The Republic of Boodle and Bunk
The Republic of Boodle and Bunk >Vhcre Workers Use Their Power To Keep Their Exploiters on Top THE MAN FROM MARS would certainly describe our part of the earth as the Republic of Boodle and...
...Both Rosner and Bright vigorously protested this action and demanded a hearing within three days...
...That power can be recovered by the working masses and used for themselves if they want it...
...However, Speaker Garner is expected to hold the Democrats in line for the Hoover program of taking money out of the pockets of the destitute and the mtngry...
...They i can expect nothing from Tanv i many...
...Even some Democratic members are so aghast over this licking of the boots of the Raskob-Mellon class that they attacked this proposal as a "tax on poverty...
...Join it and nark fo< the political revolution that will end this nightmare < political weakness, industrial depression, fleititui , nnil humiI'll N. Y. Jobless Demand Relief—But Walker Is in No Hurry ——— <fc-¦ ----.--—-.__i_;_..- ¦. •An enthusiastic and colorful unemployment demonstration was held by the Socialist party last Saturday at Columbus Circle, New York City...
...Their descendants today are the wage slaves of capitalism and millions of them are broken, jobless and hungry...
...Today agriculture has declined to a poverty-stricken occupation...
...Sons of the landed proprietors were sent to Yale, Harvard and even Oxford for an education...
...It would abolish the Republic of Boodle and Bunk and establish the Cooperative Commonwealth where^ useful workers rule and the boodlers and bunkers win* have no place...
...Workers generally want what they do not gel and they get what they do not want...
...Their only hope Is a strong Socialist Partv...
...This is one more lesson to the> workers of New York City...
...He is debt-ridden, robbed, and his occupation has become a hopeless one...
...Their homes were scenes of contributions are made to the politicians and parties lavish entertainment...
...I enough of "soapbox tactics" and that he would not grant a hearing i at the following Friday's meeting of the Board of Estimate...
...Governor Roosevelt was denounced for praising the state legislature as having saved the State money by Its short se Ion, speakers pointing out that the legislature failed to pass the unemployment Insurance law or the sixhour, five-day work week Mil sponsored by the Emergency Conference on Unemployment...
...Three thousand persona heard the party speakers...
...Aided by a powerful amplifier supplied by the movie operators union the speakers' voices were heard throughout the square and beyond...
...The Democratic House is today a rubber stamp for Hoover, Democratic Speaker Gat ¦ ner consults Hoover and brings the latter's program into the House to be ratified by the Democratic tnajorityl As a writer in The New Republic puts it, "The Republican House leaders look on admiringly and sit by with folded hands...
...Max Delson presided...
...Washington, Jefferson and other "fathers" of the republic were landed proprietors...
...Millions of farmers have descended to a level of poverty equal to that of the Negroes once owned by the great planters...
...Few farmers send their sons to the universities...
...We are weak in industry but a tremendous poiver in political action if our action is aimed to get the governing powers in our hands...
...The class character of Congress was also exposed by speakers who showed the hast* with which the two billion dollar Reconstruction Corporation was created, and the failure to pass the 9375,000,000 unemployment relief bill...
...The shifting of a huge part of the burden of the depression to the breaking backs of the working masses/ The Democratic majority, taking orders from HooveY, now proposes a system of sales taxes that will increase the cost of living of farmers and workers...
...Workingnien 'and women of the United States...
...of this wretched capitalist system...
...It was the duty of the City to provide another 30 million dollars at once, to be spent at the rate of 6 million, dollars a month in the next five months...
...Of the first six presidents of the United States, five were planters...
...The following speakers addressed the meeting: Leonard Bright, August Claessens, McAlister Coleman...
...We are powerless in the governing seats of the states and the nation...
...They served as Congressmen, Governors and U. S. Senators...
...We part with our political power before the election and the money bags have it after the election I It is bad enough when capitalism pushes us out of agriculture and out of industry, but it is stupid when we also vote ourselves out of the seats of power at Washington and at the state capitals...
...The letter outlining the ' h.at been sent six weeks ag.t ' Copies bad been furnished every ' member of the Board of Estimate, ; Including the Comptroller, the chief fiscal officer of the city...
...They are the dregs that have sunk to the bottom of society while the idle rich scum floats at the top...
...A Political Revolt Is Due What we now have in Congress is a Democratic majority doing the dirty work of Republican administration As Raskob, the owner of the Democratic Party recently declared, the fat boys of capital and finance arc very happy because the Democratic House serves them so well...
...Planters were prominent in the politics of the nation...
...Workingmen and women of the United States...
...Millions of dollars will be spent by capitalists who have that pt>wer to retain it...
...this is a kissing bee...
...The City Worker Debased Working men of the cities have never been an upper class...
...And now as a reward for our ignorance or carelessness Congress votes huge money doles to aid bankers, railroad gamblers and corporations...
...A political revolution is essential in this country, a revolution that will transfer power from the two-party alliance of capitalism to a party of the toiling millions The Socialist Party is a fighting organization of the workers...
...In the days of the planter aristocracy'they were the "mudsills" of society...
...When Rosner and Bright ' charged that the city's inactivity revealed a lack of interest In the suffering of the unemployed, Walk' er retorted that he had had...
...That is, capitalism provides no place for them...
...The President confers with them rarely, for when he want9 something done, he goes to Garner...
...The fanner has no place in agriculture and the worker no place in industry...
...In the case of millions of working farmers, savings are gone, farms are lost, homes have passed out of their hands...
...Thf Socialist Party is your party...
...Labor's Unused Power Both groups of the toiling army, however, have a place in politics...
...Mayor Walker said that the city had no money but that he would recommend to refer It to the Finance Department for a report as to ways and means...
...The ruling classes do not have the votes but they have the funds...
...One Congress man declares that, "This isn't a session of Congress...
...Congress is now in the hands of the Democrats...
...They step down to get our votes and go up to deliver them to the ruling barons...
...There is no lavish display in the farmer's home...
...Capitalism has conquered the farmer and reduced the farming class to serfs...
...A Tax on Poverty" And what is the result of this Republican-Democratic alliance...
...Records of stirring marches, including the "Marseilles" were played through the amplifier, and at the conclusion of the addresses the "Internationale" was played accompanied by singing from the audience, In which the Tlpsels were conspicuous...
...What hope is there from this crowd which expects to ride our misery to a political triumph in November f Absolutely nothing...
...Frank Crosswaitb, Esther Friedman, George Goebel, Henry Jager, Aaron Levenstsln, Henry J. Rosner and David Cassidy, an unemployed worker' from the L. I. D. Unemployment Center...
...That is why the money bags of the ruling classes are opened and big i — — < — *— Workers do not have the funds but they have the votes...
...Attractive signs and posters made by' the Rebel Arts group brightened the meeting, at the end of which an Impromptu parade around the Circle took nlace...
...What think you of this Republic of Boodle and Bunk...
...But it is an old story...
...And the result...
...The Republic of Boodle and Bunk >Vhcre Workers Use Their Power To Keep Their Exploiters on Top THE MAN FROM MARS would certainly describe our part of the earth as the Republic of Boodle and Bunk...
...They have nothing to do...
...Is this shocking servility to our exploiters by the Republican-Democratic alliance the thing that you desired when you sent its members to that body...
...They know that with that power in their hands it will be out of the hands of the masses...
...Like the working farmers, the wage workers face a hopeless future under capitalism...
...Millions of workers have lost their homes, their savings are gone, no jobs are available, and they are dependent upon degrading charity...
...Voting Power to Our Enemies But the tragedy of these dark days of working class life is that the two sections of the labor army have passed their voting power into the hands of their enemies...
...That they need it few of us would deny...
...There was a time when agriculture was on the basis of an aristocratic class...
...The Farmer's Plight Consider the plight of agriculture...
...It aims to transfer governing power from the upper ruling groups to the lower ruled class ot farmers and workers...
...The hungry masses get nothing but soothing words...
...The Walker Administration on Tuesday denied the request of the Emergency Conference and the Socialist Party for an Immediate public hearing on the need for a 30 million dollar appropriation . for unemployment relief.Rosner and Bright pointed out to the Board of Estimate that the 6 million dollars a month now being spent for unemployment relief by all private and public charitable agencies In New York City met only 50 per cent of the actual cases in distress and that, therefore...
...We are governed by politicians representing the upper ruling class...
...It is estimated that the revenue to be sweated out of us is five times what will be obtained from the increase...
...It is a steep descent from the days when agriculture was the basis of large incomes, social prestige, political power, and security...
...To get our votes they contribute these funds...
...The public power used at Washington and at every state capital is power both groups parted with in the last elections...
...They know its value...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 12
