LAST DITCH OF DEMOCRACY - Majority Rights

What a PERFECT ally for Churchill, Morgenthau, Lehman, and the
present Anglo-Jewish regimes ! Well, the starry eyed Mr. Tugwell, and
the cautious Mr. Chase and Jim Maurer and Brophy took it all down
hook, line and sinker. Seven hour day and the rest of it. It was a stirring
occasion. The only thing is that the idealist’s ideals have got going so
much faster and gone so much further. The Axis side of the present hard
feelings.
Here the TRADE UNIONS, with their syndic. organization, and their
recognized legal status whereby they propose, formulate, and GET what
they want in Italy is really of so much MORE interest for any member of
ANY trade union, or for any leader of labor who cares a hang about the
welfare of the led that one only hopes the American trade unionist will
someday read Por, or at least read something about Italian organizational
measures.
The Stalin interview is a tough piece of reading, very hard to take hold
of. That was probably the secret of his hold—plenty of people who
KNOW Russia have been puzzled by the gap between their effective
propaganda and their local failure in solving human problems. I believe
the human material they had to work on explains part of the latter. I
mean why they did NOT make a paradise, but mostly a sweat shop—
machines before men—men as material. But the other side, the devilish
efficiency of their propaganda, is worth study.
And it seems to be a variant on the old political wheeze of sticking to
general statements that each auditor interprets to mean what HE would
mean IF he said it.
And now for contrast, close harmony, let us look at a recent emission
from Joe’s faithful companion, fellow idealist, and pledged ally, Mr.
N.M. Butler. On June 3, 1941, year current, as delivered at the
commencement of Columbia University, when Ole Nick was awaitin’
another Waterloo, and as is common with his kind, he wasn’t puttin’ it in