A Socialist View of the Week
A Socialist View of the Week Individualism, the Jobless mmd Bear rIOMAS HUXLEY'S definition of capitalist individualism aa "anarchy plus the police dub" applies with special force to the...
...Hon nding Up the "Holy Cmle" WHAT happens in the Republican and Democratic conventions, whether they nominate a "progressive'' or a "reactionary,'' makes no difference to the toiling millions...
...Over night the coalition stormed the Roosevelt works and captured It...
...Roosevelt and Hoover are the political equivalents of Mike and Ike...
...William Green, Matt Woll, Joe Ryan and other labor leaders give an enthusiastic response...
...said to have the support of the Farmers' Union and a few other unions with aa aggregate membership of 42,000 but this is probably an exaggeration...
...The dissenters are...
...Australia is also seething with labor unrest and the Labor government of New Booth Wales hi to conflict with the nsnstsssuslik gimsmnrat over the state's debts...
...in fact, for anything and for everything that will elect him President...
...Hoover does not have to worry...
...Maco Stewart, leading lawyer and capitalist of Galveston, leads this crusade, assisted by Owsley, a former head of the Legion, the D. A. R., and other forms of national pietism...
...Really, the liberal-Communist mind has a "logic" that would make John Stuart mil and other authorities faint coaM they observe it in Its modem dressing...
...So we will float into paradise upon a sea of foaming beer...
...The world u> told that words painted on a sign may be as deadly in inflicting physical injury as a blackjack in the hand...
...Mike aad Ike TIE St...
...Three Socialist Jabs SOCIALISTS of this country are beginning to face tasks as grave and important in their way as Socialists in the poverty-stricken nations across the Atlantic...
...Veterans like Iso Abe of Waseda University, Bunjl Suzuki, who see da the Federation of Labor, and Komakichi Matsouka, secretary, remain loyal to the party and the unions, the latter having about 100,000 members...
...We most not overlook the spats and cane, Mayor Walker of New York City...
...The scalp wound may be healed through the surgeon's art, box at a rime of economici suffering .. . courts must still give some j consideration to what former Chief Justice Cardozo speaks of the economic and social needs to which a decision wiH respond.'" We are in a state of coma which Indicates that the opinion Is sound...
...Each has an article to market, a candidate...
...The proposal was defeated by some,500,000 votes...
...Than what of (he "logic" of the Communism that yelps when its meetings are broken up by reactionaries, which yearns for Its civil rights aad at the same time sneers at these rights as "bourgeois democracy...
...Paul speech of Governor Roosevelt on Monday night confirms what we say of him on the first page of this issue...
...German Election* To Wins Sunday ON Sunday, April 24, elections will be held in Prussia and a number of other German states and returns will show a big Increase in the Fascist vote In Prussia...
...Texas Is largely an open shop state and economic conditions are very bad for the workers of the cities and for the poor cotton growers...
...A blackjack applied to a worker's skull may in the long run be less serious than picketing conducted with misleading signs, false statements and publicity, veiled threats by word* and acts, and insidious propaganda...
...A good beginning has been made and the tempo of this drive must be increased...
...The party split when a motion by Katsumaro Akamatau to reconstruct it on Hitler lines was defeated by a vote of 61 to 60...
...A variation from the dole specialists are the create-a-Job and block-aid methods of relief...
...Are you skeptical...
...be amused but the Judge expects us to accept his magic with solemn awe...
...Whom does this great governor stand for...
...Last week a Presidential decree dissolved the storm troops of Hitler who claimed 500,000 members...
...Does that "punch" of Communism mean the Fascist raids of Communists of which we recently had an example at a miners' protest meeting la the Rand School...
...Ryan is sure that abolishing prohibition will "accomplish more at one stroke to rid the country of economic ills than could be done in any other way...
...This collaboration of Coannunisto with extreme reaction repeats similar cooperation in Prussia some months ago...
...CmjriNikt Piety Cornea to Tetuu rxAS may be blessed with an antisyndicalist law next year...
...On this score there is a gentdae rivalry, the only rivalry that counts, but the conflict is generally masked behind what is called "principles...
...The Injunction against the motion picture operators* union this week Is aa example of Judicial magic...
...We quote: "I do not subscribe to the oft-repeated contention and argument that the use of the word 'violence' In so-called labor disputes is limited always to physical contact or injury...
...The national drive for party funds, reported on page 3, must enlist the earnest support of Socialists and sympathisers everywhere...
...The Rev...
...we also face two other tasks...
...In New York State, John F. Curry, leader of Tammany, and John H. McCoocy, proprietor of Brooklyn, head the "big five" who have wrested control of the party machinery from Governor Roosevelt It was In 1928 that the latter nominated Al Smith as the 'happy warrior" and now the two have parted company...
...Liberal-Co mm unltm, Punch and Logic ONE of the striking phases of political opinion is middle class liberal views favorable to Communism...
...They were ctoaraa eat of their Headquarters and...
...The Dominion government's proposed emergency economy measures, which Indude a general 10 per cent wage cut for government workers, are said to be the reason for the expected walkout The streets are petroled and the citizens are ordered to stay in their homes...
...They can so Interpret a plain statement to mean the reverse of what it means that even a layman la persuaded that an ingot of steel is really a boiled egg...
...The conflict between genuine Socialism represented by « veteran Socialists and the growing Fascist "socialism" came to a bead last week at a conference of the central committee...
...A President serving his first term generally owns the "holy cattle," as William Allen White once described delegates to a Republican convention...
...That Is, he pleads for the capitalists who have thrown millions out of industry and also for the millions who have been thrown out...
...The fact Is that millions of the workers are In a hell of despond because they have not developed a class spirit while our ruling classes are secure at the top of the social pyramid because they know and have acted upon their class Interests...
...Very interesting "logic...
...Each type of politician thinks in terms of the capitalist system and that system is revealed as a hideous fraud and failure...
...We must respond to the drive for funds to sustain the city office aad Its work and also push the sale of coupon books to keep up the work of organizing the jobless Into leagues...
...Robert Norwood Is quoted as saying that to levy heavier taxes on Wall Street Interests la due to the "spirit of aliens...
...Store fronts were smashed and shopkeepers the next day boarded their windows...
...It is said that Stewart considers even the Dallas News as a "Communist" organ because Its edltoi thinks the death penalty la too severe for revolutionaries...
...The split, however, is a serious setback for the labor movement...
...However, if his liberalism falls he will "espouse Communism, not Socialism " He espoused liberalism during the World War and has later admitted his overwhelming failure...
...Within the shadow of the White House an appeal is made for $600,000 from Congress to keep the starving alive...
...The rnnsjnslist conclude* his story with a reference to "the forces nf reaction that parade under the name of patriotism," We may expect more of this in other states...
...Reports indicate that this Japanese Hitlerism also appeals to many of the younger army officers...
...Under the aid by-laws a plurality was required and the Premier in turn appoints-the Cabinet The Right parties denounced the ¦lamaim nt as a "political swindle...
...Just as the magician begins with a deck of cards and ends with rabbits so the judge starts with steel and ends with eggs...
...Edmund Wilson is a leading type aad Harry Elmer Barnes espoused it to a recent number of the World-Telegram...
...The Canadian frontier is no aarsasr as she iasnnnt sf Hoover's "ssaadoaa avatem...
...In the meantime the watered "socialism" that Hitler uses aa a bait In Germany became attractive to some unions and also members of the party...
...In Phoenix, Ariz., the Central Labor Council was compelled to withdraw because its sponsors advised employers that "workers could be secured for a few cents aa hour...
...The Dallas correspondent of the New York Times reveals the capitalistic Interests back of this program...
...In the past the most direful among the influences which have brought about the downfall of republics has ever been the growth of the dass spirit...
...e Five-cent meals are being provided for the jobless in Montreal...
...Ia every city every type of professional charity organization is enlisted and they are supplemented by special organizations...
...He will try again and Is now trying...
...Labor Premier Lang la fighting to keep the state funds where the government cannot reach them and the outcome of the struggle is uncertain...
...In one Wyoming town the unions provide cots for the homeless and others "stagger" employment...
...They will ratify the promoter's wise to sacseed himself...
...We think of three that are pressing at the moment...
...There is a chaos of plans throughout the nation with the club ever ready to descend on the heads of those who refuse to die without Basking a noise about it...
...Hail the United States, where thinking Is a rare luxury and we drift to an abyss...
...New Zealand City In Jobless Upheaval AUCKLAND, New Zealand, for a week has been like a besieged city due to aa uprising of jobless workers...
...Japanese Socialism Split by Fa seism IN the past-war period the Social Democratic party of Japan increased in membership but it has been able to carry on with much difficulty...
...He Is "fairly clear" about this and is convinced that he can "work store effectively for human decency and social justice as a liberal than as a Communist...
...German Communism turning lackey of Hitlerism requires no comment...
...A Socialist View of the Week Individualism, the Jobless mmd Bear rIOMAS HUXLEY'S definition of capitalist individualism aa "anarchy plus the police dub" applies with special force to the methods of meeting the Jobless problem...
...Curry and McCooey are likely to own the rubber stamps that will be delivered at the June convention...
...pat ion of a Urge Fascist vote In Prussia, the Diet Teas amended its by-laws to require an absolute majority to elect a Premier...
...Let's ship or shoot an who Impiously challenge the holy altars of our pious usurers...
...A majority of the Japanese workers are against this fraud...
...John IfcDonagh at the age of SI, fifteen years ago, was sent as a conscript to Europe to "make the world safe for democracy.'' The other day aa a homeless and Jobless man ha fainted in the street of hunger, not having eaten for three days It's a great capitalist system if you don't weaken from hunger...
...As was said of a certain sect of 'True Socialism" In Europe in the forties, Roosevelt ia for the "average man," the citizen in general, that mystical person who has no class Interests and who exists only in the addled brains of bankrupt politicians today...
...Here and there trade unions trying to care for their own Jobless find the burden a staggering...
...He continued...
...all right, but failed...
...Capitalist reaction in general ir likely to mere and more divert attention from the horrible fate capitalism has imposed on the working masses to state piety aad patriotic worship...
...Hitler will have to get a majority to control Prussia...
...The man strung a lot of words together and on the main question said nothing...
...Criticism of the failure of capitalism to function ia thus transformed late a sin against the state religion of our reactionary desert Class-consctousness most be smothered by upper dans idiocy If possible...
...However, the Inner struggles of the brokers are like the quarrels of the old feudal chiefs...
...In Saxony there was a CommunistFascist Nationalist alliance hi the referendum last Sunday to dissolve the Saxon Dint...
...With this colossal failure he turns to logic by saying that "American Socialism today arouses much the same terror in the minds of conservatives as Communism, but it lacks the punch and logic of Communism...
...Thursday of last week a mass of the unemployed battled police volunteers and naval pickets...
...They tried to "punch...
...Since the occupation of Manchuria by Japan Akaaiat.su and his colleagues have held that the labor movement needed a "patriotic basis...
...Everywhere tt is some form of the "dole...
...The magiclan expects us to...
...Th« Judge is a legal conjuror...
...That's right parson...
...He calls for a nation-wide parade for good lager beer...
...Give, comrades, give till it hurts...
...Judicial Magic in The V*e of Word* MANY American Judges are skilled In the art of word-Juggling...
...Capitalism Is a sorry thing all over the world and Is ripe for a Socialist receivership...
...They look alike and they think alike, if their performances can be considered thinking at all...
...for the "low and the high...
...Feeling is still tense in the city and there were threats of a general strike led by the seamen aa we go to press...
...for a true concert of interests...
...one and concessions are being made in the way of wage reductions...
...It la necessary to repeat this as the last election in Prussia occurred when Fascism was weak...
...Green declares that "well awaken the sleepwalking legislators...
...Police prepared barricades of barbed wire in the streets and the accounts of the demonstration read like stories of the various revolutions in Europe in I His...
...Just what will be the main "issue" between the two brokerage firms la yet to he determined but the chief concern is to herd the voters within one capitalistic camp or the other...
...New York City Socialists must not only cooperate in this national enterprise...
...Roosevelt stands for everybody and nobody, for no class and for all classes, for the robber and the robbed, for the millionaire and the pauper...
...If you do not understand that try this: "I plead not for class control but...
Vol. 13 • April 1932 • No. 17
