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By WILLIAM ALLAN

DETROIT — When Horace
Motor founder of the Dodge
85 ost ar Co,, died, his fortune
ll g mated to be $46 million,
Worker It sweated out of the
fore» his plants here. Back
Vapes € union came to Dodge,
{op fre 35 cents an hour
ie yno12 hour day—and any-
tito) "8 to talk union was
Mny om the street by com-
Doge ons:

line 5°° S Widow, Anna, died on
Wye’, 970 leaving the fortune
Nestn°, 8146,000,000, through
Jit qaents, and with the bulk
Whig Mm municipal bonds,
the re non-taxable. Some of
{ty ae also was invested in
a Ck, drawing large inter-
Chey) the productivity of the
Toda, | Workers was increased.
lee 2 host of relatives are
BAe Split the massive for-

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H Mouse SWeated—out of many
Ugh S of auto workers down

e ithe years,
thirst Horace Dodge’s grand-
Yhile Christine Cromwell,
‘Oy png for her split, bor-
; “ition n the strength of the $9
thy oyen® was promised, get-
tiltors got million from 650
8 $9 million strength of get
mijetily Sought to put the
Hitch yet into a trust fund,
| cre io have meant that
|"thing “OPS would have gotten

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pas, | cted, to be used as
feo ch trucks. Trams will
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|How Dodge progeny
| Spend their millions

Kaufmann, took a dim view of
this high finance operation and
said it would be against “the
public policy and a fraud on the
creditors” if the $15 million Mrs.
Cromwell owes was put out of
reach of the creditors into a
trust fund. Lawyers for the late
Anna Dodge, grandmother of
Mrs. Cromwell, claimed that the
trust was void and the 650 cre-
ditors should be paid. Of course
the fear was that the creditors
would sue the rest of the Dodge
estate for their $15 million. As
it is the creditors have been
stung for $6 million, since Chris-
tine Cromwell gets only $9
million and that’s all blown al-
ready.

It is learned that Mrs. Crom-
well will not have to give up her
mansion in the Virgin Islands,
now that the courts have order-
ed her to pay off her creditors.
It seems the interest on the $9
million. will be enough to give
her $4 million. She blew $9 mil-
lion in the last several years, sO
the $4 million in interest money
won’t last long. She may have
to go and see her cousins, Mrs.
Marilyn Humphreys and Frede-
rick White, offspring of old man
Dodge’s son, Horace E. Dodge
Jr., who died in 1963. The two
will inherit about $70 million
plus the interest. While waiting
for the money to come down,
it’s reported they too used their
anticipated inheritance as col-
lateral, to get “eating money.
Horace E. Dodge, Jr., _ their
father, was married five times.
Each former wife was paid off
with one million dollars in cold

cash.

While Anna Dodge signed for
millions of dollars to pay off her
son’s debts, she never donated
a penny to the 30,000 Dodge
workers who toiled in his fac-
tories to accumulate that money.

She left a quarter of a million
dollars for a special fountain to
be established on the banks of
the Detroit River in memoriam
to her late husband. The Detroit
City Council has picked ons
such a spot, while thousands *
city workers get laid off for lac
of city funds. Children will have
to pay to get into the Zoo here,
the historical museum, the Art
Institute, because of no. city
funds. But a monstrosity of a

fountain will be built at a cost .

of $250,000 to honor an em:
ployer who paid workers 30-35
cents an hour and fired anyone
for: union. allegiance. janisge sw

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By BRUCE MAGNUSON

Inflation, unemployment and
the “corporate rip-off” (read
monopoly profiteering) are built-
in features of state-monopoly
capitalism, so described because
of the merger of the state with
the dominant corporations into
a single and inseparable struc-
ture. This moribund structure

’ unites capitalist governments

and the most aggressive and
monopolistic corporations
against the working class and
all the rest of our society.

This ruling oligarchy main-
tains itself in power by means
of the almighty dollar which
they manipulate to their own
advantage. Even elections are
no longer to be seen aS a part of
the customary and formal demo-
cratic processes in a bourgeois
society. They have long since
been subverted and made to
serve big capital, as part of the
state-monopoly aim to under-
mine traditional bourgeois demo-
cracy and assert its own exclu-
sive dictatorship of big capital.

It is estimated that the cur-
rent election campaign in Can-
ada will cost between $40 and
$43 million dollars, more than
90% of which will be spent by
the two old capitalist parties.

In the U.S. presidential cam-
paign the estimated cost is
around $400 million, which is
nearly 25% more than in 1968.

Result of $$ Rule.

The fact that dollars rather
than people determine every-
thing in our society results in
monstrous distortions in our eco-
nomic, social and political struc-
ture.

Our subservience’ to United
States monopolies is one of
them.

Our desperate and worsening
regional disparity in terms of
economic development is an-
other.

The present. polarization on
the national question as_ be-
tween Quebec and the rest of
Canada, which threatens to
break up Confederation, is yet
another.

Above all else, the fundamen-
tal conflict between labor and
capital, aggravated by the crisis
of state-monopoly capitalism, is
bringing the need for a funda-
mental change in our economic
and social system to the fore.
But even state-monopoly capital-
ism in crisis will not break down
of its own accord. The crumbing
of monopoly power and the.

eventual replacement of capital-
ism by a superior socialist sys-
~tem is the conscious task of a
united and revolutionary work-
ing class in alliance with all
democratic, patriotic and anti-
monopoly forces in our society.
Causes of Inflation

The crisis in labor relations
grows out of the crisis in our
monopoly capitalist society. It
arises from the attempt to put
the full burden of this crisis in
the shoulders of the workers on
the one hand, and the mounting
working class resistance on the
other.

e In the first place, the state-
monopoly corporate structure
has made use of inflation to
stimulate economic expansion.
Inflation encourages investment
in the expectation of prices _ris-
ing above the costs and further
safeguards monopoly profits by
lowering the real value of wages.

e In the second place, the
drive for increased productivity
by means of physical speed-up,
merges and rationalization meas-
ures, technological changes and
automation, assisted by state
subsidies from public funds, lay-
offs and increasing unemploy-

ment, increases monopoly pro-

fits at the expense of the work-
ing class.

e Thirdly, the costly arms
race and the barbarous United
States war of aggression in Viet-
nam aggravates inflation — both
by adding to the pressure of ex-
penditures on military supplies,
and at the same time limiting
the supply of goods for the
satisfaction of social needs, in-
cluding the crippling of educa-
tion, health and social services
of all kinds needed by the
population. \

e Finally, inflation increases
the instability of the world
monetary system; the volume of
credit has grown far out of pro-
portion to the gold and currency
reserves which the central banks
and the International Monetary
Fund have at their disposal.
These reserves are often needed
and used up to support the
value of currencies endangered
by speculative movements of a
great mass of so-called “hot
money” from one _ financial
centre to another. ;

The uneven rate of inflation as
between countries, economic
rivalries and trade wars includ-
ing the growing and unstable
mountain of so-called Euro-dol-
lars, threaten a potentially ca-

Hamilton airport project
‘shortsighted and stupid’

HAMILTON — Bob Jaggard,
Communist candidate in Hamil-

-ton West condemned the hasty

action by Don Jamieson, federal
transport minister, in agreeing
to the extension of the Mount
e Airport.
See as the Hamilton
Spectator editorial page pointed
out on March 6, the advantage
to big business in this venture
are evident. However the propo-
sition of what is good for
“Stelco, Dofasco, Westinghouse,
Firestone, Proctor & Gamble,”
etc. is good for the people of
Hamilton is at the very least
questionable. The quality of life,
the need for the elimination of
air and noise pollution, the
rights of homeowners are the
most important factors to be
considered. At this time with
the exposure -of people in pub-
lic! Office (using: their position ito)

nrifytind

advance their private fortunes
at the expense of the public
purse I feel that an investiga-
tion into the land required in
this project should be conducted.

Bob Jaggard said that while
there is a need for expanded
airport facilities this expansion
in the middle of now residential
areas is shortsighted and stupid.

There is lots of land between
Lake Erie and Hamilton for
this. Let the access to this,
whether public transit or an ex-
panded highway system be paid
for by the beneficiaries of this,
the big industrialists of this
city who can and should pay
for it.

“As a bus driver I have stu-
died the question of public
transportation and intend to
have more to say on this subject
and the whole airport pro-
posals;'; he.declared.. ; ». -

Alm ighty dolla r ravages

tastrophic breakdown in the in-
ternational monetary system.
A Phony ‘Solution’

The classic capitalist way of
bringing an inflation to an end
was to restrict the money sup-
ply and to cut wages and gov-
ernment expenditures. In the
postwar period, the growing
strength and influence of the
world socialist system, and of

_ the working class movement has

made this solution to the prob-
lem impossible.

In fact, inflation has become
an alternative to deflation, main-
taining and increasing corporate
profits and capital accumulation
by means of reducing the buy-
ing power of wages — reducing
real wages as an element in the
cost of production, rather than
directly cutting money wages,
although even this method is
not excluded in some cases.

A most common practice of
modern state-monopoly capital-
ism is to institute a so-called
“incomes policy”. The real aim
of this kind of approach is to
freeze wages, while paying lip-
service to control of the price
structure. This method, however,
provides no solution to inflation,
which is not caused by the pay-
ment of higher wages, but by
the crisis of state-monopoly ca-
pitalism as an outworn and anti-
social system.

Monopoly’s Dilemma

If we examine the modern
state-monopoly system, we no-
tice certain fundamental -de-
velopments, which on the one
hand tend to give it a further
lease of life and on the other
progressively undermine its
cesses to record.

Secondly, however, monopoly
capital is increasingly unable to
secure its growth out of the pro-
duction of goods for sale on the
private capitalist market, out of
the production of socially neces-
sary products.

As a consequence, monopoly
capital becomes more and more
dependent on the state appara-
tus for its investment funds, for
its contracts and for the main-
tenance of an adequate level of
demand.

It relies more and more on
such unproductive expenditures.
as armaments, war and advertis-
ing.

Drive for Controls

In a period ‘of sharpening eco-
nomic crisis, the state faces an
increasingly severe task in se-
curing conditions favorable to
the further accumulation of
monopoly capital.

It is driven to attempt the im-
position of more stringent eco-
nomic controls, which mean a
reduction in the living standards
of the working class and a
reactionary movement away
from capitalist democracy, such
as it is, to a more open form of
capitalist dictatorship. An exam-
ple of this is the attempt to im-
pose compulsory forms of arbit-
ration and a restriction, if not
an outright ban on strikes.

All in all we. are almost cer-
tainly faced with a protracted
crisis in labor-management rela-
tions, threatening new dangers,
but also offering new opportuni-
ties for the working class and
the anti-monopoly forces.

Scottish children
visit Hungary

Through an arrangement be-
tween the Scottish and Hungar-
ian miners’ unions, 25 children
of Scottish paraplegic miners
spent a 3-week holiday-of-a-life-
time in Hungary this summer.
The group, aged 10 to 15, was
accompanied by five experts in
child. care...

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