A Socialist View of the Week

...The reader wlU observe that the states with the highest productive powers head the parade of the starving...

...From this report we gather that threefourths of the counties throughout the nation have asked for flour and it is also being distributed in Alaska and the District of Columbia...

...The rationing of the destitute began early in March and some counties have ordered the second time...

...Austrian Socialists Face New Tasks ANEW situation faces the Austrian Socialists in the formation of a Christian Soclal-Farmers-Heimwehr coalition cabinet which to a swing away from the Buresch Cabinet which was forced out by the Socialists...

...Pennsylvania heads the list with over 200,000 families, Illinois is second with nearly 152,000 families, New York third with about 03,000, New Jersey fourth with nearly 64,000, and Connecticut fifth with nearly 80,000...

...Franz von Papen heads the new Cabinet in Germany...

...a balanced budget without reducing the .social services...

...Over and over again the Tribune calls attention to the domination of capitalist enterprise by the great bankers and in so doing it Is in accord with the Socialist Interpretation of modern capitalism...

...Applications for 218,000 tons of live stock feed were also approved to keep rattle alive...

...Thus far there is no sign of recovery...

...The Critical Tasks Ahead PRBD/CTIONS of some sort of an emergency organization to be set up in Washington after the adjournment of Congress have been hinted in recent weeks...

...This has been the general trend of German elections in recent years...

...Germany Drifting in The Depression Tide CHANCELLOR BRUBNING is out and Col...

...a forty-hour week for the workers and a general amnesty for political prisoners...

...The patient continues to sink and Hoover would like to have consulting physicians on hand during the absence of Congress...

...This Is possible but not certain...

...Moreover, the next winter is likely to be a critical one with millions of the jobless and the hungry despairing of any relief...

...Even within the conservative soldier ranks there Is an opinion openly critical of the American plutocracy and this to occasionally expressed in The National Tribune, a weekly publication of the soldier element...

...nationalization of the railroads...

...Their idea of helping the starving is to pile one group of economic outcasts on the backs of another group...

...When even animals are affected by the economic collapse, what is to be said of the system that can make it appear more absurd...

...Let us make the most of it...

...One of the tragic post-war results has been the division of the working class into aft* tagonlstic factions, weakening the whole working class movement, in the face of the Imperative need of unite.1 action against the ruling classes...

...Bright Mind* Offer A Jobless Solution AMONG the bright suggestions for the starvelings of capitalism la a "back to the land" crusade...

...The maintenance of the present wage scale in the Government would be a rebuke to those who have furthered their own interests at the expense of their employes and their employes' children...

...Herriot rejected most of these demands and he will endeavor to steer a majority support out of the other political groupings...

...It to a phase of capitalism that our ruling classes do not care to exhibit in reliable statistics but the report of the Red Cross on the flour being distributed out of the forty million bushels in the bands of the Farm Board lifts the curtain a little so that we can see some of the tragedy...

...We are in a race with time...

...Unsteady Spain's Labor Violence SPAIN has not solved her problems by clearing out the old feudal remnants, important as that job was, but is afflicted with the malady that affects the rest of the world...

...The national congress of the Socialist Party debated three days as to whether It would particlpate with the Socialistic Radicals in the government and finally laid down the following conditions: Peace agree* meats with other nations embracing reduction of war credits...

...They are blind masters of a rotting capitalism who would in their ignorance increase the misery of their victims...

...One may read into this anything desired...

...Engelbert Dolfuss is Chancellor and heads the twenty-first ministry in fourteen years...

...This incident is as strong an indictment of capitalism as the hungry children living in cheerless tenements...

...Numerous arrests were made and it is reported that Andres Nin, said to have been a former secretary to Leon Trotsky, was arrested to Barcelona with twenty others...

...Jobless workers rioted In many German cities last week and Fascists and Communists clashed...

...others packed their stock without effecting a sale...

...Early this week syndicalist strikes broke out all over Spain and troops were called out...

...The Socialist group informed President Hindenburg that they were not interested in forming a new government while Hitler made his support conditional on an early dissolution of the Reichstag and new elections...

...Brietner has earned the right to rest but our Austrian comrades''can ill afford to lose his services...

...Last week art had its innings when it descended to the sidewalks of New York...

...Industry, which is controlled by the big bankers," says the Tribune, "has already broken its pledge to continue the American standard of wages, but that does not give the Government a right to follow suit...

...A free world of Socialism will give free scope to the genius of the artist and make creative work a joy, not a matter of selling "wares...

...A recent editorial scores the capitalist leaders of Industry because of their policy of wage-cutting and then turns upon the Hoover Administration for adopting the same policy regarding government employes...

...However, the Heimwehr is merging into Fascism and the trend is a consolidated Fascism against the Socialists...

...Artists reduced to poverty sought a street market in competition with other commodities and with the view of eliminating commission men...

...It Is also reported that Hugo Brietner, the financial administrator of Red Vienna, will resign at the end of this year because of poor health...

...The bourgeois powers In the role of "liberators" is capitalism masked aa...

...In the State of Anhalt the Fascists last week increased their vote from 97,778 a year ago to 131,525 and the middle parties declined from a vote of 15,012 a year ago to 2,308 last week...

...The Christian Socialists (Catholic) are going in the same direction...

...The middle class mind turning to sorcery and an empty windbag like Hitler to a curious outcome of Germany's economic prostration...

...Assume that millions of workers plant little patches of land to raise foodstuffs for their own consumption...

...Some obtained enough to pay their room rent...

...This may serve these outcasts to the extent of getting some fodder so that they can keep alive but It does not solve their problem and at the same time It would push the fanners to tower levels of distress if generally acted upon...

...Agriculture is today a povertystricken occupation and the proposal is to shift workers from the city breadlines to the country where they can raise their own foodstuffs...

...It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, Into its paid wage laborers...

...Late in March a Berlin correspondent of the New York Times wrote that side by side with the rise of Hitlerism many Germans are patronising stargazera while bookshops more and more display works on occultism and magic...

...The Russo-Japanese Danger of War THE resolutions committee of the national convention of the Socialist Party had an important resolution which it was prepared to unanimously report to the delegates...

...This will further depress prices of farm produce and further enhance the misery of the farmers...

...piety...

...Since the origin of the Socialist Party there has not been such an opportunity for our message...

...The future is In the lap of the gods and Socialists face tasks that make the war emergency of 1017 sink into insignificance...

...Of course, Herriot must be a little more definite when in office on specific issues and on the whole it is likely that he will be more reasonable and sane than the reactionary clique that has contributed much to the terrible privations which the masses suffer in Central Europe...

...opposition to the commerce in arms and nationalization of the manufacture of arms...

...Long rows of shop windows wen smashed and the hungry seised food...

...The latter have the job of selling the hideous system to millions of voters and these millions have It In their hands to overthrow it...

...There will >e that many who will .not consume vhat farmers are raising, The glut of rural produce will increase and the farmers will be the main sufferers...

...The ruling gentlemen at Washington are certainly nervous...

...So the bright minds would make a bad situation worse...

...Like most premiers Herriot has announced his program in very vague terms...

...One of their leaders declared that there is no use of appealing to brains and that "to' their own damage the Christian Socialists have forgotten that anti-Semitism is a most popular slogan...

...i Soldier Opinion rS soldier element after every war in which the United States has been engaged has been reactionary but there have been exceptions In the war veterans of the World War...

...Sinclair Lewis did not exaggerate when he also portrayed Babbitt estimating public education by the modern plumbing installed in the schools...

...The artist is a bondman of capitalism the same as the worker...

...It has left "no other nexus between man and man than naked self interest, than callous cash payment...

...Its shift in behalf of the underdog w a welcome sign in an unexpected quarter...

...Herriot comes from the old revolutionary city of Lyons and has frequently engaged in battles with the Socialists over municipal affairs...

...All the conditions favorable to a political and social revolution exist in the United States...

...In a few weeks the two parties of capitalism will be meeting in national conventions to nominate their salesmen...

...I shall serve the interests of France and humanity," said Herriot "We seek no egotistic privilege, but only to work with all our might, as in the past, to obtain international security...

...Moreover, the millions settled in small areas will be tempted to produce a surplus in addition to their own keep to obtain money for the purchase of other necessities...

...The nation that produced Marx, Lasalle, Hegel and other great geniuses finds a dying class afflicted with mental paralysis...

...Here artists exhibited their paintings by the side of the peddlers selling hot dogs and Eskimo pies...

...State control of banking...

...Capitalism does not respond to the opiates of Doctor Hoover...

...Education is measured by the amount of wood pulp turned into paper...

...A proletarian upheaval in the November election would place the whole capitalist system in the hands of the working class to reorganize It on a Socialist basis...

...Art in Competition With Eskimo Pie$ ONE of the keenest criticisms of capitalism made by Marx and Engels some eighty years ago was that it had "stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe...

...This to an obvious SociaJistffluty for whatever differences we may have with Communism, Socialists know that a war with Russia by any of the capitalist powers can only mean making Russia a colony of the imperialist nations and make the Russian masses conscripts of International exploitation...

...4 national monopoly of insurance...

...Quite a number of the conscripts In the last war had served in labor struggles and in one way or another had fought for a real democracy against the Internal enemy, our ruling classes...

...A Socialist View of the Week Millions Fed by Federal Rations NO ONE knows the exact number of the jobless in this country...

...The executive of the Labor and Socialist International, considering Russo-Japanese relations, urges the Labor and Socialist parties to suspend criticism of Soviet Russia if Japan attacks Russia...

...working class in industry and government also shows a trend of thought that In welcome...

...Let us make the most of It in the five months of agitation we have before us...

...To be sure, Anhalt is a rural state and Socialism has not been strong there but the decay of the middle class parties and drift of their supporters to Hitler runs true to the general trend...

...In Europe some canons of honor survive as memories of the days when feudal gentlemen ruled...

...The Heimwehr, the armed bands of reaction, is represented in the Cabinet by two members, one being the former governor of Styria who refused to suppress the armed march on Socialist Vienna last year...

...The outcome ? As a fat man once said, "God only knows," Herriot Heads How French Cabinet ECONOMIC conditions grow more i critical la France as M. Herriot forms a new government...

...More than ten million people are in receipt of this Federal charity ration...

...The publication was founded in 1877 and has a long history of conservatism and Republican regularity...

...It is reported that hundreds of bombs were discovered and that they had been accumulated for use in some future demonstration...

...Henry Ford and Governor Roosevelt support this Idea...

...The United States has carried this debasement farther than any other country...

...Its sympathy with the...

...A commission of high hatters might well be transformed into a committee of public safety to preserve capitalism as well as "law 'n order...

...Like Milwaukee, Vienna is free of debt, one of the very few European capitals that can make this boast, while its housing program for the workers is a remarkable piece of Socialist work...

...In this country the capitalist spirit has been unrestrained...

...The new Chancellor Is a conservative Centrist but favors a Franco-German accord which is about the only thing good that can be said of him...

...Spain is the last stronghold of the syndicalist movement and last week syndicalist headquarters in many cities were raided...

...Austrian Socialists face a sharpening of the hostility between them and the general reaction and they may have to meet bitter struggles in the near future...

...It is too much to expect this but an emergency commission at Washington may also be inspired with the view of taping with this eventuality...

...A clever cartoonist characterized this attitude thus, "Since the Jewish bankers have no more money, let's throw them out...