THE COMPETITIVE STRUGGLE.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20647, 9 September 1932, Page 16

THE COMPETITIVE STRUGGLE.

TO TUB EDITOR OF THE PRESI. Sir,—Men to-day view their follows in terms of profits and arc actuated and relentlessly driven by the necessity of exploitation. The struggle for supremacy continues unabated, with the ethics of private enterprise justifying the means and methods of successful competition. In this battle, engaging the individual and the nation and groups of nations, comes the inevitable crash, which history clearly shows has continually involved the* rival competitors in armed conflict, during which human life and the welfare of the people become minor details. With the development of Imperialism and the most modern engines for destroying life and property, the determination of the nations to preserve the power of exploitation may again at any moment involve the world in conflict, which can only intensify the position. A small percentage of the population is able to produce the necessities and luxuries of the people, and we hnve arrived at a stage when millions of workers have become permanently dismissed from useful production, and millions of men are being scientifically starved. What a complete surrender to the power of gold! What a reflection upon the inte.crrity and characters of our leaders, forsaking the people to a scientific process of mass starvation and n'l the misery and dangers it entails!— Yours, etc., - • A.C.K September Bth. 1932 .