EXTINCTION OF U.S. "A MATTER OF TIME"

Official Chinese Communist handbook titled FUNDAMENTAL KNOWLEDGE ON INTERNATIONALISM, published for Communist study groups:

AMONG the nations today obviously exist two antagonistic camps: one is the anti-imperialist camp, that is, the camp of democracy and socialism, with Soviet Russia as its leader; the other is the imperialist camp, that is, the camp of war, anti-democracy and capitalism, with the United States as the leader.

The reactionary camp led by the United States is day by day showing its inferior position of passivity and isolation. Its extinction -- which means the extinction of the entire world capitalism -- is only a matter of time. All mankind is on the eve of the total extinction of world capitalism and the total victory of socialism. The animosity and struggle between these two camps are so acute that all races, all nations and classes cannot avoid being swept into the struggle.

If people do not stand on this side, then they stand on the other; if they do not join the anti-imperialist camp and help in the struggle for liberation of all the enslaved people and laboring masses in the world or struggle for their own liberation, then they join the imperialist camp and help American imperialism and its running dogs to enslave the peoples of their world or their own people. There is no third path. If somebody thinks a nation can achieve revolutionary victory alone without unity and assistance from the forces of world revolution, [or] after its victorious revolution stay aloof from the animosity between World Revolution and counterrevolutionaries, then he is against proletarian Internationalism and has fallen into the mire of Nationalism.

MATUSOW'S LIES NO PROOF OTHER WITNESSES LIED

WASHINGTON EVENING STAR:

THE firmest conclusion to be drawn from the testimony of Harvey Matusow before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee is that nothing he says is worthy of belief. It follows from this that if testimony by Matusow has been material in the conviction of any person, that conviction should be set aside. Certainly no one should be held guilty of any offense on the testimony of a self-confessed liar. It does not follow, however, that testimony from all former Communists is in the same category as Matusow's testimony. All such witnesses are suspect, and the Government should not use testimony from them unless it can be corroborated. But the mere fact that a Matusow is a liar does not prove that, for instance, a Whittaker Chambers also is a liar.

Senator Watkins may be right in saying that Matusow apparently is "deliberately trying to destroy" other former Communists who have testified for the Government. Certainly, if this is his purpose and if he were to succeed in it, it would be a master stroke for the Communists. But the Matusow case, as it has unfolded to date, does not call for any conclusion on this point. What it does call for is recognition of the dangers involved in using the testimony of informers, and of the need to take every possible precaution against giving the liars among them a chance to destroy the reputations of innocent people.

WORLD DISARMAMENT THE ONLY SOLUTION

COLUMNIST DOROTHY THOMPSON:

THE Russians have H-bombs; the British will produce them. The United States concentrates on such weapons to offset the superior manpower of the Soviet bloc. Thus we have a competition in means of death with no end in sight--until there are no more immoral governments or there is another war that will not even be war as hitherto known, but a holocaustic catastrophe. Those who say that the whole business should stop are called "idealists"--a noble sort of fool. But they alone are using reason amidst the grotesque dance of death. Total, universal, simultaneous disarmament, to be completed within a definite time, ending armies, navies, and air forces, conscription and the manufacture of conventional and unconventional weapons, is the only disarmament that requires minimum external control. It would solve the dilemma of firepower versus manpower.

The prohibition should be written into the constitution of every state, and proclaimed throughout the world. It would be impossible to violate it without immediate knowledge. Every man conscripted, every factory worker producing war material, would know that he was breaking the law of his country and of mankind. Were any state to begin to violate it, diplomatic representatives of other countries would learn about it promptly. For though it is possible secretly to circumvent partial disarmament, to overstep quotas, etc., it is impossible to arm secretly per se. When such action was even suspected would be the moment for a U.N. peace commission to investigate. "A breach of the peace" would begin with the first preparation for war, before the offender could resist U.N. [forces].

GUARANTEED WAGE WILL MEAN HIGHER PRICES

LELAND HAZARD, vice president of the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., in the ATLANTIC MONTHLY:

A GUARANTEED annual wage is money paid by an employer to people for all or some part of a year in which they are not making products. The payments are part of the manufacturer's cost and hence part of the consumer's cost. If the manufacturer has ten employees but work for only eight, he must nevertheless recover in the price he gets for his product the payments he makes to his employees for hours they did not work, or he must go out of business.

Under a guarantee of annual work the employer would purchase labor wholesale rather than retail. Industry would purchase for a year in advance what would amount to an inventory of labor. Management, confronted with the necessity of utilizing that inventory, and with the fluctuations which occur in most businesses, would need many changes in the rules. The present labor contracts are the development of fifty years of bargaining based upon the assumption that men are to be employed by the hour and disemployed instantly when a particular job runs out. The habits of mind of management as well as of workers are keyed to this assumption. Because the job of the individual worker may terminate at almost any moment, numerous deeply vested interests for the protection of that job have been built into labor contracts.

Trouble arises when an individual employer pays money for nonproduction. The cost of the products goes up and the consumer pays the increased cost. The result is exactly the same when the state pays money for unemployment, or nonproduction. Payments, whether by government or by employers, which do not result in more goods or more facilities for the making of goods result in higher prices. When machines make things evenly and uniformly, the volume is greater, the cost is lower, and therefore the price can be lower. When people are working the machines uniformly and evenly, fewer people are required. Here is the heart of the problem. How many people are really required to work the machines? When that number is ascertained, plant by plant, when there is a balance between machine capacity and essential manpower and a balance between rate of production and rate of consumption, then a question like guaranteed annual wage sinks into relative unimportance. The steady, uninterrupted work of the machine means equally steady and uninterrupted work and pay for that number of people who are needed.

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