A Socialist View of the Week
A Socialist View of the Week In the Republic Of the Starvelinge The flood tide of depression has not yet been reached. President Green of the A. P . of L. places the Jobless at nearly eight...
...The Ballyhoo in , * Slink Swindling rK respectable swindle known as the Stock Exchange was bared this week by Congressman La Guardia Richard Whitney, president of t h a t noble institution, had sworn that its members do nothing to depress or promote stocks and bonds...
...Then a number of s t a t e legislatures acted...
...It shot down starving peasants...
...Steel workers are facing a second wage cut of 10 per cent and in New York City thousands of teacher* are destitute...
...A. Newton Plummer has for fif teen years served as a ballyhooer for big brokerage concerns and he supplied the documents...
...All sources of information indicate an increasingly critical situation...
...In short, substitute stupidity for intelligence and t h e net result is the statesanshlp which serves our ruling classes...
...An attempt of t h e All-India National Congress to meet last Saturday in Delhi, although prohibited by t h e gov eminent, led t o clashes with tbe police and the a r r e s t of nearly 500 persons...
...churia reported that a Soviet army force of 70,000 had been massed near Vladl vostock and Japanese comment was that this action was doe to "groundless suspicion or propaganda...
...From I t s heart the granite yields no epitaph...
...It was a fine luncheon, Mr...
...A disaster...
...Two weeks ago the bright minds of the Commerce Department, the State Department, and the Tariff Commission solemnly considered reprisals against the quota sections of the French tariff...
...H. N. Brailsford In The New Leader of London writes of this decrease in land revenue which gives the government much concern...
...Agrarian Revolt In India DIA is seething with revolt and there are about 50,000 political prla oners in jail...
...Wage cuts to the left of us, wage cuts to t he right of us, wage cuts everywhere...
...Naidu, philosopher, ind others prominent in the Nationalist movement...
...Mills, and the "average man" will appreciate your kindness in introducing him to us while he goes on "liquidating" the little fellows with your kind assistance...
...In florid language they refer to the "independence movement" which is the "expression of the people's will...
...John B. Chappie of Wisconsin seeks the nomination for the Senate from the Wisconsin G. O. P . He intends to drive the "poison peddlers" to cover and repudiate the "disciples of destruction...
...As a Labor P r e -mier be had bungled enough in Indie...
...To t h e ensanguined brave The martial ode, the banners, and the rue...
...This "average man" was a s generous in campaign con trlbutioirs as the Hoover Administration is in pass lng doles to him and his kind...
...We only know that the politicians are preparing for another round up of what they regard as voting cattle...
...With all of our knowledge of agriculture and our available farm machinery a Socialist reorganization of fanning occupations would transform the countryside and substitute certainty for uncertainty, leisure for back-breaking toll, and wealt for poverty...
...At t h e Grave of an Unknown Laborer You slew no guiltless brother—therefore you Lie nameless in an unremembered grave...
...Wage cuts are also proposed for book printers and in the building trades in this city...
...I t is ex pec ted that the Board of Estimate will approve a bond Issue for $5,000,000 for relief but even this only postpones the crisis in relief of the starving from June to August...
...Churchill himself could not better satisfy the imperial masters of India...
...The world wags on Its ancient way...
...Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas passed reduction bills...
...The government," he declares,, "has granted what Congress in vain besought it to grant...
...He quoted Confucius as saying: " M a n who keeps shirt-tails Inside pants won't get them on fire...
...The politicians and dolers are treading over an underground mine...
...Peace was your guerdon...
...Mills spoke of the "liquidation that is, taking place" and of the "confidence" that is returning...
...The official pronouncements of the governing clique also correlate with the farce and are screamingly funny...
...As a fat Presi lent said in a similar situation some twenty years ago, "God knows, I don't...
...Duranty of the New York Times, who reports this, five days later wrote again of these "infantile maladies," as t h e Communists call them, which affect the "giant" industries, including iron and steel, transportation, coal, chemicals and non-ferrous metals...
...It drafted i ts terrific ordinances...
...That "average man" discovered by Mills is a very interesting creature...
...If the March freeze did not seriously eliminate the weevil the pest may eliminate much of the cotton later on...
...The prospective cell inmates were hearing from American corporations...
...While the growers were prostrate before this calamity poll ticians, Governors and editors appealed to the growers to plant less cotton...
...The old scramble is on and from Memphis comes the story that "spring in the mid-South finds the cotton farmers plowing and planting with prospects of almost us big a crop as the disastrous yield of last year...
...The various types of dole professionals have been almost hysterical the past few weeks In New York City but this week they get a temporary respite...
...If you are starving, there is a platform for you...
...The weevil will be well fed and t h e growers hope that they will at least break even if the price does not sink below five cents...
...Difficulties Fating Soviet Industrie* rJO weeks ago a dispatch from Man...
...What then...
...Those who part with their loose change should be comforted with the knowledge that they are not being robbed...
...She Is charged with having imposed about 280 separate quotas, naif of which have affected American trade, b a t t h e British schedules are also giving alarm to the bright boys a t Washington...
...They pro**-t " T ' r « t the j a w i n g up of tariffs abroad because American exports a r e h i t France offends qur Simple Simons more than any other nation...
...No sculptured shaft enshrines your valor...
...Now you have it...
...Then we g e t this inspiration: Why shouldn't our own S t a t e Department send observers to Manchuria, study the Japanese comedy and stage it in the Latin-American nations...
...The centuries look down on you and laugh...
...He will oppose any sliding "down the chute-the-chutes toward Socialism and Communism...
...The correspondent makes this comment: "It is doubtful if the Manchoukuo regime could last two days if General Honjo's army evacuated Manchuria...
...Bleak Pro$pect$ In Cotton Kingdom ONE way out of the industrial depression would be a five-year plan for the production of padded cells as many of us a r e qualifying for a permanent residence in a coop for nuts...
...He returned to this theme late last week, summing up the difficulties as "muddle, mess, hardship, learn a s you go along and unflinching determination...
...Sell but do not buy...
...One day later Isvestla, the Soviet organ, ran the head* line, "Chain of Provocation and Deceit," and declared that "Japan aims at preparing Japanese public opinion for a further extension of military aggression...
...Vaudeville Comedy In Manchuria ABOUT the funniest thing that has ever happened in the history of world imperialism is t h e regime set up in Manchuria by t h e J a p s . A committee of the League of Nations is investigating the comedy and the New York Times correspondent gives us a good laugh in portraying Pu Yi heading the show...
...I t Is this thing t h a t J. Ramsay MacDonald is sponsor of...
...Meantime our interest has centered on the condition of Soviet industries...
...The forecasters figure that the boll weevil may save t he situation...
...It consists of hundreds of millions of dollars which are passed on to the owners of these enterprises to help them in their distress...
...Our Padded Celh Are Badly Needed IF our idea of mass production of padded cells becomes a reality we are sure that quite a number of eminent politicians in Washington will be inmates...
...No more blessed word than "liquidation" can be found to describe what is going on...
...President Green of the A. P . of L. places the Jobless at nearly eight millions and notej^hjrt at this time last year 280,000 men were taken back while for t h e present corresponding period 100,000 more have lost jobs...
...Natwrt, h pit", decks your tomb -with weed...
...The Congress had kept i t s plans secret to the last moment and the session took the form of street demonstrations and shouting the texts of the resolutions The opposition to alien rule appears to be even more widespread than in 1930 and the general revolt against the land taxes through refusal t o pay and norent strikes have much reduced the government revenue from this source...
...Walls up around the United States and wails down abroad...
...This is simply a respectable crap game with the insiders playing with loaded dice...
...An Associated Press story from Moscow also confirms this...
...What it means is that through bankruptcy and foreclosure hundreds of thousands of little fellows are passing their valuables over to Mills' "average man...
...He is enjoying the only genuine dole the Federal Government has provided...
...La Guardia answered with two trunks of documentary material showing that for years high-powered financial writers had received substantial checks to boost the wares of gamblers...
...This increase in the number of t he jobless has never occurred before...
...The figures of the Labor Department show the same trend...
...The latter think of getting rich quick but get stung quicker...
...You cannot eat i t but you can vote for one who eats-'em-allve...
...Four days later the Congress of Soviet Labor Federations stressed the Importance of "labor discipline," the struggle against "bureaucracy" and "premature leftism...
...they are only being "liquidated...
...J a p interpreters are present a t all official interviews and Jap advisers "talk a t length of the magnificent idealism and patriotic fervor of the Chinese officials.'* Then there are the cynics who declare that these same officials are grafters whose "mounting expenditures for opium and sing-song girls" require more and more funds...
...These include Gandhi, his wife and sons...
...Many instances are cited...
...I t is a phase of capitalism that should invoke a pious sermon from Coolidge or from the smug Hoover...
...Last year the production of cotton was so vast that its price sank below the cost of raising it...
...He did not •forget Hoover in 1928 when he and his p a r ty chiefs were passing the collection plate around...
...The British censorship on news is rigid and yet enough information seeps through...
...none heeds The lesson of your grotesque martyrdom...
...He belongs to the plug hat tribe and is intimately associated with vast enterprises like railroads and industrial corpora Hons...
...He will expose every "undercover attack upon fundamental American principles...
...Be a hog but object to swine...
...In ballyhooing Max well Motors nine writers received $600 each but this was not unusual...
...One is provoked to such speculations by tste prospects in the Southern cotton kingdom...
...Our comment Is unnecessary, but afl this is written we think of P u Yi in relation to a letter written to a Honolulu paper by a Japanese...
...In the* background and behind the scenes are Japanese bayonets ready for prodding the posteriors of any of t h e actors who may forget their lines...
...The "Average Ulan" TWO mysterious men have been discovered in recent weeks...
...In two drives to boost the stock of the Savage Arms Company in 1924 pay checks were endorsed by Walmsley of the New York Times Murphy of the Evening Mail, Edmonson of the Wall Street Journal, Lother of the Herald-Tribune, and Gomber of t he Financial American...
...Little has been added to this tempest in the past week...
...The Boston News Bureau and the Wall Street Journal published most of Plummer's dope and how many innocents were trimmed we do not know...
...Canceled checks shqwed a total of over $286,000 paid by one publicity agent in t h e past ten years...
...But all is not dark...
...Governor Roosevelt introduced ns to the "forgotten man" and now Secretary of the Treasury Mills makes us acquainted with the "average man...
...The average village 'cut-up" could not do worse...
...That is, the revolt against paying taxes is forcing concessions...
...Capitalism is bad enough when it becomes paralyzed through the normal working out of its own absurdities but our capitalistic politicians make a bad situation worse by their stupid policies...
...Mississippi followed with reservations then the Texa3 law was sent to the mat by the Supreme Court and Mississippi repealed her law...
...Who will deny that there is a big market for our padded cells...
...Whether the "forgotten" chap is average or the "average" guy is forgotten we do not know...
...Nearly a week later they gave their a t tention to the British tariff which went Into effect Monday of this week...
...i t flung their leaders Info prison, and within six weeks it had to yield what they demanded and i t had refused...
...Our weighted figures show 22.9 per cent unemployed for April, compared with 22.5 per cent in March —an Increase of four-tenths of 1 per cent in unemployment at a season when unemployment usually declines...
...Slave That you were, and craven pacifist, your duo Of shame is paid with usury unto Oblivion, the Implacable: You gave Your broken self...
...Discriminate but yelp against' discrimination...
...On, the other hand he writes that Soviet farm plans are sided by favorable weather with hopes that the average yield of crops will increase 10 per cent...
...President Green adds this general observation: "Trade union reports are a warning that unless horns are shortened to give work to more unemployed we run the risk of a worse crisis...
...Part of the winnings go to "cappers" whose job is to lure innocents who have cash...
...The dosing of t h e Nizhni-Novgorod automobile plant was followed by tbe proposal of the Communist Youth of the Amo plant to supply several hundred workers...
...Revive trade but s t r a n g l e i t Hit t h e other fellow and whine when be retaliates...
...He is the "average man" who is nol "forgotten' by Hoover and his associate best minds...
...One way to get even for reducing wages is to reduce the votes of the capitalist parties in November...
...They have a simple philosophy...
...I t will be regarded as a godsend...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 18
