The Abolition off Inheritance
Dans, Horace B.
A Neglected Reform The Abolition off Inheritance Socialization of Estates as a Weapon By Horace B. Dans " « i THEN you say to the average man, "abolition of inheritance," meaning of course...
...He smiled...
...Was^ther^an^atlgntween Waldman and Tuttle, and between ^Tbomas^and Edgerton...
...I. RIROSFASTIS...
...Untermyer's Blast • T H E address of Samuel Untermyer at Los An|s» gcles on Tuesday was a near Socialist analysis ©f American capitalism but it did not go beyond [Has interpretation to suggest what we are going •to do about it...
...Only worked twelve hours...
...But can't afford that now...
...i While Hoover will do nothing to destroy the "individual initiative" of the jobless and the wretched farmers his Department of Commerce is still heroically seeking out markets for capitalists and loans for bankers all over the world...
...Readtaj 1 printed copies of addrea]fl can understand the efljH aroused and also feel isjtffl such splendid Socialist da is reaching ever so nM pie...
...He merely revealed that he is qualified for the presidency by his skill in stringing words together that mean nothing...
...Sometimes, yes, ae admitted...
...Louis Waldman and Mr...
...Norman Thomas, in last week's issue of The New Leader said some very sharp things about the high officials of the American Federation of Labor...
...Insurance at Albany n p H E hearing at Albany on the unemployed insurance bill introduced by Senator Hastings shows the need of heavy pressure if any favorable action is taken at this session...
...All energy possible*should be put into the work of obtaining signatures to the bill sponsored by the Emergency Conference...
...Why, we've' had to turn away scores asking for the jobs...
...Thousands of other resorts and other police officials must be involved as the present disclosures simply lift one comer of the curtain...
...Why does he not leave it to them to stage their judicial massacres and confine himself to the task of defending the interests of the Russian people against their Communist oppressors...
...The best relief it could give to the hungry and the jobless would be to adjourn...
...Meantime, Socialists and their friends should not forget that national drive for party funds...
...Statistics of the surrogate's court indicate that in Brooklyn two-thirds of the men who -die don't even bother to make a will...
...The diet of capitalism at Albany will do little without strong pressure by the victims of industrial prostration...
...That argument is an old friend, too, but as it happens the capitalist courts will not give it any aid or comfort, because they recognize that inheritance is not a right but a privilege—we might add special privilege...
...it is not enjoyed by those who have produced it...
...Waiting for a tank to nil up, or for the stuff to boil right...
...The* 20-hour day I had met before at small Jamaica mills, but never dreamed of the 132-hour shift...
...Every kind of suppH ancial and moral—should fl Comrade Hahn to be abk-M tinue...
...That a man of Comrade Hillquit's intellectual eminence should assert that the gigantic experiment in socialization of a country of 160,000,000 people will have little effect upon the course of international Socialism is amazing at a time when conservative economists are inquiring if it does not already have capitalism on the run...
...It gropes through a fog, the whole effect of which is "histrionic, shoddy, empty of life...
...Starting from the a priori assumption that Socialism can develop only in countries already highly industrialized Comrade Hillquit dismisses Walter Duranty's reports of strides toward Socialism as unreliable...
...The whole institution of private property can only be justified on the ground that its benefits to society outweigh its disadvantages...
...If the testimony is verified it shows that $400,000 of speakeasy graft has been collected from 125 resorts in recent years by these officers...
...Oh, you may get two or three hours off a day," he replied...
...The master combines of capital have "buried their tentacles so deeply into oar economic fife" that the forty-years old anti-trust law has become absurd...
...We expected no more from this quarter as there has been no indication that the Federation would rise to its responsibility...
...In Manhattan 605,000 tons of coal was sent to over 6,000 families...
...There is no logical half-way station "A Trivial Thing" ON E must go back to the noble addresses of Mayor Walker in the campaign of 1929 to appreciate the muck which day by day spatters the scoundrels that constitute the Tammany machine...
...The Belgian refugee Colins gave much thought to the problem of inheritance, and John Stuart Mill predicted that within a generation it would be a leading political issue...
...and in England today the Liberals have been calling conferences on inheritance, while the Labor Party is only mildly interested in tbe subject...
...This at least is the method favored by as conservative an economist as Prof...
...The investor buys capital equipment rather than consumers goods, but makes work in that way Just ss truly as does tbe man who spends bis money for consumers goods...
...The only serious attempts at enforcement of the anti-trust law have been directed against "organized labor to which the law was never intended to apply...
...The result is this shoddy and empty life of . Congress...
...Inherited m uppity is not earned under say definitions...
...Many pie were attracted and (M under the guidance of abkeM perienced comrades wfllsaai renewed activities...
...Sqme day there will be a reckoning with these vandals...
...Thomas' rtanding acting as the helper Of Soviet executioners...
...Our organization is weak and afraid to usdWW| penees necessary for prjlj work...
...PAUL PORTER...
...3M The final meeting in AOBg held in the Forum of M an an Church and our lal sisted in advertising tbe MM It was fairly successful...
...primaries and stealing thai 1st nomination...
...Passing over the fact that such language certainly does not bespeak friendliness, the resolutions are decidedly unfair in their failure to mention Russia's immensely significant demonstrations that a socialized planned economy can be practiced...
...If the well fed President and Congress continue to "relieve" the starving many a tombstone in the agricultural region will bear the above quotation...
...TheStJH cities are covered with *MB ice and the authorities SS|B ently awaiting the waflg Spring and the Red Crosvil out and remove the berrJStJ stead of giving their aafl unemployed a chsncs 19 something...
...This widows and orphans argument is like the one they spring on us when we talk about nationalizing the railroads...
...The Russians themselves assert that It tt a dictatorship by the Communist Party and figures of its membership show that the party represents but a small fraction of the total Russian masses...
...Up-State SodellB waling and ready to * a fH cause and understand tast j are more receptive than WI but encouragement ess M necessary We dowB-Stafta iste must assist...
...Jimmie Walker, the window dressing for this unspeakable thing known as Tammany politics, in defense of his regime once said that "A trivial tiring dressed up will often assume a world of importance...
...In America we can seek a more desirable Socialism by democratic methods, but we neither deserve the name of Socialists nor can expect to win tbe support of American workers unless we can offer a better society than Russia is building...
...So far so good, but the speaker then turned to a laudation of Governor Roosevelt and in doing so he led his audience back into the moron politics which he had just denounced...
...In the writings of Lenin...
...I speak of (1) the resolution presented at the Newark meeting of the N. E. C. by Comrades Oneal and Sh&rts that denounces "the brutal extermination of Socialists and other workers" and continues "because the Soviet Republic claims to be a working class government, this barbarous reign of intolerance and terrorism is peculiarly a betrayal of liberty and working class ideals...
...If you can't the government comes along and sells i t There's no land left for poor people...
...I go home...
...The institution of private property and unequal distribution of wealth rests in largo part oa the institution of inheritance...
...The Democrats, who once carried the banner of snk...
...Why has it not used Abe articles of Anna Louise Strong, Ed Falkoski and others available through Federated Press Service...
...Do you have many of those continuous weeks in a season...
...A moment's thought will show that if the inheritance of private property really were abolished widows and orphans would be properly taken care of for the first time...
...and why It Is not true that increased investment should necesarily lead to "overproduction" and consequently to hard times...
...American capitalism has so many diseases that it reminds us of a one-legged man on crutches, with eye-sight impaired, water in his veins, and hobbling to a destination, he knows not where...
...gress that met to hear the first message from the Great Engineer is today "in the rattle of dissolution...
...BRONX FUSE FELLOWSHIP The Bronx Free Fellowship in cooperation with the Piatt School of Music will present an —fine concert this Saturday evening, Feb...
...The cane would run only from 6 a. m. to 10 p. m. today...
...The assistant manager, a young Englishman, told us the average wage for fulltime work was 12 to 15 shillings a week—$2.88 to $3.60...
...port capitalism have *JSj to point out that prowS^Sl are used to by the P * f ^ ^ 3 dustry Just as much * v jj therefore the mere esJWSSj is not enough to hrtsg.f*.' JM production" and h**Si?lB»al existence of profit...
...Therefore the way to encourage capital accumulation is to tax the poor...
...21st, for its members and friends, in the Banquet Boom of the Fellowship, Azure Masonic Temple...
...Llsyd ' -m arONTEGO BAT, Jamaica.— jyjL Sugar is messy stuff...
...Tuttle both denounced Tammany corruption and opposed the re-election of Governor Roosevelt in the recent campaign...
...it perpetuates class distinctions...
...At night you can't leave, because you never can tell Just how the stuff will run and you need two to handle tt when it's ready...
...The details do not concern us here but it is shocking tliat human beings vested with the power of the law can thus prey upon defenceless women...
...meetings all demonstrs&H vtval of interest in our BM and even under unkindly...
...Then they will tell you that inheritance is a natural right...
...Education, art, science should all be integrated parts of the national life...
...Shaplen's point of view is emotionally so tempered by his personal association with the Kerensky regime that it might b: Ignored if he were alone in trying to express through the Socialist Party a personal resentment against the Soviet government...
...in what sense a man who invests his money spends it...
...Mayor Mackey of Philadelphia declares that there are 250,000 persons, including 50,000 children, in the city without the bare necessities of life...
...Perthe ens esse sad Matthew WoU to* the real and plain distinctions...
...But if Comrade Porter finds our position with regard to »n-Tisn Bolshevism "scarcely distinguishable" from the position of monarchist and capitalist reactionaries...
...Worry about the child's future will always be present, of course, until the present system of wealth distribution is altered...
...There are two men in each section...
...Insofar as they depend on the wills of dead men*, they are on an insecure basis...
...A Neglected Reform The Abolition off Inheritance Socialization of Estates as a Weapon By Horace B. Dans " « i THEN you say to the average man, "abolition of inheritance," meaning of course the inheritance of private property, Ids first reaction is, "What about the widows sad orphans...
...IN A NUTSHELL Discussing the plight of the starving farmers in the West on Lincoln's Birthday, President Hoover said that "buried in this problem lies something even deeper...
...Edgerton of the National Association of Manufacturers...
...Investing money is the same as spending money only in the sense that investment Is buying the products of industry and thus turn toning work just ss much as spending money is...
...Even innocent girls have been framed to serve the itching palms of these scoundrels...
...oS for twelve shillings...
...The Prince of Wales is on a tour to increase the sale of British soap, steel and other commodities...
...Anyway the men are contented...
...and as it happens this form of private property is neither right nor expedient...
...Considering that "ours is the veritable paradise of the demagogue and ignoramus in public life," we drift without knowing the end...
...But further, when Eccarius and the Geneva group in the First International came forward with a proposal to abolish inheritance, Marx, who was then on the outs with Eccarius, produced a labored argument to prove that Eccarius was a nitwit for having suggested such a thing...
...Some weeks, when the cane is coming in heavy, we start Monday at 6 a. m. and work right through till 8 p. m. Saturday, night and day," says an assistant foreman, a skinny colored man with a taking grin in his skull...
...Sleep," he answered with a deep breath, though he added hastily, as if fearing a catch question, "and sometimes go to church...
...The audita very responsive and s f l quantity of literature dB and distributed...
...Tbe anti-trust law is a paper sword against capitalist combinations and a Damascus blade to decapitate trade unionism...
...Getting so you'd have to pay ?60 (about $291) for any land worth while and you'd have to pay 13 »ttinir»g f f a year tax on that...
...Mo overproduction necessarily results therefore unless we assume t>»»t people don't want mors goods than they already have or they need, and that assumption M acsaasbySkss...
...ALGERNON LEE...
...There have been other acts of Socialists that I think indicate an unfriendliness, although I do not wish to be misinterpreted as saying that these comrades have entered into an fflhujee with reactionaries...
...All Socialists, and nearly all economists are in favor of the inheritance tax...
...The only thing certain is the next general election and the maneuvering of each party to win the largest number of offices...
...Well, last year the season was six months, and we had about 15 weeks like that...
...It has no program on an issue that vitally concerns many thousands of its own members to say nothing of hundreds of thousands of workers in general...
...is paying ?7 10a (about $36.50) for a ton of r aw sugar, and it costs us ?13 4s cd (about $64.50) to produce a ton...
...The 13ifhour shift haunted me...
...With most of tbe economists today falling over each other to point out that excess capital accumulation and deficient spending was a big cause "of the present depression, it looks funny to be worrying over the drying up of capital funds...
...This was due prSM to the fine work of HenVjfl ton, of Newark, N. J., anal sistance of many Utica flSH and the interest aroused wLlative hearings in town mm ing the recently elected DfJ tic States whose victory wsil possible only by mani puled...
...Nothing focuies, no view k clear" at Washington where the statesmen muddle amid unsolved problems while the leaders, jgrope in "a world of unreality" towards one certainty— the election in 1932...
...They invest money in him, not tor him...
...The money that passes by inheritance each year is a little more than enough to run all organs of government, national, state and local...
...The Socialist would push the analysis on to a logical conclusion by urging war upon the politics and politicians responsible for this dominion by a class...
...Has The New Leader ever sought the correspondence, say, of Albert Rhys Williams...
...But in any case, the argument is fallacious...
...I asked the assistant foreman privately.' "Wouldn't it be better to go up in the mountains and live on bananas, breadfruit and cocoanuts...
...The Mayor's Committee on Employment last week began its eleventh distribution of food, over 14,000 packages of vegetables going to Brooklyn and nearly 3,000 to Queens...
...In practice, an estate may be gradually liquidated over a period of years, and practically its full market value realized...
...If Comrade Lea chooses to construe my use of "alignment" as ..implying a formal and definite alliance with reactionaries he reads into my letter a meaning never intended nor borne out by the context...
...Marx, starting off bravely in the Communist Manifesto, lost interest later on in the problems of taxation, and neglected them almost completely...
...A heavy inheritance tax would not foster government extravagance, because as the inheritance tax increased other taxes could be correspondingly reduced...
...Often one after another...
...The purpose of society is not capital accumulation, but good living...
...Now, of course, I work from 8 to 5 to the office...
...Editor, The New Leader: I will like you to answer this question in your paper...
...There isn't even a pillow' fight between the two parties' as the vote on Hoovers farm "relief" and on the bonus loan bill shows...
...The Socialist Party has never expressed tbe view that the Soviet regime is s workers' government...
...and then, if they don't happen to live in a state that has mothers' pensions, the widows and orphans go to work, or come back on relatives or charity...
...With resolute courage they broke up a Socialist meeting...
...Even supposing that the forced sale of an estate to pay the tax depressed market values temporarily, there is no diminution of social wealth...
...Sometimes little boys of 9 and 10 are employed as cleaners, "if they are orphans and need work...
...It win help to stabilizing the "character" of these unfortunates at a time when it is being subjected to a strain...
...Wages, he said, range from 7s 6d a week (about $1.801 to 30s ($7.20) for foremen...
...capitalists, long ago hoisted the flag of the upper ruling groups and marched into the same camp occupied by the Republicans...
...Two resolutions instigated by Russian Social-Revolutionaries have recently been given the approval ot prominent Socialists...
...The measure first appears as a mutilated and inadequate thing like a bone stripped of meat thrown to a dog...
...Joseph Shaplen in The New Leader of Dec...
...But the knock-down argument, the cornerstone of the opposition to the inheritance tax and a fortiori to the abolition of inheritance, is that it Is a tax on capital...
...We have to sleep walking around...
...The Communists at Philadelphia made their contribution to aid the unemployed...
...Two new rackets designed to snare women were disclosed by a stool pigeon who participated in them...
...The working masses have disfranchised themselves in that body by sending enemies of their class to it, and Congress has declined to the level of a diet of witless and drifting law makers...
...But he says it Is an unfriendly act to tell the truth about these things, unless we couple our denunciation of tbe terrorist policy with a statement that it is used only as a means to tbe noble end of building "a planned economy...
...Also, he thinks it is hysterical to use the words "wholesale butchery" in reference to the deliberate shooting of forty-eight prisoners without even the pretense of a trial...
...This is generally the course taken in any important social legislation...
...The whole mill reeks of rum, molasses, and pigsties...
...A s the tawny cans Juice courses through open wooden gutters, tt splatters...
...The reason why an increase in capital equipment by increased investing would not of itself alone cause "overproduction" is because the increased capital equipment has to be used by workers who get wages, and likewise normally results in profits for the owners...
...Legislation is for the powerful owners of capital while the workers are outcasts in legislative halls...
...Here are some essentials of a Socialist interpretation...
...Nowhere is dictatorship to my liking, but even with dictatorship Russia may claim achievements which I as a Socialist sen heartily applaud...
...Accidents...
...In other words, the politics of capitalism has sunk to its lowest level at a tjme when intelligent thinking and action are essential...
...Radek, Trotsky and others one will find many defenses of the regime as a dictatorship by a minority HARD TIMES Editor, The New Leader: William Meier has asked through your columns in connection with my article on "Profits' as tbe Cause of Hard Times...
...In 1919, 1920, 1921, we used to have two shifts...
...Similarly, all the things that are now done by private bequests could be done better under public direction...
...The trivial thing has become a huge vker oozing filth...
...The barracks are just over the way...
...It is hn epochal difference, a change in mood so great Aat it is hard to believe we are_ less than two years away from the elation of the honeymoon days of this administration...
...In any case, sensible people realize that a healthy child well brought up can take care of himself when grown, and they devote themselves to his present welfare...
...Editor, The New Leader: It is a relief to know that Hillquit, Oneal, Sharts, myself, and sundry other American Socialists are not accused of entering into "a formal and definite alliance with reactionaries...
...1SSI Boston Road- Tbe program will r miaul of THE NEW LEADER MAIL-BAG RUSSIA Editor, The New Leader: Algernon Lee has asked me to specify those acts of Socialists that I have considered an alignment with reactionary forces in common unfriendliness toward the Soviet government...
...Not since the days of the rule of Sicily by the Mafia have we had anything so disgusting as these swine...
...I do not condone Russian ruthlessness (although on the basis of facts at hand i would not hysterically call it "wholesale butchery...
...Tbesjt weather and travelling eat were atrocious...
...I had in mind, for instance, the excited harangue of Mr...
...Will Hoover please send these unfortunates his full page advertisement of 1928 with the fable " A Chicken for Every Pot...
...But they have to work day and night continuously to get it," he added...
...And they like this sort of "dole...
...it is largely wasted and misdirected...
...The impressionistic articles of Harry Laidler and Reinhald Niebuhr in The New Leader were excellent, but they should have been supplements to, not substitutes for, stories by observers who have lived in Russia almost since the revolution...
...Well, what shout the widows and orphans ? Host of them have only enough money to pay their husband and father's funeral expenses, if the industrial insurance policy hasn't lapsed...
...The price of sugar is so low...
...As an argument, it looked a lot more formidable then than it does now...
...But during the day you're allowed to leave—you can take turns watching and get off half an hour or maybe an hour for meals...
...Heat pours from the uncovered tanks where the juice is from the pipes and gutters, and from the vacuum pans where it is boiled for crystallization...
...How can people stand working so long without rest...
...He could not safely do so, for the facts are well established...
...Rignano is the inventor of the "grandfather tax," by which a man might leave to his son only the excess over what his father left him...
...Comrade Porter does not charge the National Executive Committee or the Conference for Civil Rights in Russia with having made a single untrue statement of fact concerning repression, espionage, and systematic governmental terrorism in Soviet Russia...
...P r * *SeM they are slow in oaJiS buy the production « m m csiiiffft tbe trouble- ^m\?M I think it is onh* P y H ] Socialists feel thstpesi earned income, ssft^fl mmm...
...That is why, to account adequately for overproduction, we have to add 1 S L ^ 7 ^ - ^ f I l ^ | a , ^ ^ f ^ P ^ h ^ ° A Week Up new York State By August O a J | « SHORT spesJnsjfl State last w e e k l fl to Syracuse, Rocheassjl Albany...
...Not so...
...I shouted...
...There isn't a dirty job that would bring dollars to their pockets that has been overlooked...
...So the abolition of inheritance, which forms no part of the tradition of Socialism, has almost become a tradition of liberalism...
...The Rochester local IB small...
...The latest scene in the endless drama of Tammany rule stages two policemen assigned to vice <faty...
...I had...
...Comrade Hillquit assuredly shows a win not to believe what most observers at the scene agree to be true when be writes, a s ^ ^ U l ^ ^ ^ s ^ r ^ B ^ ^ ^ ^ or Communism in the thirteen years of its existence," and that its efforts are doomed to failure...
...Jamaica sugar producers are trying to meet the situation by cutting production—each man to 75 percent of his five-year average...
...13, in which he writes: "As a Socialist I blush that a man of Mr...
...But what can we do, with the price of sugar so low ? As it is the United Fruit Co...
...tendance but because of that it was held under ottfl pices than our own, aojM results were achieved...
...Some people work harder, or steadier, because of their families, but the thought of inheritance is usually present in their minds only remotely if at all...
...Many cane cutters were refusing to cut at reduced wages...
...We understand that there will be no toleration of the "dole" in God's country and Tammany's province...
...You mean the same people work from Monday morning to Saturday night...
...Senator Hastings runs true to form...
...The cleaners, youngsters about 15, are even lower paid...
...He added that so far this year the work was not heavy...
...Nevertheless, it Is jm and has ambitious plansH a monthly paper for free dm tion and the organization efl branches for the coming CM The meeting in Utlca « • of the best attended i a l years...
...s e e Capitalism may be on its last tegs, as some people , surmMe, tat tbe working das/ have yet to IsaW, Sugar Refining in Jamaica By Jessie/B...
...We are ruled by the owners of concentrated capital in our economic life and in the law-making bodies...
...He shows how tbe inheritance tax can be used as a weapon of socialization...
...Those who can't be for a measure, unless it can be shown to be peculiar to the Socialists should read Rignano...
...Morris Hillquit, representing the Emergency Unemployment Council of New York City, alone was positive and definite in support of adequate legislation that would meet the emergency...
...Sleepy men might be clumsy with the hot liquid...
...Does he dismiss as lightly the similar reports of Stuart Chase, Paul H. Douglas, H. N. Brailsford, Rexford Guy Tugwell, James H. Maurer, Fenner Brockway, the London Economist, or "The Russian Experiment," by Arthur Feller* which book Comrade Hillquit himself has recommended...
...This was probably divided with some higher officials...
...Zinovief, Bucharin...
...But he is not...
...I wonder how large a butchery must be to meet Comrade Porter's idea of wholesale operations in that line...
...In saying that "a more generally glBtrained bodV of national State and local legisnot to be f oond is any civilized coantry do earth" he supplements what we say above ol Congress...
...A mS*W help, more meetings sad mm distribution, and mors fm such as my meetings get" ily, and our up-Stats l a g soon be on their feet sfmP| tion of the cause of bsrd^Jjj a necessary addition " . y jB doctrine because econoSO...
...The system was rather beastly, he admitted...
...SocislhMgj from Rome and nearby tsSS were happy about the •SSBj the meeting...
...There the families of these sugar mill workers live crowded into rentfree boxes...
...It will help to drive bankrupt politicians from public office...
...The Hastings bill itself is woefully inadequate to meet the situation and only by important amendments can it be made even half satisfactory...
...The manufacturers want the whole matter left to them and ^hat means either nothing would be done or action that would correlate with a company union affair...
...He would call for independent party action by the workers of the nation but such logic is beyond the ken of those who want capitalism without its legitimate fruits...
...Flection returns are still coming in for New York City...
...SO why do not Socialists favor the abolition of inheritance...
...A 100 per cent on inheritance would therefore result in a gradual accumulation of wealth in public hands...
...The "furnished room racket" and the "nurse racket" involved the framing of innocent women who paid the scoundrels to avoid publicity...
...It is quite a contrast with the rosy day when Coolidge was ushered out and Hoover in...
...The greed of the power trust is "shaking the very foundations of government" and the "despotic power of capital over government" is the reason why the working masses do not get the social legislation which is taken for granted in many other nations...
...Neither does the inheritance tax cause a shrinkage of social wealth, as claimed by Andrew W. Mellon...
...A political depression accompanies the industrial depression...
...simast on the same day these officials were»attacked elsewhere by Mr...
...This blunder of Marx's was not shared by all his contemporary social thinkers...
...Even the Conservative Sir Josiah Stamp has contributed more to the study of the subject than any British labor leader except Hugh Dalton...
...Does the Socialist Party of U S A . recognize the present government of Russia as a workers government or not...
...All the land is owned now,- even way up in the mountains...
...and if savings fall short for any reason, we have the example of Soviet Russia, which saved 12 per cent of its income for capital expansion after 7 years of war, famine and pestilence, and has saved nearly half of the government income as part of the five-year plan...
...First hand accounts of Russia's experiments in socialization, for good or evil .are of utmost importance to Socialists everywhere...
...The one-sided aspect of those pronouncements are sure to be interpreted as active hostility to the Soviet government by the headline readers, in which category most workers will be found...
...The wortuna spend their wages and tbe owners spsad or Invest their profits, and so increased capital equipment resulting in an increase in the amount produces tends normally to result in increased spending power also...
...1 meetings proved flat...
...The worst kind of land, far from the road, is ?20 (shout $97) an acre...
...The argument runs as follows: Rich people save s larger proportion of their incomes than poor people...
...If not, why...
...Everybody hS^| this modest success, ajH members and contacts our local will meet and nS iza and attempt more mmm • • • The meeting in Rocbsssl in the nature of a baaqaav local comrades and soaalfl people who came later (H speeches...
...Meetings weajfl for me by our local eaafl as these were the first since the last campalfaj a fair indication of "S^fl lent opportunities thasS Socialist propaganda...
...and what better means could there be of bringing about such a redistribution than the inheritance tax...
...conditions people will oemH hear a Socialist...
...What do you do with your time on Sunday...
...What the word was Intended to convey (a meaning consonant with the definition of the Webster Standard Dictionary) was that some Socialists in their verbal attacks upon the Soviet government have placed themselves in a position scarcely distinguishable from that of those persons who seek its downfall...
...We will never do that by negative criticism of its offers...
...to myself, when 1 was learning the ropes...
...This argument has seduced even as good a liberal economist as Glenn E. Hoover, who answered in bang-up style the usual fallacious arguments against inheritance taxes in the American Economic Review a couple of years ago...
...But things are bad just now...
...It fosters inequality...
...Owen D. Young, millionaire prospective heir to Hoover's job, succeeded' in saying nothing in a long telegram sent to Senator Hastings...
...Our local tuusH tioned for some time SBjH ganda -".eetiiurs were Mi^H Thanks to Comrades"] Kleiman and a few otbajfl was filled and this in tbjjfl ugly weather and mean ttH conditions...
...The answer to this question is I believe chiefly historical...
...and (2) the resolution adopted at the Hotel Pennsylvania conference on Nov...
...But don't parents work harder for the sake of leaving something to their children...
...H. J. Hahn i M stirring address on pramtfl tions and the Socialist mm This invaluable comrade, fl of the Salem Church a M speaks over Station WfjH Sunday morning at Mflfl and every Socialist in " 1M and western part of til that I met is elated wttsfl markable quality of tbsal over the sir...
...Congress A .WRITER in the New York Times presents a close-op view of Congress that is illuminating...
...Some day a study of foundations will be made which will reveal their essentially reactionary nature...
...23 which bespeaks of "a new wave of deliberate bloodshed," "wholesale butchery," and "force, espionage, and fear to keep the masses under control...
...One use for prince3 of royal houses has been found...
...Why do the people work at all assistant foreman privately...
...I can only say •that the fault lies to Ins Inability to see a distinction which is very real and plain...
...If the intention of the resolutions was solely a protest against repressive tactics employed by supposedly Socialist governments why was not British brutality in India condemned...
...The same Con...
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...And the burning Jamaica sun on sheet sine roofs is bad enough without that After half an hour of dodging unguarded belts and wheels, holes in floor boards, and pipes leaking hot stuff, the visitor feels faint The way is devious through a crowded jumble—the result of efforts to modernize this old mill...
...New" York City...
...Some don't realize however that every one of the arguments they employ in favor of the inheritance tax leads Inevitably to the abolition of all inheritance...
...Representing the State Federation of Labor, John O'Hanlon went no farther than to suggest a commission for further study...
Vol. 12 • February 1931 • No. 8
