Word: capitalistically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a circulation of only 20,000 in its 1938 heyday, the Worker has shrunk to four tabloid pages, a publishing schedule of four days a week and sales of about 5,000-many of them to the FBI, the capitalist press and other students of the party line. Orders for its demise came from the party's national executive committee, apparently because 1) it has become a costly luxury to sustain, and 2) Editor John Gates belongs to the "right-wing" party faction that now balks at blind obedience to Moscow...
After casting the lone vote in favor of continuing the paper, Editor Gates told a capitalist-press reporter: "I intend to fight for the paper's continued existence. In any case, the Daily Worker will cease to exist when it alone says so." Sure enough, the paper appeared on the day it was to have died, said nothing about ceasing to exist or even about the party's orders. At week's end Gates was passing the same old hat, hoping to keep working the Worker until he gets the results of his appeal for its reprieve...
...hope of luring the Russians back, the commission had been enlarged to include 25 members. Thus disposing of practical roads to disarmament, he airily suggested two impractical ones: a special disarmament session of the entire 82-member U.S. General Assembly or a vague "international conference on disarmament" between all capitalist and Socialist countries...
...MERCHANT OF PRATO, by Iris Origo. A biography of a 14th century Tuscan merchant reconstructed from bales of letters and ledgers. What could have become a dreary recital is in fact a shrewd look at an early capitalist, a fine piece of social history and a graceful piece of writing...
Uppie's fight against the world was honorable, but his "industrial democracy" is as dead as Eugene Debs. His main battle-against poverty-was won not really by his Socialist martyrs but by the capitalist villains. Nowadays, the Sinclairs live in Monrovia, Calif, and at 79 Uppie is as convinced as ever that he is a power in human affairs. He notes proudly that he is the author of three million books and pamphlets "flowing into every country in the world." He keeps up the old reformer's unreformed habit of issuing letters-to-the-editor on every...