HOOVERS RULING PASSION: Profits for the Rich (Including Himself) His Life-long Motto
LIGGETT, WALTER W.
HOOVERS RULING PASSION: Profits for the Rich (Including Himself) His Life-long Motto NEW LEADER Is Combined * THE AMERICAN APPEAL Eugene V, Debs VOL. XIII.—No. 12 SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1932...
...Hoover is acting precisely as he might have been expected to act by anyone who had taken the pains to examine his long and consistently discreditable career as a brutal labor exploiter, a promoter of questionable mining stocks, and later as a politician who always could be depended upon to place the private profits of himself and personal friends above the welfare of the public...
...A Partner of the Romanoffs In Russia, during 1912, at the Lena Goldfields, in which Hoover was interested, 213 persons were killed and several hundred were wounded when 7,000 workers gathered to ask for higher wages...
...Hoover said: "The disregard idl human life perndta cheap mining by economy in time, and the aggrieved relatives are amply compensated by the regular payment of ISO (Mexican) per man lest Cases have, been proved of suicide for the amount, and other cases where six grief stricken fathers claimed the reward for the same man...
...It also was brought out at that time—by a Parliamentary hearing—that Hoover cut costs still further by skimping in safety devices...
...by LOUIS WALDMAN The Sales Tax: The Democrats Serve the Rich...
...Hoover's past— before he was made President—they would realize that in the present emergency Mr...
...The above statement, putting it plainly, can only mean that Mr...
...Hoover was far less niggardly with relief funds when he was seeking office—and had not yet attained the long dreamed White House goal...
...Also, Mr...
...It is my sincere belief that future historians (when the easily ascertained facts cannot be suppressed for partisan advantage) mil evaluate Herbert Hoover as one of the most sinister figures in modern times...
...Hoover revealed an utter ruthlessness in withholding supplies from the famine stricken populations of Germany, Austria, Hungary, Russia and certain Balkan states, and he did this at a time when close associations were dickering with these^same countries for commercial concessions...
...If the American people had not been kept in such profound ignorance of Mr...
...Later, during the World War, in a mine which Hoover promoted in partnership with the late lamented Romanoff family, some 3,000 Austrian prisoners of war were compelled to work as forced laborers producing metal to be used in munitions of war—while Hoover, an American neutral and supposedly a Quaker pacifist, was profiting from the proceeds...
...IfL-3 THE NEW LEADER This Weekj Washington and Albany 0 The Albany Legislature in a Year of Crisis...
...Hoover, as manager for the British promoters, found it cheaper to pa^$30 (Mexican) whenever Chinese laborers were killed by cave-ins than he did to properly timber the mine...
...to 20 cents per day...
...As food dictator of Europe—after his so-called Food Controllership had helped the profiteers plunder the American people—Mr...
...In South Africa a group of mines with which he was connected imported 53,000 Chinese coolies in 1904—right after the Boer war—because the white workers in the Transvaal refused to accept pay reductions...
...12 SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1932 Price Five Cento By WALTER W. LIGGETT Author of t4The Rise of Herbert Hoover" •TOILLIONS for bankers—but not a single dollar for the starving unemployed...
...The lives and limbs of bis underpaid employes, apparently, were subordinated to his demand for increased profits...
...These are not isolated instances of Herbert Hoover's disregard for human rights when they interfere with dividends...
...Profits always have been his first consideration, and profits—for himself and his big business backers and friends—are still his ruling passion now that lie occupies the Presidency...
...Not satisfied with this exploitation, Hoover resorted to other "economies...
...If space permitted I could cite many other instances—hut why encumber the record ? The foregoing examples in a period of fifteen years—before Herbert Hoover dreamed of seeking office—reveal his hard and ruthless nature and show how utterly hollow are his claims as "The Great Humanitarian...
...Vhlues Worker's Life at $30 Let me cite a few facts to substantiate my contention : In the Chinese Engineering & Mining Company's coal mines near Tientsin (which Hoover "converted" from its original Chinese owners into the hands of British and Belgian capitalists by methods very dubious indeed) our future President piled up huge profits for his fellow stockholders by employing Oriental laborers long hours at wages of from 10...
...If this crisis finds him cruel, at least he is consistent...
...Anyone who recalls Herbert Hoover's repeated declarations that "doles" to, the jobless workers would be "un-American" and "destructive of our individual initiative," will agree with me, I think, that the above sentence fairly summarizes his attitude in the face of the great and growing calamity mat has come upon the nation since he was made President The 12-year pre-election ballyhoo, in which Mr...
...The Orientals were indentured for three years, kept in compounds, flogged for slight violations of arbitrary rules—in fact they were slaves in everything except name...
...Serves the Rich—True to Form Consequently, even now, many warm-hearted but weak-headed citizens can hardly bring themselves to credit the accounts which prove his callous indifference to the widespread misery that has accompanied the depression...
...Hoover sold an essentially false presentation of himself to the American votersjust as a promoter he often had unloaded spurious stocks upon gullible British investors—had pictured him as "The Great«Humanitarian...
...Strikebreaker on Wholesale Scale Later, when Hoover was resident manager in West Australia for Bewick, Moreing & Company,, in charge of 25 large producing mines, he was instrurqental in breaking the power of organized labor by importing low-paid non-union Italians...
...He re' duced the working force and increased Hie output by compelling Australian miners to replace the douMerjack with the single jack system—where one man virtually does the work of two...
...Discussing the labor problem, Mr...
...The next day 3,000 men, women and children were evicted from their homes and compelled to tramp more than 100 miles out of the district...
...He described these iimself in a paper which he read before the British Institution of Mining and Metallurgy in London on July 19, 1902...
...Hoover...
...Despite repeated warnings by the Australian mine inspectors, he neglected to timber his shafts properly and persistently violated provisions regulating the height and thickness of the slopes...
...by LAURENCE TODD...
...The amazing, almost incredible callousness of this statement would almost defy belief if it were not for the fact that I have a photostatic copy of the paper read by Mr...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 12
