Show news tip I 1 NC k T xv by PAULI LON y released by western newspaper union no I 1 management LABOR FEAR TREND TO SOCIALISM washington unions and management agreed a few days back the trend of f this nation Is toward socialism a rather startling agreement although no notice was paid it perhaps one reason this cheerless foreboding drew bare public mention was that bill green did not send around a copy of 0 his speech to the publicists as he usually does what he said was Is driving unions to the left the threatened union reform legislation Is being pressed as a stratagem strat strate egem gern ot of the lories to destroy the unions pointing to the rise of the union socialist government in england green asked do y you U doubt that the same thing could happen here Is it inconceivable that union workers might be driven to the same course under similar provocation this sparingly reported speech was in a sense a challenge base at president wilson ot of general motors wilson had sal said d earlier in a poll political econom economic to analysis which should be read by all students ot of the subject in full the attack on profits Is really an attempt to substitute state socialism or communism for our free competitive and capitalistic system ile he claimed union leftists were forcing us toward a system imported from east of the rhine or even from england installing the state as god and government here was considerable agreement as to the facts they both say the unions are forcing us to the political and economic bankruptcy of the backward nations green excuses this by blaming it on what he calls a word imported from england furthermore both seem agreed neither wants to go where we are being pushed USED AS THREAT behind this of course I 1 Is greens desire to threaten management with socialism so it will ease down in current dominant demands for union reform similarly management wants to threaten socialism to scare labor into a cooperative peace for production but it if they are talking in this way for kropa ganda purposes both also are telling the truth what neither green nor wilson reported was that socialism has decayed and been corrupted by communism throughout the world in the past few months the trend of socialism I 1 would say is toward communism or a more accurate way to put it Is that the communists are using the boci soci socialists allots for their own revolutionary advantage this was not true earlier in the postwar era the socialists knew and hated the communists better than did we who are living in a democracy since then the socialists have become mere dupes for the communists in france and other continental countries in britain union socialism has taken the bankruptcy of that nation into a union receivership which cannot even produce enough goods to sustain itself everyone knows about the coal shortage situation but few realize the same condition applies to other british goods and services coal is the biggest natural product of britain used for export to acquire import food lately britain has not been able to produce enough coal to keep itself warm union socialism in britain has paid the pe oplas money tor for industries piling more debt atop the war debt and as it naturally must grant concessions to the unions in wages hours and working conditions it cannot operate to produce enough INCENTIVE LACKING this is natural because a union miner given added pay shorter hours and less work can hardly be expected to break his back in an idealistic endeavor to keep the nation warm furthermore in the midst of the union socialist party there has arisen a secret bloc favorable to the moscow foreign policy or at least anti american anyone with half an eye clear can see where england is going down down down churchill once said socialism would have to become a dictatorship like moscow to force the union men to work a campaign remark for which he received the counterpart of a tomato in the face wilson now says the same thing from his objective perch now green seems to realize how bad socialism would be for american labor the standard of living of the british union people Is s very low as compared with this country and aad it is even lower in france socialism would force our wage wace level down to the declining receipts which socialism provides profits are due to the he energy of both labor and management and socialism does not generate energy in either because it does not carry a reward for effort |