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BRAINS VS.
BRAWN
(Bj i I •■■•< Engdahl >
"What will you do with the
brainy men under Socialism?" is
the question often asked by the
skeptic and the unbeliever.
By "brainy men" is unusually
meant the men on top, the so-
Called "wizards of industry," tin
"munarchs of finance," the "kings"
of steel, lugar, coal, copper, rail
roads, ships, food, etc., etc.
* *.- •
Director General of the Rail
ways ilcAdoo has just answered
this question. He has decided
to "fire" the "brains." The
startling information comes that
he has removed all the railway
presidents in the country from
their jobs.
This is terrible, of course, ter
rible for the railway, presidents
with soft snaps and fat salaries.
l! fs not terrible for the really
brainy railway presidents. Mc-
Adoo is planning to keep these on
♦he job for Uncle Sam. But it
is doubtful whether he will find
very many of them.
It is declared that McAdoo is
dissatisfied with the work per
formed by the railroad presidents
and he will discharge a larpe
number of them, many with hijrh
I salaries.
This is the worst slap in the
face that the "brainy man" theory
has received in all its history. It
; proves what Socialists have al
ays contended, that the man
down near the bottom of the lad
der, the inconspicuous worker, is
the brains and backbone of in
dustry.
• • •
The "man at the top" has ceas
ed to be a producer, an organizer
or director of industry. He usual
ly has other qualifications if he
is not an out-and-out pensioner.
He devotes his brains, if he has
any, to looting a railroad, if he
is in the transportation business.
The story of railroad looting pres
■'dents has been written big in the
work of the Interstate Commerce
Commission and the federal court
receiverships.
On some railroads the presi
dent may be qualified as a
wrecker of organized labor, at
creating: divisions and chaos in
the ranks of the workers. Or he
may be an adept at watering the
stock of his road to the tune of
many millions. These are the
parasites hit by McAdoo's order.
* » •
McAdoo has provided for the
railroad stockholders who still be
| lieve in the "great man, brainy
man" idea.
If th<- stockholders of any rail
road feel that their "high sal
■tried president" has been unjus-t
--ly dealt with they may still re
tain him; but they must pay him
out of the profits guaranteed ny
•he government. They cannot
ihargfl his "high salary" up to
•Derating expenses. They must
'ceep him as a luxury."
If the- far famed and well :id
ertiied "railroad kings" of
America, therefore, are unable to
ret employment from Uncle Sam,
;ind if the stockholders refuse to
keep them as luxuries, they must
look for other jobs.
This certainly is smashing to
tmithereeni one of the strongest
fjillars upholding the crumbling
profit system.
* * ♦
Charles W. Huntington, presi
dent and general manager of the
Virginian railway, was the first
to go. This "railroad king"
was succeeded by a "mere direc
tor."
It is claimed that it is certain
that Samuel Kea, president of
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th« powerful mid dominant Penn
sylvania Railroad system, will be
dropped^
Among those who will be re
tamed is Richard H. Aishton,
president of the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad. He made
a record for himself, as showing
some brains, when be. sat as n
member of the Walsh Industrial
Relations Commission.
• * ♦
So the "great man" theory has
exploded. And along with him
.'(its the idea that a man can't
run a railroad or boss an indus
try unletui be Rets an exorbitant
salary; $100,000 per year; (00,
000 per year, or even 11,000,000
per year.
This idea has been shattered by
the declaration that the "federal
managers," the new name for a
"railroad president," will receive
a salary not to exceed $20,000.
Most railroad presidents now re
ceive far more than that amount.
• ♦ •
It is also announced that Me*
Adoo expects to save ,729,000
tiain miles per year on lines west
of Chicago by merely elminiatin/
some of the competition and cut
ing down train schedules.
No mention made of the argu
ment that this competition is need
ed to provide the necessary in
centive to properly run the rail
roads.
We are also told that about
$1,000,000 in waste for rentals
will be paved each year by con
solidating the numerous railroad
passenger ticket and freight of
fices in some of the larger cities
of the' nation.
No charge is made that this
elimination of waste will destroy
incentive and result in chaos in
the railroad business.
These two items offer sample
illustrations of how waste may be
eliminated by the socialization of
industry, something for which
Socialists have struggled these
many years.
• * *
But this is dealing with small
things. One authority has es
timated that the total waste in
the United States annually amounts
to $105,628,000,000. Some of the
items may be enumerated as fol
lows:
Using imperfect machinery, $3,
--000.000,000; twenty-five per cent
of factories idle, could produce
$5,000,000,000; waste of coke
ovens, $50,000,000; restriction on
patent, $2,000,000,000; manufac
ture of useless and harmful ar
ticles, $1,000,000,000; imperfect
methods in agriculture, $18,000,
--000,000; bad roads, $1,000,000,000;
advertising, $2,000,000,000; unnec
essary fire and insurance, $500,
--000,000; unemployed. $8,000,000,
--000, sickness, $1,000,000,000; and
extending average productive life
20 years, $10,000,000,000. That
indicates where some of the waste
goes under the profit system.
With reallj "brainy men" at
the head of industry this huge
waste would not occur. We are
indebted to McAdoo for smashing
the "biainy man" dream thru
the "firing" of incompetent rail
road president! in the wholesale
fashion he has set out to do
It if planned to rehabilitate
the national railroad system, that
these "presidents" brought to the
verge of complete ruin, through
the expenditure of one billion
dollars.
This billion dollars will be well
spent if the government retains
control of the nation's railroad
system and socializes it to the last
rail and the last spike. It must
not fall back into private hands
to be mis-managed under individ
ual ownership.
Similarly let the nation take
over all other great national un
dertakings, 'fire" the so-called
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"brainy" men who stand in the
way, and then proceed to rehabili
tate and socialize them so that
they can be conducted for the ben
efit of all the people.
This is the only way out. We
are hung quietly, steadily, irre
sistibly forced into the Socialist
era. The false dreams cf the
profit system are gradually being
shattered. . The world emancipat
ing Socialist dream is coming
true. Forward to Socialism.
A CONTRAST
On the same day. Rose Pastor
Stokes was sentenced to serve
a 10-year term in prison, and the
11 men accused of the murder of
Robert Paul Prsteger were acquit
ted and set free.
The constitution of the United
States guarantees the right of
free speech. Mrs. Stokes took
it at its word. She supposed that.
it meant what it said. She knew
that our forefathers had spilled
a great deal of precious blood in
order to put that and other pro
visions in effect in this country.
She believed that such provisions
were sacred. She expressed he>
honest opinions.
She is condemned to serve 10
years in prison for doing so.
She is a high type of human
being—honest, sympathetic, cour
ageous and humane. She has
spent her life working for the
good of humanity.
The 11 men who were tried
for the murder of Praeger may or
may not have been the ones who
lynched him. From the reports,
there would not seem to be much
doubt about it.
If they were the men who did
the deed, then they and the jurors
are red-handed murderers—for, in
that case, the only reason for the
verdict would be that the jurors
were assistants in the murder, as
accessories after the fact, so to
speak.
In any event, if the defendants
were the guilty parties, the pro
ceeding is an open invitation for
other savages to commit similar
murderous atrocities.
The capitalist press sowed the
wind—in the form of hatred —
and the country is now reaping the
whirlwind. Every newspaper and
every person who taught hatred
is guilty of murder. And they
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