The Heights And The Depths
The Heights And The Depths "THE GREAT structures of a business'-.empire' tower into the very clouds—the peaks of capitalistic achievement. And below, a growing army of suffering humanity is...
...Children starve and experts wor/y over surplus wheat...
...What they mean is that their incomes should not be excessively taxed to provide such relief...
...They go on to warn against "'excessive'' drain on n»"p"«' income" to pay unemployment relief...
...But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain...
...Never such a .xontrast before...
...It went far to condemn the wage system add to ap-' prove cooperation as a substitute...
...S) World Economic...
...Not high-raised battlement, or labored mound...
...A great international mass demonstration in the streets on Sunday, 26th July, will form the close of the Olympiad aad the overture to the Congress...
...Mars collects his greatest taxes...
...One consul is reported as refusing adrnstrancc unless the immigrant promised not to work for five years...
...And below, a growing army of suffering humanity is crawling through the valley of want...
...Railroads run half-full trains snd foot-sore -workers walk from town to town...
...2) The General Situation of the Socialist Movement aad the Fight for Democracy...
...ism," declared I?B speaker for the Croat, _ f l the A. F. of L ii (j3 the Pan-American rssfl Labor...
...Marx and Engels observed this as a factor in social change when they said that these "ideologists'' raise themselves "to the level of comprehending" what is happening...
...These axe encouraging kerns but the disaster which the depression has brought to the masses should bring the whole labor army into action on a scale hitherto unknown in our history...
...It was s mask concealing their desire for cheap labor power...
...Congress ifi fight for |9 but if we are cefeateffl will go on f-.fhHsgm trenches...
...If this Doakism is the best that a century of labor history can produce we should call in a receiver and dispose of the labor movement at auction...
...The Vienna Congress will be the fourth held by the Labor and Socialist International which was reconstituted in Hamburg in 1923 The Hamburg Foundation Congress wss followed by the Marsallies Congress la 1925 and the Brussels Congress in 1928...
...It is like saying, "we have s depression...
...The Communists had 100,000 on the square and the Socialists a hundred...
...The Congress will be preceded by the Fourth International Women's Conference of the Labor and Socialist International oa the 23rd aad 24th...
...The •fact that many unions now support socialized activity in urging old age pensions and unemployment insurance l?gislation indicates that Doakism is far from being accepted by workingmcn and women...
...j In accordance withjf^H1 torn, after a r-indpb fc] written Into the crasfl code must be devised til the constitutional prefissi though Article 128, tfttS of rights, was w r i t f J Constitution of 1917, ssB code has ever beea eractjfl fine its provisions...
...This doctrine was never the real reason that inspired our exploiting classes...
...Camp Tamiment Is soon to swing its gates open for the riearlrrrrlng of its eleventh year.' Registers have bean dusted cet and fuss put In motion, else-, tricity sparts through wires, water pours through pipes, great fires roar in the stores, the lake stars with a ripple, the boards of the bungalows glow, sod suddsBlj the Camp, which has lam so quietly sad st?i since last Buptauihti, takes on the furore sad activity of life , With considerable pride and happiness, Camp Tamiment greets new aad old campers with a new social hall and club room snd with new sports facilities...
...When the labor movement catches up with this critical view capitalism will be fighting for its life...
...Wages—the lifcblood of the" mass—grow less or disappear entirely^ Dividends—as usual...
...This ruling definitely singles out the rich...
...In fact, production of commodities for sale and profit, a social order less than two hundred years' old, is the only social order in all history that has repeatedly broken down...
...How insignificant that Socialist demonstrtaion was...
...The delegates to the Congress will arrest the demonstration before the ramp* of the Parliament building...
...If a prospective immigrant, on the other hand, proves that he already has a job here and- would not become a public charge he is excluded under the contract-labor provision of the law...
...So in the face of twenty millions of workers unemployed all over the world the representatives of industry and finance from all over the world adopt a meaningless resolution...
...Now that they have what appears to be a setmanenrJy glutted labor market, due to technical changes and new machines in industry, the eld doctrine of the Unseed Scares as sa "asylum for the oppressed of Europe" has been discarded...
...A higher standard of living is a good Socialist slogan...
...SIR WILLIAM JONES IN A NUTSHELL ita bulletin of May 9 that 8,000 Communists met ia Madison Square on May Day, paraded for two hours and then demonstrated in Union Square where 3,000 Socialists met after parading...
...sin sad divine justice...
...The agenda of the Congress was drawn up as follows at the last meeting of the Executive e f the Labor and Socialist International: ( ? ) Disarmament aad War...
...Emptied pedcetbooks and vacant shops...
...There la something m it to shut up the jails, to do away with prostitution, te reduce crime and drunkenness, aad Wipe o a t forever the sweater and the slums, the beggars and the idle rich, the useless fine ladies and lords, and make it possible for sober and willing workers to im heel thy, happy, and honorable lives.—Robert Blatchford...
...Then their agents in Congress buik up a tariff wall behind which they could gouge the meases...
...B would exclude all patP] ' agricultural worksrsM • bahar provisions ttslj —walking backwards sf*a| 19SS Mexico was H M P J lute dictatorship ef wePJ remembered by all eefl - peasants as a master St**"] Wolatano Pineda at fin Federation of Labor, the blue denim of the m$M 'worker, drew when he declared s r *B ' necessary to perfora» "Jfl 1 ary a c t we wiX » a f g | we will leave the *MMmstand with crossed 1 the labor law work by raam In pushing *-hU JJJijM business men are *C*J^H procurers of Aroertcss cswsrj 1 Romero of the TT*a*E?m 1 sad rather than sedro**§« majority of Mexican f^g such slavery, Mexico *»»»""*• to pay the naticeal would simply ?3 1 the pockets of the flm ','m Luis Rojaa Avendaae mm pointed out that theresw«aB| working peasant* *«**gj 500,000 workers,amount more then a third of the tion, not counting their ing children...
...The New York State Bureau of Women in-Industry reports that women's wages are being "sharply lowered" and that the woman wage worker is compelled to "adjust her Ufa to lower standards of living...
...Never such heights...
...The new hall is one ef the finest equipped and ideal of modern paras social balls, A modern theatrical stage equippe* J * h > «oder...
...men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes, endured, In forest, brake, or fen , As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude...
...cast aside, struggle through the shadows...
...No other words describe some sections of the American labor movement now facing problems of vast import to workingmcn and women...
...Homes are heatless and coal and oil wasted for want of buyers...
...THE materialist conception ef history starts from the proposition that the production of the means to support human life and, next to production, the - exchange of things produced, to the basis of all social structure...
...lighting ayat sm has been installed...
...This attitude may range all the way from one of mere opposition to the chums and philosophy of the ruling classes to a position of agitation for a new order to replace the old one...
...We are |0BSBB...
...War is the grave of all good, whether in administration or legislation, and It throws power into the bands of the most worthless class of statesmen.— John Bright...
...Thick wall, or moated gate...
...T a m i m e n t t o O p e n S e a s o n O n M a y 3 0 th -B-^REPARED f o r Decoration MT Day week-end aad its most Successful season...
...The bourgeois prafh will only be admitted to the full sessi wis, but the Socialist press will also be admitted to the meetings of the commissions...
...Any ism but his which brings him a nice salary while fifteen millions starve in some way undermines the foundations of the republic...
...er a t 9 vagueness of the worfieyj 8-hour dsy, the r e a sj company tinjoni and M litico of the right tetaM that "laws like this eJfflH on social revolutioa.'* % I 1 Ta ' this attack efjM declared Salvador J. l 9 fj the Railroad works* « • go forward snd dc eapj work—at the cost of t S aa latto» tt It he neeargM The government hsl CM the ideals of Zs-r-ata, * * { • revolutionist, and fa%fl up the big haciendas fSM| ants, affirmed R. Lop* *WM the National PeassstS Mexico is just s j ' i tM vided between the old*jM landlords, be said...
...Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, proud navies ride...
...being excepted...
...Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned...
...International CongressOpens On July 25th Labor Olympiad, Women's Section, Lawyers' Ass'n to Hold Sessions (By A New Leader Correspondent) ZURICH-The Labor and Socialist International publishes details s f the coming International Congress...
...The Mmtfjk o f the capitalist class over the slave osseti ss s resuit of the Ci vi i Wax was followed by s policy of stimulated immigration of workers from Europe...
...Let us work and hope for an dementai crusade among the organized workers that will eventually prove a sea that will drown Doakism, leaving behind only an unpleasant memory...
...Never such depths...
...Either the dro3 It in bad faith-or they e l brains in their feajffl yelled the crowd, (?JH nodded...
...Some Socialist Fundamentals By Frederick Engel...
...Empty factories and full breadlines...
...Millions of people unemployed—uqfed— unsheltered...
...A meeting of the International Alliance of Socialist Lawyers and a Conference of Workers' Travel Associations will be beta...
...compera,fi pointed out, that tntsssfl held up by the .act e f t fl labor code, and shaa I B workers for ositJuctaglB sage...
...Our consular agents now'have discretionary power in the matter of limitine entry...
...Executive...
...It was amusing to notice how the Catholic Bishops in this country, following the end of the World War when Europe was rocking with revolutions, adopted a program of social reconstruction which wss critical of the whole capitalistic system...
...the wax has complicated the problem bar there were industrial depressions in the past that ware, not complicated by war problems...
...The delegates were warned against "all kinds of isms," Doakism, of course...
...The appsssW thunderous...
...They came in, times of peace...
...Crisis snd Unemployment: (4) International Women's Conf?rence...
...A daaee floor which has been doubled la size will allow for the ever increaeIsjgMesaapers to ataes smoothly...
...With fifteen million people facing privation Secretary of Labor Desk tells the convention of Railroad Trainmen how happy we all, should be that he sirs in the Cabinet with Hoover...
...5) Activity o f the Executive and the Secretariat of the L. S. I. and Organization Questiona of the L. S. I. The former practice will be followed of forming Congress commissions foi each point of the agenda...
...The shift to an open affection far the rich visitor and immigrant became evident amen, dating the Wilson administration, the government placed a transport at the disposal of some Canrist refugees and brought them aerosa the Pacific to the United States...
...that m every society that has appeared in history, the manner in which wealth is distributed and society divided iato classes or orders, is dependent upon what is produced, how it is produced, and how the products are exchanged...
...New homes are begging for occupants and old men go begging for shelter...
...From Z9SS to 1939, the frequency rate roes from 19.7 to 2 s J (per 1,980,000 hoars* exposure) snd the severity rate from 2.2 to 2.6 'per 1,000 hours' exposure...
...Labor's Dividends in Steel l a the Iron aad steal industry, both the severity sad frequency of acci dents increased la 192», being the first increase la frequency recorded since 19S2, and the first in• crease ta severity amas 1926...
...S y m p t o m s o f S o c i a l C h a n ge T N EVERY age when a social system is becoming feeble and ready for burial increasing sections of the so-called "intellectual" classes turn against it...
...No doubt...
...The employing class desired an ovnsrotkni labor market to keep wages down...
...Modern Socialism is nothing but the reflex, in thought, of this eon mot in fact: its ideal reflection ix the minds, first of the class di rectiy suffering under it, the working class...
...Prom this point of view the final causes of all social changes andpoliticai revolutions ere to be sought, not in men's brama, not in man's better insight Into eternal truth and justice, but m changes in the modes of production aad exchange...
...let's wipe out the depression...
...This is one unforeseen phase of the war to make the world safe for democracy...
...It revealed the church adapting itself to changes that might sweep throughout the world...
...Asmndmg the steps of the clubroom to the roof of the building, esse finds him or herself on what first appears to be the promenade -deck of an ocean liner...
...The one hopeful sign is that in the past year or two trace unions in many states have taken- up the fight for old age pensions and some are now* fighting for unemployment insurance legislation...
...From this it also follows that the means of getting rid of the incongruities that have b e en brought to light, mast also be present, in a mote or less developed condition, within the : changed modes of production themselves...
...growing perception that existing eoeiel InaUtuUona are unreasonable snd unjust, mat reason has bscarne unreason, aad right .wrong, is fealy proof that in the modes of production and exchange changes have silently taken place, with which t h e social order, adapted to earlier economic conditions, is no longer in keeping...
...The recent report of the Economics Commission of the National Council of Christian Associations favoring a radical reconstruction of society on Socialist lines is another case in point...
...These means are not to he invented by deduction from fundamental principles.- but are to be discovered in the stubborn facts of the existing system of producThebourgeoisie 'broke up the feudal system and built upon iu ruins the capitalist order of society, the kingdom of free competition, of personal liberty, of the equality, before the law, of all commodity owners, of all the rest of the capitalist blessings...
...the shjtsesfhy, bue m the 'The...
...Cards, for delegates, fraternal delegates, and representatives of the Party press, win be distributed only by the Secretariat of the L. S. I. In order to facilitate the work of the Congress Committee and also in their own Interests, all who are attending the Congress are requested to obtain their cards before leaving home...
...hat In reality la the canvassed sparlar» The new social hall will be furnished with emiipmeni for indoor basket ha...
...MexictyjM Vows F u 2 Leaders Qiajs...
...But'we do not believe that this bootlicking is a permanent phase of our labor, history...
...A picture of human misery...
...And thti conflict between productive forcai aad modes of production is not i conflict engendered m the mind oi man, like that between origina...
...July, which will also he held ia the Concert House...
...The more we are able to produce the worse each crisis becomes...
...T t te tire*" fct s t f l fix the historical respaaTafl whatever ofcetrucum-liPfl "For a pern.^eai a* atH the rights of -abet,* jfl ment has come M a t a fl code which sweej^K a t | rights gained ) .TJWai team of the revolutflpsfl into' the const «aftarfl labor cannot s.-cept f S havesoffered to rssse^H ris?es / i n proportioaj^H must 'be through a^H agreement, to last as ksfl crisis, not by a perssfl Willingness to go t a f l in eg*»»*»g the proposs^H echoed by other sattM Mexico le to destroy ttaj to attract foreign cteSfB that we need other tnssjH the capital of the wssfl only ospitai they sar*H flows of blood which out before we let ceagj back to worse thssJH revolution," s a c ChshjH Rotas Avaaaano, off^H cal Workers...
...In proportion aa the bourgeoisie, l. capital, ia developed, in the same proportion Is developed the proletariat, the dsss of modern workers who live only so long- as they find work, aad who only find Srcrk so long as their work increases capital.— Karl Mar W e k M w to take R i e* | ~ | N E of the interesting phases of she seVacai strati on of the irmrugration hors is the wetconic fxrm^iy^ to the ocfe n^iulc Beat dooffr MZK practically closed to the poor...
...Tickets far representatives of the Press (apart from the Press of parties affiliated to the L. S. L), and for visitors, will be distributed by the Local Committee only...
...Never before such, contrasts, never such an indictment of capitalism, never before such an argument for Socialism...
...The new productive forces have already outgrown the capitalistic mode of using them...
...So the nicely tailored and well fed Desk warned against "a sea of socialized industriai activity in which our glorious "principles of freedom and democracy" may "drown...
...In that doenmem they say that, "as both industry and agriculture have experienced an enormous technical development within s very short period, it has not been possible, partly on account of the war and its effects, to harmonize production and consumption of commodities.'' But this avoids the issue instead of meeting it...
...1 Business mer...
...They urge their class to stabilize employment...
...Bends Knee tfl keeCapitaK^ ^ ^B o f Revolt IvXAgainst "«aam^B chamber of depuSs^S leaders of ':" orfana»* *? Mexico urged a gannii necessary, and a^ajl armed revolution, atssfl protest meeting «fjB in a large Mexico CT*y2 The meeting, spcasawJ United Front ausasti •ing trade unior...
...I rejoice i life for his Life is no brief candle is a sort of solendid have got hold of for the I want to make it burn possible before handling generations...
...Altogether, the Desili Ili li saw hall, with the improved ground and waterfront equipment, aria make Camp Tamiment the finest recreational center l a the East...
...A generation ago Professor Ely, before he became an apologist of capitalism, wrote: "If, aa the Socialist and the advocate of the trust system eontend, the inevitable tendency and result of economic competition be the monopolistic domination of industrial activities by private corporations, then Socialism is inevitable...
...The Civil Liberties Union takes unwarranted liberties with the facts...
...Doakism PARALYSIS of thought snd action...
...The toilers...
...Nor starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed Baseness wafts perfume to pride...
...Other games have been added, such as shuffle ball and various floor and table games...
...The Ideal State What constitutes a SUte...
...The various delegations will be represented according to the strength of the representation of the countries oa th...
...Men, who their duties know...
...and perhaps the 25th...
...They deliberateci on unemployment and agreed on a resolution hearing the cagxfiai 'ScJution of the Unemployed Problem...
...There is something in Socialism to kill Ignorance and to destroy vice...
...On the square...
...The nation proclaims its greatest d?ficit...
...The masters above stand dizzy before their roan-created canyons . . . deafened with the thunders of the avalanche of falling values...
...Best Minds Deliberate THE BEST MINDS of world capitalism were • sent to the Sixth Congress of the International Chamber of Commerce meeting at Washington...
...Jt exists ia fact, objectively, outside us...
...This futility is merely further evidence of the need of the working people to rely upon themselves, to seek for power and to use that power m eventually end the system that afflicts - them with priv?t ion...
...One may even observe symptoms of this trend in the protests made by some dailies against the naked attempt of the power crowd to take over the educational systems of the country...
...The Heights And The Depths "THE GREAT structures of a business'-.empire' tower into the very clouds—the peaks of capitalistic achievement...
...The Congress will open m the Concert House in Vienna oa the 25th of July at 3 pjtn...
...These protests go no farther than warning a powerful section of the ruling class not to endanger the whole system by making fools of themselves, yet they are also symptoms...
...The opening coincides with the end of the great Workers' Olympiad in Vienna...
...orysaaa»sm Mexican Pade ratios * • (Crom), the General fessi Labor, independent a?S National Peasants* yH "This proposed lsa>9 over the Mexican DMS the exploitation of Tasks...
...aad will probably and oo the afternoon of the 1st August...
...Capitalism is failing in the minds of many who hare accepted it as a finality in social development...
...They are to-be sought an*.{at...
...15k new clubroom, following the design of a modern hunting lodge, will he s retreat for t h e campers' delight Above the club roam is something new f o r campers...
...independently of the will snd action* even oi the men that have brought It on...
...Production and consumption never have balanced under this system...
Vol. 12 • May 1931 • No. 20
