WELL-fED SENATOR BINGHAM
WELL-fED SENATOR BINGHAM Kept Servant off Conn, Manufacturers Sees No Hunger And 38 Old Party Governors Swear to the Falsehood GOD'S in his heaven and all's right with the world! No human...
...Hubbard wrote the Hon...
...Do they not know that this brooding hell of anxiety and privation is a certain source of physical decline and, in many cases, death...
...It seeks representation for workers, not for merchandise and Invested capital...
...Have they the magic power to peer into the desolate homes of the jobless...
...Starve Them Out of Office It is time that the laboring miWons should be able to point to the two houses and say, "Our Senator" and "Our Congressman...
...Serves His Master Well The survey showed that the Hon...
...Bingham presenting a survey of the states to show that there are no starving men and women of the working class in the United States...
...He is a sensitive magnet that registers the desires of the masters of capitalist enterprise in his state...
...Oust them and put our own representatives in power...
...Bingham serves his class but his class is not our class...
...No fighting group pledged to their interests is to be found in the national legislature...
...Referring to the latter's interest in tariff doles, the vice-president wrote the Hon...
...Bingham...
...But human life is a cheap commodity, so cheap that figures of the number facing starvation are not worth collecting...
...r Complain not of the Binghams...
...No human being in the United States is starving in 38 of the 39 states surveyed by Senator Bingham of Connecticut / Taking a poll of the governors of all the states, Senator Bingham received disturbing information only from Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania who believes that "starvation is widespread" although "no one has enumerated the starving...
...If we want reliable figures on the number of hogs, the value of real estate, and the number of American dollars invested in other countries they can < be obtained...
...E. G. Buckland, vice-president of the railroad, and the latter became almost poetic in his affection for the Hon...
...Who is this great man sent by the voters of Connecticut to the tJpper Diet at Washington...
...With his services as such an official or employe from any source other than the government of the United States, except as may be contributed out of the treasury of any state, county or municipality, and no person, association or corporation shall make any contribution to or in any way supplement the salary of any government official or employe for the services performed by him for the government of the United States...
...Hubbard that "The fact that one of our Senators is willing to undertake this work not only justifies but practically demands that the association should support him to the limit" One of our Senators t Surely the fabled friendship of Damon and PytJuaa does not wrpata tfaii tarfflB...
...Bingham wrote the Hon...
...The staff of the Manufacturers Asso-ciation was already figuring out what Connecticut capitalists wanted in the way of tariff doles...
...Not so with the workers of the nation...
...The Hon...
...If they do not know, if the Hon...
...He favors administration of power for the owners of capital...
...Use our vast voting power to end this servility to the upper classes and become the ruling fewer at Washington and the staff capitals...
...In any event, they do not represent the voting millions of the working class...
...One of Our Office Boys" In the background of this moving drama was tlie New York, New Haven and„Heartless—beg pardon— Hartford Railroad Company, which had formed a united front with the manufacturers by affiliating with the association, its annual donation amounting to $100,000...
...Bingham...
...He was "sworn in as clerk of the Committee on Territories and Insular Possessions, of which Senator Bingham was then and is now a member.'.' The...
...He Knows No Hunger The results of the poll of tlie' states are paraded by the Connecticut statesman just to show that a road construction relief bill is unnecessary...
...No soul more sensitive to the woes of the investing class will be found in the Senate unless it be Snioot of Utah whose passion is sugar...
...The Hon...
...Do they know that short rations and endless worry by the unemployed bring His and that I SCdftin flwwutage oi deaths iuevkabjy follow...
...How fruitful was tlie cooperation between die statesman and the Connecticut manufacturers was made known by the Lobby Committee which said: "In*" respect to fifty-two of the leading industries in the State of Connecticut, the pending tariff bill recommends raises in the duties on forty-four...
...Swine have value in the market, the jobless wage slave does not command thirty cejtts under the "glorioQs banner of freedom...
...The late tariff bill of blessed memory was being framed and on February 5 the Hon...
...Eyanson was charged with drawing the government salary provided for clerk pf this committee...
...The masters of corporate capital in Connecticut can point to a figure in the United States Senate and say, "Our Senator...
...WELL-fED SENATOR BINGHAM Kept Servant off Conn, Manufacturers Sees No Hunger And 38 Old Party Governors Swear to the Falsehood GOD'S in his heaven and all's right with the world...
...Manufacturing and railroad capital in Connecticut also manages to get along on tariff gifts out of the Federal treasury...
...Other kingdoms of American capital can also point to their faithful servants in Congress...
...and that is true...
...Starve them out of office...
...Socialists want administration of that power for the workers...
...Well-fed governors at the state, capitals so report...
...The result was that Hon...
...They deny that there is starvation...
...Late in October, 1929, a Lobby Committee made a report to the Senate of its survey of the Connecticut statesman...
...Eyanson, says the report, was made "a clerk in the office of Senator Bingham...
...Eyanson was "loaned" to Hon...
...He assembled material for the use of Senator Bingham...
...A Dole for the Bosses The Lobby Committee went on to quote a Federal statute of 1917 which declares: "That on and after July 1, 1919, no government official or employee shall receive any salary in connection...
...Capital's Faithful Servants No one starving in the United States...
...And there we have a romance of American politics to which has been added the moving scene of the Hon...
...A profit lost to them is painful to him...
...Hubbard had on the payroll of the association a Charles L. Eyanson as assistant at a salary of $10,000 per year...
...Let's make a survey of Senator Bingham...
...Nine governors made no answer while die governors of New York, Alabama and other states reported that no reliable statistics of the starving are available...
...The Hon...
...Any person violating any of the terms of this proviso shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $1,000 or imprisonment for not less than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, as the court may determine...
...Bingham does not know, they live in a phantom world, not in this real world of economic disaster and distress...
...His conduct is a text for a hundred speeches on Socialist philosophy...
...E. Kent- Hubbard...
...The survey showed that he had established a direct connection with the Manufacturers Association of his state, the president thereof l>eing Mr...
...That it the purpose of the Socialist Party...
...loan me an expert advisor on tariff problems...
...Well, he isn't starving...
...Steel and soap, oil and railroads, coal and banks, copper and textiles, have their loyal spokesmen in Washington...
...Hub-bard whether the latter could not...
Vol. 13 • March 1932 • No. 13
