HISTORY

...Class Forces in The German Reich PROM week to week the class struggle ¦ in Germany develops to some decisive issue...

...Assume that these boys spend some years in the barracks and then serve our ruling classes in a war...

...The World We live In A Socialist View of the Week HISTORY By William Allen Ward | WlSTORY...

...It is reported that the Japan* ese cabinet is divided as to whether Japan shall withdiraw from the League, In any event ere this is read by our readers there may be more important developments in this conflict between tht League and ont of its wild members who fifteen years ago helped to "make the world safe for democracy...

...lor example, should he come across the "Northwest Conspirscy" during the Civil War, s movement in the North for "armed struggle" to give some stales in the Mississippi Valley to the South, he will find that the loudest "slrugglers" were in the psy of the slate governments...

...Last Sunday in Berlin, a Socialist Kulturbund meeting was displaced by Hitler's brown shirts and a message from Thomas Mann, Nobel prize winner, that was to have been read was read at a Free Speech Congress...

...It is a striking indictment of modern capitalism that even before the crash in 1929 it was making outcasts of many workers of this...

...The same document ordered tht police to avoid "an antagonistic attitude" toward the Nazi storm troops and the Stahlhelm...

...Hunks and blankets will also be provided...

...If the boys are to be provided meals they are also to be fitted as food for cannon...

...A year ago conditions became so bad in New England that five state governosr appointed an advisory board which formed a corporation aril contracted with eighteen cooperatives and twelve private groups to stabilize prices...

...In his message Mann placed himself "beside the manual worker in upholding tht Social Democracy...

...Control of 05 per cent of the supply was necessary to effect this but no more than 88 per cent was controlled as two important groups remained outside...

...Af for ourselves, we do not believe that to be a revolutionary, it is necesssry to he a fool...

...He is not organizing for an "armed struggle...

...This crusade has again flared up and it now extends froin Wisconsin to Vermont...

...The president told the vast crowd that the "Leftists will soon takt Germany's fate in their own hands...

...in the lait two months...

...This decision of the Marcy Committee should arouse the maisei throughout the state and a vast and determined pressure should be brought to the legislature to force unemployment insurance to a victorious conclusion...

...Nor will he se organize...

...Looking down from his tower of isolation, he will chart plans for a revo lution...

...Copies of the resolution have been rushed to the states and indications are that many' states will speedily call state conventions...

...We invite him to undertake, it...

...He will not organize it himself, but he will sneer at others who will not organize it...

...The report is based upon a tw6 year study of 2,500 manufacturing plants...

...Dairy Farmers in Protest Movement A YEAR ago the dairy farmers were on the march against low prices of milk in the Middle West...

...An analysis of the House vote shows that the repeal trend represents a population of 105,000,000* and the opposition 18,974,000...

...This strike is expected to extend to upper Michigan, in western New York a strike is threatened against the Dairymen's League, and a state-wide movement may follow...

...In Milwaukee the Socialists are working with the representatives of a cooperative milk pool for the development of a farmer-union distribution agency for milk in the city...

...A nice little war to serve our ruling bankers and capitalists will find these uprooted boys very handy cannon fodder...

...Perhaps this modern David, seeking to slay the Goliath capitalism by "armed struggle," has in mind open organization...

...We would advise him, however, not to read history...

...The premise and the conclusion are identical with the old force-anarchism of the seventies, now extinct...

...Many probably were transformed into canned meat but we cannot eat a printer or a molder so he is turned out and told to shift for himself...

...This clear and concise action is remarkable and we note that on the day it was announced in this country, last Saturday, news came that Japan had issued an ultimatum to the Chinese to evacuate Jehol and this week Japan is attacking...

...Should the amendment earry we should not expect it to bring any marked economic relief...

...On Monday the Prussian police were ordered to shoot Communists and curb "organisations Inimical to tht State...

...A Modern David Dl A< K an individual in a toner of isolation out-* side any responsible section of the working class movement and you are likely to get a daring gentleman who is so "revolutionary" that he throws a red shadow: He "rata 'em alive...

...We will guarantee him a fine collection of stool-pigeons and police spies as charter members and' they will lie even mure earnest for the "armed strupgle" than he, so earnest that he will index them as the stalwarts who will never fail him...

...The survivors will return home to face another economic cmis and a jobless existence...

...There by "blood-thirsty rentlngs" he can make ap for his "utter Insignificsnce" in this period where tht feel and tht sgent-provoestenr msy arange a partnership ia stupid action...

...It declares that' state and private industry must make more extensive and effective provisions for their economic security...

...So men and women in industry have become a "problem" like the horse that has been displaced by the automobile...

...Meetings are being held and this farmer-union merger may prove to be an interesting experiment worth watching...

...A dozen Catholic organs came under the ban and this will tend to foster solidarity of the Catholic trade unions with the Socialist unions...

...Eighteenth Amendment Goes to the States s I AST week the U. S. Senate by s vote of 63 to 23 voted to submit repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment to state conventions and on Monday of this week the House by a vote of 289 to 121 took the same action...

...The machine and scientific management had been overstocking, the labor market to such an extent that the exploiters of labor could discharge old material and select from human material under the age of 40...

...fh« more industrial and more populated states art ranged for repeal and it it likely that action will be taken by most of the states before the end of the year...

...Everywhere these farmers complain that they receive less than the cost of production for their products, especially milk...

...Workers at Age of Forty a "Problem" lVfllM and women past 40 present a "* "real industrial problem" according to a special committee of the State Commission on Aid Age Security in a report released at Albany...

...Volunteers may enlist for a year, uniforms will be provided, and they will be put through a course of military drill each day...

...David remains in his tower, urging a course for others that he declines to follow himself...

...Over and over again it has appeared but the present instance provides one important difference...

...If ratified the Twenty-flrst Amendment will repeal the eighteenth amendment but it will also prohibit the "transportation or importation into any state, territory 6r possession" any intoxicating libuors '"in violation of the laws thereof.' Action must be by state conventions, not by legislatures as in the case of the "lame duck" amendment...

...Marcy Committee Kicks Jobless in the Fee* LIKE a bolt of lightning the report of the Marcy committee opposing unemployment insurance .legislation at Albany this year has stirred its advo-cates to the depths...

...W. David who writes in the curent number of "Our America...

...He will find thst an Indiana governor even had one of his secret agents arbitrarily thrown into jail to restore him to the confidence of dupes who had suspected the agent...

...We invite David to come down out of his tower and proceed to organize lor the "armed struggle...

...Socialists are not alone in protest against this amazing and brutal statement...

...Their children will be uprooted and go through the military barracks and so on without end...

...Others in the past who thus argued also had the courage to act in accord with this reasoning...

...Finally, we advise Dtvld' tb rentsln In his tower...

...Under the slogan, "Rather Dead than a Slave," the Reichsbanner held a three day convention with about 80,000 persons present...

...The "labor leader" who would sentence millions of his class to the dread uncertainty of the damnable charity that prevaila should go into the abyss himself...

...Marcy frankly declared that this view was based upon "(he reports that have come to us from employer...

...Socialism alone will solve the "problem" by providing useful employment for all...

...History has a habit of giving room in his pages to those who were lashed to death by the whip of bigotry in the hands of that beast, Intolerance...

...History will remember Debs...

...What became of the surplus horses we do not know...

...This was suppressed when Wolfgang Heint said that brutality was officially lauded although "the Swastika Cross was found hundreds of years ago in a Jew's grave...

...That is to say, there were some Davids active in that period...

...The League members, through the committee, declare "they will continue not to recognize this regime (Manchuria) etiher ds jure or d« facto" and hope that non-members of the League will act in concert with them...

...It was a fighting speeeh that was cheered to the echo...

...The original dispatch in the New York Times mentioned a John E. McGarry of Syracuse as a "labor leader" who also approved the Marcy decision...

...We never heard of this bird before, but here is a gem from his ponderous article: "To the extent to which the Socialist Party Is, organizationally, not preparing its members and the working class as a whole for the eventuality of an armed struggle with the forces of reaction, the party is tsctitly accepting and building upon the belief that eventually the lion will lie with the lamb...

...Meals for Youth, Youth for Cannon Ql the estimated 200,000 homeless boys roanting the United States three meals a day will be provided 88,000 of them by the War Department, If a bill before Congress is enacted...

...These observations are prompted by one I...

...Capitalism becomes more and more disgusting in its senile old age...

...so, when true history is written, there will be no ghost writers or "I stories...

...The proposal Is a disguised form of universal military training applying to a group, of unfortunate youths cast up by tht paralysis of capitalism...

...The contracts have expired and unless the dissenting groups come in the plan is likely to lapse...

...Writing of the Cologne trial of a secret revolutionary society in 1852, Marx revealed the police ¦pies connected with it...

...We do not know the gentleman but if he ia connected with any union he should volunteer to serre in the breadlines to tht end of the depression...

...The League Challenges Japan.in Manchuria WE confess surprise that the league of Nations finally voted to censure Japan for her robber raid in Manchuria, Negotiations had been under way for months and it appeared that some formula might be worked out by which the League would try to save its face and let Japan retain the Manchuria plum, The League, however, declares that Japan has set up a puppet state and that "sovereignty over Manchuria belongs to China...

...The capitalist system has transformed these human wastrels into unmarketable by-products of modem industry and even if "prosperity" returns they will still be a "problem...

...He might read of the armed organizations o" worker* in Chicago in the esrly eighties or of the groups that went undergound in 1919 and distributed circulars calling for "armed struggle" in many cities...

...Eugene Debs is dead but history will remember him .. . even though, a Fall, a Denby or a Harding might be shoved out of a chapter to give room for him...

...In Wisconsin the farmers are on strike, pickets have dumped truckloads of milk on the highways, and half the creameries and cheese factories in one county have closed...

...The Eighteenth Amendment has been basic law for thirteen years but not till the depression years did reverse sentiment rapidly da* velop...

...The Socialist daily, Vorwaerts, obtained a court decision against its sue* pension, it printed another Socialist manifesto and was again suspended...

...As a by-product of the depression this is interesting...

...In othrr word*, his report registers the will of the capitalist clans...

...Of some of the fools and dupes of that period Marx wrote: "The Psris plot . . . was under the direction of a few ambitious imbeciles and political chevaliers d'industrit in London, and of a formerly convicted forger, then acting as police spy in Psris: their dupes made up, by mhiil declamations and blood-thirsty rsntings, for the utter insignificance of their political existetiPe...

...The economic crisis u much mort fundamental than the issut as to whether we shall drink 'openly or underground...

...The Women's Trade Union League, the International Ladies' Garment Workers, the American Association for Labor Legislation, the New York Conference for Unemployment Insurance Legislation, and the president of the State Federation of Labor also express their protest against this attitude...