A Socialist View of the Week
A Socialist View of the Week The Circus Season Brings Two Shows BARNUM and Bailey's circus gets the headlines a s t h e national politicians arrange to get theirs under way....
...The Industrial Gazette is said to report a similar situation in some other plants...
...Local Fascist chiefs in one section were ordered to report the names of police, city officials, pastors, school teachers, Freemasons and Jews...
...The fact is that he arrived In London with only a few francs in his pocket after being condemned with other Communards to banishment to New Caledonia...
...Camelinat has passed oa to torn Turati whose death we reported last week...
...Sugar and Filipino Independence BY a vote of 306 to 47 the House has voted in favor of Philippine independence tn 1940...
...Throw the ring off your neck and be a Socialist...
...I t was a false accusation and the union had no help from the district attorney who made it...
...The courts do not approach such questions from the view of the working class and the judges are likely to build up a body of opinion that will snare the unions in legal chains that will be dlffi cult t o break...
...The Socialist Fight In Horthy's Hungary rE criminal regime of Horthy in Hungary is poised on starving peasants exploited by the great landed magnates and tbe Socialists, fighting against terrible odds, have had some success in reaching these rural slaves...
...A new grandchild is blessed with $338,000...
...WILLIAM E. WIMPEY...
...Last Week of the German Campaign The electoral struggle now on In Germany appears to be the most extensive ever waged in German history The Iron Front, the armed organization of workers and republicans, held 10,000 meetings In one day and will continue this rate throughout the week...
...Tbe Budapest organ of the Hungarian government also published this material but the documents were proven forgeries In the trial ot certain Hungarian comrades and the Budapest organ w m compelled to admit that they ware falsa...
...Smith was the General Motors candidate and new models a r e being announced today...
...A writer in the New York Times glorifies the exploiters on tbe ground that they provide work...
...Camelinat took a leading part in the Commune and was entrusted with the direction of the m i n t I t was a favorite story of his t h a t after the defeat of the Commune the Versailles papers declared that he had'fled with four millions—in silver 20 centime pieces...
...The most important American import is sugar which is duty free and comes into competition with tbe cane sugar of Louisiana and the beet sugar of Utah...
...Julius Oerber, Secretary, East 15th Street, New York...
...An International Fighter Dies in France THE last survivor of the First International, Camelinat, died in France March 5 at the age of 92...
...A number of editions have been confiscated in recent weeks...
...Other documents contained mobilization plans calling for information on airports, their crews and types of planes...
...Senator Bulkley of Ohio was t h e main performer at the thieves'* supper...
...Meantime the Jefferson Day dinner was a big success with Curry and Mr Cooey gracing the table with their profound minds...
...The flab cannot pass tbe ring and the Chinaman takes it, l a t e r giving tbe entrails to the pelican...
...Union Quarrels In the courts The tendency1 of groups in trade unions or of officials to take their inner union conflicts into the courts in recent months has become so frequent that the members may well pause to consider what this will eventually mean for them...
...We listed feeble-minded persons who a r e enriched from the toil of the working class and s ow the report filed by the attorneys of the late Joseph Pulitzer reminds us that the infant born may immediately become a master of great wealth...
...and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association or corporation has any interest, direct or indirect, In the said stock, bonds or other securities than as associated by him...
...I t is hinted that as a result of the disclosures Hitler's organization will be outlawed throughout Germany...
...Sweeping changes are ordered ia these organizations and In plant management and discipline...
...His brokers present a table which shows him a winner after the first ballot...
...The President of the United States can never rise higher than the source which creates him and that to which he yields," said tbe Ohio statesman...
...Apply for a permit But, you answer, you have no oapitai...
...At the Tours Congress of tbe p a r t y in 1920 he went with the Communist group but never engaged in the campaign of slander against his old comrades...
...A threefold increase of pay of Soviet workers who a r e members of the Communist party is also reported as an efficiency measure...
...Poor old Tom Jefferson was accused when alive of being the father of mulatto children but none who lived in the days of powdered wigs could have forecast the thus when cattle brokers would pay homage to his name...
...Moral: Don't be a pelican...
...Simultaneously comes tbe news that the bugs Nudmi-Novgorod automobile plant baa ceased production aad Soviet representatives s e r e dispatched to make an investigation...
...This old fighter for the working class had a stormy life...
...In rases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or in any other fiduciary relation the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, b given...
...Tbe unions build up their own codes to serve the workers but they may not be easy to fit into capitalist law...
...The measure is now before the Senate and it is predicted that it will extend the date a t least fifteen years...
...That isn't Hoovers fault...
...He was a conspicuous member of the Paris Commune, a bronze worker whose family were Burgugdian peasants, and as early as 1865 he was a leader in one great s t r i k e inspired by tbe principles of tbe International which Marx had just founded in London...
...Albert Halpern, Treasurer, 7 East 15th Street, New York, N. Y...
...I t ia the old hokum of the barkers wooing the audience into the big tent...
...This s um may easily be over a million in a decade or two...
...Why didn't you accumulate a few hundred thousand or a million dollars T So t h e Hoover philosophy of "individual Initiative" reminds one of Anatole France's observation that the law in i ts majestic impartiality prohibits both tbe rich and poor from begging in tbe streets...
...In the meantime a million youngsters are working, are being kept out of school, while over eight million workers are unemployed...
...Details of the secret preparations reported from Berlin Indicate a thorough military and spy system...
...JULIUS OERBER, Business Manager...
...Together with Varlin, Tbeias and Malon he was shortly afterwards condemned by t b e Empire a s t h e organizer of the Paris branches of the International...
...Our n o t page last week WM devoted to the paraattic character of Inromea made possible by the capitalistic system...
...its your own...
...4. That the two paragraphs next above giving the names of tbe owners, stockholders and security holders, if any, contain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the books of the company, but also...
...The wage Increase is designed to keep pace with demands made upon the workers by the scheduled increase of 36 per cent in Industrial production...
...Statement of the ownership, management, circulation, etc., required by the Act of Congress, August 24, 1912, of THE NEW LEADER Published weekly at New York, N. Y., April 1, 1911...
...Herbert Hoover will lead...
...If there is a s t a t u t e prohibiting desecratilon of the dead the public prosecutor should invoke its penalties against tbe pork chop vulgarians who paid homage to Tom Jefferson last Saturday night...
...It is possible, a s we a r e still stupid enough to make and let other take...
...Soviet Starts Sowing Wheat by Airplane NEWS of Russia ta one week is interesting...
...Vast natural resources are thrown open to private exploitation, no doubt to encourage "individual initiative...
...also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowledge and belief aa to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trustees bold stock and securities In a capacity other than that of a bona fide owner...
...Tbe largest ball-bearing factory la the world, built under t h e direction of American spa...
...Choose your parents if you want to be a "captain of industry" during your babyhood...
...Governor Roosevelt, a mediocre gum shoe artist, appears to be In the lead for the Democratic nomination...
...The islands have not proven to be a s fruitful in American exploitation as expected...
...H a t s off while we atng that moving ditty popular in vaudeville years ago...
...The documents were issued on the eve of the Hungarian city elections...
...These documents are said to confirm the belief t h a t Hitler is supported by a large staff of former army officers who have trained his fighting units 'and bave secretly supplied them with an extensive intelligence and espionage organization...
...ctahsts, h a s a l so been opened in Moscow...
...Sworn to and subscribed before me this 5th day of April 1932...
...3. That the known bondholders, mortgagees and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more' or total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities are: None...
...I t is reported that wheat sowing by airplane on one s t a t e farm has been successful and that each craft can sow 800 acres in a day...
...Their findings, according to Duranty of tbe N ew York Times, have been embodied tn a manifesto of tba central committee of the Communist party which blames the Nizhni-Novgorod Communist and labor organizations with infraction of the "party bae" and "slander of the engineering and technical personnel...
...My Commission expires March 30, 1933...
...Of the $160,000,000 of American capital in the islands in 1930 more than three-fourths was invested in government securities, municipals, public utilities, etc...
...I got mine, boys, I got mine...
...Four years ago the Democrats proudly displayed in full page advertisements the number of bankers, corporation magnates and other "fat cats" who had invested their money in the Democratic candidate...
...N. Y. Stockholders holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of stock: None...
...Hare Is Hoover's "equality of opportunity.'' Leave the breadline aad grab your equalitartan rights while tbe getting is good...
...On the other hand, where real grlev ances face the members of the unions, where undemocratic practices may prevail, or if there la discrimination against certain members, the struggle for redress of such evils should be carried on b y themselves to the limit...
...State of New York, County ot New York, ss: Before me a notary public in and for the state and county aforesaid personally appeared Julius Oerber, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he Is Business Manager of The New Leader and that the following is, to the beat ot bis knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management, and circulation of the aforesaid publication tor the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied In Section 443, Postal Laws and Regulations, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, and business managers are: Publisher—The New Leader Publishing Association, 7 East 15th Street, New York, N. Y. Editor—James Oneal, 7 Bast 15th Street, New York, N. Y. Business Managers—Julius Oerber and Ooldlne Hillson, 7 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y. 2. That the owner is: Owner—The New Leader Publishing Association, 7 East 16th Street, New York, N. Y...
...I t i s added t h a t "party members holding Important posts would be relieved of difficulties of living within their salaries or taking outside work to augment their Incomes...
...Adolph Warahow, President, 7 East 15th Street, New York, N. Y...
...The trade per capita with the Philippines in 1930 was only $17 as compared with $584.40 for Hawaii...
...Meantime Severing, Socialist Minister of the Interior for Prussia, has made public the documents seized in the raid on Hitler's organizations on March 17...
...We may imagine the nervous tension that must disturb German workera night and day as this threat of Fascism hangs by a slender thread above them...
...A Hungarian bourgeois journal published in Prague recently published forged documents which claimed to show that Czech Socialists were bribing Hungarian Socialists In some consplratory movement in Hungary...
...The National Child Labor Committee estimates that In 1930 more than a million children ranging in age from 10 to 17 years were employed in gainful occupations...
...Ignoring the present workless era, the capitalist in normal periods is like tbe Chinaman who puts a ring over tbe neck of a pelican while it catches flab...
...This has occurred in the cases of the Movie Operators, the Electricians and in the building trades in New Jersey...
...This recalls those noble Senators who abandoned opposition to indemnity to Colombia for the robber raids of Roosevelt when it was discovered that there were rich oil deposits in that count ry to exploit Our statesmen at Washington should erect sacred altars in both Houses displaying the dollar sign and attention should be directed to i t when sessions are opened with prayers...
...Oh yeah...
...What can be done by determined members and officials was told in The New Leader recently in the case of the Cloth Hat and Cap Makers and i t should not be forgotten that it was t h e legal depart ment of the city government that had selected this union for attack a year or two ago on the ground that it was af flicted with racketeering...
...Thus Philippine independence ia linked with prospective greater profits on American sugar by cutting off Philippine competition...
...Don't s a y that you do not have an equal chance at this dining table provided by the Hoover administration...
...August WUhelm, the Kaiser's fourth son, Is supporting Hitler and tbe l a t t e r is bending every effort to win the 2,500,000 votes cast for Duesterberg on March 13...
...Equal Opportunity Under "Freedom's" Flag TWO items this week reveal American capitalism for what it Is...
...Any petroleum found must be operated as a unit aad permits are granted prospectors "to protect tbe rights of all...
...o • If you want to know what a wreck Socialism would make of things according to the anti-Socialists just follow tbe news of distress, hunger and unemployment under capitalism and you will be fully Informed...
...No newspapers appeared In Budapest on Wednesday except possibly a paper representing a Fascist strike-breaking organization...
...Then Secretary of the Interior Wilbur orders 180 million acres of the public domain thrown open to oil prospectors...
...This week a government decree ordered the suppression of Nepsava, organ of the Socialist party, and the printers' union has called for a general strike...
...The Socialists favor abstention from work throughout the nation for a half-hour while delegations visit the mayors of every town in protest against the suppression of Nepsava...
...Senators Brouasard of Louisiana and Smoot of Utah offered amendments to the tariff bill of 1929 providing for immediate independence which was defeated only by a vote of 46 to 36...
...What Is perfectly legitimate and necessary for a labor union may hot suit the views of judges who are gen erelly promoted to the bench after faithful service to corporations...
...Camelinat was a Socialist Deputy in 1885-1889 who referred with pride to his past as a fighter in the Commune, and was elected treasurer of the Socialist p a r t y In 1905...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 15
