodle. but by national reorganisation. Wehave asked Lord Beaverbrook before to inloml his publichow wage reductions can be resisted under the presentsystemEmployers Undercut\Ve repeat that question. Any employer who m a i n t a ~wages, let alone raises them. under the present sys ten; 15liable to be undercut by some less scrupulous or sensiblerival who cuts wages. W ~ are organised to s o m ~ .extent toprotect British labour agamst the cheap competItion of. theforeign employer who pars low we are o ~ n i s e din no way w h ~ t o e v e r to p r ~ t ~ t Bntlsh labour agamst thecheap competltlon of a British employer who pays lowwages.

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,lIl"rl'in lit's tl1I.' falhu:y of till whole Tory school, whichdmg:- ttw Ulll,-won; proll'ctive sy Stl'm suggested byJoseph.' h a n ~ b l ' r 1 a 1 1 \ . tlurty y c a r ~ ago. ~ t s not enough tohav(' P l o t c C t l O I ~ a ~ a U l s t th.c forclgner: I t ~ ; tlt'ccssary aboto haw' orgal1lsnhol\ bchmd the protective ban'ier. Atprest'lll, w g ~ s and ~ a l : \ . r i l ' s come crashing down in a general:-tnmpt..'


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Munollnl Peacemake rl 'or ~ h i n . ~ ..on F a s c i ~ m leaus tlu'. way to world pt.'.\ce.\h.ls"'lll m, t ' lud of rt.>.\ilsts, I,.xsoldll'r and constructive

t l u n k ~ r . has ad\"anc.l'd a proposal which aU EuroJll' now~ ' \ . a m m l ' : - . .b tht.> b.. 1So1S of (uturl' peace. How short a limeIt t.'t:llls ....tnt'l' Itl' was dl'noullced by the Liberal and Socialistprl:-.,. as tltl' chid menace to European peace. How comicalto Sl't ' t hat ~ t 1 n c press to-day compelled reluctantly to salutehun a ... thl,.' chil'{ inspiration of world }X'ace I The realnaturl' o( F:\sci '.111 is at length being realised; the enemypn_'s,.'i draw .breath. for an instant in their camp..,.ign of lies,and by acndent learn the truth.lht, simple fact is that Fascism is a realistic creed, andthen.'fore ~ t a n d s for peace; not with the slop of words and'l 'miml'nt, but with concrete proposals for Europeanrl"tug;tni .....uion. Thc realism of ~ I u s s o l i n i ' s proposals canht.' sl,.'t'n in the ~ k i l l with which he bases his plan on thestrength of the great powers, while at the same time heprt.>:.t.'1"V6 every possible usefulness which the League of

~ a t i o n s machinery may provide. On the one hand heavoids tin' error of resting European peace on a polyglotcommittee which labours under the absurd delusion that allnations, great or small, are equal in strength or in reality.On the other hand, he avoids the aitemative error of wrecking the existing League of Nations machinery for international organisation merely because it has been misusedby the dreamy idealogues in who >C hands it has rested forthe last dt.'Cadc. He has pursued true Fascist policy inadapting existing machinery to new and more re alistic ends.A Political PeaceIt )"em.tins to be seen how long he can endure withpatience the vapouring and ~ t u r i n ~ a c D o n a l d or theother elderl)' prima donnas who for long p.."1st have viedwith each other's cracked top notes before the sufIeringudicnce of Europe. To placate the vanities and topenetrate the intelligences of that faded beauty chorus willt3... \: to the utmost even the diplomatic powers of the 1 alianleader. :\evertheless, he has already shown to the worldthe realbtic will of Fascism towards peace, and for thatagain we have to thank him. ] t is l" 1uch to hope that hecan win from the present s tatesmansillp of Europe eVen thebasis of a political peace. Tt is, perhaps, too much to hope

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that w i ~ h existing material he can lay the foundation of aneconomic peace. Real peace must have an economicba*>h;, and before that basis can be achieved, ' , t a t e ~ m e nmu st l ~ a e some u n d e r s ~ a n d i n g of the economic question.Prchmlllary conversattons for a world economic confer.ence are to be held in " ':ashington, to be followed, apparently,by the full conference III London. The usual preliminarystatements to these preliminary c o n v e r ~ t i o n s to a.. preliminary settlement are now being issued. Theyre-echo most oj the faIJacies which have rendered abortivea ll international conferences Jor the last decade. Allattention is concentrated on the relatively minor issue ofdebts and tariffs, w h i ~ h are important and must be )Cttled,but are not the mam problem. There is no indicationwhatsoever that any consideration will be given to the c,eatpT blem of p,esent Ulo,ld P,oductiOll so lJ eally exceeding I h ~p esent wo ld demand. t is idle to ask nations to reducetheir tariff barriers and to admit a flood of foreign goodsat the moment when all countries are compelled to dumpabroad their surplus production because the purchasingpower of their home market is insufficient to absorb theoutput of their modem machinery. Any nation whid}lowers its tariff barriers in such conditions merely becomesthe refuse-heap of the world. Its industria] mechanism issmashed by universal dumping, with no relation whaL"oOevcrto the primary cost of production.National Organisation

The modem industrial problem has gone far beyond theintellect and the imagination of democratic statesmanship.The problems which they discuss are not the causes but themost superficial symptoms, of the present collapse. Whenwe suggest that a new fonn of national organisation isnecessary to meet the new industrial problem caused bynew developments of science, we are denounced as advocatesof Economic Nationalism." We are told that economicnationalism is the cause of the present disaster. Buteconomic nationalism so far does not exist in the world,except in the beginnings of ~ 0 . r p o r a . t e organisation in It3;ly.t is quite true that economiC Isoiah?1l of the ~ t t e m .whlchAmerica has pursued for so long 5 very eVIdent the

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p . L ~ h . l sUfrl'nd('r to the blows of fat e without an 'ath mpt at the ('conOll11C ONY:lnis..ltion of its ow fl )Sud a r . 1 n a airs.. , ~ \ po I Y IS t U ~ . vl'ry r;versc of the economic natiOIl-.lbsm \\ Illch W l u c s m . ~ Economic naf A I 'nIt d t I' . lon'Ulsm, as weu t l'rs ,1, a. po I Y of sdf-hclp and. of reo rganis.'ltionof ?ur 0" n d l 1 . ~ t n n . system as the essentml preliminary tothl f\'orgams.. ltion of the world industrial system.n.l'('t's. l . r ~ ~ o r ('ach country by national economi c r g a n i s ~ ~lion to b l ~ l d a home ~ l a r k c t . cap..1.b le of absorbing the bulkof t ~ e great production wilich modern machinery makesp O ~ l b l ( for advanced countries.

T h e r e { o r e . l : l ) ~ down the simple proposition that beforewOI:ld o r g s a ~ l O can be achieved. it is necessary to haven a t ~ o n a l o r g a ~ l S a h o n . ~ v e aU,. it is necessary for thead'\ n c e ( ~ natIons to orgamse thclr own countries rathcr

t h ~ walt for s l 1 ~ h reorganisa t ion until every backwardn a t 1 0 1 ~ has fallen step. When most great nations are

o r g a ~ l S e d on FasClSt and on Corporate lines, it will bepossIble to have a rational settlement between nations ofthe present economic chaos of the world .. At present we have intemlinablc conferences uponmtemational affairs ~ e k in g ~ n e r a l talk to organisethe whole world by piOUS WShes. Even when they reachany form of sett lement, the democratic politicians whoattend these conferences. ~ n o t .. deliver the goods"because they fear repudlahon by the Parliaments whocommand them, and who are completely ignorant of thefacts which face them. Even if they could implement theagreements which they reach at conferences on paper bythe c o ~ s e n t of t h e ~ r P a r l ~ a m e n t s , they could not implementthem 10 fact and 10 reality, because they lack the nationalorganisation which alone enables a nation to negotiateeffcctively with other nations upon such vexed international questions as the allocation of raw materials andof market:; which arc subject to international competition.World Fascism

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o r g a n i s a . t i O J ~ by means of corporate structure which alone'.lakes posSible the greater task of international organisahon.VIc wish gf?Od l u ~ k to the l e a d e r ~ of the p r e ~ n t Fascistg o v e m m e . n t s th elf efforts to win peace (rom the chaos ofdemocrat. E l 1 r ~ p e , but believe that peace will not bewon u 1t.1I FasCISm rules 10 mos t of the great nation3.

s s o h has proved that Fascism stan ds for world peace.I'orward, then, to \Vorld Fascism

Rtp ri1tltd IrQm .. e Blackshirt, Jflfft 16, J933 .LABO LUNDERS TOREVOLUTION

THE OLD COW GOES MADA MAD cow is dangerous. I t is a danger to andto others. This consideration alone impels us to regardwith some interest the recent antics of the Socialist Leaguein its first Co nference at Derby. That Conference disclosedthe first faltering and blundering steps of the orthodoxLabour leaders on the path to revolution. Labour leadersare not by nature revolutionary . The instruments ofrevolution in the hands of cowardly and effeminatecharacters are liable to produce no results but anarchy .Sir Stafford Cripps, for instance, was well content in thelast Labour Government to accept the fat office of SolicitorGeneral, and to draw an emolument of nearly 8,000, whil eunemployment figures rose by 400,281 and the Governmentdrifted inertly to the national crisis which knocked themon the head like tame cattle in a pen.Sabro RafflingSince that great betrayal, a demand for revolutionaryaction has arisen in the Labour rank-and-file, and SirStafford Cripps, like a good little lawyer, hurriedly adjustshis mind and his speeches to the new brief. We cannot besurprised that wig, gown and spectacles are a little disarrayed in the process. We also cannot be surprised that

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the more practica.l 'l'ra.de Un ion leaders, in contempla tin gthe.:;;e new revoluhonanes whom they are invited to Col1owemploy h\ngunge rt:'miniscent of the famous observat ion ofthe. Duke of \Vellington in reviewing some new scra tchregmtents: 1 do not know what effect they will haveupon the e n e m ~ ' . but by God they frighten me ..The result of these revolutionary flounderings has beento produce a pretty controversy between the" intellectual ..and t r a d ~ union components of the Labour Party. Thetrade U1uon bosses of Transport House are thunderingthreats about" cleaning up the Labour movement " andthe Socialist intelligentsia will either have to come to heelor p r ~ c e alone 01\ t ~ e revolutionary p,, \th without funds,orgamsatlons or the nch Odhams Press wh ich finances theDaily Herald and in its turn depends on th e advertisements of big ca pital.All this, of course, is very entertaining to opponcnts ofthe Labour Party, and serves once again to illust rate howcompletely h o p e ~ e s s is the mach inery of that Party for anypurposes of achon. A deeper lesson, however, underliesco?troversy. A real demand for revolutionary actione.\.,sts U l the Labour rank-and-fi le. Th is demand confrontsthe Labour lcaders with th e choice of putting th emselvesat the head of the revolutionary movement of th e Left ,or of surrendering that movement to Communism . t is theclassic dilemma of Social Democracy which has resu lted inthe destruction of it s flabby forces in one after another ofthe Continental countries.Legal odging

Sir Staf ord Cripps hopes to get away with it by a littlelegal dodgmg. A few vague threats about ge tting Socialismi possible by democratic means, etc.," are in tended tofeed the appetite for revo lution with sa fe and meaninglesswords. His only concrete proposal is to advocate anEmergency Powers Act 0 lines which are directly copiedfrom the ev idence which S ir O. Mosley gave before th eSelect Committee on Procedure on Public Business in th esununer of 1931. The vanguard of Labour ind eed pro-gresses when it adopts proposals which are only two yearsout of date Nevertheless, we observe symp toms showingthat the old cow of democratic meadows has picked up anorganism which is on ly sa fe and effective in more virilebodies.

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Uepritllcfl jY(Jm ., The Blackshirt, .lilly 1, 1933.

PRICES UP W GES DOWNALL PARTIES UNITE N FATAL POLICY

A IHSE in prices without a rise in wages and salarieswill inflict great h a r d ~ h i p on everyone who work.:; fora living, and will cause great injury to I l d ~ t r y Yet.everyparty in the State to-day advocates a ru.e pnces wlthoutsuggesting any system of government for rablllg wages andsa laries. Not only the politicians of this country, but alsothe politicians of nearly every country represented at theorld Economic Conferen ce, whether Conservative, Liberalor Socialist, have at least agreed on this one point, thatprices should be raised. Yet none of them even suggestedany plan, or even discussed the necessity, for rak ing wagesand salaries. Indeed, :\lr. MacDonald said at the oul..etthat they cou ld not even " touch upon hours of labour andrates of wages."Let us examine this policy, which Fascism g ~root and branch. Prices are to rise. without any rise inwages or salaries. This means thal existing tCages atldsalaries wU buy less, because prices are higher. As a result,the purchasing power of the people w ~ l be lower, and themarket for which industry produces WIll be less.COltStIJ"e"tly . e-.ce, goods trill be prodflud, find less labou,will be employed to make ti,e goods.More Unemployment

The net effect of a rise in prices without a rise in wageswill e lower purchasing power. for the people, an eversmaller market for industry, and m th end mor rmonpiO) -mellt. The volume of unemployment wil} be greater, 3f dthe real wages and salaries of those stil l employed willbe less. bSo far. this policy is .the only unammotlS conin u t 1 ~ n toeconomic thought winch has emerged from the \\ or ldEconomic Conference. ." You misrepresent us," ~ e p l y the Old ~" \ rise in nrices will create an lIlfla honary boom, and a n se, U in wages will soon fo ow.

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~ o w soon will it follow? .. Fascism replies Yare stmply leaving the whole question to chan dtrusting tl t . Id ee, an13 a ulllversa og-fight the workers will beable to secure illgher wages. In any case, a vcry Ion time-l a ~ must ?Ceur before a g e s can begin to catch withl?,nces, which ~ be raised almost over-nigh t by inflat ion]'urthennorc, \\,lth the ~ e ~ l t volume of unemployment:~ n y man for a n se 10 wage knows that he can bemstantly dIsmIssed, and his place eagerly taken by a manu n ~ ~ l o y e d The Unions, in their present enfccbled

n d l t l o n . . ~ n d e r cowardly and reactionary leadership, areno to fig t for h i ~ h w a g ~ In fact, you Old(,ang pllce-ratsers of all parties (mcludmg Socialists) knowp e ~ e c t l y well t l u ~ . t wages will nO,t risc proportion topnces, and t.ll1s. 5 your pretty httle trick for reducing~ \ ' ~ g ?y an mdlrect attack, now that you have discoveredIt 15 dtfllcult to reduce wages by direct attack.inancing eculation

Such is the first reply of Fascism to the united front ofa11 the old parties. But the argument goes further thanthat. This rise in prices is to be obtaincd by inflation, oruncontrolled pumping out of new credit. We know {romexperience what this means. The new credit is employed,not for the purposes of productivc indus try , but to financespecula tion. Already, \Vall Street and the Stock Exchangearc s training at the leash for an inflationary boom . Themoment that inflation takes place, they will bid up everykind of shares out of all relation to their real value, and thebanks will finance the operation as before. The speculatorwill skim off the cream of profit, and the more nimble ofthem will clear out before the ens uing crash which willknock industry flatter than ever. The result will be to makethose who are rich already even richer than before, and thosewho are poor already even poorer than before, because realwages and salaries will be reduced. Furthermore. we haveto take into account the disequilibrium of the wholeindustrial machine which will be caused by this process.aking ore Machines, ,'hen speculators make money. they are prone to spend

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' f ly 1933.WH T TH Y SAID

THE GREAT CONSPIRACYSOCIALISTS AND CONSERVATIVES UNITE

Mr. Lees-Smith, )linister for Education in the old LaboGoverl1T lcnt. speaking at Cardiff on Saturda)f ~ r a ) 2 7 t ~ t1933. saId: . a b ~ l / r , ~ I s co,,/rol over bankiflg and fillmlu loge/herfi;llh ,Stu/able mtulla ;ollal Clioll would make il its pol;10 raw: pNces Ilearer 'he level 0/1929. cyMr. C ~ a m b e r l a i n in his opening :;pcech of the WorldI'.cononllc Conference, s.1.id :" In the view o/.II,, l i s / ~ Delegatioll, therefore, a sollttio'l0/ Ollr p'resetlt dif/lclI1t1 cs mu st be /ollnd by memtS 0/ a

reeat't:r)' us 'he pTl ce letld.Sir Stafford CriPPS (H ouse of Commons March 11 th1932) said. pricess h o u l ~ gra.dually be brought back over a period 0/ lime10 s?methwg /the the 1929 Itt/d y mlJi-dejlatitm policy,or, if one would prefer to call f't so, a slight injIatio ,

Sir .Philip Cunliffe Lister, Secretary for the Colonies,s p c a k l ~ g , ~ t ~ I a n c h e s l e r (reported in the lJa1JchesterGllardtall, 12/ 1/33). s.'\id that :

:' olle .of the most importmlt problems of the day tDaS 10raISe Prtus.~ i r o ~ ~ o m e (reported in the Times, 19/1/33) :

l?ur objectwes ~ h o u l d be, so far as ;1 lies withill the pt1Werof thIS c O I O l ~ r y 10 ?"jlue1lce the illtcmali01lal price level, /irslof (Ill 10 rluse I ncr;s a long way above the present level,and ~ I e I 10 matutam them at the level reached with as milchstabzltty as call be mallagetl.The Tim es." 31/1/33 :

" 111 a C C O r d l O C ~ with the Export Report 10. which J haverefc cd, Ihe Bnt.sh Government has dedtlred ds 1melllio1l 1066

employ all legitimate measures 10 raise wholesale commodityprices."Mr. Walter Runciman (Liberal), at the World EconomicConference on 19th June. said he had the object of raisingprices.During the proceedings of the Economic Conference.SubCommission No. 1 of the )(onefary Commission:Mr. Neville Ch amberlain appealed to banks to raisecommodity levels by advancing che..'lp money.

ITALY AND GERMANY OPPOSED .Professor Alberto Beneducc, Italy, opposed, by sayingthat sa les prices were influenced by consumers' incomes.Dr, Vocke. Germany, opposed. saying an anificial raisingof prices would mean new debts and new insolvencies. Theonly opposition at the World Con ference has come fromFascist haly and Fascist Germany.

The " Express ' discovers its own mistakes,The Daily Express JJ points out (June 23rd. 1933) thatprices arc rising in the tailoring trade at ~ h e very momentthat wages in the tailoring irade are >ems forced d ~ w ~ .As we have already informed Lord Bea\'erbrook, tlus ISbound to happen in the absence of a machinery of .go\emment for raising and maintaining wages, h l c h ~ h cCo rporate State of Fascism alone can prOVide, 1 he" Express may make a n e w s p ~ r stunt the cry for

high wages, but words are useless wlthoUl actl?n to follow.In the present system, no e m p ~ o y e r and no mdl.lslry canmaintain high wages without hemg undercUl by nvals whocut wages. Whatever their \ ~ ' o r ~ ~ may .be. those whooppose the Corporate tate of )'3SClsm are m ( ~ c t supporting reductions in wages. The truth of our case.1I1 ~ l I r . a r g u ment with Bcavcrbrook is being proved by dady mCldentsthat are even reported in his own papersLord Beaverbrook must think again.

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HITLER FOUNDS THELITTLE CRITICSThe Man they cal led a Weakling Beats them All

l ~ T l : E ~ and the Nazis .have now suppressed both the, Socmhs.ts and the Nattonalists (Conserva tives) wh osepnsoner Huler was .alleged to be. I t is interesting now tor('('all. how w ~ e n H ~ t l e r came to p o ~ " e r he was accused int h ~ hole anti-FaSCISt press of Bntall1 of being the helplessprt.:>0ncr of the Nationalists and reactionary bosses. In as,enes. of h a m m e r ~ b l o w s , he has smashed the reaction, bothof ~ I g h t and Left, and has consolidated the power ofFaSCism on unshakeable foundations.1 is amusing and i.nstructive to recall at this momentthe denunciations of Hitler by the ~ F a s c press, Hewas called, not only a fool, but also a weakling, and a

c o ~ n r d who s h r ~ from action. Now his ability isuruversally recogmsed, and loud lamentations a re heardconcerning his st rength and ruthlessness. Hitler knowshow to wait, and he knows how to s trike. When he waitedther called him a co :ard and So. 'lid he had missed his o p p o r ~tumt)'; when he strikes, they whine of his brutality,~ e \ ' ~ r has ,the p r ~ of this country looked more foolishthan 111 therr appralSClnent of th is singular man. Tnparallel columns are printed the diverse utterances of thepress. before and after his accession to power. They are awarnmg to: all against accepting any judgment of our

f e a t l ~ e r : b r a m e d newspapers, which are swayed by day-todaY.lIlcldents and actuated even more by ignorance than bymahce,Laski in the Herald

Professor H, J, I aski, the leading Labour pUblicis t wrotein the Daily Herald on November 19th, )932 a fewmonths before Hitler came into power: ''. The Hitlerile 11wvemmt has passed ts apogee, and f't t'stmlikely to retain much longer 'he soNdarity t't had a ewmOIl'hs ago, The day h e l ~ 'hey ltlere a tn'tal threat isgone. Ht'ller never had mry body oj eohere-llt 1'deas , , ,

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