A Socialist View of the Week
A Socialist View of the Week Hmbuh in Congress, , , rlE revolt in Congress on the sales tax la Instructive and amusing. When its provisions became known many Republican and Democratic members...
...Trouble Bracing In Ireland IRELAND appears to be facing another clash with England over the oath of allegiance required of members of the new government The Free State declares that "the oath is not mandatory in the treaty...
...Davtla is also known to be very friendly with Ibanez, former President now an exile in the Argentine, who also had "socialistic" views...
...In 1922 he issued an order forbidding striking shopmen officials from communicating with each other and the strikers, from paying strike benefits, from peaceful picketing and other normally legal activities...
...Two Wise Men IN the same week Chairman Wickersham of Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission and Secretary of War Hurley mounted the barricades for American capitalism, Wickersham declared that Socialism "has so shaken the concept of the right of Individual property as largely to destroy the moriK quality of the laws enacted for Its protection...
...How-every- the Fascist danger is not so acute now because the Fascist elements have been discredited by recent murder plots against high officials...
...The Japanese government added that it would suppress White Guard activities in Manchuria if they threatened the Soviet frontiers...
...Observing that all but 8 per cent of the Voters in Germany voted In the recent election while in this country about half the voters do not go to the polls, the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce will make a drive this year to get more voters to vote...
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...Their support should materially strengthen Hitler but on the basis of the March vote it will not elect him...
...The offense of both publications is that they 'tan articles devoted to Hoover's career as a promoter and other activities before he became President...
...The Irish revolutionary movement for generations has expressed this affection for the soli and It has been ranged against British and Irish landlordism...
...A New York Times correspondent reports that if the groups did not units "either ths Socialists under Senator Santiago Iglesias or the Socialists working under agreement with the Union Republicans would control the Island for four iiiini if......i.....ir«iiiMliiiiMifii Hoover Asks Rudy to Croon Away the Depression WASHINGTON...
...Hoover had remarked that the singer would "rate a medal" if he would "write t song to drive away the depression...
...This is about the scurviest thing Hoover has done...
...fapanete' Vaudeville And FatcUt Dreams THE Japanese vaudeville show continues in Manchuria...
...Hurley declared that "we have evolved an American civilisation based on private ownership without economic despotism...
...The dummy government will be under way next July membership of 100 whose terms will be three years...
...It is reported that the labor unions had drafted a revolutionary manifesto urging the overthrow of the Mon-tero regime...
...Theodor Duesterberg, Nationalist-Steel Helmet candidate for President, has announced that he will not be a candidate in the April election and a party statement indicates that Its support will go to Hitler...
...The Prussian Angle...
...The latter think of settling all this with a dictator supported by bayonets...
...Prussia is a strategic state which the Fascists desire to capture...
...This was to be the signal for marching upon the nearest large cittes...
...Vallee said that while talking in the President's office Mr...
...Wilkerson Is the author of one of the most drastic injunctions ever issued by a judge against strikers...
...The bill might have been put over in an off year but there is a general election in November and the gentlemen up for re-election do not want to confront flats...
...The soil of Ireland for the people of Ireland, to have and to hold, from God Alone who gave it, to have and to hold for them and their heirs forever, without suit or service, rent or render, faith/or fealty to any power under heaven...
...The singer and Mrs...
...Socialism in Two Latin-American Nations CARLOS DA VILA, former Chilean Ambassador to the United States, was recently arrested in Santiago but the charges have not been published...
...The result is that the opposition cut food and clothing from the sales tax wrote Into the bill a war time surtax on wealth and increased the present estate taxes...
...The cocky militarists were humiliated by the Chinese defense, Japan has been isolated, before world opinion, and many influential Japanese citizens are sore over the arrogance of the military clique...
...Add the strikebreaker to this gentleman and the sum of both Is Hoover...
...Hoover Promote* Two Noble Judgea , -qRESIDENT HOOVER apparently M7 wants to balance the judicial scales after appointing Judge Cardoso to the Supreme bench by appointing Judge Wil-kerson to be Circuit judge...
...Socialists may enjoy the row and**orK with a will to see that the fists are turned against both parties...
...Only votes for the party poodles of capitalism are desired and if ^hla were the only choice before us we would prefer to spend election day at a slap-stick movie...
...Socialists have controlled Prussia since 1921 and* it contains two-thirds of the German population...
...J. H. Thomas, British Secretary for Dominions and former member of the Labor party, declared the statement to be a "serious document...
...In fact, Hitler's prestige Is somewhat weakened because of the failure of bis cocky predictions of victory in the March election...
...It is now in order for the Amalgamted Association of Racketeers to report against the abolition of their profession...
...They want votes and so they turned against the two-party machine that rules the House...
...Hints are made that with active labor men he had planned some revolutionary move on May Day...
...Hoover has thousands of publications to chant his alleged virtues and to throw the weight of a federal department against a few critical journals Is not only oligarchy but cowardice as well...
...The labor unions rightly protest against Hoover's shabby trick which la apparently Intended to divert attention from the judge's servility to the railroad barons...
...In the elections to the Prussian Diet in 1927 the Fascists obtained 6 seats out of 450 But since then Fascism has made big gains, especially among the German youth and students...
...Rudy Vallee, Stage ana1 radio crooner, reported Wednesday that during a visit at the White House President Hoover had suggested that he mite and sing a new song with a prosperity theme...
...It might be well for the "rugged individuals" of that burg to contribute the wood to Hoover's campaign fund...
...Jftven as the speaker said this the bright of In-&ridual property" was a hideous mockery for many millions,of working farmers and workers of the cities...
...Males of the age of 28 and over are granted the suffrage and the Japanese Foreign Minister announces that the Manchurian...
...To Japanese troops leaving Shanghai for home General Shirakawa declared that conditions at home were "difficult" arid urged the troops to "be ready to rally to the call when things happen...
...The Congressman who "Jumps the traces" generally finds that orders are sent by the Washington leaders to the district generals to knife htm in the primaries and the conventions...
...Silencing Criticism Of President Hoover yjOSTMASTEft GENERAL BROWN, Mr Hoover's campaign manager, has barred an edition of the "American Freeman" from the mails and the "Organised Farmer" of Minnesota has been permanently deprived of Its mailing privileges...
...In Porto Rico the Unionist party has passed into history and is replaced by a new Liberal party which includes some other political groups...
...Facing the fists of the voters and .the scowls of the local generals, many a rebel is sweating blood...
...He would have been just as logical had he stood by a slaughter house and spoken of the right to life of the animals that were being driven to their doom...
...Many of Chicago's 14,000 teachers have lived a year or two on two and a half month's pay...
...As editor of a magazine he was critical of government policy and it la understood that his views are tinged with an "excessively socialistic color...
...It Is probable that the Diet will assemble without disturbance and that a Fascist adventure, will not be attempted...
...The New Leader ran an article on the first page last week which was devoted to Hoover's business ventures and this week we review Llggett's book which la devoted to the same theme...
...Ireland alone and Ireland her own and all therein from the sod to the sky," said the speaker...
...This love of the "ould sod" has given all Irish struggles their peculiar flavor...
...The brigade of Tammany agents in the House is reported as standing solid for the original sales tax bill...
...Hoover has also nominated Kenneth Mackintosh to the Uhtt«A4MMflM of Appeals in 8an Francisco, the same Judge who, after tko Central la riots, commended the lynchers of Wesley Everest, L W. W. hall defender, for their "calm control and loyalty to American ideals...
...These apologists of capitalism translate the real world of economic injustice, robbery of labor, and despotic power into a pnantom world that has no existence outside of their empty heads...
...In the Diet elections of April 24 Fascism will be materially strengthened in that body but it isn't likely that it wll lcontrol...
...Meantime some fears nave been expressed of a Fascist regime In Japan...
...From Washington comes a story reporting "feverish" preparations by Russia to guard the Siberian frontier and that Russia fears a drive by Japan in the spring...
...That, too, is Irish...
...Patriotic" societies will cooperate...
...When its provisions became known many Republican and Democratic members confronted fists shaken at them in their districts back home...
...The ideal is somewhat ambiguous but the sentiment Is genuinely Irish...
...Just as Spain emerged from the Morocco military adventure under a military dictator so this may come to Japan as a result of the long defense by the Chinese at Shanghai...
...A special commission of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, after months of study abroad, reports against unemployment insurance legislation...
...So In "making the world safe for democracy" it appears that it must be made safe for the re-electoin of Herbert Hoover...
...As he spoke, in Kentucky a despotism Jails miners for striking, public officials wear the collars of mine owners, sympathizers are slugged and deported, and a solemn judge deprives a newspaper of the right to print uncensored news of this despotism...
...Watchful Waiting on " The Russian Border THE "watchful waiting" of Russia on the Manchurian border continues and Japan repeated its assurance that the massing of troops on the Korean border did not threaten Soviet territory...
...If Hoover or any other politician in office is to be protected against criticism by penalizing publications we are facing the most dangerous censorship in our history...
...The Japanese Ambassador at Moscow repeated these assurances and in turn asked Karakhan, Assistant Soviet Foreign Commissar, about a reported massing of Russian troops on the border and Karakhan declared that the information was without foundation...
...However, this despotic arrogance must be fought...
...The gods must have roared with laughter over this comedy...
...In German Elections LAST week the headquarters of Hitler's Fascists were raided throughout Prussia and officials declared they had evidence that 500,000 of Hitler's "storm troops" were awaiting mobilization orders upon receipt of a code message—"Grandmother Dead...
...This is an exhibit in capitalism's show window...
...The leaders of the two parties in the House are worried but they hope to establish discipline and eventually have Congress pass a bill'that will please Hoover and the American nobility of capital and finance...
...Money has become Jso scare in one Washington town that the local Chamber of Commerce Issued scrip on thin wood in denominations of 25 and 50 cents and one dollar...
...Vallee chat-, ted with the President and two of his secretaries...
...De Valera, once with a price on his head, also faces a revolutionary group in opposition...
...It would be an anti-climax If Thomas is used in the coming months as the instrument of British coercion but that Is the price one must pay when he passes from the labor movement over to the enemy...
...One paragraph had a peculiar Irish flavor...
...If the rebels face menacing fists back home they will also face the power of the machines In their districts...
...It appears that fear of the Socialist party had something to do with the organization of the new party...
...regime "is solely the result of self-determination" and that "Japan will regard It sympathetically...
...Thus far no thunderbolt has been hurled by Postmaster General Brown against The New Leader hut the "American Freeman" and "Organised Farmer" cases may be lightning that precedes the thunder...
...Hitler's answer was that concentration orders were Issued because forty Fascists had been killed and thousands wounded in a few weeks by "Red savages...
...The implication is that opposition to the appointment In some way sympathizes with the underworld of crime...
...This is in conflict with the news from Moscow and any "news" that comes from Washington on such mutters must be classified with the output from Riga some years, ago...
...Here Is a judge who certainly glossed criminal actions with* "patriot-Ism" and Hoover chooses him for promotion...
...They cannot buy food, afford medical or dental attention, and they are the victims of usurious loan sharks...
...Through Senator Glenn of Illinois Hoover declared that Wllkerson's appointment was made "in recognition of his services in fighting organized crime and gangsters...
...A Socialist world would have no room for them...
...A Socialist View of the Week Hmbuh in Congress, , , rlE revolt in Congress on the sales tax la Instructive and amusing...
...Last week De Valera broadcast a speech that was heard In this country over the radio...
Vol. 13 • March 1932 • No. 13
