The Quest For Bread
Newman, Pauline M.
The Quest For Bread Women and Children Share Places With Men on the Bread-Lines By Pauline M. Newman BEFORE me lias Kate Kolwitx's etching called "Unemployment," It shows a bare'room;...
...They were hungry...
...It is a gruesome picture to look at...
...We are not alone in facing this problem...
...A., Salvation Army and tbe Municipal lodging bouse...
...He presents an objective digest of the main characteristics of each school of economics, quoting from authorities, selecting the leading men of each school for a brief biographical sketch, giving a list of the more important works of each school, and following with a critical examination of the theories of each...
...For this compactness there is reason: those at the head of the greyblack human snake will eat - tonight...
...They would a» questionably help tc reduce ia employment to a minimum...
...As one looked at these men — and some women — one could not help getting rather low in ones own mind...
...We did...
...Destroy the Socialist movement...
...It may gain partial control of a country and then suffer a reverse...
...The opportunity to work . . . accompanying.the right is denied.—Joseph Clayton...
...A great deal has been said about unemployment...
...The Federalist Party died in 1820 and the Jeffersonian Party in 1828...
...are reduced to begging for a bit of bread and a oharlty bed in order to continue their existence...
...and many a second-hand tale have I heard of the days when the poet was barkeep there, and swept the sawdust floor...
...as a common sailor, before the mast...
...They are composed of Dem ocrats and Republicans and are th< tools of Big Business...
...And yet the most that can M done for the relief of the joblas is not sufficient under the J*M ent social order...
...of money for public works wg3| would absorb surplus laTJSfV emerg« ! n o i e 3 . Kr&r...
...And a woman with an infant in her arms checked a dollar bill...
...The worker "is lost to view among the crowds o f the unemployed...
...how good the suggestions if the} are not put into operation tha remain quite useless But to pd these suggestions m cpertatt...
...The capitalist system of production is going through a period of remarkable change and even its political guardians have no fundamental knowledge of i t 3 workings...
...And yet the tariffs, frontier tolls, custom barriers, passport red tape and other difficulties that still beset communication, travel and commerce, contribute to much irritation and misunderstanding...
...e • * The Socialist movement is as wide as the world, and its mission is to win the world, the whole world, from animalism, and consecrate it to humanity.— Eugene V. Debs...
...The world union of ItjB tarians is also working along W that will bring about another m vernal catastrophe...
...There is a line of men three, or sometimes four abreast, a block long, and wedged tightly together— 30 tightly that no passerby can break through...
...What Mr...
...Here and there you will see a born raconteur who has assembled an audience of half a dozen...
...prv g r am - does come from the Socialist Party...
...Where one school is the off-shoot of another one the origin of dissent and the evolution of one theory into its successor is traced...
...The old man looks seventy at least...
...This was all she had between herself and starvation...
...After the meal they are registered and are required to check their valuables...
...Readers of the book will differ regarding the measure of success at:lt!eved but they will probably r j r e e that the result is a useful 'u-:oduction to the history of econ mics...
...In fact, wherever one turns, there is a line of men, waiting for a morsel of food...
...appropriation c' large stf...
...This performance, so often repeated by other economists, also raises tbe question as to whether it is passible for economists to be emancipated from the subtle coercion of ruling class opinions...
...nomics is t i e hopeless War And Profits IN a recent magazine' arUts the opinion was cxprtsst that the recent war novels, (Mi the best of them, do not make (a pacifism...
...A financial item in the dailies declares that commodity prices are firm...
...to no movement of economic de I mocracy...
...Ia fart about the best j o b that a mints* ist organization could do waf...
...be merely stands there looking ahead, scornful a n d ashamed " , In these days, this scene is repeated on other streets besides the Bowery...
...civiliz*lioj?'d| ailment that is deer > rooted 1 the system...
...The Republican believes in sticking to the parties "given us by our forefathers" and adds that we could not get big business to contribute funds to a Labor Party anyway and money is necessary to finance it...
...Europe also has its unemployed but because of social insurance the workers there "are not so hopelessly given over to the miseries of unemployment as are the human junk piles of America...
...Although he has gone on fox-hunts, it is the fox, it is the horse he feels with, rather than the gentlemen who ride...
...Is there, then, nothing-W our cities, states and Nauoj mde in this matter...
...But no one seems to do anything about it...
...He declares that there are no millionaires in his party and had Al Smith been elected he "would have made all big business people reduce rates and make a job for everybody...
...Coming at the time it has, it is aho probable that the Briand proposal has in mind an eventual protective union against American tariff legislation...
...Why wait any longer...
...Within 311 pages the author has attempted to present a popular history of economics, beginning with the Mercantile System and carrying the narrative through to the contemporary period...
...Masefield knows the meaning of toil and the feelings of workers as one who has worked to the bone...
...This disease canst be exterminated without sociaHting industry and through dens cratic control guaranteeing st» ployment to all...
...Not till the human "waste-heaps" began to attract attention has there been a general demand for social insurance here...
...But what does It matter to the man and woman in the street what caused their present enforced idleness ? All they know is that they are weary from days and weeks of fruitless job-hunting...
...There are several hundred men in this extra line, none of whom, it is certain, will get anything to eat...
...be to buy up an the copier...
...For these reasons our curiosity was aroused by the announcement of the translation from the German into English of a book by Othmar Spann (The Hiator/ of Economics...
...They know that government is of "practical service" to them...
...227...
...If we could imagine these various barriers at the frontiers of every one of our forty-eight states, citizens of this country would have some comprehension of the problem that faces the nations of Europe...
...It was either a matter of retiring or face a general demand of "get the hook'' for the singers...
...It can never overlook tbe preachinc Oneal And Woll Debate The May number of "Current History" carries a debate betweer James Oneal and Matthew Wol on the American Federation of Labor...
...For the arrival of middle age brings with it a certain lowness of spirit tn the most prosperous, but much mors so smntig the poor...
...v - The Socialist Movement " V A T I T H the admission of nearly three thousand 1 new members this year the Socialist Party must be a puzzle to its opponents...
...The women who come there with children are permitted to do a little washing, and, as the matron put it—"make themselves at home:" • • • Standing behind the counter and watching the men, one can tell that they are not habitual idlers...
...For most of them are frightened, and frightened men keep quiet...
...They try hard to find a j o b . Some of them begin the search as early as six in the morning...
...some on cyclical depressions...
...Not the be-mcdalled Commander, beloved of the throne, Riding cock-horse to parade when the bugles are blown, I But Uxe -lads who carried the kopp| jc and .cflPVqt 4>{ ?nov.n...
...WHATEVER may be said of Briand's suggestion for a union of European nations he is the first one to formulate an outline of a proposal for discussion...
...The "human wasteheaps" that parade their miseries in city streets are a tragic answer to the cool quietism of those who say that political power will be of no "practical service...
...I f a European union is eventually realized it will simply be an extension of certain types of cooperation that have been realized through'various rammissions and understandings...
...If he is honest in making- these statements tbe only conclusion is that he Is not competent to discuss Marx and his views...
...Wrong opinions should be met only by fair discussion...
...To put them down by force or terrorism, or by special legislation, is a policy more dangerous than any expression of opinion can be.—David Starr Jordan...
...M-S BA • • • • SLS5.J...
...VaricenWj gestions have been nutdi^l prominent government orscigl economists and labor k j | j9 Senator Wagner, for f j SB urges a system of nauoasl j | ployment agencies, a coaaSshS to study the causes of traetslO ment...
...One feels that the young ones who come here may yet win in the battle with life's Opportunities...
...If other countries can have their Laboi Party, why not tbe United States: Why boast of our superior Intelligence and superior workmanship when we haven't got'tense enough ti have a party of our own that wil give us what the two old Big Businesi parties do not intend us to have' Let's go over the top...
...Otherwise each gets a bed in a room with several hundred other men, where all of them are glad of the oportunity to forget their plight, the forgetfulness which sleep alone can bring...
...Like Harding and Coolidge, the man has not learned how to think and there are millions like him in the United States, • e • The author's presentation of Socialism and the economics of Marx convinces us that if 1 per cent of the professional economists prove candid and objective they register a high average...
...Explanations o f the cau/: J of unemployment are even now offered freely...
...We want a Labor Fart...
...The Republican Party succeeded the Whigs in 1856 and it died with the death of Lincoln in 1865...
...Their faces are full of utter misery, hopelessness and despair...
...General Curry is not the man to neglect a Tammany boy who is in need of advice...
...is clean and ; warm...
...We ate at the same table with the men...
...His knowledge of labor Is- no deliberate learning, caught in a slumming expedition to see how the other half lived...
...You turn a corner, and here is a surprising spectacle...
...Tht m penditure could be made ia p j expansion and reducing prices...
...but it is not...
...One can go down t o any working class district and such pictures can be duplicated by the hundreds, b y the thousands...
...211: "The idea that every one is to have and to enjoy the fruit of his labor for himself alone, is tadividuaiisticaUy conceived and presupposes an economic process so ordered as to render this possible...
...Q| only difficulty 13 that, no mattS...
...The man with too weighty a burden, too weary a load...
...a First page news last Monday declared that Tammany Chief Curry would see Mayor Walker about a successor to Whalen...
...Not only Marx but Kautsky and other Marxists have been particular to point out t he impossibility of the view which Spann ascribes to Marx...
...Since the c i - » *" the World War, the war gjW are more firmly allied with Its* national "banking lntcrssttj*"1^ those in control sf the BawiSwasPJ tries of the world...
...Blood flows in ordei that the demands of High Finance may be liquidated— Von Moltke...
...A friend and I had occasion, not long ago, to spend an entire evening in tbe Municipal lodging house...
...Dosed with the dust of the battle, the din and the cries, The men with the broken heads and the blood running into their eyes...
...MaaefieJd has his eyes close to life, and his heart is of the people...
...Considering tbe controversy ovei Hoover's appointment of Judge Parker and Frankfurter's eminence in tbe legal profession tbii article is opportune and certain!} informing...
...This completely sweeps aside Marx's criticisms of T assslle on this score and also ignores his "Value, Price and Profit" of which the central theme was rejecting this argument made by Citizen Weston...
...Their clothing is left to be fumigated during the night...
...If some kid had mussed Mussi between the eyes with an aged tomato the answer would have fitted the occasion...
...Oneal declares that the unwillingness 01 inability of the old unions to adjust themselves to the new condi! tions has also produced the onlj ! unions in the world that strike against each other...
...The reason for the persistence of the Socialist movement all over the world is because it is as much the natural heir.of capitalism as capitalism is the heir of feudalism...
...War for Profits" is - * * ^ powerful weapon we k n e * , *^ j the fight to prevent the P...
...Wj* the next war to end war fB place, there will be less casts * complain that soldiers and *JS are being slaughtered for '®fM rect benefit of the m u m t M ia chemical interests of their...
...Marx is not only plainly recorded against this absurd view ascribed to him but he made it the chief reason for criticizing the German party program in a notable letter written in 1875...
...And this is the best that one of the keenest minds in the Federation can offer in the face of the most acute unemployment crisis in this century...
...He is embarrassed— nearly all these mer are embarrassed in their plight as so many children in a school play...
...that "labor's social program" inot comprehended by the "intellectual" who has had "no economu experience" and who "is attache...
...If they want to tx real leaders of the workers this ii tbe time and the place to start something worthwhile...
...They also get a medical examination, and should they need a doctor's care, they will be sent to Bellevue Hospital...
...If Masefield continues the social ardor that has burned in him till now, and if the Labor government is as strongly true as the Labor poet is staunch, things will be different in England...
...A few brave souls have achieved this emandpeiton, but they are so few that a "case can be made out for the "itbn kwartt that bouregois e«t...
...And one could hardly refrain from asking, as one looked at these members of our human society—"Can this be all ? For this tbe struggle, tbe humiliation, the suffering...
...Try a rabbit's foot, Herb...
...Commenting on the junk heaps of machinery displaced by new machinery and piled up before American factories, it observes that the "human machinery" also displaced is not on exhibition before factory gates...
...One contributor favors it and two oppose, one a Republican and the other a Democrat...
...those farther back probably won't...
...ComnrfjgB er Perkins states that irrreffljtSj ment can be eliminated, ts ta greater part of child labor m eliminated, and the infant mortal i ty rate cut in tw...
...It haunts one long after it is put out of sight...
...The hot food in tin cups tasted good...
...l>hmann-RussblodV"B that not only do the chem*-*** annament makers fish in t i W* waters of nationalistic htafft-g' suspicions, but that theJ^fH ail possible methods to kSSP ™ waters roiled...
...Tbe superintendent showed us the place in its entirety...
...Declaring that commercial bribery is on the increase, a trade executive says that owing to "the well guarded secrecy of those giving aad taking graft, split commissions, etc.," it isn't .easy to hunt down...
...One of the most amusing episodes of American life i s that at the moment when .the...
...The five day wo* week as a relief measure U afa caterd by President Green of tfe A. F. of L. . I| All these plans and suggestions are fine...
...Two other articles in this is \ sue are of special importance...
...The author...
...an older child in rags huddles on the floor near the bad, and a man, with U s bead in bis bands, sits near the woman...
...1 In The L a b o r Press A LABOR PARTY NEEDED Our present law makers sr: weighed in the balance and are fount wanting...
...The two contributors are so ridiculous that we are inclined to believe that they are Labor Party men who write to make the opposition absurd...
...Hare wars men who ware once young—children of mothers who hoped and wished for them the best life holds...
...It so happens that at the moment we are making our inspection, the first two places in this extra line are held by a white-haired old man and a boy of sixteen...
...they laugh noisily when he comes to a point, and that laughter is the only sound they ever make above an undertone...
...Obviously, the limited space assigned to this task made the j o b of condensation one of extraordinary difficulty...
...Nine out of ten have nothing to check...
...We watched them devour the bread, the stew and the coffee...
...and most ol the men lounging along the Bowery, with the "El" trains rumbling overhead, are neither...
...We were even invited to partake of the food dished out to the men...
...Perhaps one in twenty has gloves, and perhaps two in five an overcoat of some sort, an overcoat toe large or too small, or with the buttons missing, so that it has to be held together with one hand, as the great ladies hold their fur wraps going into the opera...
...The peopli as a mast are not represented, whirl includes the workers and the farm' ers...
...The slave with the sack on hii shoulders pricked on with tht goad...
...The New Era iLouiivilie, Ky) Society eaa statists, murder, aaal terr...
...for none can expect of Maaefieki mere pretty pieces for state occasions, or tales of the light brigade and tbe heavy brigade such as Tennyson turned out, or indeed such general philosophies aa Bridges' "Testament of Beauty...
...The line here forms early...
...Frey and leaders like him do is to pay homage to an "individualism" that is as dead as the code of Hammurabi...
...Laws are made and created U further the interests and the divi dends and the wealth of the wealthy Sixty-five per cent of the people ari at the mercy of the political trick sters and rich rulers...
...There, one will see another picture so realistically described by Mr...
...The women's floor, too...
...At tbe doors pf many churches, at tbe employment agencies, the T. M .C...
...plates of the book, m ittfJl pages the author packs r new of documented evidence to pro* that the armament maaanHj m o r e powerful internatiossl...
...Or one can g s down t o the Bowery...
...sr swindling...
...The central theme of Oneal...
...The drops come down in slanting lines, driven by a bitter wind, and stand in pools upon the hard packed, icy snow along the street, A bad night to be out, even if you are well shod and warmly clothed...
...Theirs be the music, the colour, thi glory, the gold...
...The right to live is admitted, reluctantly admitted perhaps, but, still admitted by general consent...
...The rank and fii< must demand and insist that this tx done, and the sooner the better...
...Mine be a handful of ashes, a mouthful of mould...
...Socialism is the advance courier of a new social order the economic structure of which is already building within capitalism itself...
...tbe setting up of a naKM al system to unify present feZ] placement systems and created ones...
...These include postal and railway regulations, cooperation in the use of certain waterways and harbors, copyright agreements, patrol ol frontiers, custom agreements and other forms of collaboration for mutual purposes...
...It may advance rapidly in other nations for the same reason...
...Labor must have a party of it own...
...Per odical unsvployment for millions is a diMa of our capitalistic...
...The drowsy man at the wheel ana the tired lookout...
...It maybe completely destroyed so far as organization and activity are concerned as in Fascist Italy and yet not be dead even in that country...
...Tbe realization of their dreams, tbe ambition of their youth, was never achieved, and was now seen only in the past, remembered only for what it might hkye been...
...he and his fellows become walking waste-heaps...
...The -bay is a straight young sapling, with curly brown hair under his cap...
...Now and then tlie cadaver thrust itself upon the attention of its eiieiTiies by local successes but they still insisted that it was dead...
...Such strikes i g r ow out of jurisdiction disputes j Woll presents a general defense ! along conservative lines which h< : has made familiar...
...It is up to the leaders of labo: to show the way...
...he is aysoped, hollow-chested, but he stands with dignity, his sad, bovine eyes of the aged look at nothing...
...IN A NUTSHELL i The laboring- man and laboring woman Have one glory and one shame...
...It hapoat that novels like All Quiet 00 tH Western Front Sergeant Grit* Death of a Harp and even aMi of the Sweetness-and-Light JO* war novels by Americans st> tp vogue...
...Lester, they themselves, undoubtedly, dreamed of glorious things they had hoped to do— or be, and now—nothing was accomplished...
...Not all the victims in tht « j j war had cause to compkua 1M they were the targets of atnnitt* tion and chemicals manufactst" in their respective countries*!^ which they were fighting...
...This anti-government attitude is satisfactory to the economic and political masters of the republic...
...Perhaps it is sfter all, too much to expect in the yetf of 1930...
...a woman and baby sick in bed...
...Charitable institutions, be they ever so wining, cannot cia- 3 evil...
...They reported it killed in 1917 and buried a few years later...
...Labor ii getting nowhere with the non-par tiaan vote...
...The sight of the Allied Powers England's Labor Laureate By Joseph Shipley JOHN MASEFIELD, successor of Robert Bridges as Poet Laureate of England, is of a starker, a more hiirnarse sort than most who before htm have held that post- His appointment, too, marks a change tn the standards for the post...
...Referred to Bruce Barton as a committee of one on Service...
...The 3 p i r i t of Masefield's work, persisting through all his poems, was set in his youth, and stands, the first poem in his first volume, and in his collected works, as his life's intent and his CONSECRATION NOT of the princes and prelates with periwigged charioteers Riding triumphantly laurelled to lap the fat of the years,— Rather the scorned—the rejected— the men hemmed, in with the spears...
...J. M. Jacobson's article on "Tht Farm and Factory Conflict" surveys the antagonism between capitalism and agriculture throughout our economic and political history He has tbe courage to interpret tbe struggle in terms of economic and class interests with the result that quite a quantity of political hokum |g b|qwa j a te frazsienu...
...Countries which are much poorer in mechanical and technical equipment, as well as in natural resources, have some measure of rtsponsibili ty toward the unemployed and the aged...
...Explanations—may they come 'from tbe great and the mighty, or the lowly^-do not feed the hungry, clothe the naked, or house the homeless...
...Bruce Bliven in tbe N e w Republic that I cannot resist the temptation to quote him...
...than before or during the rVorit War...
...After the regisstration they are compelled to take a shower bath...
...We, today, the richest country in the world, leave this problem to charitable institutions...
...but as one who ha3 made that deck smooth, that poop-brass shine...
...Outstanding in his poetry . 3 his love of the sea...
...It it not the mm tion of charity to do anyttflgJI give relief to eunergeney^H And even that it cannot sjjjgj do...
...Intense in Masefield's poetry is this common heart with the common people...
...When we come across such glaring absurdities we are justified in raising the question of the bonsty of the author of this work...
...For example, as this is written, President Hoover's speech to the TJ...
...The news arrived just as the Pennsylvania primaries reached the stage of purchase on a large scale...
...I mean something fundamental, s o m e - thing that would give a man or woman a chance to earn his or her bread without going t o charity about it...
...The section on the individualist school of classical economics should prove of special interest considering that presidents, congressmen and other economic illiterates still babble the economic lingo of a century ago...
...The Jacksonian party of 1828 died in 1860 and became the modern Democratic Party at the end of the Civil War...
...1H countries, for st the present nw of consolidation, the steel, StBwt nition, chemical and oil n t t sg win have become so internet**!* in character that there wtB.sjgS "fatherland" or "enemy" fJH Dr...
...these unhappy men move along the street, or stand huddled in doorways partly out of the rain, in two's and three's...
...The daily press has devoted much space to the "seriousness of tbe situation...
...But one does not have to look at etchings in these days to sas the reflection of human suffering caused by unemployment...
...prosperity chorus had reached its highest note they suddenly slowed up and the singers had to retire behind the curtain...
...Unemployment, like a chronic illness, cannot be cured today...
...The press service then turns to John P. Frey of the American Federation of Labor, quoting him as saying that the probFem is one for employers and workers in industry, adding that "nothing which the government can do will be of practical service...
...Their shoes are broken, their clothing in tht last stages of disrepute...
...It can be checked, it can be relieved...
...Socialism Mis-stated ECONOMICS may be a "dismal science" and yet a knowledge of economics has never been more important than today...
...Another checked thirty cents...
...Both are so naive that they are funny...
...The stock exchange has acquired an influence so great that it is able to call armed nations into the field to fight in its .interests...
...The author also credits Marx with subscribing not only to the theory of the "iron l aw of wages" but with presenting it in its extreme form (p...
...When the "style" chanjev as it soon will, the change *4 not be in the direction of b*al such as War for Profits (Kay Pub...
...Th( contribution of Felix Frankfurtei on "Supreme Court Legislation" i places a high explosive under tht theory that judges are not appoint ed to the supreme bench because of their political opinions...
...Some blame the present crisis on seasonal occupations...
...He is a blot, on the picture of proud and rich America...
...Hardly...
...What is to be said of Spann who writes (p...
...While the realization of a federated Europe would solve no fundamental problems of the capitalist order it would remove various sources of friction and promote the idea of cooperation...
...We saw their hunger...
...He insist...
...argument is that the modern economic revolution has rendered the old type of trade unionism unfitted to cope with the mass industries Where trade lines survive in old industries the old type of unionism may still serve but it is otherwise in the mass industries...
...He declare) that he and the A. F. of I,, have rejected individualism as a philos | ophy while Oneal quotes Woll him self in support of it...
...Perkta Commissioner of Labor of M York, suggested that indoahjj spend last year's profit togSj ulate this year's trade...
...I Sot the ruler for me, but the ranker th iramp of the road...
...No less than thirty nations throughout the world have expressed strong dissent with the stupid tariff bill at Washington...
...Co., N. Y . i. War for Profits is not a ksi for gold star mothers...
...The Democrat declares that it took 150 years t o build the t w o major parties so it would take as long to build a Labor Party...
...The men of the tattered battalion which fights till it dies...
...American Political .Parties \ LABOR weekly, The New Era at Louisville, Ky., in the current issue carries three contributions regarding the question of a Labor Party...
...It was succeeded by the mercenary political agents of capitalism whom Lincoln feared...
...that will represent all labor...
...The readers suffer t bit vicariously and the results as much the same as reading a raj* tery, detective or any other ksst of literary thriller...
...The sailor, the stoker of steamers ihe man with the clout, The cliantyman bent at the halliardi putting a tune to the shout...
...We are, I think, alone in doing nothing to find a solution for it...
...New York: W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., $3.50...
...Others may sing of 4hc wine ana the Health and the mirth, The portly presence of potentate: goodly in girth;— Mine be the dirt and the dross, thi dust and scum of the earth...
...The Quest For Bread Women and Children Share Places With Men on the Bread-Lines By Pauline M. Newman BEFORE me lias Kate Kolwitx's etching called "Unemployment," It shows a bare'room...
...She tig advocated the carry r jr tj even industry of its own riuctusnsl by means of an unemp.cyment ny serve fund...
...The fact is that Socialist parties are as inseparable from the devekypment of capitalism as the political, organizations of the possessing classes, A Labor or Socialist party may be arrested in its development for many years because of peculiar conditions in a given country...
...It retains the name of the party of 1856 for the same reason that a yegg uses a mask to hide his real identity...
...At tbe Municipal lodging house the line is even longer, and more compact...
...We have had not two parties for 150 years but many parties and a party of the workers is just as possible and necessary as other new parties have been in our history...
...James Russell Lowell...
...in many moods it calls to him, but he knows it, not as one who has lolled on sunny decks or given orders from a shining poop...
...One man, dean and refined looking, checked a loaf of bread...
...And if they find, nothing they return to the lodging house As they check their "valuables," one can read in their faces what goes on within them...
...Unemployment exists not alone in America but practically all over the world...
...One gets a peculiar feeling standing so close to misery and despair...
...Mussolini, the pork chop Napoleon, has just informed the world to look out or Italy will conquer it...
...Of course, the two major parties were not founded by the "fathers" and they are not 150 years old...
...The value of exports in April was 21 Vi per cent, under the same month last year despite the fact that President Hoover made a very optimistic speech that month...
...There was a saloon, not two blocks from where I lived whan there were saloons, with the picture of Masefield on the wall...
...others on technological changes in industry, and stock gambling...
...S. Chamber of Commerce appears in the press...
...The complete sweep at Reading, local victories in Wisconsin, and a heavy increase in the vote in New York Qty must have converted the wise prophets to the theory of the resurrection of the dead...
...Everything that's done Inhuman Injures all of them the same...
...Merchants, traders, and capitalists were as much inferiors under feudalism as workers are today under capitalism and just as the capitalist class became supreme so the producing masses will rise th tough Socialism and impress their ideals upon the new social order they will bring...
...It seems too cold to rain...
...In this address the before our ruling Babbitts while at the same time the speaker affirmed the need of cooperation and of a national body representing business, economics, labor and agriculture to avert the very evils of the "individual initiative" which he worships...
...Canada is already retaliating and a united Europe would certainly be better able to work out a defensive customs program that the separate nations can now...
...Human Waste-Heaps" "IN ITS press service the International Federation of Trade Unions gives some attention to the American economic revolution...
...For the capacity to accommodate the unfortunate is not unlimited, and if one comes early, and has not been there five times during the same month, his chances for a meal and shelter are good...
...Majiufachj era, she suggested, could hakt-W manufacturing staple articleS'lJ thus stimulate the buying ptsrj of wage earners and by dis^rllgl ing work evenly instead ot-m ing off the workers...
...The first party emerged as the Whig Party about 1836 and it died in 1856...
...and in his best poems, "The Widow in the Bye Street,'' "Dauber," and that simplest yet tremendous "The Everlasting Mercy," it is the pain and the passion of suffering humanity that moves in him, and moves him...
...Misery does love company...
...He does not plead witt the policeman as some of his fel Iowa do...
...Of the maimed, of the halt and tht blind in the rain and the cold— Of -these shall my songs be fashioned may tales be told.—Amen...
...we need government officials wis: will have the courare to" aettf and work for a prv^raa sf s» cial insurance even if th...
...These leaders mus stop aping aristocracy and get bap) in their own class where they o right belong...
...But tbe men and women of middie age g i v e one a different feeling...
...They cannot prewsMu physical, mental and raorat^H rioration which is bound to 9 to millions of men and n ittjsfl ing stavation...
...stimulate buying...
...method is at least a imirable...
...Indeed there is still much talk about unemployment...
Vol. 10 • May 1930 • No. 16
