Economics Made Easy
Economics Made Easy Foster, Catchings, Snuff and Silver A Retired Worker Takes His Pencil in Hand 1 DEAJt EDITOR: I trust you will pardon me for my seeming intrusion on your valuable...
...As for appeals to the general electorate, it depends upon their character whether they are In accord with Socialist principle and alms and the editor has no power to blue-pencil news material that conies from «n«th<»r department of the party...
...Snuff boxes, which are out of style, were made of silver and other precious metals...
...What the producers of the raw material for snuff will get will be determined when Secretary of Agriculture Hyde has prestidigitated awhile with Senator Robinson's and President Hoover's compromise on the $20,000,000 dole that has taken on the more deserving and dignified word of "rehabilitation...
...the same over in New Jersey and down in Kentucky, and in fact, all over the country...
...It is one thing to report news of unfolding events In a campaign...
...Even members of the middle class are being pushed from their position into the ranks below...
...He was as strong a nonresistant as Gandhi He had a whole (tableful of unpopular hobbies...
...However, nothing better can be expected...
...And bringing forth more inventions...
...In the future as in...
...You may ask: Why not use steel snuff boxes, or brass, or gold...
...Then there was optimism...
...I want you to follow me very carefully now, Mr...
...tJM Before Mr...
...The couturiers of Paris have gone back to long dresses and the shoe industry...
...I lubricate my typewriter with banana oil...
...I think I may add that we have done so without any thought of compensation, either of a financial or laudatory nature...
...Added to this is the fact that many workingmen no longer think of opportunities to rise out of their class...
...In this resolution, we attacked the negligent irresponsibility of certain party officials in nominating candidates for office without previously se- . curing their consent...
...However, it must be borne in mind that Comrade George is the only state secretary Virginia has had since the reorganiaztion of the party here in 1928 who was able to devote his entire time to the work of the party...
...In other words, I refuse to go into the cat breeding business like McAlister Coleman, or raising canaries for the D. A. R. Being economic-minded, I want to think and ' w r i te about the big things in this world of ours...
...We pointed out the effects of this practice in our own district, where at the last moment we discovered that our candidate was net on the ballot...
...Editor...
...Now ah that is changed/" At Garrison's funeral, Wendell Philip...
...One is "liberty" and the other is "mobocracy...
...If this be reformism, make tbe most of it...
...He had observed a marked change in the "mental attitude" of the American people since he visited the United States twenty years ago...
...He saw the inevitable conflict between capital and labor...
...JACK ROTHMAN...
...Owen D. Young of the Radio Corporation is next in line and his stock is rising...
...Inclusive with this information was the history of a specific period of the relations of this party to the proletariat, namely, 1848-1851 in Prance...
...Thus we shall use our wages instead of saving them...
...Turning to Comrade Oneal's interpretation of our second resolution, namely, "that In nominating candidates we should keep In mind the Citizens' Union and electorate in general," again, I claim that this is patently misleading...
...I do.not wish in any way to detract from the excellent work done by Comrade George both at this time and his previous stays in Virginia...
...I too want to have something to say about the coming millenium and how to get out of the economic morass we are now floundering in...
...And buying more of these luxuries...
...that made America mob himjn every great city, is a marvel...
...4. Lecture begins st »•»• mission free...
...City workers are discontented but whether they will prove political rebels in 1932 remains to be seen...
...Are they (the industries) to produce more necessities...
...And developing more new industries...
...These observations correlate with the views of many students of American capitalism and they are the reverse of the rosy interpretations made by politicians and editors a few years ago...
...Comrade Oneal Is a proletarian electorate) reacted to an organization which didn't even know who its candidates were, and in passing predicted that...
...Yours for the inevitable better day, OLE SNUS HOPPER...
...That would make the resolution one of complete acceptance of repression sad 1st resolution...
...With the worst industrial crisis in our history facing us, both parties are again badly shaken by rebel wings in the West...
...This process must foster class consciousness on the part of the working masses and this mental attitude is required if they are to act intelligently in their own interest...
...Taft u—M the bill creating the fljH Bureau and appointed ] 3H rop as Its head...
...The raid of the Finnish hall in this city was illegal...
...Even the Republicans, the leading guardians of capitalism since the Civil War, have never considered the direct promotion of a junior Morgan or Rockefeller to the presidency...
...The- same happened in Binghampton, when Andrew Horva forgot to make the bank credit and saved wages of the depositors to expand with now industries...
...C. A. KICKS, S. E. C. THE SOCIALIST PARTY Editor, The New Leader: « , When I pickedBup my copy of The New Leader this morning, I came in contact with such an assortment of "Liberal" Journalism as was wholly incompatable with my idea of what an organ of the working class should be...
...Like all my fellow men who have ceased to be of any importance in this workaday world, I hate to give up all my interest in human activities and the onward sweep of civilization and manifest destiny and the problems that get under the great engineer's1' hair shirt...
...Doak himself supported the proposals before he entered the Cabinet but now he serves Hoover byurging amendments that would disembowel them...
...I have no record of - what the "B" stock brought in dividends...
...aad brass Is still holding its own...
...But this is not ^he end of Doak's service to reaction...
...that's just the point...
...When I %began this letter everything was nWSe and clear, due to the smooth and well chosen words that Foster and Catchings use, but now I fear I'm" liable to flounder about a little...
...in Garrison's time the lot of the free laborer was not nearly so bad as it is now...
...but I think we can manage it if we stick to snuff and snuff boxes...
...The election of Garfield in 1880 and of Cleveland in 1884 kept political control in the hands of Eastern capitalism...
...We hope that the program goes through and that the Republicans will also turn to a corporation buccaneer for* a candidate...
...To produes snuff we need expaaded bank credits plus wages and raw material...
...I'm getting into deep water and may need some help...
...This voice out of the past, however, expresses what some members of our ruling classes think...
...The New Leader: William Lloyd Garrison was far from being a man of one idea...
...In 1877 occurred the nation-wide failroad riots...
...Then back to the tomb to rest with the old powdered wig aristocrats...
...e •< • "The expansion of bank credit and wages in connection with the expansion of new idustries chiefly accounts for our prosperity," say Foster and Catchings...
...Comrade Oneal states that one of the branches "sympathetic to tbe "Militants" and noted for its splendid activities adopted two resolutions, one regarding the five year plan and the other regarding political nominations...
...For instance, take the item ef snuff...
...And when Tm not writing, I'm reading...
...Out of it thundered andfeghtened a malignity that could nf find words to aim ess its hate, m bad no means...
...Hoover wants to succeed himself...
...The substantial aim of Social Democracy is to transform society by the democratic method, the transformation always kept within the petty bourgeois orbit...
...A CRITICISM AND REJOINDER Editor, Tbe New Leader: I have been asked by the Morningside Heights Branch of the party to call the attention of readers of The New Leader to certain distortions of fact which reflect upon the branch, in a recent article on "Militancy" by Comrade Oneal...
...He turns to the United States and observes similar tendencies...
...Yes, sir...
...Working class gatherings are the victims* of these raids...
...His department is responsible for illegal raids of workers of foreign birth, thus revivingthe terror of the Wilson Administration...
...except you might take a pinch of snuff if the Great War gets under your skin...
...These words are defense mechanisms behind which lurk meanings which he must conceal...
...The first crisis developed rebel wings in both parties in the West which captured local groups and then emerged as the Populist Party...
...There is a gold famine too, because France won the Peace of Versailles...
...He had observed a more strict caste system in this country than ever before...
...NATHANIEL WEYL New York City...
...Trade endeavored to crush Am...
...Even the labor chiefs at Washington are aghast at this fruit of "recognizing labor...
...I'll bet you a good five cent cigar you will not find one...
...Economics Made Easy Foster, Catchings, Snuff and Silver A Retired Worker Takes His Pencil in Hand 1 DEAJt EDITOR: I trust you will pardon me for my seeming intrusion on your valuable time...
...I do not know whether such was the writer's Intention, bat certainly the idea is given that the work of the former state secretaries had been unsatisfactory...
...But...
...This ought to be as significant as the fleas in an engineer's hair-shirt, or as Messrs...
...The first declared that a critical attitude toward the plan constitutes "conduct unbecoming to a Socialist": tbe second declares among other things, "that in nominating candidates we should keep in mind the Citizens' Union and the electorate in general...
...You know, editor that strikes home with me...
...In short, the way to go ahead is to plan to go ahead and not plan to go backward...
...It is not what the resolution said: and, further, it should have been perfectly obvious that it was not what the resolution meant...
...The Posture of Politics HISTORY » never repeated bat occasionally one period will reproduce some phases of a previous one...
...Oneal concludes, after stating that the branch was probably unconscious of the implications of its action, that "the two resolutions constitute a perfect correlation between pseudo-radicalism and middle class opportunism...
...He is disturbed because of the decline in prestige and power of the British throne, the stripping of the House of Lords of power, and the ascension of the House of Commons...
...In other words, current economic change cooperates with the development of a Socialist movement...
...Foster and Catchings so clearly put it: "The way out of our troubles is not to render existing capital useless, but to create still more capital...
...RoosgsH the first White House e s l on the health and wej&sjfl dren in 1909...
...In describing how this partially neutralized the campaign in the 19th, we mentioned how our electorate (which by the way...
...My wife incidentally still has a job, so we eat...
...Fifty years ago Western farmers had been so looted ghat they were burning corn for fuel...
...The latter statement could also apply to Comrade George...
...WOssTfl reconstruction work t 9 million dollar grant frohtJB for which he was not to sH and he turned over llOIJsfl to the Children's BuistJ money went for confeiss^H parts of tbe country eatsfl of child welfare to tesJH accepted by states, assfH and volunteer agencieilM the best of them are nor jjH force...
...Limited and inadequate as the Wagner bills are with reference to unemployment they arc a gesture in the right direction...
...Wendell Phillips said, "His moral nature was as marvelous as tbe intellect of Pascal...
...Editor...
...I attribute my present situation in the Socialist Party, that of not knowing whether I am a Progressive, Liberal, Social Democrat or a Socialist to the fact that the matter was never taken ap and conscientiously cleared by the party and its press for all Involved...
...What seems to me tbe most peculiar thing of all is that when The New Leader carries an enthusiastic announcement of Citizens' Union endorsement for a party candidate...
...Of course, it is kind to even "recognize...
...The Citizens' Union consists of respectables of the middle class...
...In 1928 they rolled up an enormous vote for Hoover...
...Roosevelt wants the Democratic nomination...
...On the other hand, those who are "recognized" are those who faithfully help the professionals...
...PHILLIPS ON GARRISON Editor...
...Just Ml of the provisions of the fisfl Towner Act, Senator JessfH duced a bill appropriating »<J dollars to carry on its wsJ secretaries of commersf fl the interior wrote to SeaeUtB then chairman of the SWOSJH mi ttee on Education saying that the prstidsjj prefer no action to be txtsfl the reports of th« WtfiJ Conference, to be held shH ber, 1930, were jtrintei "1 Jones was later proradjH Senate Committee oa f^B Senator Johnson of CallHH succeeded Jp Senator JeesH fatal letteVs in the fflai them to me press...
...New York State is essential to win...
...well the less said about it the* better...
...Announcement is made that the co3t of funerals is on the decline...
...The Eastern wings of the two parties were controlled by the banking and capitalist classes...
...Including the United States...
...Now then, I dare you to go out and buy a snuff box...
...the intellectual life of Americsjdisovned aha...
...If there are any unwelcome trends in the party today we may trust tbe members to make any readjustments that may be necessary as they have In the past.— Editor, The New Leader...
...S|eel is op aad still going up, the flexible tariff com' mission having Just allowed a 00 per cent, increase oa poultry wire...
...They are again burning corn for fuel, many have none to burn and are dependent upon charity doles to keep alive...
...Now the implication behind Comrade Oneal's statements is that our resolution requested that the party be more careful In selecting candidates who would not alienate petty bourgeois voters...
...The revolutionary point of the4 Socialist demands of the proletariat was blunted, and these demands were given a democratic gloss...
...No there will be no hope for the jobless in that direction...
...FDr a short while 'though I was a little apprehensive on account of that Swartze fellow up at Albany, who introduced that bill to prohibit all married Women from holding jobs...
...Labor is not "recognized" by the politicians of capitalist politics without a price and that price is that the appointee shall use power against the workups and help to gut any legislative proposals however mild they may be...
...His great influence was due to his unflinching courage sad absolute integrity...
...OT-^SBI ALICE STONE BLM*aw#*i Boston...
...As I sit here in the kitchen of our little flat watching the applesauce so it won't burn, I can feel a glow of optimism warm my innards...
...If only all those poor deluded mutts who have stood in line waiting to borrow on the expanded bank credits they had with the Bank of United States had read this article they could have bought apples and made a lot of money selling them, and thus have continued to buy luxuries and kept business good...
...As Others See Us TTHE views of Professor Halvdan Koht of Oslo University, who sailed for home last week, have provoked considerable comment...
...But !t»ls inaccurate to say that he "would not see 11" He never knowingly shut his eyes to any truth...
...Hoover, # JH sive presidents had helstfjH down the death-rateisfJ in this country...
...As for The New Leader carrying news of Oiizens Union endorsement of Socialist candidates, the answer U that it is printed because it is news...
...It Comrade Weyl's interpretation Is accepted then the resolution included support not only of the economic policies of the Bolsheviks, but all "efforts" and "actions" of their regime...
...will have nothing to do now till I am 70, when I can get in on that old-age pension...
...The statement quoted above could as easily and much more satisfactorily have read "since the state has bad a full time secretary In the person of David George...
...The affiliates of the bank got it and a million less frigidaires were sold, and now we are in a hell of a pickle again...
...And silver is on the down and down...
...They prefer small town politicians like Harding and Coolidge or an engineer...
...It is reported that farmers in the West are consulting price lists in anticipation of orders...
...Suspects are seized without warrant, the Bill of Rights being used as a footman by Doak"s agents...
...Now that be got his, I can breathe easier and continue reading the financial section of the New York Times, and that magazine of controversy that seems to settle all controversies...
...This development is all the more interesting as it occurs at a time when millions of voters face destitution...
...Like Foster, Catchings and Shotwell, like Wiggin, Andy Mellon and Senator Robinson, of Arkansaw, I too wish to take a pot shot at the mudhens that have fluttered into our slough of despond and laid a lot of ^sterile duck eggs...
...He appeals to the last words of John C. Calhoun, ablest exponent of the old slaveocracy, who warned against "a great consolidated, national democracy...
...5 or $ 6 perhaps...
...The resolution merely took the same stand as did Hillquit when in "From Marx to Lenin," he said (I am obliged to cite from memory) that active support of the Russian Socialist state should be demanded as a condition of entrance in the new Socialist international...
...Chicagorillas are important heirs of the party that nominated Lincoln in Chicago in 1860...
...Indeed, it appears that Comrade Weyl sustains It when he* says that ths Citizens Union isn't likely to "be enthusiastic in supporting candidates of a party which apparently wasn't sure whether they were on or off the ballot...
...This sort of action we felt and still feel plays into the hands of Russia's iron ring of capitalist enemies...
...Today the effect of the industrial depression "seems to go so much deeper"into the souls of people" and there is the general impression that "unemployment has come to stay...
...But that has nothing to do with snuff boxes...
...The second resolution declared that the practice of nominating candidates without first obtaining their consent creates "an Impression of Socialist incompetence among campaign volunteers, the Citizens Union, and the electorate," Whether this mention of the middle class Citizens Union does not bear the interpretation the writer gave it may be left to our readers...
...Mass...
...I write this protest not because of the single sentence here quoted but because...
...Have you ever tried i t? Well then, let's get to work...
...This is an equivalent of 54 cents per share on the "A" stock...
...Hoover is f|H friend of children's is tacremble—uniasS In Europe the fJH mortality Is considesifl dex of the degree j f l When the Sheppatffl was passed in ISfifl States stood tenth asjH nations in this res^H caused a marked dnjfl death rates in the 45 j | 9 eventually came unssH sions, and the otherfJ^H chusetts, ConnectictR^H —were put on tsssfl make good records sstsas now has the fine ngusg^H deaths per 1,000, t h o SH Arizona, has a rate aslffl and the country's assjl 67—is still high Mattel tality remains high tefl among other causes te'*fl quate training* re-ertsjH doctors, gynecologiatajH clans and midwives...
...Tso»***i to get an idea of the greet "JJJ Ee did should read U K " Phillips's address on that " " ^ l casion...
...Snuff is a luxury...
...This would have been unthinkable in 1880 or 1884...
...Such a statement would give Comrade George full credit for his accomplishments and at the same 'time would avoid the uncalled-for reflection upon former holders of this office...
...A little banana oil will help, too...
...Bat listen—I am one of those who h a s jusssil the dead line of 45, aad...
...The mistake here was that the depositors were forty minutes late in spending their credit...
...Least of all did It seek to ban a constructive, sympathrtic, and friendly criticism...
...This method of reporting and interpreting facts is perfectly Incomprehensible from such a distinguished historian as Oneal...
...Wendell Phillips was more farsighted...
...A w i n ' I I " " on Uw ~~*^**^J worst form ot " J * ^ * " T ? i fs there it is Inverted J * * * ? ? ef -*»-lety;—George It b not e n m ^ ^ - J S . 1 may some day lea* if_* P»> - t « F - « s r t t e B s e - f a • » - l • - , Ifawwise.—Oeethr, _ Tyranny is li i * , , », j j fwhether the pswer ee •*«•**" Hoover Versus Children By Mrs...
...said: "Young men, it is not given to *u to remember the blackness of the daftness of ignorance and indifference fiat brooded over what was called the moral element of the American fecple...
...Various ways may be advocated, and the different proposals may be adorned with more or less revolutionary trimming, but the substance is always the same...
...We should like to point out that the first resolution did not even mention the five year plan...
...itfJfH Sheppard-Towner Act, *affl U>e Federal governmesS dollar for dollar up toH annually, the money sjfH by the states for rats**fl i n f a n c y work, each stSSsH being approved by a boes|H representatives of tbeV government...
...and to clinch thepftatement add: "We did not tHy these luxuries because we prospered...
...He is "safe" for capitalism but he may be knifed by Tammany if nominated...
...On the other hand It should be remembered the writer conceded that otherwise the resolution was a good one...
...Coolidge urgH gress to prolong for two y S appropriation for the tsfl June 30, 1927 to June jH This was done...
...SenswTJ finally fat his bill tlirssfB Senate m January, 1*3L tics bive held up the wsfij was xaducing the infant dettsfi...
...Many years ago (though long after Garrison's day) Louis D. Bran dels gave an address in which be said, in substance: "In the last so years, a great change has come over this country . We have become a nation of employees^ Half a century ago, the averagi American could look forward to bef tog an independent man by the tint he was 90...
...There is little doubt that the opportunities to ascend from a lower class to an upper one are being closed...
...Brooklyn, N. V. "Recognizing Labor" EVERY new administration at...
...It is more to the point to say that we prospered because we bought these luxuries...
...it is quite another thing to adjust our policies and make our nominations with tbe view of obtaining the approval of middle class organizations...
...We feel it is both un-Marxian and fundamentally anti-Socialistic...
...Silver during the high spots of prosperity was $1.37...
...This is one of those half-truths which leave an unpleasant and unjustified impression on the mind of the reader...
...David Lidman, my wife, Mrs...
...Nothing could be further from the truth...
...The case being that the present idealogy and course of action of the Socialist Party fits Marx's description and being that I am a class-conscious, revolutionary member of the working class, -will I be justified in leaving the Socialist Party...
...There you have it Mr...
...It would be stupid to speak frankly because the millions who have the ballot are in England and the United States required to support his idea of "liberty" if it is to survive...
...The writer could have given the resolution that interpretation but he was more fair to the branch than the branch was to itself by accepting it as an approval of the Five Year Plan rather than of all the "efforts" and "actions" of the Soviet Government...
...Well silver is down to 26c...
...Tft universal apathy, that deadneafof soul, that contempt of totellectf in ten yeses he ctssaged into the sflsntry Aflame...
...Only recently, have I found through books regarded as among the classics of Socialist literature, namely,, the Communist Manifesto and the 18tb Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, definitions and statements which explained the birth, composition, and mission of the Social Democratic Party...
...What fs" interesting in this period is that the Democrats, once carrying the banner of the small capitalists, today seriously consider the nomination of a multimillionaire...
...The church was afcick cloud looming over him in the Barkness...
...One can almost visualize him crawling out of a New England tomb, saying his piece and then retiring to his resting place...
...I am also "nrtttl that Comrade- Oneal has apparently never blue-pencilled as un-Marxian articles praising a candidate's capacity to appeal to ties general electorate...
...where under the leadership of disgruntled Russian exiles, they damned right and left the struggling Soviet Union...
...We have let down the gates to millions of immigrants and the extension of franchise has gone so far as to include women...
...Those few words alone are worth the two dollars and a half* I had to pay for a year's subscription to this Controversy Magazine...
...Flore* General SeCTsSsfl W^E-LAYS^uIlS J L / personal hn*9 probably cause tfcjH propriating S1,0O04M| taction of maternity J to die on the osJssjH president had pronwS delaying the coaJgM appropriations whtjH the Sheppard-TowflH 19?9, thousands OfjH would undoubtsdj^l saved...
...This letter and Us answer will be anxiously looked for in the next issue of The New Leader by myself and several interested comrades...
...Marx...
...Owen D. Young of the Radio Corporation Is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President THE NEW LEADER MAIL-BAG THE VIRGINIA MOVEMENT Editor, The New Leader: In the issue of Jan...
...the Citizens' Union was not going to be enthusiastic in supporting candidates of a party which apparently wasn't even sure whether they were on or off tbe ballot...
...31 in the "Socialist Party at Work" department, under the sub-head "Virginia" appeared the following: "The membership in our state has increased 135 per cent in the last four months, since David George returned to the state and took over the state office...
...The • period of origins in every country was vague...
...Like Hoover's prosperity, the bell is cracked...
...Brooklyn...
...In the earlier period they were Republicans...
...Are they to produce more wheat aad rubber, more boots and shops, more copper and cloth when all such necessities are already over produced...
...Without the aid or snuff boxes the net profits on snuff hi 1930, after income taxes had been paid, were $2,331,000...
...Conversely, In the ease of the democratic demands of the petty bourgeoisie, the purely political form was effaced, and they were made to seem as Socialistic as possible, t h a t was ttooright of Social Democracy" . it IAs to the means and aims of this party Marx writes as follows: ("Democratic institutions are demanded as a means not for abolishing the two extremes, capital and wage labor, but for the mitigation of their opposition, and fbr the transformation of their discord into a harmony...
...Hoover, t)H White House ConfereaaJ Health and Welfare ef 0B w a s m a d e t h e occasion f t f fl to destroy the ChUdenfifl The report of the medical t f l tee of the conferessjfl transferring to the Pl*s^H Service all the BuressJH work, leaving it only *t|H fare activities...
...Meantime, Republicans and Democrats at Washington are obviously servants of capitalist and'banking interests...
...Well, I think I have proved our case: There is only one luxury left that we have not tried and that is snuff boxes...
...Let me agate quote Foster and Catchings...
...Cheer up...
...X like to roil i t around on my tongue...
...It is mainly in that way that we have contrived to use instead of waste our savings," continue Foster aad Catchings...
...Garrison dM sot see it...
...Where he got, wbftce be summoned, how he created ft elements which changed 1834 bj» 1835...
...Once" instaUe'd'in officTthe "labor leader" must repay his benefactors and Secretary of Labor Doak is doing his bit to justify his "recognition" by Hoover...
...Ha, ha," as Professor Lucifer Butts says...
...vaam Under Mr...
...and emphatically dkf not imply that the economic progress of the Soviet Union was to be accepted uncritically...
...And, according to General Dawes, England won the war, because every thirteen pounds of food eaten by the American soldiers, eight were furnished by England...
...Coming so soon after the Paris Commune, with strikers in control or partial control of a number of cities, and with the phenomenal rise of the Knights of Labor, the forces of capitalism were frightened...
...A R. Ricks, and myself, who have held this office at various times, have been able to give only a minor portion of our time and energies to the work...
...Due to the situation in India the price of silver has gone down to 26c...
...The resolution of the branch declared its "full sympathy with the efforts of the present Russian govern-1 ment to establish a Socialist state" and criticised the City Central Committee "in condemning ths actions of the principal government which is making genuine progress toward Socialism...
...Washington feels it necessary to "recognize" labor by a few appointments to office...
...But do not run away with the idea that the deliberate purpose of the petty bourgeois class is to enforce its own selfish class in teres...
...The moment we Socialists as a working class party threaten to obtain control of tbe city that class will certainly react to its class Interest...
...In fact, I know you wish X would go to work aad quit bothering yon...
...He made ***** j hoofcTpress, pulpit a n d , • • » •• be/a debating society.' /hillips said it was tmWfg "winter's boy" who in*****sv Jher workers, and wa§ fssa Jbrthe final victory...
...Automobiles and radios and frigidaires are up a blind alley, so to speak, so we have not much to look for from those items of our expanded industries and payrolls...
...He was a warm advocate c? woman's rights, when that doctrine was even more unpopular than the abolition of slavery...
...1849, to make a united front against the bourgeois forces, the petty bourgeois and workmen formed a coalition...
...It will simplify the argument of the Socialist Party in the campaign of next year...
...Comade Oneal does not noticeably take advantage of his position as editor to deny indignantly that there is any cause for pleasure...
...Our capitalism floated on a sea of world misery for a decade after the end of the World War and now we are compelled to face the same problems that afflict sick capitalism everywhere...
...The same is true of many city administrations...
...His corporation has a pirate record, flying the Jolly Roger as an industrial Captain Kidd, and scooping in millions for himself and his fellow corsairs...
...Specifically, the resolution attacked the participation of members of our party in such ventures as the Hotel Pennsylvania conference...
...On the expiration...
...Silver then must be pegged...
...INTERNATIONAL qB*«I "Uncertainties acinf »• " Woman Today" wffl bl * • ot a lecture given by ravcnlck at the Intentsflesei *g 868 Broadway, on Wcduismi...
...Being a man of preponderous energies and ambitions I* can not very well sit back aad twee die my thumbs for 26 years, so I have decided to use my abilities and capacities, such as they are, on editors...
...m Al Capone's gangsters participated in the Chicago primary on Tuesday...
...per ounce...
...A joint program was drafted, Joint electoral committees founded and Joint condidatures were arranged for...
...And, in the process creating more bank credit aad paying more wages...
...N. Y. Comrade Rcthman is apparently studying some Socialist classics that are very helpful to tbe Socialist even in the modem period but it should be remembered that at the period Marx wrote the Sociliast movement had not emerged Into the clear perspective it did later...
...As to the origin 'of the SocialDemocratic Party, the following from the 18th Brumaire: "In Feb...
...Out of the Past A WRLTER in the New York Times presents "*^^ some* views >hat transfer us back to" the Federalist Party of Washington, Hamilton and Fisher Ames...
...Maybe after I have rolled it around for a* few weeks I will get up enough courage to apply for a job selling vacuum cleaners on our tatock here in Brooklyn...
...This brings us to snuff boxes and the pegging of silver...
...Their ideal of peace, security and "liberty" goes back to the days when silk breeches, niffled lace, silver buckles and powdered wigs constituted "gentlemen," who were created to ride workmen and peasants as packhorses...
...Harding signed...
...The automobile, radio and electric refrigerator industries are not horrible examples...
...Under t j of the United States M Court no m<mey/ can bt s fl ated for welfare unlesi Bsfl pose Is closely defi^H Hoover White House Ostfl was split by this, f j j j p ej which finally there war so • ment and no action...
...Today Western fanners face a similar, even worse, situation...
...If mobocracy becomes "regnant in this land, all that we cherish "under the symbolism of liberty will disappear...
...IN A NUTSHELL On Washington's birthday ringing of the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia was heard over the radio throughout the country...
...Evidently Hoover kne-wf what he was doing when he "recognized" Doak...
...The petty bourgeois believe that the special conditions requisite tor their own liberation are likewise the general conditions requisite for the salvation of modern society...
...He associates this word with the rule of land owners and owners of capital while "mobocracy" means the ascension to power of those who are exploited by owners of land and capital...
...Wis to be set upon a pedestal and worshipped...
...The net impression upon Professor Koht was a sinking of the United States to a level of economic prostration with Europe and recognition by many Americans that class stratification is becoming definite in this country...
...the past we snail make real progress by increasing our equipment for producing luxuries...
...They think that in no other way can society be saved and the class war averted...
...X like that phrase, or axiom...
...They ate inspiring examples...
...What the writer really means is not "liberty...
...I hope The New Leader will be generous enough to present this emphatically necessary rebuttal, even if the comrades of our branch were to blame in not having read and answered Oneal's article when it appeared...
...An Important fruit of Hoover's prosperity is being sold by the unemployed on the streets In every large city...
...It is true that the five year plan is not mentioned but it is obvious that this plan was meant as it singles out "the efforts of the PRESENT Russian government" for approval...
...Brother Labor consideringthat he counts for so little in politics...
...Snuff is on the up and up...
...The throne "is but* ghastly spectre of its ancient authority" and England is drifting towards a "mobocracy...
...From this misinterpretation, Oneal proceeds to a lecture on the fallacy of seeking middle-class votes, and ends with the eloquent accusation that the resolutions show "a perfect correlation between pseudo-radicalism and middle-class opportunism...
...And the snuff business is on the up and up...
...it is one of Several such implications which have appeared in The New Leader concerning Virginia during the past few months...
...The political situation is interesting...
...Moreover, he does not want that power end he would object to vesting any party editor with such power.—Editor, The New Leader...
Vol. 12 • February 1931 • No. 9
