A Socialist View of the Week
A Socialist View of the Week A New Robot in the Printing Industry A NEW robot is born In the Announcement of an automatic typesetting machine which seta type direct without human effort. It...
...Released one year later he was reelected, a Deputy before his release from prison...
...No one in Congress or outside denies this need, the only question being whether the distressed masses shall bear the heaviest weight while the fat boys of capitalism carry the lighter load...
...A awitcn is thrown and the carriage shifts the copy to the left until the light covers the entire line...
...Whether Hitler will then try some "rough house" methods is a matter of conjecture but if he does he will have to reckon with armed millions of workers who are determined to prevent Fascist heels from being placed on their necks...
...He was sentenced many times to prison because of his Socialist agitation...
...His voters have been given a free hand as the Duesterberg coalition is engaged in a bitter feud with Hitler's Fascists...
...Several arrests were made and It la reported that Russian delegates had appeared in Barcelona with plenty of funda and were negotiating with anarchists, syndicalists and Communist groups for a Harlan County Smuggers IN one respect many of those who sing the praises of American capitalism are like a man who leads a dual life...
...The party executive had been criticized for the past year on the ground that leaders had cooperated with the government and had become "reformist...
...Hoover was "keenly disappointed" and this week Speaker Garner took the floor In an appeal to the members to "balance the budget...
...Congress voted forty million bushels of wheat to feed the hungry because it was learned that Hoover to not able to provide that chicken for every pot that was promised in 1928...
...They have piled up a mountain of criminal deeds that may some time come home to haunt them or their heirs...
...If it declines it means a setback for him which is likely to be followed by desertions from his ranks...
...Both have become a common stew, Democrats, Republicans and Insurgents mingled in one pot...
...We predict that when Mussolini is forgotten and bis regime has been overthrown, Turati will mount many pedestals in the public squares of Italy and will be remembered for the great Socialist fighter that he was...
...Voting for capitalist parties is the costliest thing that workers can indulge in...
...The second ballot was not to have unconditional affiliation by 214 to 98...
...If a few million more voters can be moved like wooden figures to the polling places that la sufficient...
...He was condemned by a military tribunal to twelve years in prison for a speech he made In the Chamber of Deputies on freedom for Sicily...
...The machine cannot vote...
...Electoral Prospects, In Germany TWO coming elections in Germany, the first on Sunday, April 10, when a President will be chosen, and the elections in Prussia to follow, will decide much of the future course of Germany...
...Reports indicate that there is little doubt of the election of Hindenburg...
...There was no party issue on the sales tax with each party representing definite economic views...
...A Socialist society will some day assess their proper place in history...
...It is a far cry from the days when the Republican Oligarchy at Washington in the post-war period supported the Negro In southern politics with bayonets yet even while this was being done a half-dozen Republican states in the North denied the ballot to the Negro...
...Non-feudal land will be paid for in part and the government plans to devote 19,000,000 annually to settling with the peasants...
...Hitler is regarded by this section of his opponents as an upstart and demagogue and some of those who voted for Duesterberg on March 13 will vote for Hindenburg on April 10...
...The result is a new coalition of Republicans and Democrats...
...the workers .can...
...They deny the class struggle but their deeds are beacon lights pointing to the gulf that yawns between them and the class that feeds, houses and clothes them...
...In fact, the fading of party lines in Congress, which has been going on since the farmer rebellion of the late nineties was conquered, Is almost complete today...
...The Dutch Socialists meeting at The Hague this week with 2,000 delegatea in attendance are reported to have split and that 400 delegates seceded and formed the Independent Socialist Labor Party of Holland...
...Jurist, poet and sociologist in Italy, he threw in his lot with the working class...
...Those who are concerned are the robber barons of American capitalism and their political sycophants but their concern to not a choice between one set and the other as they fertilize both parties with funds out of their money vats...
...The brutal class rule that reigns in Harlan County, Kentucky, is an example of this analogy...
...Happiness for the upper world of capitalowners and hell for those who live in the lower levels of society...
...Virginia is in an advanced stage of this movement and in other states the Negro la slowly being eliminated from the G. O. P. Two years ago the Negroes controlled the party organization in Georgia but this year 80 per cent of the delegates to the state convention were white and one Negro member of the national committee has been removed...
...The following of Duesterberg, who has withdrawn from the contest, is uncertain of its course...
...It is about tune that the railroaders helped to railroad the capitalist system out of the picture with Socialist ballots...
...Two years later, however, he with other Socialists fled from the dictatorship to Paris where he continued the fight...
...Minister of Agriculture Domingo states that the object is to "give the land to those who work it...
...President Hoover has proclaimed May Day as National Child Health Day...
...Let's conquer power and end this tragedy...
...This upsets the old rule in Spain of working the workers...
...They want men and women of the working class, class conscious and determined to overthrow the capitalist system and its rotting parties...
...On the first the delegates voted 182 to 144 to continue affiliation...
...The printer will understand all this, if many laymen do not and it is Interesting to note that an ex-printer is responsible for writing the doom of thousands of printers...
...Racial discrimination and class subjection have their roots in economic exploitation and not till a Socialist civilization replaces capitalism will the Negro be conceded the full rights of a human being and a citizen...
...It is an advance on the teletypesetter announced a few years ago and which was regarded an a marvel In displacing labor...
...A Socialist Party with fighting representatives of the workers would make short work of this political mess...
...Three ballots were taken on Monday on this issue...
...Rolling their eyes to heaven when they take the oath, they turn with savage ferocity upon thoae who seek to investigate the slave pens over which they preside...
...The tectonics are described as the focussing of a tiny beam of light on the copy at the left end of the first line...
...Not a week goes by that they do not tear the Constitution to tatters and their treatment of student investigators ia a sample of their work...
...Public officials cosing "law 'n' order" from every pore employ their oath of office as a footmat for their muddy boots...
...The total Indebtedness of American fanners is estimated at thirteen billion dollars by A. C. Williams of the Federal Farm liban Board...
...This ia a blow at the landed aristocrats who no doubt regret that Spain has no American constitution or a supreme court to set such a measure aside...
...He denounced the Fascist brigands in the chamber and at the close of the war opposed the Communists and their methods...
...Turati, Socialist Exile, Diet in Parit THE death of Filippo Turati at the age of 74 in Paris this week will bring genuine grief in the ranks of the Socialist International...
...Automatic devices more and more displace labor, rooting out old skills and occupations, sending the worker into the streets, forcing him to compete in an increasingly glutted labor market, requiring him to learn a new occupation, facing an inevitable downward trend of wages, and making life more and more a chance-world for him...
...He referred to the "hitch bikers," those Congressmen who vote for special consideration of commodities in their own states...
...It is reported that applications for 231,268 barrels of flour required to feed 270,000 hungry people have been received by the Red Cross...
...The votes show a reluctance to withdraw from the Labor Party and also extreme dissatisfaction with the present status of the I. L. P. as an affiliated* section...
...The Political Stew At Washington AS we went to press last week the House killed the sales tax by a vote of 223 to 1S3 and the revenue bill was reduced to shreds as $460,000,000 was eliminated from the bill...
...A Socialist View of the Week A New Robot in the Printing Industry A NEW robot is born In the Announcement of an automatic typesetting machine which seta type direct without human effort...
...The old balance left no balance In the purse of millions of workers...
...We will celebrate May Day for the purpose of hastening the end of the capitalist system that has deprived millions of children of enough to eat...
...Now he has passed on, one of the noblest figures in the international...
...Our ruling capitalists are vulgarians, half barbarians, more ruthless than this same class is in any other country...
...The Republican organization is anxious to cast the Negro aside so that It will be able to compete with Southern Democrats for the, support of the new capitalism...
...A recent report from Madrid declares that plana for a big-scale Communist revolution had been unearthed which was to begin early in April...
...They can be smugly righteous in their own circles and malign slave-drivers in their industrial shambles...
...Wooden Figure$ Wanted As Voters This Year PRESIDENT HOOVER has approved the campaign to bring out a large vote this year...
...The electoral struggle in Germany begins next week and Hitler will make a strong fight to increase his vote...
...Socialists want no wooden heads to go to the polls to increase the Socialist vote...
...The robot la one of the couriers that announces the need of a Socialist society that will master the robot and make it do our work...
...He lives in a "respectable" neighborhood, pays his bills and is a model of the family virtues...
...There was some discussion in the party for weeks as to whether it would remain an affiliated section of the Labor Party and a strong group favored independence...
...Out of the fight one Congressman coined a word that may take its place in politics by the side of "buncombe," "snivel service" and "standpatter...
...And they are right in thinking so...
...At the same time tne matrices begin to drop from the linotype magazine and the slug of type is cast...
...With the triumph of Mussolini he rose in the Chamber and denounced the Fascists and continued this course as late as 1924...
...The rebel cheering last week when the sales tax was defeated became an ovation when Garner this week asked the statesmen to cooperate with him...
...The robotbrings increased values to the owners...
...Since 1896 the total number of voters eligible to vote who refrain from voting has been on the decline and about half of the voters have remained at home In some national elections...
...More than 232,000 railroad workers have been railroaded into idleness during 1931 and the wages lost are over $437,000,000...
...But his income is derived from shady and probably criminal practices which his open family life serves as a mask to conceal...
...It is obvious that most of these non-voting voters do not think It worth while to choose between two, Mta of candidates who are as alike as a row of dolls In a show window...
...This is the Socialist program, the present hell is capitalism...
...In 1937 he began the publication of a paper and for this some com* radea of his were placed on trial in Italy...
...British I. L. P. Meets...
...The chickens have come home to roost on the Hoover perch...
...The fact la that about half the voters of'the nation have loat Interest In the parties of capitalism while Socialists have not had the means necessary to reach them...
...5. O. P. "Lily Whites" Capture "Gawgia" THE "Lily White" Republican movement in the South Is slowly capturing the "idealism" of the G. O. P; politicians...
...Throughout our history since the organized struggle of the working class emerged out of capitalist industry this brutality has been going on...
...Those who, like'Hoover, want a larger vote regard voting as a mechanical process...
...A final proposal for "conditional affiliation" was carried by a vote of 200 to 53...
...Ownership and control of industry by society would enable us to reduce the hours of labor, keep all workers employed1, and distribute the results of increased production among the working people...
...More definite reports will be at hand in the next few weeks...
...Spain to Take Lands} * Alleged Plan of Revolt rpHE Spanish Parliament has drafted i_ Its measure for seizure of the lands which, if enacted, will take them over without indemnifying the owners of estates of feudal origin, the owners being permitted to make claims for improvements only...
...Dutch Socialists Split THE British Independent Labor Parly, meeting in Blackpool this week, decided to remain in the Labor Party as an affiliated group...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 14
