SOCIAL DEMOCRATS CALLED TO DUTY

...SOCIAL DEMOCRATS CALLED TO DUTY "THE United States Chamber, of Commerce has re-* cently declared that private bllilnses can never provide employment for the millions of eodtiSg people Who-Still remain without means of earning a livelihood and are now dependent upon public relief and emergency projects for their subsistence...

...but if the, danger of repeated breakdown is to be averted, bold steps most soon he taken towards socializing the basic industries and making the people's needs instead of capitalist profit the controlling, motive in production...

...It admits the truth of the Social Democratic contention that a system of privately controlled production for profit necessarily involves Unemployment on a large scale, even in times of so-called prosperity...

...the splendid fight made by the Social Democrats of Reading for municipalization of electric power—these and many similar events all give ground for encouragement...

...The' harvest is ripe...

...We welcome the now dawaing hope that the schism in the labor movement may soon be healed, so that the workers may be able to advance with tmbrotren ranks on the political as well as the industrial field...

...The half-million votes east in New York for the ticket of the American Labor Party, of which* the New York Social Democrats are a part...

...Social Democratic papers have within the hut fortnight exposed a well-laid plan, backed by enormous funds, for quietly subsidizing the daily and weekly press to deceive and mislead public opinion, and the lobbyists for Big Business are becoming busy at the National Capital and in every State House...

...Yet we cannot ignore the fact that in Detroit, Akron, Canton, and elsewhere, the movement toward independent political action has for the time been frustrated by discord within the trade union ranks...

...Millions of wage workers, farmers, and people of the middle ehisses are breaking their old party ties, and groping their way toward a new alignment and a road to economic freedom...

...We wehoane the I SsTTSjaSJ of such an awakening on the political field...

...tony sender to speak saturday afternoon Tony .Sender, former member of the German Reichstag, recently returned from a trip abroad, where she has studied the governments of the principal countries in "Europe, will lecture at the Rand School, 7 East 15th St., Saturday afternoon, November 13, at 2:30 p. m. The topic of the lecture will be: "Can Hitler Go to War...

...socialization most come ¦jfTJCH as the policies of the present'administration ™" have done to mitigate the evil results Of unemployment and to favor the united efforts of the working people to defend rheir interests, they have not removed the cause of unemployment, nor have they jjet been carried far enough to meet even the immediate need...

...The reactionary forces, operating not only through the Republican Party, but through large sections of the Democratic Party as well, are today rallying to resist further development of labor and social legis- • lation and even to undo what has already been done...

...Miss Sender, after being reelected by her constituency in March, 1983, was forced to leave Germany with Hitler's advent to power...

...The steady downward tendency of industrial production during the last three months gives added emphasis to this confession of failure by the possessing classes, and suggests the fear that the nation is already being dragged toward another of those economic crises to which capitalism inevitably gives rise...

...the overwhelming majority by which Mayor Me Levy and the whole Social Democratic ticket won in Bridgeport...

...If the reapers are still too few, they must redouble their efforts and new helpers will quickly join them in the task...

...This statement, coming from the most authoritative organ of the interests which dominate the country's industry, commerce, and finance, is in effect a declaration of social bankruptcy by American capitalism...

...LABOR is awakening to die danger, bat He action must be strong, speedy, and united 1f its maeSeats are not to suffer a setback ro 1988...

...This palliative program must be upheld and extended...

...She has since lived in Czechoslovakia, Belgium, France and the United States, where she has lectured extensively...

...The masses are eager td* learn...

...The interests of profit-making business cannot he reconciled with Welfare and security for the great masses of the population...

...The Social Democratic Federation can I best servo them by extensive and intensive educational activity through the printed and spoken word...

...OUR RESPONSIBILITY OOCIAL DEMOCRATS have a great responsibility *^ at this time...

...At the moment when the Federal Housing Authority issues a public warning that the country is now already in the grip of the worst boosing crisis in history, the confidential organ of the New York real estate interests congratulates the landlords on the fact that but little constructive work is under way or contemplated, that the shortage of dwellings is acute, and that the prospects are - therefore "bright" for continued increase in rents...