Page Irour PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE October 15, 1937 BOOKS and AUTHORS THE POST-WAR HISTORY OF THE BRITISH WORK- ING CLASS, by Allen Hutt. Gollancz. Left Bock Club Choice. Reviewed by Ian Robertson TENHIS is an extremely im- # portant book, both in the time of its appearance and in its subject matter. Many who have watched in these recent years the gradual but well calculated inroads which Wascism has been making on democratic liberties in Great Britain have felt a growing sense of despair at ihe official attitude of the Labor party and trade unions. ‘ Ever since the British national government came into power, the official Labor movement has seemed to be drewn in more and more behind that government's policy. The last general election showed the Labor party from the outset taking a defeatist attitude, refusing to go out whole-heartedly for victory, refusing to recognize that victory was possible. The natural result was an oyerwheln- ing. defeat. . ° OR such feelings Hutt’s book is a welcome tonic. He in n0 way minimises the pitiful role that the leaders have played. The tale as unfolded by him from Black Friday in 1921 through Black Wed- nesday of 1926, to the days when the “Daily Heraid’’ praised Hoare’s speech at Geneva as ‘the woice of Britain, and to the Edinburgh conference last autumn, is one of the constant struggle on the part of the Jeaders to hold in check the revolutionary spirit of rank and file- Through long years of strugele fhe movement was built up into a mighty machine, as Hutt has him- self outlined in his book, “This Final Crisis.’ But the machine has now become part of the capitalist structure, and those whose job it is to direct the machine have come to feel themselves a part of that structure and to oppose any effort to change it. The book is a welcome tonic to despair, however, because although it outlines clearly the sorry role of the leaders, it emphasizes n0 less clearly the magnificent pos- sibilities of the rank and file. It is at times of crisis that such poten- fialities are revealed, and time and again they are shown in the his- . tory of these jJast few years. AM a detective story fan, but not for long have I been so thrilled as in reading the chapter ‘Nine Days That Shook Britain.’ Tt is a tale of magnificent hero- ism and solidarity, and it is more. than that. It is a revelation of the administrative potentialities of the British working class. Tt is precisely because Wwe our- selves have lived through the years outlined in this book that it is so important as a reminder of what really happened. Every day now. seems to bring some event, and it is difficult to see the wood for the trees. z Hutt’s book is an excellent guide for our bewilderment. Two notes are struck right through the whole. "he first is that of the essential solidarity and real revolutionary feeling among the rank and file. The second is that of the need for unity in the ranks if anything is to be accomplished. At the end of the war there was, for a time, such a unity. The rail- way strike of 1919 was a striking example of what may be done when unity prevails. The railway- men themselves were Solid. The locomotive men, though they had een bribed with a wage increase of their own, Stuck by their com- rades. The co-operative movement made arrangements through its pank for the necessary sirike pay, and local co-ops took vouchers from strike committees in ex change for food. The printers tool a hand in the game and made it clear that they would not print lying propaganda. Finally, the railwaymen took the offensive and set up their own propaganda bureau through the Tabor Research Department to answer the press: propaganda from the other side. Magnificent as this was, it did not result in a great forward movement for labor because the jeaders refrained from calling on the triple alliance for action in sympathy. e@ HERE, however, a measure of unity was achieved, successes were gained. With the example of the perils of disunity shown by the advance to power of Hitler and the growth of Fascism, it is sur- prising that the Jjeaders in this country could not draw the obvious moral. Patient, tireless, energetic work lies to the hand of every conscious individual in the mighty Labor movement of Britain in order to ensure—and that speedily—the {riumph of unity and a forward fighting policy. T believe that the history of the past vital iwenty years, as set down unadorned in this book, can Jead to one commonsense conclu- sion, and one only. That was bluntly put by Wrederick ngels, one of the greatest of all Socialists, one of the profoundest students of Great Britain and the British, when he wrote: ‘here is no power in the world which could for a day resist the British work ing-class organized as a body’ the Juan M. EMIND the bloody hor- ror of Spanish Fascism with its junta of feudal gen- erals and medieval politici- ans iS a ruthless organizing intelligence that is as modern as poison gas. It be- longs to Juan March, the almost jlliterate hog farmer who became the Jeadine racketeer and then fhe leading industrialist of his country. The bombs that fell on Guernica, the shells that go screaming into the workers’ quarters of Madrid, the bullets that massacred the best men of a province in the Badajoz bullring are the bitter fruit of jhis unremitting fight to overthrow the republic. Eyery missile that has earried death to a Spanish heart should be tagged, “Ifrom Juan March to the Spanish. people.” This man, whom one of Azana’s ministers once called “‘the repub- lic’s biggest single enemy’? and whose role in fostering the revolt proves the justice of the remark, has kept himself almost entirely unknown abroad. Only a few casual references to him as one of the financiers of the Fascist movi- miento have crept into the press despatches. But Spaniards know that in event of rebel victory Franco will bear the title of Jefe, -Spanish equivalent to Fuhrer or Duce, but Mareh will hold the real power. W amazingly checkered career has converted this peasants son into a champion of reaction. From the moment the republic was established on promises of many reforms, one of which was to shorten the stature of such giants as March, he has directed his re- sources steadily against all the parties on which the new regime was based. Part of the time he carried on his share of the debate from prison—the thunder of guns today is his last loud, illogical argument. The prospect of March's suprem- acy in the feudal revival, which is the 2oal of the reyolt, pleases few Spaniards. Their wealthiest com- patriot, although fervently hated by the People’s Front, has never been cordially welcomed by the aristocracy of land, birth, and trade. : No weird portents were reported at his birth sixty years ago; the supernatural plays no part in the March sagza. In the little cottage at Santa Margamta on Mallorca his advent was as little heralded as jhat of the litters of pigs which provided his parents with the prin- cipal part of their livelihood. ~ We had the usual schooling pro- vided by the church. That is to ‘say, together with other boys oL the village he repeated m concert stray items of secular or religious jearning. These jncluded, none of the three R’s, although March has since learned to sign his name, read a bit for profit if not for pleasure, and achieve phenomenal virtuosity in arithmetic. This last ‘was of seryice when he embarked upon a career, for he became a dealer in Swine- = AG the close of the century March was known throughout his native countryside as a shrewd bargainer. From one farmer he would buy, atter interminable conversation, two pigs. An after noon’s diplomacy worthy of an arms conference would result in the purebase from another of three or four hogs. When he had eollected thirty or forty, he would take them to Palma, Mallorca’s metropolis, to sell. There he dis- eovered the racket that was to make his fortune. This was nothing less than pbootlegeing, an old Spanish cus- tom which contrabandistas had de- velcped into an exact science gen- man’s Diary — O further the boycott against Japanese goods, the Women’s League of the Washington Com- monwealth Federation Japanese has launched an anti- Boycott silk stocking cam- paign. Mis. Isabel Costigan, chairman of the league, wearing cotton stockings herself, stated that 97 per cent of the silk sold in Amer- ica is of Japanese origin. To make doubly sure that you are not buying undies or stockings made of Japanese silk, buy cotton or rayon instead. If all women and women’s organizations will support this campaign we shall be going a lone way towards stopping the Japanese invasion of China. eo - : ANADIAN boys and girls have proved that the plight of the Spanish children 1s very near to ‘their hearts. Home For I spite of the di- versions of Summer Children holidays, they have raised a total of $500 towards a Canadian children’s home in Spain, by holding parties, bazaars and selling tags. -Even children living on isolated farms have helped swell the fund by contributing their hard-earned nickels and dimes. This money has been forwarded to the International Co-ordination Committee in Paris where a villa. is to be equipped and maintained to house thirty orphaned Spanish children. The maintenance of these ehildren is entirely dependent upon the’ generosity of Canadian people. Canadian boys and girls who raised this amount have a plan to provide the orphans with Christ- mas gifts by, making and repairing toys themselves. The best toys will be forwarded to the villa, and the others will be sold to provide play equipment. War His Last Illogical Argument erations before their American Imi- tators made it notorious out the world. The only difference was that the racket was based on tobacco instead of liquor. It began more than a century ago when the government leased to a private company the monopoly ef selling inferior cigarettes and trashy “makin's.” Smugglers hastened to embrace - this new were opportunity. established Factonmes in nelighborine= countries, primarily in Algiers be- © eause of the obliging nature of the authorities and the conyenience © of transport. Fleets of small ves- sels Spanish shores. Beggars, waiters, shoe cleaners, porters, all sorts of humble folk were the ultimate vendors. They made a few pennies 3 day; the entrepreneurs made millions. : * ALLORGA is an island whose coast is dotted with isolated eaves, coves, and inlets. It had, consequently, always been a smug- fling centre. So it was not SUurpris- ine that March should have be- come acquainted with the racketeers. @Qne of the rising young men among- them, Jaime Grau, hailed from March’s own willage. * Grau introduced his townsman to bootleggers who were willing tu accept the insignificant sums he could invest. It was still possible in Spain (as it was in England in the days of Drake) for respectable folk to back a slightly piratical ‘venture for a share of the profits. He and Grau, perceiving that it Was neither necéssary nor desir- able to risk handling contraband in person, formed 2 partnership. Both were ruthless without fero- city, calm, decisive. March, how- ever, had more effrontery and daring. Soon it was remarked that the voyages he and Grau planned “ere safe investments, every con- tingency anticipated, every risk reduced to a minimum. Soon they began to talk of the Mareh quarrels, for neither he nor Grau could aceept the other as an equal. The ranks of the contra- pbandistas were divided. Gangsters who had worked in harmony for years began blazing away at each other. m One evening March was seen at the Palma Cathedral ordering masses, confessing, and offerings prayers for the departed. He ex- plained that Grau’s son was the object of his piety, but: it was net until several hours later that the young man was found in Valencia, 4 couple of hundred miles away, with a knife in his back. * : URING the World War the March fortune boomed more jrapidly than any other im neutral Spain. In addition to fat returns from war industries in which he had invested the profits of boot- legging, his coffers were generally believed to have been enriched by both German and allied gold. The provisioning of German sub- marines in the Mediterranean was a lucrative business. Waturally the contrabandistas were the’ men for the job: But by a curious coin- eidence most of the undersea eraft allegedly supplied by the March OTHERS in the Ferie Com- munist party branch were in- dignant to hear that their chil- arch - = Spain’s througa- . ran ‘the contraband to the™ fear of his power, gang were almost jmmediately thereafter caught in allied traps- Before the was ended, not even March's mathematical mind could alculate the extent of his riches. But he did not become a truly na- tional figure until after 1913. Then Madrid quite suddenly became aware of him. : His long, lean figure flitted through crowded ante-rooms into the offices of generals and cabinet ministers, ushered toward these imner sanctums by flunkies, who searcely knew his name, with a deference that was hardly accorded to dukes. Later it was learned that “March was using thousand-peseta notes instead of visiting cards.. He was never asked to wait. People spoke with awe of the palace he had bought jin the capi- tal. He furnished it with the” treasures of some of the noblest houses in Spain. When a family rich only in memory and antiques needed cash quickly, March's agents were sure to be on hand. His keen, impassive face became almost as familiar as that of the kine. It was also as easy to cari- eature. Cartoonists never wearied of exaggerating © the large nose, eurving down towards a sharply out-thrust jaw, and the inevitable pie black cigar (on which full duty | had heen most scrupulously paid) jutting from the thin lips. Photo- graphs were rarer, for March has the racketeer’s dislike of a camera. FIILE tourists were marveling at his palace, the business world was startled by repeated manifestations of his commercial importance. Hus connection with shipping dated back to his owner- ship of smugsling schooners. Be- - fore anyone knew of his activity: in @ larger market, he became the majority stockholder of the most _ prosperous of Spanish steamship lines, the Compania Transmediter- ranea, Under his guidance it thrived impressively. It enjoyed a mono- poly—March discovered that mono- polies cam be as profitable for the monopolist as for the racketeer who defies them—of the mainiand’s trade with the Balearic Islands and of the inter-island traffic. Mareh did his financing through: his own bank, defended his actions in his own newspapers, including two of Madrid’s jeadinge dailies, and drove his factories with his own coal. The only Spanish in- dustrialist of international stature, he had his finger, and his money, in the whole field of Spanisn manufacture, particularly Sugar, textiles, and heavy industry. The from the underworld, had the seeping upward eurious effect of strenethening his position im business. When Primo de Rivera estab- jished his dictatorship, he knew he would have to impress the.bene- fits of his rule upon the land quickly or else fail. He undertools made. by EF. R. Smith of Tacoma, when giving an address at a din- ner of the Nelson Rotary club. Responsibilities, David Loth Reveals Storv In New Masses to settle what he and his class considered the two great domestic problems—labor troubles and con- traband. Other governments had tried to persuade unions and crush smugelers. Primo decided to reverse the pro- cess. He turned the Civil Guard, the most efficiently ruthless of all police, loose on labor; and gave March the tobacco monopoly over Moroeco on the theory that the biggest racketeer of all would know better than anyone else how to protect a monopoly. Primo and his colleagues, pro- fessional soldiers whose idea of statecraft was a volley of rifle-fire whenever workers or peasants showed signs of asserting them- selves, soon found Mareh indis- pensable. His advice was relied upon in all financial matters. He used= his commercial interests to Support the dictatorship, and with ereater effect used his political in- fluence to foster his business, * HE republic, however, looked upon him with extreme dis- favor and considerable apprehen- Sion. The Socialist and Republican - leaders, who had been in jail or in exile while March was getting rich and making himself useful to dic- tators, noted with fear that he was called, even after the revolution, , the “‘uncrowned king of Mallorca.” That island, strongly monarchist, elected him to the Constituent Cortes which was to frame a new constitution. The parliament was overwhelmingly Left when March, a most unwelcome reminder of other days, took his seat there. or some time the new masters of Spain regarded him with sus- picion and at last they arrested him on charges of responsibility for the disasters of the dictator- ship. ; But eyen in a revolution the re- publican leaders were bound by conventions. Acutely conscious of the injustice that had sent them: to jail or exile, they were determined that no such wrong should ever be imputed to them. So they per- mitted their principal enemy every advantage that legal trickery could ~ provide. . Arraigned before a Committee of March conducted his own defense, reserving lawyers for private consultations. He bait- ed his accusers, unfettered by judicial formalities, while they delved patiently into his mono- _polies, polities, finance, even -the death of young Grau. That the man had been and al- Ways would be the mortal foe of any even faintly liberal regime was obvious; that he was guilty of specific crimes Was susceptible only of moral proof. The overly scrupulous committee sent him back to jail, free to see anyone who called, to carry om a vast correspondence, to direct his busi- ness and political associates. Mean- while faithful Mallorea elected him one of the lay members of the new Supreme Court, which would in {ime pass on the March case. As the months passed, the sov- ernment seemed to have forgotten him, but he was not so careless. Prom his model prison went out orders, checks, advice for organ- The Fernie branch of the Com- munist party writes that they have no hall, therefore it hasn’t a statue the dren. are being ac Mx. Smith stated that “he was of Christ in it, neither has it at Silly: eused of spitting on told that the Communist party bas any time conducted a children’s Slanders the statue of Christ. a hall in which they have set up 2 school. 3 ; - Statements to that statue of Christ. The first thing Anyone who has the slightest effect, also that Communism is fhe children are taught to do is knowledge of the work of endangering the very homes of walk around the statue and spit Communist party will realize that Canadians and Americans, Were ODsedta Z statements of this kind are ludi- Seeing Things — _TRUSTIFICATION IN STEEL COAL FIELDS irony SSD000 SURFACE Thee bilien dollag U-as Corporation owns OF has its contro] 300,000 ecres of and gas coal fields, of coking coal fields. U. S. STEEL IN OTHER INDUSTRIES UN SSES) s1q0c0 comns COAL Steel under steam 350,000 acres O71 surface coal fields and 410,000 acres U. S. 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March had taken up with Primo de Rivera's son te form an avowedly Fascist party, but he soon turned to the Gatholie Action led by Jose Maria Gil Robles, a far abler politician. The industrialist-racketeer’S Aac- tivities were so openly carried on that this writer, then publishing a weekly in Spain, wrote of him. “3]] he needs is to find the proper uniform behind which he can work, and the proper moment to lead his ‘country back to- dictatorship.” * H= found tne uniform in France’s wardrobe. The mo- ment was brought closer by the energy With which he directed propaganda on a scale never know before in Spain. He bought over most of the press, an army of paid campaign workers covered the country; speakers and publicity ap- pealed to all sections of the people and one day in October, 1933, March and the governor of his prison went for an automobile drive. News of the excursion be- came public only after they had passed safely over the Portuguese frontier. In December that year, the con- federation of carefully drilled Right parties marched to the polls, whole convents at a time, battalions -of women marchaled by their priests, the solid memberships of polo clubs: The Republicans were routed and March, an exile in Paris, be- came a successful candidate for the Cortes, Mallorca sending him in at the head of the list. At Haster he returned to his native land. The rest of Spain was not yet ready to accept his jeadership. The republican ideal persisted, showings jtsel— in the rising of . October, 1934, which was crushed with a ferocity that Primo himself had mever dared. But even Moors and the mercenaries of the foreign lesion could not suppress the work- men, peasants, Shopkeepers, and jntellectuais who were © with in- ereasing heat demanding the re- forms promised in April, 1931. * HEN the People’s Front was swept into power in February of last year, Juan March fled the country again, even before. the yotes were counted. This time, he knew, only force could bring him back. He did not hurry. Carefully he directed the immense amount of work involved in preparing military stores, ar- ranging with Moorish ehiefs for the use of their followers, corrupt- ing all who: could be reached by money. ‘Itortune™ estimated that he spent seventy million dollars in this way; 2 Brit- ish observer put the figure at fit" teen million pounds. ~And only then did Mareh un- Joose General. Franco—it is _ well to remember that he had been military governor of both the Balearics and Morocco where March influence is “particularly strone—asainst the government. Madrid paid Juan March one compliment; the first decree con= fiscating property was leveled at” his steamship company. He must know, too, that no republican gov— ernment will leave him again in possession of his lands, factories, newspapers, shares in corporations and monopolies. A People’s Front victory will rid Spain forever of March. But if he could place Franco where Primo de Rivera once ruled, he would seize all and more than he has lost. In the meantime, the ereat racketeer flits obscurely from Gibraltar to Italy, from Salamanca to Lishon, negotiating with Mus- solini, advising generals, ereating and administering rebel credits said to total one and a half mil- lion dollars: : by Victoria Post crous. When an organization fights day by day for better conditions, living wages, proper relief ~ for starving people, it is not likely to endanger the home life, but rather improve conditions in the home so that greater enjoyment can be got out of it. Mr. Smith should make sure that his statements are true be- fore delivering them to the pub- lic, otherwise he will find an army of angry mothers at his heels de- manding hwithdrawal of his &c- cusations. e ps Sees nowadays one reads articles on how to live though the cost of‘ living still rises. This is all very Cost of well, but why don’t Living these people do some- thing about lowerin= the cost of living or raising the wages in proportion, instead of trying to tell us how to make money reach inipossible heights? he latest book on this subject, by Ray Giles, 15 ealled “How to Beat the High Cost of Living,” and contains 864 money Sayers for everyday use. With all due respects to Nir Giles, I imagime some of the syomen on the prairies could give him some pointers, in fact they would be glad to get hola of some money with which to experiment in stretching to reach the cost of living. In the past year retail prices in general have risen 9.2-per cent and we are told by economists that it js going to cost us vastly more to live during the next few years than ever before- So we are still going to let pes- ple tell us how to make our money stretch to these ever increasing prices, or are We going to do something about settine increased wages or relief. STAGE and SCREEN — r - ward -and is magazine has . mines, - OW the New Film Alliance Sizes the new pictures up: THE BRIDE WORE RED: How a singer in a waterfront cafe tried to escape her “‘class,"” but couldn’. The rich man throws her down, and the poor but poetic peasant takes her up. Joan Crawford, Franchot Tone and Robert Young are wasted on this. ANGEL: Sophisticated story, directed by the German PErnest Lubitseh, of a girl who loves her husband, but wanders from home in search of a thrill. Complications which result are in the hands of Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall and Melyyn Douglass. Bit parts, beautifully played, are done by Ed- Everett Horton, Herbert Mundin and Ernest Cossart. LANCER SPY: Unfortunately set against a war background, and unconsciously showing the glamor of war, the story deals with a British naval officer whose re- semblance to a captured German spy allows him to copy the Ger- man’s mannerisms and return to - Berlin to extricate military secrets. DOUBLE WEDDING: As in My Man Godfrey, William Powell is the slightly nutty and yery suave and amusing philosopher in rags. His belief—which leaves an acid taste in the mouth—is that work js for workingmen, work is con- temptible and undignified, and so, Wwe Sather, are workinemen. If you Can overlook this nasty idea, the action is quite funny and very harum-scarum, Myrna Loy is the co-star. - : A REVEALLNG insight into con- & temporary Soviet life is given in- Beethoven Concerto, outstand- ing new Soviet film to be shown here at the Globe Theatre the week Commencing November 7. Most of the music for the pic- ture—including the concerto for violin and orchestra, which is played in its entirety—is by Bee- thoven. A good part of the score, though, is by I. Dunayeysky, the Soviet Gershwin. Dunayeysky did the score for “Moscow Laughs,” a Jaze comedy. He is well known for his orchestral and fum music. The cast of “Beethoven Con- certo,” is largely a juvenile one, entirely non-professional. Wiadimir Gardin, world famous for his leading roles in Soviet hits, is cast as the violin professor who 1s instructor of one of the two violin prodigies featured in the picture. : New and amusing slants on the Soviet scene dot the picture. Dedi- cated to the children of the Soviet Union by its producers, the pic- fure takes up their childish prob- lems in their own terms. A full symphony orchestra and an unique cartoon sequence add to the entertainment. e By JOHN R. CHAPLIN OLLYWOOD.—A resolution to the Los Angeles Central Labor Gouneil from the Culinary Work- _ ers’ Union has requested that Wal- lace Beery be put on the unfair list for going through picket lines. He, like some other actors, has been frequenting the struck Brown Derby Restaurant, despite request from the Sereen Actors Guild that its members stay away from there. “Beery, previously suspended by Actors Equity for refusing to jom the guild, has made application for a euild ecard since the 95 per cent guild shop went into effect. The Culinary Workers are not asking only local censure of Beery, but also a national boycott. Irrances Farmer is going to have the lead in the next Clifford Odets play for the Group Theatre in New York. And James McMillan, who starred in the Los Angeles Federal Theatre’s Gods of the Lightning, is said to be also due for a con- tract with the Group. The National Labor Relations Board hearings on who shall rep- resent the scenario writers in col- bringing out plenty of startling facts, so lective bargaining are far concerned mainly -with costs and returns of film production. But this data will bear careful analysis when the hearings have gone 2 little further. Insiders believe the revelations may shake whole film industry. up the David Selznick denies that Paul- ette Goddard, or anybody else, has been signed for what is considered the outstanding plum of the sea- son, the part of Searlett in Gone With the Wind. William Dieterle, who made Pasteur and Zola, has declared, on his return from the Soviet Union, that he saw the best films in the world over there, and that his one dream is to make 4 film based on the life of Karl Marx. But we don't think Warmers will authorize that. There is rumor that the Hal Roach-Mussolini deal may fall through. The simmering Hollywood protest against it is terrific. The Motion Picture Artists Committee for Spain has been carrying on 2 strone ad campaign in the trade press, with barbarous quotes from Vittorio Mussolini's book on Ethi- opia: And on several occasions, durine his visits to various studios, his guides have had to keep the Duce’s son as far aS possible from such people as George Jessel, who were denouncing Mussolini, Hitler and Fascism as loudly as they could. The Mexican labor movement — has won a 40 per cent raise for all workers in the distribution and theatre end of films. Curt Bois, ex- jled German actor. will do a part in The Yellow Wizhtingale, at Paramount, and Leo Reuss, also exiled by Hitler. has been signed by M.G.M. wood’s gain- sechinerwakies Germany's loss is Holly- : 1 ra catabolite be sity ee GP erniabest