A Social Revolution in Spain?
Menendez, Jaime
A Social Revolution in Spain? Alfonso Doomed, Fortunes of Socialist and Republic Parties On the Rise By J a i m e Menendez n p H A T a social revolution la X Spain is inevitable to...
...Any time, Spain could give an overwhelming majority to the Conservatives, and a few months later, do the same for the Liberals...
...I hope tines wH day may come in my own life when I shall need to reprint or revise this poem no longer...
...Our contract," said the Altruist, "You sign it, or keep still...
...It diverts -"-"trflssff from the bankruptcy of Fish s party at WasnlngtM A "box car battalion" of jobless soldiers are on their way from Seattle to Congress to find asjjff whether anything can be done for these "nil• sal individuals...
...He was neither worm nor spoiler—he was one beyond the pale...
...Cm Yorker...
...There's nothing for yon to do...
...And how can they increase their "**_j*y saving paying us wages...
...1 William Blenko, Milton, W. V a . . 6 J. Molloy, Boston 1 Clarence W. Broomall, Kensington, Md...
...Or a savage, scarred and painted—he'd SMMH found a helping hand...
...Let us see briefly how and why it was brought about...
...This manifesto could not be published in the press, even when conservative papers were anxious to do so...
...hfisatt...
...Jobless Disfranchised CHICAGO.—The several thousand unemployed workers who have been forced to seek shelter in the various relief lodging houses in Chicago are not eligible to vote in the coming mayoralty or any other election, the board of election commissioners has decided...
...In 1921, Spain suffered one of the greatest defeats in her history in Morocco...
...J*l "oppose the finest contribution we can all to Thrift is to help the big savers save in a J**' *ho are the biggest savers...
...The ruling classes, in a futile attempt to stem the tide of discontent, appointed a commission of generals and parlamentarians to investigate the Moroccan disaster...
...The blunder comes first...
...It did so In the tragic days of 1917...
...From that very moment, Spain had no king...
...then suicide...
...developments of the last few days...
...Spain at this writing has another Government—of the Right, And if the purposes of those who have the "best interests of the country at heart" are fulfilled, we shall soon have national elections...
...They advocate a republican regime, being necessary before so doing to "liberate the Spanish soul from the vile domesticity in which the Monarchy has kept i t " Both, Dr...
...He was but a broken toiler who had never been ' In jail...
...a few days later, another 9,000...
...Membership is small, because there is not money enough to pay dues...
...Utterly indescribable conditions, together with the loss of last year's harvest helped to create a favorable environment for the spread of socialist doctrines in Southern Spain...
...but a series of agitations developed, always Miring that the "provisions of the Picasso Report be carried o u t " On the 11th of September, 1923, the Chamber of Commerce at Madrid took such a course...
...ttiTe ^ feeling that must o f toe 'oUowers of President •atom!Li...
...After such kindess, who would think You'd send us in a bill...
...This of toakvS ° ^ t o b e r ' 192...
...He was killed the following day...
...With all haste, he hurried to Melilla and thence to the interior...
...But the report was presented to Congress a few months later by General Picasso...
...Shan we...
...Take the atoned idea of wearing undershirts for exA great many of us old-fashioned gentlemen eta in the custom of wearing undershirts, Ey in cold weather...
...And keeping the waste that was left of ma As though I had sloughed In sin...
...They bought them Fords and phonographs...
...But he let the Socialist Party function during the length of his Dictatorship...
...Then he called Sanchez Guerra, the man who had sworn to serve him no more...
...J James Oneal, Mew York City...
...The national debt mounted by leaps and bounds (to-day it stands at 20,000.000,000 p e s e t a s ) . Bureaucracy, corruption, profligacy grew in proportional ratio...
...For the jail-bird sorrow laden there was P***\ | son-gate Brigade...
...The Chatterbox '0 Song of the Unemployed...
...The fate of Spain was actually settled in the Care el Modelo (Model Prison) of Madrid, the most favored resort in the country today...
...In a few days, some 40,000 soldiers were Slaughtered by the rising tide of Moroccan revolt under the able leadership of Abd-el-Krim...
...That is funny anytkow* He Died Upon die Street For the sinful gutter maiden there was haven...
...Alfonso Doomed, Fortunes of Socialist and Republic Parties On the Rise By J a i m e Menendez n p H A T a social revolution la X Spain is inevitable to generally conceded...
...tTfrn here depression turned out to be Lwirft to the psychoanalysts and at the same ff^jfri a most valuable hint for us Thrift Heaters writers...
...Of course this lie for those who lost theirs in the recent ket debacle...
...there was aid...
...is one of the most vital prob• f f ^ r o n t s our working classes today— •WP * ^?LjdJj 5and* scads of money from the all of us are now receiving.1 mf*.— that Cal Coolidge is getting in the H l * J t w o dollars a word for his piecej • P * o U gW mh t *to...
...Tmsgjne a BourbonHaps burg, accustomed from time f"iMm|| TTial to see hordes of politicians bowing down in servility abondoning his country to see Santiago Alba in Paris, and thrusting on him the task of returning the Nation to normalcy...
...of fact there is a pile of jack in this t^are t>^n usual during the depression...
...1 Nathan Fine, Hew York City...
...Just a few months ago the students imprisoned there managed to insert an advertisement in Heraldo de Madrid, telling of the low rents and admirable Irving conditions of the greatest Madrid Hotel, giving the location, which, tt wsa discovered later, was that of the Carcel Modelo...
...It is a beautiful design in rich and varied colored glass...
...If we should make them buy for cash," They said, " I t would be rude...
...The country was in a perennial crisis...
...This I have done on several occasions through re-publication...
...And j B * * ^on't leave out anything...
...and it is touching Bfcmtatkn?i...
...The Banker and the Altruist Were in a melting mood...
...He, in his turn, thought he could sway the powerful Socialist and less powerful Republican parties...
...Outstanding among these is the Union General de Trabajadores (General Worker's Union), Socialist, with a membership of 346,475...
...He had : « e n punished twice for speeches , nbecoming a general...
...And by dark burglarious plotting he had never earned a meal...
...If the final report was adverse to them, they might somehow hide it, and let the thing gradually die out...
...later, to leave his palace to go to the bed aide of Premier Berenguer, so that his resignation might be handed to him...
...These are times .calling for the utmost of caution, and Cambo is shrewd...
...They refused to accept them Strong monarchical and Catholic newspapers, such as El Debate of Madrid, sense the Impending catastrophe...
...He not only repeated his visit to Berenguer— a precedent in the history of Spanish Monarchy—but he called Senor Alba once more on the telephone...
...They are not very large, but they are extremely active...
...The system...
...Sprung from a worker* • need...
...For here's how you can all as ?5 to $25 an hour, which is the usual _hars be, by simply going home and lying down KaYafr and telling all your troubles to your Kg war 6 4 1 o r anything that happens to be L i l t house...
...She is selling today railway material to Belgium and the Balkan countries, despite the competition of the European cartels and the frantic efforts of the British steel industry for markets...
...It means going to a lady cc • r " " ^ wears gold-rimmed glasses and in B * _ > h k latter has a beard, and lying down shutting your eyes and telling the K_ »bout what is going on inside you...
...Four red shields surround the portrait of Debs, each bearing ths name of a prison where Debs served time for his class, "Cook County," "Woodstock," "Moundsville," and 'Atlanta...
...Tt is expected to raise the fond for this window by small contributions of Meade and comrades all over the country and a fax have been received which are acknowledged below...
...In the meantime, Socialism made astonishing strides...
...Held true to his weal and trust...
...issn And who can judge for crime, The hands that would never shirk The meanest task, or the quickening brain That calls for creative work...
...T . "O Allies, will you trade with a s ? " The Banker thus began, j ' "Some guns and grain and army mules On the Instalment plan,— We sen them to our special friends As cheaply as we can...
...The following is the list of contributors up to and including February 10...
...Now Allies," said the Altruist, "Our trade has but begun...
...According to a detailed survey made in Cordohh in 1928, acknowledged a* reflecting conditions in genera: sjssjssgl the peasant working population, the Spanish farm laborei gats an average yearly wage ol 1.1*0 pesetas,' Just shove three pesetas a day, whica...
...1 Total to February 10 $12 James Oneal, Trees...
...According to the census of 1990, Spain Bad a working population of soma 5400,000...
...to t h e spirit of the times and to get , ™ ta tae swing of the American tempo * a w w d 1 w a n t to m e r S e my savings with » » . f r o m n o w o n you needn't bother * w any more wages...
...It was distributed from hand to hand...
...The first of these were to blame before the coming of Primo de Rivera for the almost daily murders of leading industrialist in Barcelona, and the second are today under the guidance of Moscow, with Comrade Nin, who for years was the aid of Trotsky, at their practical head...
...He had personally conducted the operations by wire from his palace, passing over the head of General Berenguer, who was commandant general in Morocco, and communicating with his friend Fernandez Silvester, first at Almeria, then at Melilla...
...Developments in recent years point in that direction...
...in September a 24-hour strike was called...
...In one day they killed 8,000...
...Much is made today and has been made ever since 1917, of the fact that the "old politicians" are incompetent, inept and corrupt...
...The growth of social dissatisfaction in Spain made it impossible for the country to have a stable government...
...To dethrone the King would be an act of political vandalism, for the Crown is not ours...
...This report practically threw the nation into the throes of revolution...
...And a following well above the million mark...
...The present generation shows itself excessively materialistic and politically downtrodden, putting its passion above all that glorious past as well as above the future...
...There are also the syndicalist and communist groups, regarding which not much \am be said, on account of their being officially nonexistent...
...I heaped for him hills of irtig discs, I bowed to his "do" and "must" . . . X never balked at my pittance...
...They bought them soap and shoes, They paid with tears of gratitude And handsome I O ITs...
...Have nothing to give to these eager hands That they might earn for my need . . . And maddened by famine, with food in sight, I stab at my Godly creed . , . |Wj ^SBBJ I stab, and w l t a gnashing spite, I tear through the blinding weave...
...In the agricultural regions the work of the socialist and communist parites in recent years has been almost completely successful...
...Turning a little chill...
...The night of the following day, Primo de Rivera arrived from Barcelona, going directly to the office of the President of Congress, where the Report was filed...
...Everything unavailing, he could gather round General Aznar,—an old man broken in health, entirely divorced from the articulate life of the country—a few remnants of the dispersed Conservative Party and two or three crumbs from what was once a strong Liberal Party...
...in the Hall of Fame* of the Palestine University...
...IHree with President Hoover that this shows • t spirit that all of us should exhibit in ' * P of depression caused by the dumping of teheat on us...
...It is extremely likely that Comrade Nin will find his way to the first Spanish Parliament,) The Socialist Party has, then, at least a quarter of a million members holding socialist party cards...
...In the meantime Comrade Blenko has forwarded a miniature of the memorial window which may be seen in the office of The N ew Leader...
...That is typical of the Spanish general...
...Primo de Rivera avowed himself . friend of the people...
...For a day that was actually the case...
...sfOwiSV b a c k o n t h e t i m e when they r 8 a v i n ^ s w i t a the A. T. and i* with » , C ° r ? o r a t i M - As an out-of-work •KI na Wu TrJ Lf ?n cya r d remarked to me yes- Lfc•*^J?niTl clin5 r 8 t l e s s o n la self-help and m*J~JV Ts P i r*i t So 0f1 sacrifice by B U 1 G r * * n »»d Matt i r^ •Sm ^Sc dji^r " 5 5 ^ - m'act they made them to1 t8al kl oeu l td hed me a rbl vy ltohvee htaon d The Ranker and the Altruist (With Apologies to Lewis Carroll) THE War was raging on the sea, Raging with all its might The world was full of T N T ' And guns and dynamite,— But all the bread was eaten up And not a loaf in sight...
...BuUetL-'ef** A l r e T > *" * S y * * ** Even if Hamilton Fish were to get away with hie f Red Herring the article would not bring relief | a single jobless worker or hungry farmer...
...Cambo was called, but he sent his friend, Ventosa, instead...
...Pleading for work, wheedling for work...
...Pres...
...P**•» upset wondering what the hell is going Wb a t hit them such a sock that P \sxious to lie down almost anywhere and •—•troubles to anyone who is willing to listen, EfSf only folks who are making anything _*L ut gpeakeasy proprietors, the cops who |L, and psychoanalysts...
...They all wished him well...
...Federation of Labor to Back Relief Program HARRISBURG, Pa...
...Surprised to find them peasant population* listening attentively to doctrine* advocating a more equitable enonomlc system...
...With sobs and tears he figured out Sums of the largest size, Holding his income tax receipt Before his streaming eyes...
...Much has been made of the state of illiteracy of Spain, to show, that 'a social revolution there cannot succeed...
...The funniest thing I have heard lately to ebon* a certain old Socialist leader and writer who actually aspired to have a bust of himself Implanted...
...be something in it for us...
...Fernandez Silvester was the field marshal...
...all?18 t Q ^ s o m e t h i n g that a Hoover ComJ»"|ht well look into...
...And hears with the leaden thud of doom, y The words , . . "There is no work . * 'm I only ask for work . . . What is left in flesh and brain . 3 Cries out for something it must do , , . This idleness is pain . . . Or it will find something to do . . , And then will try in vain To halt the march of famished men With sanctimony's sigh . . . Hungered hearts in a time like this Beat furiously high...
...The ibortive revolutionary strike of his same year had embittered the tot so sweet relations between apital and labor...
...Every organization Is aaked to form a legislative committee to visit senators and representatives at their homes and insist on the necessity of immediate action an the federation program...
...C*flM next item comes in saving on rent, I Clew* me as I write an advertisement from CsstsaM of a snappy weekly magazine called...
...For the villain of the city there wan sorrow, there was bed, . j8i For the murd'rer there was pity—for the burglar there was bread...
...It told in clear, unmistakable terms,* that King Alfonso himself was to be blamed for the disaster, along with others...
...So, if you're ready, Allies dear, We'll start in to collect...
...A public hearing before the joint meeting of the appropriation committees of both houses is to be requested and local unions are to send delegates...
...Needless to say, the organization to whom thto matter was referred turned the ambition down . < • But of all things . . . 2 Gee...
...Visiting English lecturers are next...
...Helena...
...And the rest of us ought to •sikt make this sacrifice, especially when we •sricw far along this line the natives of A r - •<so were unlucky enough to be born Demo•hjtead of" Belgians have gone...
...Begging, nothing more , . Then once in a curious light, I posed for the fool I'd been...
...The report named King Alfonso and although it abstained from sulking that a sentence be imposed on him, it asked the death penalty for General Berenguer and for Generals Fernandez Silvester and Navarro (both had been killed in the field of battle, and hence the purpose of this sentence was just to dishonor their military conduct), and others...
...e e a It is necessary to" «j|^der the growth of proletarianism in Spain, in order to judge the possibilities of sac esse for anything bat a social revolution...
...Similar moves by the middle and laboring classes, under the active leadership of the Socialist Party, were taken in Bilboa, Valladolid and elsewhere...
...She has dries that in 1920 had already a working population ol half-a-mlUlon...
...A dictatorship tad saved the Italian king, why tot do the same in Spain...
...He went to jail to confer with the "President of the Republic," Senor Alcala Zamora, and others...
...But that j is the value of the Fish herring...
...And hopeless men in the, dark of death May kill before they die . . . This poem is an evolution out of almost twenty years of poetry propaganda writing that I have dedicated to the Socialist movement When It first appeared in the New York Call in 1911, Frank MaeDonald and Josh Wanhope asked me to work on M until it would be perfected as nearly as a poem of this kind could be made perfect, so that it become a part of the literature of labor...
...The emr \ * course...
...Me wasj betta...
...To be sure, the pickings are Km a* good as they used to be but the fact Kjhs that almost anyone of these lecturers Bf home more bacon than is the Prince of Kb all the hullaballoo connected with his Kterican trip...
...They say that in Spain today all normalcy is rotting, and that "the traditional State is reaching the last stage of decomposition...
...Before the coop d'etat in 1923, conditions had become such that the longest government for a long period of years —the "Government of Notables" presided over by Don Antonio Maura, with Francisco Cam bo as Minister of Public Works and Santiago Alba of Education—lasted only nine months: Ths average run was of about six months...
...But Consider the savtring no undershirts at all...
...Some tons of gold," the Banker said, "Are what we think correct We'll add a little tariff, too, Our infants to protect...
...In the center is Sidney Carton of Charles Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities," the author's famous story of the French Revolution...
...But the following the party has is one of the most painful thorns in Spain's body politic...
...You just lie B"****l rm and on and on and the analyst sits mB-LsZr nZotesm ands onJce in awhile says, "Ahem" say "Oho...
...The significance of the last ministerial crisis is that Spain will have, instead, a social revolution, i Before calling Sanchez Guerra to form a Government, King A l fonso called Count Roman ones— reputed to be the wealthiest Spaniard— first s a d then Marquis A l - hucemas—the man who lost the premiership thanks to Primo de R i v e r a He called Francisco Cambo — the outstanding industrialist of Spain, practical owner of Compania Hispano Americana de Electricidad and other gigantic concerns, and a man of liberal political tendencies—but he failed...
...With this he has to keep soul sad body together, and leave something for the wife sad the children...
...And he'd never stunned or strangled folks, or jumped upon his wife, And he'd never mauled or mangled any mortal in his life...
...Others of more vague character, had a membership of 209,637...
...Strange . . • I Z who was born to worts, •' • Sprung from a worker's seed...
...9| Whatever be gave . , . was Just . |j8 Then came a time of stress « , , '* Orders were meagre—few...
...It was known that the elections promised for the last few months would be arranged just in this manner, and it was the refusal of Berenguer to have municipal elections that wrecked his plan...
...And she was born in that part of Spain that many consider the nucleus of enlightenment— Asturias...
...1 Algernon Lee, New York City...
...Hoover should band them a copy of n*> j...
...Down there mtaat they still have faith in the fine old Mm institutions of self-help and to make P st the alien idea of the "dole" they are Istthout pants as well as without shirts of pf...
...Who is to be blamed...
...It asked the people to render judgment on the case of the King himself...
...There is about the "J2^emlssion of Wages, the philosophy of EBiLa n ( 1 go-it-alone that marks out the labor movement from all others in the m « fact it was not so long ago that we re-, •r-» radio speech by President Green of the g^J* m which he urged the members of that C T ^ . militant organization to put their savP1l*r sTw o f ^ biS corporations...
...Suppose you ^ boss tomorrow and say: "Look here, "Bare in a much better position to save m. My savings compared to yours are a Pwsery store business compared to the At, ? l p * c i f i c chain...
...Giving away all the marrow of me, In a game where I never could win...
...He was consistent this time, for he would serve the nation, instead...
...There were no alternatives, for although a military dictatorship loomed as a possibility, the impending general strike, keyed to take place as soon as another dictatorship assumed power, threatened to disrupt the last bit of corporate life in the country...
...The Military Juntas established in 1917 were helping make the life of •very government precarious...
...According to more recent statistics, compiled by the Primo de Rivera regime, the industrial workers were grouped in a few large unions...
...We are assured of national elections, municipal and congressional, ( I t is a Spanish tradition to return a majority to any party'in power through the handling of municipal appointments, to act as supervisory bodies, before a general election...
...I served for my master's ease...
...The forces of the old regime tried to stave it off...
...He knew he was committing suicide...
...A regiment that had been sent to Morocco had revolted...
...Mass meetings are to be organized in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Scranton, Wilkes Bar re, Brie, Pottsville and other industrial centers under the auspices of local unions and the state federation...
...Hed he been a knave or knot, be had gained av sure retreat— He was only poor and honest—so he died upon...
...F P ) — Having issued their manifesto seting forth a minimum program for relief of the unemployed, including a ten million state appropriation for food, clothing and shelter for sufferers and the appointment of a Committee on Public Safety to work against further wage cuts or towering of working standards, the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor is going forward with plans for mass agitation throughout the state...
...around our parts who isn't beating K't qnod has either a cold in the head or has « accent...
...He has eked lmamelfistence on British Scotch on the ground that has been dumped on U3 for twelve •••s, we don't recognize Russia and we do ••m England, that is at the rare times when '•Jognize us...
...To the land of Nothing-to-do, * * I trudged with minions more...
...e Moreover, the position of the industrial workers of Spain is very strong...
...All contributions to the Debs Memorial Fund will be acknowledged in The N ew Leader...
...Barcelona was in a state of virtual anirchy...
...Summing up, the Socialist Party of Spain has today a membership perhaps passing the half-a-millioc mark...
...Moreover, this refers o n l y to Industry...
...I want to show you that...
...The real situation, however, is reduced simply to this: the country cannot be ruled according to "old methods...
...So there is a big saving for you Kasdra charge for all our research...
...i * • Stunned and dumb, never questioning wbjv * Wm I dragged from door to door...
...I t is a shame," the Banker said...
...A true patriot...
...Gregorio Maranon—reputed to have cured his son of that terrible hemophilia that threatened to leave the Spanish throne Vacant— signed recently a manifesto, together with the philosopher Ortega y Gasset and the author Perez de Ayala...
...And fling a nasty sneer at Him « . , I curse . . . I disbelieve . . . And who can blame for blasphemy The soul that's an empty sleeve...
...F. Dunne, attorney for the board, looked up the law and found that a man must have a permanent residence to be able to vote...
...Spain is rapidly becoming one of - the industrial centers ol Europe...
...In consequence, its power was extended even to the farthest hut in destitute Andalusia, influencing the lives of those poor peasants who "live content with a mouthful of olives and a glass of wine...
...he begged General Aznar to come to him, he called Melquiades Alvarez to his palace, and on receiving the answer that he would not form a government, he told him to come just the same —still thinking that his personality would do the trick...
...At least 15.-000 here are thus disfranchised Politicians observed that Donna has deprived each Jobless of a t toast 35—since the selling of one's vote is almost an ethical procedure in Chicago, Debs Memorial Fund TWO weeks ago Tbe N ew Leader carried a letter by William Blenko of Milton, W . Va., regarding a proposed memorial wjndow to Eugene V. Debs to be placed in the Rand School of Social Science...
...To cause such consternations, When we have sold them so much stuff And made such protestations...
...Above all things, he was a sincere admirer of King Alfonso...
...The dictatorishlp of Primo de Rivera stemmed, to all purposes, the growth of redicaliam in Spain...
...In 1920, over 74 per cent of the inhabitants of Granada—the glamorous Granada — were illiterate, and illiteracy means that they do not know how to write and read...
...r' By years that were meant for play s I carried the load of a man...
...But he'd never learnt garrotting, and he'd never tried to steal...
...When the slaughter came, the military leader of the Spanish forces, general Fernandez Silvester —a personal friend of King Alfonso— was witnessing a bull fight in Almeria...
...At the same time, the Moroccan war was throwing the nation into practical bankruptcy...
...King Alfonso is today the most pathetic figure in the political Ufa of any country...
...and the Catholic Syndicates had 47,480...
...But Senor Sanchez Guerra is a maudlin old • sentimentalist...
...It would be an astonishing thing not to have a revolution, instead...
...Saab time I trim and chisel it down...
...We have some first-class goods to sell—" But answer there was none,— And this was hardly odd, because They'd busted every one...
...This newspaper said editorially a month ago, on account of %he Saint day of King Alfonso: "The Spain of today is in possession of a treasury unique in the world, for the Royal Family is the only one through whose veins runs the blood of Isabella the Catholic...
...It warped me aad wearied and wore, m$ But l thought It wee God'a own plan , I B And who In a lowly place like mint 1 Dare question a Godly plan . . , ? Z knew X was born to work...
...A. H. Float en...
...Of these, thirty-eight per cent were industrial workers, sixty-two per cent agricultural...
...My own mother—the wife of a public school teacher—could only learn the A B C after she was married...
...And wanting for little, I hungered for less, And knelt to the Godly creed...
...Etaf tbe new five-year plan for the restoration Ksssomic stability of the British Empire is Km asportation of lecturera from the Mother Hps to our shores...
...He hated the old politicians...
...His own personal friend...
...Phillips has sent letters to all local unions and central bodies in the state, setting forth a program of action...
...Truly I gloried and gang at my bench And plied for my dally need...
...Even if s a unemployed worker has lived at a lodging house for 30 days, generally conceived as making residence •permanent," he c a n t vote, Dunne said...
...They wept like anything to see Their Allies without food...
...I weepsjjor you," the Banker said, " I deeply sympathize...
...To this day, no outsider knows what happens to tt There were other causes leading towards the coup d'etat...
...The Altruist said nothing but— "Hand out those reparations...
...The Spaniards were caught "napping", with the forces of occupation distributed along the territory in indefensible outposts, most of them with a little road leading to them The Moroccans isolated them, and then started on a campaign of butchery...
...It did so recently in Madrid, when there was actually hunger two days after an almost general strike...
...your budget books, boys and girls, P f J l sho* you how to save and save and with, did you ever hear of psychoEffLas you did...
...i So four old Allies hurried up, All eager at the news...
...In fact we know a man who |aten bread for days because he suspects it * ont of dumped Soviet wheat...
...That was as far as they could go...
...Former Governor Ed...
...But not from us," the Allies cried...
...Jules Sauerwein, a man who has little sympathy for the Spanish socialists and communists, but who knows Spain, fears this very thing: the dictatorship of the proletariat south of France...
...Bills and charges and other things That make for expenses, grew Then one strange day, I heard him say...
...I'll just stick around and work for nothing...
...But turning to the King, let us end by saying once more that he "hasn't a Chinaman's chance...
...But the Spaniard has heard so much of this maudlin sentimentalism while the nation continues to live under utterly undescrfbable conditions of backward medievalism that is threatening vary seriously to throw everything to the devil, historical tradition, religious piety and mosarHow Every Worker Can Save Money B p urged to write a column on the W*•ji^ir' mof Thr'itf*t mfor the Workers...
...Rogues' resorts would not receive him—him, the man of honest name, And should workhouse folks relieve him he was branded with a shame...
...Maranon and Ortega y Gasset were offered portfolios by Sanchez Guerra...
...Was many other way3 of saving...
...Conditions* are almost ripe...
...No more is there an appeal' to reason...
...The Banker and the Altruist Traded ten years or so, Until the franc was stabilized Conveniently low, And all the hard-up Allies stood And waited in a row...
...Besides, many other unions are socialistic also, although they function more under the beading ot particular professions...
...SM think that anyone could "make a • • f w ^ a t sitting alongside a bird on a soft V^T all, and 3aying "Ahem" and "Oho" t^JL...
...In Madrid a meeting was held on the evening of the 22nd, which almost developed into a revolution...
...The Free Professional Syndicates had 68,344 members...
...In the southern part of the country, more than 60 per cent of the population is illiterate...
...Leaving aside all considerations, this must goad Spam to keep the royalty...
...So, much so, that the Government of Berenguer in his last days in power granted a special subsidy of 10,000 pesetas for food in Andalusia...
...In 1922, the Socialist Party had already 510 associations in the rural districts...
...It has been inherited from our predecessors and it is our duty to so pais tt to future generations, being able to say, at the same time, that the Crown of Castfile belongs to all ths peoples speaking the tongue of Cervantes...
...Jessie Wallace Hughan...
...Moreover, he has sa average enforced vacation of ovai 100 days in the year...
...I haven't had a look at the Kpales report but I 'm here to bet that any Ks .ecusw...
...to bow there has been passed no Federal l aw {attendance, upon these lectures compulsory, have an old phonograph around the house tone is foggy and a bit surprised all the mply turn it on and you will have the same h attending a British lecture...
...Of course the may not be just the same, but as you can aierstand one out of ten in either instance b you care ? Figure your entrance fee to a B lecture at anywhere from 31.50 to 33.00 and Bare you are on the right side of the budget...
...Without stopping at this time to consider the economic progress of the country during the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, we shall pass to dwell upon the...
...The King thought—foolishly—he could sway •him...
...translated al today's exchange means less thai 30 cents...
...In it I learn that there is a saving Cat tbsssnd dollars a year rent if you live at JaJ of East Sixty-sixth street, a block from assse rather than right on Fifth avenue Efjaesn get the coziest sort of penthouse E*mb< for the niggardly sum of $12,500 a year deeper end...
...m*L* tk^et tit ftatkes you from six months to a analyzed right and that you have to a . tkne to six hours a week on the job and En sb mormou3 item of saving right there...
...With Socialists forcing job insurance to the fore, and Socialism in general stepping nearer and neesnv into realization, who knows but that we maw afi live to see the day when the Song of the Unemployed will only be a curio out of a miserable pant...
...A general strike would totally paralyze the life ol the country...
...Had he been a Mongol, tainted by the blight of leper-land...
...This very situation will make it much more easy for a social revolution to succeed...
...And a general strike is hanging over the head of King Alfonso the very moment he calls another dictator and the very moment general elections are called...
Vol. 12 • February 1931 • No. 8
