A Socialist View of the Week
A Socialist View of the Week K general strike in the New York buildingtrades is likely to inspire workers in otherindustries with the courage to resist the wage-slashing-that has been going on....
...What of the Chicago Pineapple Primary of blessed memory...
...BO do we, but any mawho makes such a proposal reads himself out ofthe company of civilized human beings...
...Secret literature is being circulated denouncing Fascist officials, one proclamation to the workers ending with, "Let us defend ourselves...
...Middle Classes Hit In Latin-America ?i MALL merchants In the Colomblatcity of Bogota and also in Porto Ricare so affected by the depression tha they have resorted to protest strikes...
...Three weeks ago a third of the Bogota merchants closed their shops because the government rejected their demands, including a moratorium on foreign bonds...
...The drama is now being rehearsed before the Hofstadter committeeThe same papers that on Wednesdayreported some of the most moving scenealso reported that "Merry-Go-Round," adrama of political looting, did not openTuesday night at the Avon TheatrePolicemen closed the doors...
...As one cannot resist a certain admiration for ththieves of an older generation neithecan we In the case cf the modern typeTheir audacity is charming...
...However, this economic grievance has a political angle...
...The Negro and white masses havnothing to gain by exercising the barrenprivilege of helping to nominate or defeat candidates of the parties of capitalism...
...The two parties of capitalishave become hash, each a mixture ofeverything...
...This "Red Army" was also in part inspired by the formation of the "New Guard," a reactionary military organization whose leaders had threatened Premier Lang...
...This is ae it should be because the EmployersAssociation is solidly organized...
...As the kept churches penalised thdissenting sects so the two parties ofcapitalism penalize dissenting parties bmaking it expensive and almost impossible for them to nominate candidatesThe kept churches had to give way ttoleration...
...The elevator sectionof this organization was called on the carpet bythe Employers Association because of a verba)promise to pay its workers $1.20 above the scalewhich the thirty-one other units of the employersseek to enforce...
...The latter party is now in control of the election boards of the Island and the Legislature as well...
...War veterans were also being recruited and it was expected that 100,000 trade unionists would be enlisted for the struggle...
...making ita general one...
...as a "strategic move in view of hunger parades...
...As the "National Labor party"they have established a weekly paperand a book has appeared presenting theclaims of this "Labor" party...
...Old partyconventions are like the old time circus.The lemonade and peanut concessionmust have time to realize on their investments...
...Hedoes not Interfere with his Cabinet colleagues no matter how much their policies may conflict with his former Laborconvictions...
...Lang has until May 12 to hand over the Income tax documents...
...However, overtimpay Is eliminated which provides opportunity for intense exploitation of workers, especial!} in the postal service...
...What isextraordinary about this letter la that he admitsthat he has no evidence that "any or all of theseoutrages are the direct result of Communist"activity...
...In themeantime MacDonald's seat in the Sea-ham division is certain to be contestedIn the next election and the LaborMagazine, monthly of the Labor party.does not mince words in opposing Mac-Donald's little group and his ambitionas well...
...State Rights in Australia E conflict between the Commonwealth government of Australia and the Labor government of New South Wales appeared to have ended this week with a victory for the Commonwealth when Premier Lang handed the keys of the tax offices to the Commonwealth officials...
...The decision, however, while against the executive committee Is silent on whether a conventiocan exclude Negro voters from a primary...
...Despite all this MacDonald and a fewof his friends are manoeuvering to havehim return as the leader of the Laborparty...
...Meantime the Happy Warrior, Al Smith, Imaking Roosevelt unhappy by blockinthe latter in a few states...
...He asks thecommittee members to support pending legislationto give the Department of Justice power to dealwith "subversive movements...
...Yes, by gangs and even bypoliticians in primaries...
...Wages are being cut and demonstrations have been held against this policy...
...In the Democraticamp Roosevelt's brokers will try trepeal the two-thirds rule of Democraticonventions in force since 1832...
...Police armed with rifles petroled the streets for several days...
...The celebration recalls the elder pirates who dranbumpers of Madeira after disposing of arich cargo of jewels, laces, rugs andspices...
...A Socialist View of the Week K general strike in the New York buildingtrades is likely to inspire workers in otherindustries with the courage to resist the wage-slashing-that has been going on...
...What has happened politically is explained by Senor Marin, editor of s Porto Rlcan dally...
...In Oklahoma "Alfalfa Bill" pulled aboner when he refused to request therelease of Tom Mooney on the groundthat it was "part of a plan of a leagueof my enemies...
...Hooverfavored a cut of 11 per cent in government salaries and wages of $1,000 omore and the bill reads $2,500...
...Weill's Noose IF press stories are reliable Matthew Woll in thename of the National Civic Federation, has sentan amazing document to the Judiciary Committeesof the House and Senate...
...He asks if these news items do notprove an "organized effort under the control ofmaster minds...
...The gentlemen footpads, estimated a profitable Income of $20,000,00la ten years and yet this did not exhausthe possibilities...
...Indirecwage cuts through Hoover's furlougproposal and abolition of Saturday halfholidays are lost and the army-navmerger was rejected...
...JimmWalker was there...
...Here is a noble State Senator, "political contact man" for the Equltabl- bufranchise granted in July, 1927, to few buccaneers...
...Then his conclusion...
...That Is natural...
...The overthrow of the Black Shirts would inspire the working class movement all over the world...
...Certainly...
...The statesman was firealize $200,000 a year without investina dollar...
...The Unionist party, reorganized as the Liberal party, lost some representatives who went over to the Republican-Socialist party following the reorganization...
...It includes press clippingsof forest and oil well fires, bombings, the destruction of buildings and other alleged crimes...
...Fortunately, this upperclass solidarity has prevented a division in theranks of the workers and has forced a workerssolidarity all along the line...
...Two Parly Shows Will Soon Arrive OOVER will be renominated to succeed himself...
...The parent body insisted on a repudiation of this promise by the elevator section andthe latter surrendered...
...Mac Donald Headed ForJ Oblivion RAMSAY MacDONALD is the, queerest thing that has ever happened in the politics of any country.That he Is held as a hostage of theruling capitalist party is evident...
...This privilege is like choosingthe rod with which they are to bescourged...
...The capitalist parties arabandoning toleration...
...They in turn will pass otheir work to the huddled gentleman ithe White House whose sleep is disturbed by the sagging timbers of a rotting capitalism...
...Nearly three weeks ago a "Red A rmy'' of 25,000, all "with working class views," according to a dispatch from Sydney, organized to support Premie* Lang...
...This bill Is a slap at Hoover and thHouse leaders of the two parties...
...Despite this admissionhe adds that many of the Incidents "point clearlyto such origin...
...Have buildings collapsed before 'there were Communists ? Plenty ofthem...
...Not one item of evidence...
...What has happened is that Congressmen facing another election have "passethe buck" to the Senate...
...Any bombings...
...The minority opinion argued that political party is a voluntary organisation, which is true, but the two capitalist parties have legislated themselveInto state-protected organizations...
...The verprocedure he urges could be employed againsstriking workers and prove a deadly weapon In thhands of their exploiters...
...The conflict is similar to the old State Rights struggles with the Federal government In this country and which has flared up In recent years in relation to prohibition...
...That is tosay, not a trace of his old Labor principles remain...
...JJ^IIIMTH ofthat body will now perspire and It ilikely that conference committees ofboth Houses will have to Iron out thinferences...
...In Porto Rico'the merchants struck against a 25 per cent sales tax and appealed to Goverpor Beverly to call an extra session of the Legislature to provide a substitute for the sales tax...
...MacDonald's health is poor andhe may have to resign from the government...
...Why not rename it th"Old Clothes Party" and let it go atthat...
...So the struggle is on.The Socialist party will help In the fig lit of theworkers to win this battle...
...Their profession has been transmitted to Tammany yeggs as their heirs...
...The rolcall on the bill shows 316 Democratand 160 Republicans supporting it an36 Democrats and 30 Republicans opposing it...
...In other words, the organized employing classinsisted on solidarity all alcng the line against theworkers...
...He apparentlywants to learn what has happened tothe capitalism which he piously worships...
...It seems that the merchants believe that they will be more successful In elections at large than by districts...
...They looked forward tcontrol of the city's entire surface systems and a money yield of vast proportions...
...Henominated Hoover for the Republicansand Robinsoh for Hoover's running mate.The suggestion is a good one...
...On Tuesday he placed in the CongressionalRecord a list of some forty-odd corporations for which Robinson's law firmis counsel...
...Moreover, the exiles abroad have done considerable harm to the Fascist regime by their constant expoure of it as a brutal slave state...
...This is a phase ofruling class politics that is generallignored...
...The merchants want' all members of the Legislature elected at large and ask that all parties nominate business men...
...Three groups that hadremained at work have been locked out by thebuilding contractors and by this action they haveunwittingly strengthened the strike by...
...This dramala too suggestive...
...Electricians and steel erectors are also forced out...
...Senator Huey Long ofLouisiana kicked over the Democratiapple cart by resigning his committeassignments and the following day making a hot speech against Joe RobinsonDemocratic leader of the Senate...
...Of th$206,000,000 Hoover expected to savonly $38,124,000 is left and the poothing now goes to the Senate...
...A few days after Lang was supposed to have surrendered, all Australia was laughing...
...In fact, he has found nodifficulty in yielding his leadership inthe House from time to time to Baldwin,former Conservative Premier...
...The next day there was an "oldclothes party" attended by backers ofthis transportation kingdom...
...r Supreme Court Ban» Negro Discrimination E right of a Negro to vote in political primary has been uphelby the U. S. Supreme-Court in the casof a Texas primary by a vote of 5 to 4L...
...Recent secret correspondence from Rome to the Brooklyn Eagle also states that the Fascist leaders have even considered amnesty for political prisoner...
...The middle class in general is being hard hit in the Latin-American countries...
...The main problem of theRepublicans is to drag out the convention a few days to permit hotel andother business men to cash in...
...S. Nixon, a Negro voter, broughsuit against the executive committee ofthe Democratic party...
...He has the delegateand the party nobles cannot afford tfight him as that would be to admitthat he is a failure...
...Theenjoy a status in law almost ilka thaOf the stats-kept Congregational ChurcIn New England and the Episcop Church in Virginia and Maryland In thcolonial period...
...Long live liberty...
...The Democratic show will prove thmost amusing...
...Woll helps to weave noose that would eventually strangle the whollabor movement...
...J. Ramsay is on the toboggan anhis fate Is a slide' Into oblivion or thpeerage...
...Mr...
...Fascist Italy Shaken By the Depression USSOLINI'S Black Shirt regime Is in a bad way with a deficit of $75,000,000 facing it...
...What Woll apparently wants is a procedure likthe Law of Suspects during the French RevolutionHe dislikes Communists...
...The assessment forms handed ver to the Commonwealth related merely to penniless persons...
...Have there been forest and oil well fires withoutmalicious origin...
...New York Piracy, Old arid New NEW YORK CITY in the coloniaperiod was a port of entry for sepirates who marketed their loot to eminent merchants and traders...
...Finally, Hoover is said to buy fivemystery books at a time...
...House "Posses Buck" To the Senate HOOVER'S pet economy bill emergefrom the House looking like a madragged through the gutter...
Vol. 13 • May 1932 • No. 19
