Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1937, Page 7

" KNOX HOLDS COAL THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1937. BILL IS ‘FASCISHY Price-Fixing in Industry Is | Likenad to Program of Mussolini. A discussion of the Government oeontrol of industry in Italy and the United States is presented here in @ dispatch by the publisher of the Chicago Daily News, who was the Repubdlican candidate for Vice Pres- ident in the national election of 1936. Col, Knor is studying labor conditions on a tour of the princi- Pal European countries. BY FRANK KNOX. By Radio to The Star. —dominated and controlled by the Government—was legalized and ex- empted from the penalties of the ant{-trust laws. On the other hand, the aluminum monopoly—not subject to Government control—was dragged into court as a criminal violation of the same anti-trust laws! Is a Fascist Experiment. The only deduction from this is that monopolistic price-fixing is all right when price-fixing is under Gov- ernment control and all wrong undes any other auspices. This is the pre- cise doctrine enunciated by Benito Mussolini on Capitoline Hill last Saturday. - Whether consciously or not, he puts the American coal companies in co- operation with John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers on the initiat- ing in America of an experimental Fascist economic philosophy. Ad- ‘mittedly, the coal industry in America is a “sick” industry. Overproduction and developments in the gas and oil industry, plus quick expansion of electrical power for industrial use, have produced conditions, both for ownership and operation of coal mines in the United States must be met. But is the wisest way to meet this callenge a resort to fascism? “Pure Fascist Economios.” ° Make no mistake about this—the Guffey-Vinson law is pure Fascist eco- nomics! No doubt the Italian cor- porations and Itallan workers, in so far as both accept Pascist control of industry, had no idea that this meant for the owmer complete loss of control of his business, and for the worker complete loss of personal liberty. But that has been unquestionably so. Sub- stantially all induetries in Italy are now politically controlled and all workers are shorn of every right which the American working man holds dear. This diminution of human rights might conceivably be justified on the grounds of increased efficiency, but where can the advocates of this sort of centralized control point to any such increase in efficiency? Surely this should be visible in higher production and a higher stand- lowest among all industrialized coun- tries. Obviously, the policy inherent in the Guffey-Vinson law cannot be Jjustified on the grounds of efficiency. Upon what, then, does the administra- tion in Washington predicate this de- parture in American economic policy? If the President’s ultimate prefere ence is clearly defined in his own mind, the ocountry is entitled to be taken into his confidence. * (Copyright. 1937. by the North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc.) . Sophomore Prom Friday. Sophomores at Immaculata Junior College will hold their annual prom at the college Friday evening, it was announced today by Ernestine Garo- falo, president of the freshman class and chairman of the committee in charge. THIRD CAVALRY DRILL MARKS ANNIVERSARY Fort Myer Regiment Founded in 1846—‘‘Escort to the Stand- ards” Ceremony Presented. The 3d Cavalry was celebrating its 91st anniversary at Fort Myer, Va, today with a regimental review and drill, followed by a picnic at noon. Col. J. M. Wainwright, command- ing officer, led & ceremony known as the “escort to the standards,” which was to be followed by a review of the 3d Cavalry Mounted Band by Maj. Gen. Leon Kromer, chief of Cav- alry, U. 8. A. Organized in 1846 as the Regi- ment of Mounted Rifies, the 3d Cavalry has served continuously. Since its return from France in 1919 the regiment, less the 1st Squadron, has been stationed at Fort Myer. The 1st Bquadron is stationed at Fort Ethan Allen, Vt. Col. Wainwright has just returned from a trip of in- aspection there, RETREAT LEAGUE MEETS An evening of recollection, arranged by women of the Washington Retreat League in S8t. Matthew's and 8t. Mary's Churches, is scheduled to start with & dinner at 6 p.m. tomorrow at Washington Retreat House, 4000 Harewood road northeast. Following dinner, Rev. Joseph V. Buckley, former director of the league, will talk. Mrs. T. F. Hannan and Miss Mary Rehabetz are team cap- tains for 8t. Matthew's and St. Mary's parishes, respectively. Dr. R. D. W. Connor to Talk. Dr. R. D. W. Connor, United States archivist, will be the principal speak- er at a ball to be'held by the North Carolina Democratic Club tomorrow night at the Raleigh Hotel. Dr. Con- \ nor formerly was head of the history | department of the University of North Carolins. You may be your coat a: QurDu D SYORSD Pylena. 3291 SANITARY CARPET & RUG CLEANING €O, 106 INDIANA AVE. flad to get $1.50 for ter the moths get through with it this Summer. iy MAN Don’t bet your coat against a moth’s ravenous hunger. It costs so little to have MERCHANT’S MOTHPROOF protection. labor employed in mining coal and for capital invested in coal mines, which are intolerable. Some intelligent and new method of handling the industry is demanded. ‘The challenge to the system of private ard of living. But in the three coun- tries where political control of eco- nomics is the greatest, namely, Italy, Germany and Soviet Russia, the standards of living of the working man are generally considered as the - ROME, May 19 (N.AN.A.).—Stand- g on the old Capitoline Hill, Pre- mier Mussolini addressed the third National Assembly of Corporations on - Saturday. Through this assembly, destined to replace the dormant leg- ¢ Lilative branch of the Italian govern- ment, Il Duce dramatically outlined the definite economic structure of the PFascist state. Italian economic life, declared the | Premier, is being divided into three | eompartments-—state economy, semi- | State economy and free economy. The first of these sectors includes those basic industries and utilities which are national in scope. These are to be | completely controlled by the govern- ment. The second comprises less im- | portant and medium-sized business. which might be under a sort of quasi- control, and the third takes in all emall trades and occupations. This pseudo-freedom does not pro- tect the third sector from govern- mental dictation as to prices and | wages. As before, no combination of industries and no organization of | workers designed to maintain “fair” | prices for products or “fair” wages for Wborers are tolerated save only those combinations and those organizations which are approved and completely dominated by the government. Likened to Coal Act. ‘ This most recent pronouncement of | Pascist policy by Premier Mussolini has a direct and virtual interest for | the people of the United States. It | throws a revealing light on the recent | apparent contradiction of the Ameri- 4 ean administration policy. | ‘ Congress has enacted and the President has signed the Guffey-Vin- son act, which sets up Government | £ » control of a price-fixing monopoly in{ the coal industry. For.the benefit of this Government-controlled monopoly, 3 the anti-monopoly laws are suspended. P9 At almost the same moment the . 3 . 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