Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place but Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker, the letter would have passed for a piece of broad satire. But not in the humorless Worker. Last month Writer Walter Lowenfels had written an article in the Worker on the high cost of meat entitled "This Little Piggie Went to Market"-and had thereby tripped over the party line. Last week, in a letter to the Worker, he told how it had all been a horrible mistake...
...question I have put to myself is this: How did a story that was originally provoked by anger at the high price of supposedly 'cheap' cuts of meat turn into an anti-pig story? I find that the Little Piggie story changed and warped the facts in such a way that the snobbish and un-working-class attitudes our readers detected crept in and received the main emphasis rather than the high price of pork -once a staple in the diet of millions...
...gets exaggeration that completely warps the real picture and expresses contempt for pig meat, rather than sharpening the focus on the trusts that have forced its price so high ... It is not the slightness of the Piggie story that is involved here, or even the price of meat, but rather the critical responsibility to the working class of a Marxist writer...
...class and their culture ... We must, as Mao Tse-tung has pointed out, wash our hands several times each day. It was in its departure from socialist realism, with all its ironical possibilities, that the Piggie story laid itself open to the adoption of ruling-class snobbery about pig meat...
...average gin price of 45-77?) from the farm right up to finished goods, and tossed it to Harry Truman for a decision. Said he: "I am going to fight this thing through." DiSalle had good reason for his stubbornness. Raw cotton would set a pattern for meat, metals and almost every other basic commodity. If raw cotton were freed of all controls, as the cotton men wanted, DiSalle knew that he would have little hope of controlling the other basic commodities. Without such control, there was no hope of holding the retail price line...