Ew Life to Land?

la Im k ! “ The real law lives in our Kropotkin - ■ p . 2 hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political | Michael Scott - p - 3 reform can fill them.” Military Training --LEO TOLSTOY in U.S. - p. 4 a n a r c h i s t W EEKLY hi. 13, No. 2 January 12th, 1952 Threepence LxT Union Leaders Cling to Nationalisation ew Life to Land? '"THE leaders of two unions have just cussed in these columns, it is unlikely’ expressed their concern that the that the Tories will interfere radically with the system of public control of the |W development in the question beginning of a revolutionary era in large farming syndicates who acquired State control of their industries shall agriculture, in which man-made deserts it at low cost and just exhausted it by not be tampered with. steel industry. All they are concerned Boss of soil and of soil- fertility repeated cropping. Are they likely, or about is the direction in which the fcently opened. This is the may be turned into blooming gardens The executive committee of the profits flow, and that the products of the Mi of a synthetic plastic “con- and green acres,” able, to expend £100 per acre on recon National Union of Blast Fumacemen, ditioning when their whole economy was steel industry shall be at the service'of (fo r exhausted soil which has Krilium does not. like compost, add in a resolution sent to Duncan Sandys, the State for its rearmament programme. the most enthusiastic nutrients to the soil; but it does affect rapid immediate returns? Erosion also Minister of Supply, referred to “un E many soil experts, agricul- the physical structure in a manner which afflicts the land of poor peasants in India certainty and confusion . during this If the profits go to the shareholders, gmists and meteorologists in counteracts the processes which lead to and Africa who would employ a soil critical period" and stated: “That we, but control remains in the hands of a erosion. It thus creates the necessary conserving method but for economic holding the profound belief that it is public corporation, the Tories will be Kill is exhausted by repeated physical conditions whereby the soil stringency. This same factor will pre impossible to assure the necessary de well satisfied—and for all we can see I loses its power to hold to- can receive nutrients and become fertile. vent them from deriving help from velopment and expansion of the industry, from the above resolution, so will the Ko hold water. Hence, in dry And. presumably, it also prevent the soil kriljum. secure adequate production of iron and unions. H top soil is blow off as “dust from being blown away and lost steel to fulfil the rearmament programme It is ironic to notice that, apart from tie in wet weather floods altogether as dust. Nevertheless, the new development and maintain full employment unless the a passing reference to full employment art from loss of productivity, Dr. Hochwalt, who introduced it to shows that even the most appalling man industry is planned and operated in the hardly to be feared in an industry so jiods have become recurrent the American Association, is the chief made depredations are susceptible of public interest, express our great con essential to war!) the main concern of liters in the Missouri and of research of the Monsanto Chemical repair when scientific research is avail cern at the decision of the Government the Blast Fumacemen’s leaders seems to galleys. Company. The company say that krilium able to be applied to it. It may be that to proceed with a Bill to annul the Iron be the rearmament programme, not the Jdevelopment is a derivative will be available commercially in 1953. a powerful new weapon against soil and Steel Nationalisation Act.” welfare of the workers. itrile, which is the starting Despite the small quantities required— erosion is now available. It remains to be seen whether our economic system The union, of course, need not worry The other union leader springing to Stony plastics, and is called concentrations of no more than 0.1 per unduly, since, as we have already dis- defend the State, is our old friend Sir ^A ccording to Alistair Cooke, cent, by weight of soil—the cost is will strangle its capabilities. William Lawther, president of the Tr/iesrer Guardian, “it is not a likely to be from £100 to £120 per acre National Union of Mineworkers. who, ■ t does not feed in new foods (2 dollars per pound of the krilium in a New Year's message told his mem m gm or nitrates. Its action is powder). No doubt costs will later come bers that private ownership was dead compost, manure or peat down. The Monsanto Company is More Pay for Civil Servants and that its return would be a disaster s* is.reconstitutes the physical constructing a 50 million dollar factory too terrible to contemplate. npHE Treasury have decided that all munications from the various Ministries, [the soil to allow its natural for the production of acrylonitrile. Without wishing to debate that at this ■■rough oxygen, water and A Civil Servants earning up to £1,500 churned out by conscientious clerks and On the face of it, krilium offers hope typists at the instruction of executives point, we must draw the conclusion that T its. But krilium works any- of advance in the struggle against soil a year (£30 a week) are to have pay Sir William does not believe that a con lone hundred to one thousand increases. and administrators, hastened on their erosion. But its expense will make it way by those Post Office departments tinuance of State control would be |uickly and powerfully as the difficult to apply except by government These have been arranged on a per disastrous. H gditioners.” schemes of the type of the Tennesse centage basis on a sliding scale, decreas who stand to gain their, 10 per cent.? { science Correspondent of the Valley Authority.' Small farmers and ing as the salary increases: thus on the We hope not. But even if we are, We do believe that the nationalisation rT/mej who attended a de market gardeners employ methods of first £500 of salary, the increase is 10%, since this is the first time that Civil of the mines has undoubtedly brought fat the American Association culture which enrich the soil and con on any part of salary between £500 and Service pay has been officially tied up the miners certain small material benefits Pyancement of Science given at serve it. Such people could afford £1,000, 5%; and between £1,000 and with the cost of living index, as that in the matter of welfare, but in return, by Dr. C. A. Hochwalt, krilium but they are the least likely to £1,500, 2£%. The increases, which will index rises and the pay increase is shown they have had to put themselves in the- ■hat krilium “will mark the need it. Erosion affects the land of the to be of temporary relief only, no doubt hands of their employers far more com benefit 600,000, will cost about £30 the Whitehall production drive will pletely than ever they did under freer millions a year. prove temporary, too. The paper flood enterprise. In all the various appeals we have had will abate and the suffering Civil Ser And the material benefits they have for restraint in pay demands, the official vants will drown their grievances in still gained are going to be nullified by the ain Carlsen and the Unknown line has been that increases in reward more frequent cups of tea. effects of re-armament—the increased must be earned by increases in pro pearly a week a ship’s cap- But the productive workers will have pressure of work, the falling value of duction. But- what do civil servants to continue to carry them on their backs. money. in has “hit the headlines”. Bulgarian produce? Must they, in order to balance The £30 millions will have to be paid their bigger pay packet, produce more Neither the steel workers nor the eir sense of what the public others adrift in boats, is surely for by people like the railwaymen, for miners are going to find security or satis j the newspaper editors have government forms? Must every docu example, who were recently granted a drama of the highest order, ment from now on be filled in in wage increase of only 8 per cent, on faction in their position in their indus ted all else to the inside pages, especially in view of the eventual quintuplet instead of merely in triplicate? incomes averaging much less than £500 tries until they are themselves in control!. [odyssey of Captain Carlsen is Shall we all be bombarded with com a year. The choice is not between nationalisation rescuing of the men and the towing or a return to private ownership—except rid of story which is lapped to a Spanish port of the part of the for those who have an interest in those our escapist society. 'How ship containing the engine room and alternatives. Capitalists want free enter people reading the accounts cargo. But nothing has been made Electric Power from Atomic Energy prise; it’s in their interests. Trade union seven day wait for the trawler of this in the Press. ' leaders want nationalisation—that’s in -TpHE U.S. Atomic Energy Commission their interests. But the workers have no ke his ship in tow, and the signed to gain technical information interest in either of these two systems of me he and the trawler’s mate has announced from Chicago that necessary for further research into the American scientists have harnessed exploitation.

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