A Socialist View of the Week!
A Socialist View of the Week! the Power Monarch Rule* the Senate ONCE it wu property in lead and •Uvea that ruled at Washington. Railroad property took over the Job during the Civil War and...
...The politicians are frightened and yet some use the demonstration for their own purposes...
...ried 29 out of 58 seats, the Socialists 18, the Nationalists 5, the Communists 4, Mecklenburgers and a Burgher group one each...
...We quote: "Tke villagers are almost without moat), trade being conducted largely by baite . . . The people are reduced to eating the rough grain usually reserved fa chicken feed and are cooking up and eating the dried fish used for fertiliser aad beancake customarily fed to cattle . . . The reports say' that girls as young as 15 are being sold for S200 each...
...Vicious Anti-Communist Bill Passes the House ripiHE House has approved the Fish-JL Dies bill for the exclusion and deportation of alien Communists...
...That may be stupid legislation but it is not in conflict with the interests of our ruling classes...
...If intelligent it can stage a political revolution by carrying the city for Socialism In November or it can burst into some form of elemental fury to be suppressed by clubs and tear gas...
...Many members of the Upper Diet at Washington pay homage to the new monarch...
...The total strength of Socialists and Communists is only one less-hut the middle groups, as in other elections, wsat over to Fascism...
...Will Jury be Red or White...
...This mi the "revolutionary" movement of last week but civil guards armed with caw...
...Tat background of desolation and hung* upon which this costly militarism li loaded is revealed by a Tokyo correspondent of the New York Times...
...Unless the economic situation changes, the Welfare Council states, $50,000,000 more of the city's funds will have to be appropriated for the Jobless...
...bines have seised most of the gunmen I and the landed gentry are now on tin * defensive...
...Mayor Walker jets farther and farther from the bread-ines as mysterious incomes in addition to his official salary are revealed in the Seabury investigation...
...Germans to Again Vote Next July THE general German elections to the Reichstag will be held on July SI sad the Fascists still make gains In Diet elections...
...Whether capitalism anil imperialism functions through a monarchy or a republic this hideous background is the same...
...Even If they are aided by task smaller allies now the Fascists cannot master enough votes "eat of the 4211 hi Abe Diet to control...
...The City of Graft And the Starving yTEMS from the starving front...
...That a few Communists have marched is certain...
...This malign bill must be watched...
...Schlesinger plodded on in his work, eager to serve the workers he loved, but the pulse beat fainter with each passing month...
...All of those bogus "freedoms" associated with capitalism became holy writ for Bentham and his followers...
...That "Revolutionary" Outbreak in Spain LATEST news from Spain regarding the sabotage aad running amuck of gunmen in the southern province last week indicate that powerful Usi owners have been financing this work...
...The Negro Workers f a ihe National Association for the Advancement M. of Colored People has given first place in its program to the'statement that "the Negro as a worker has interests identical with those of white workers...
...No doubt Wobblies and Socialists and a few Farmer-Labor...
...What we face ia not a problem that affects the soldier section of the workers but one that affects the whole working class...
...Becky Sharp's acute remark that It ia not difficult to be virtuous on tea thousand a year has its application to nations: and at ftj futile to expect a hungry and squalid population 8a he anything hat violent and gross...
...Walker, in a period of four years has banked over 1431,000, the income from split fees with physicians who enjoy a monopoly of treating injured city employes...
...There is little doubt that his sweatshop life sad the overstrain of those years of agitation brought on the complication of diseases that culminated in his death...
...Socialist work has never been so essential as now...
...And that Is the Socialist position...
...Benjamin Schlesinger rB death Of Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, came as a shock to his many friends aad comrades...
...In the conservative agricultural state of Mecklenburg-Schwerln last Sunday they made big gains...
...Liberalism at a Death's Head Dinner AMERICAN liberalism yoked Itself . to the imperialist bayonets of Wood row Wilson In 1017...
...A century later Bentham's skeleton Is dragged out of its closet to sit at a banquet of those who honor him and his views...
...The 24,000,000 have votes but little cash...
...In his will Bentham ordered his entrails to be removed and his body embalmed...
...Tour spirit lingers with us...
...The debts la one district are estimated to average 8700 a family...
...On the other hand Socialists regard It as a good omen that in a local ajtrttnsj hi Braulage (Brum, wick) their vote Increased a few 3m dred and the Fascist vote declined in tail same proportion...
...With them he demands the redistribution of present wealth by" the systematic taxation of large incomes and the future conduct of industry for public weal and not for private profit...
...Shall the monarchs or the 24,000,000 provide the cash...
...A dreadful situation with an election due in November, but noble Senators bearing the collar of the ruling form of property did their duty...
...olutlon...
...The 24,000,000 will be taxed but factories and other industrial users who buy 85 per cent of all electric current are...
...The sooner the great estate 1 are broken up the better will it be Is* *, the workers of Spain...
...Moreover, if the bill becomes a law It will prove a dragnet that will gather in others...
...Last Monday in London the modern disciples of Jeremy Bentham commemorated his memory at a dinner...
...may you sleep well...
...On the other hand its officials will be before the conventions of all parties urging declarations in support of its complete program...
...The program goes on to protest against discrimination by trade unions and society in general against Negroes with which every Socialist and progressive union man will agree...
...The gunmen would then attempt to sack the local bank or to burn * church or to raid local stores...
...More than 20,000 children in New York City have been turned over to institutions and boarding houses because parents cannot feed them...
...It is Impossible to summarize .this vicious bill but under its terms the alien Communist who advocates force to overthrow governments can be deported while Russian csarists who favor force in overthrowing the Soviet Union can be admitted to the United States...
...In four provinces covering BO.OM square miles masses of workers an plunged into a hell...
...It came out of the World War spattered with filth and blood and since then it has been trying to clean Its soiled garments...
...That pboto should be useful in gathering some working claaa votes...
...Some of the most cutting of the satirical passages of Marx were directed at Bentham and his "philosophy...
...Back of all this were women and children tied to carts in the mines, the early horrors of factory exploitation, and the increasing control of Parliament by the new ruling class...
...These soldiers, however, would do better to work for general relief for the workers than for a special gift for themselves...
...The capitalist system fosters the discrimination of which it complains and that discrimination will survive so long as capitalism survives...
...It appears that small bands of gu» men would arrive at a village and at* nounce a day's strike or a "vacation...
...In the Bachground Of Jap Imperialism JAPANESE popinjays leading conscripts to the front to expand Uu rule of Japanese bankers and capitalist...
...That death's head grinning at liberals who gulped rich foods is symbolic of modern liberalism...
...Aid for the soldiers who fought for the "freedom of the world" has increased 600 per cent in two years...
...They "saw an opportunity to end tke second republic," cables a New York Times correspondent from Seville, "a the first was felled by creating such I state of anarchy that a dictators!* would be an Imperative necessity...
...It Prussia where the Fascists mack heavy gains they failed to carry a ma...
...There were always some persons to M I spond...
...Material advancement has its shsre In moral aad intellectual progress...
...In the past ten years the fatal disease that finally struck him down sapped more and more of his vitality...
...Now he Is gone, mourned by thousands who fought the good fight for the slaves of the old sweatshop regime...
...This Includes Socialism and any philosophy that leads to Socialism if by "abolition of private property" is meant the firing of the present owners of the means of production and distribution...
...Good bye, Bea...
...His brother, Dr...
...Ben Schlesinger came to the United States from Lithuania in 1891 and as a boy plunged into the labor and Socialist movement...
...Accustomed to the unlimited power of 1 sixteenth century system, the southern barons, some of whose lands are so extensive they cannot inventory then, tried twentieth century methods of ret...
...Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, voting to shift the taxing of the power gang to the 24,000,000 users of electricity, a few hours later posed for a photograph with a group of these soldier outcasts...
...tlon to elect the Premier by a plnraatr instead of a majority by a vote of aj to 208...
...Because of the caadE lock it Is rumored that President Hb> doabufg may appoint a federal earn, missionsr*for Prussia...
...As a garment worker he was swallowed up in the pestilent sweatshop, the horrors of which seared his soul and made him a crusader against its slavery...
...The huddled man In the White House is peeved so the hour approaches for the House vote on the bonus bill next Monday...
...The parties of capitalism will never subscribe to the fundamental view that the Interests of black and white workers are the same...
...These masses have common Interests against the ruling and possessing classes, even against the few Negro capitalists who exploit their own workers...
...So King Power through his peers orders the taxmen to make the 24.000,000 pay the bill...
...The American government which had its origin in the overthrow of "constituted authority, or social order," decrees that its own origin is condemned...
...Tour wan face and your frail body and your unconquerable soul will not be forgotten...
...Collection of taxes in many districts appears hopeless...
...The dirty mess of Tammany rule and the itching palms of its heelers are flaunted in the faces of the masses for weeks...
...Bentham's skeleton, clothed in garments he wore a 100 fears ago, was seated at the feast Bentham was the father of the liberal creed...
...There are about 24,000,000 consumers of electricity in the United States, the bulk of them belonging to the working masses...
...Huxley...
...But others are happy...
...Silk filature plants which haytJ been forced to cloae ia Niigata Prefecture are said to owe 8700,000 in bat wages...
...New JL Tork papers carry advertisements of workers willing to work for room and hoard...
...Its provisions could also be used to deport alien members of union* on strike...
...No movement advocates the abolition of all private, •property although capitalism is rapidly aboJaditag private property for the overwhelming majority...
...The various "freedoms" of Bentham have grown into the monstrous absurdities, the stupidities of a decayed capitalism and the measureless suffering of the working masses...
...The great dons paid out money nobly aad carelessly although abortively...
...For more than a decade property in electric power has moved far to the front and Is alliance with high finance may be accepted as the ruling sovereign...
...ia Manchuria have had the front page ia the newspapers for months...
...Schlesinger gave years of his labor to inspiring the garment workers to revolt...
...You have earned the right to rest...
...What Is of interest to us is the leading statement that the white and black workers have interests In common...
...On the other hand Senator Robinson and some other Bourbon Democrats roar "Communism...
...Bentham gave a liberal dressing to the rising capitalist class in England...
...Liberalism has also been disemboweled and Its life has disappeared...
...For decades Socialists have emphasized this aad we are glad to observe that this influential Negro organization has adopted this view...
...Copper, sugar and jail ruse to assert their claim which j ware conceded...
...The capitalist world is'in convulsions...
...There was something sad in his features, something wistful and tragic that was suggestive of nearly two decades of struggle before the garment workers emerged in a fighting trade union of their class...
...The monarchs have mountains of cash but few votes...
...Then a few mighty monarchs of electric power...
...In so doing the association will abandon the logic of its own declaration...
...tea will also be found crowded Id the "Jungle camps" of Washington as well as "loyal" veterans...
...If the volcano of suffering explodes it can take one or two courses...
...The administration wants money to keep the governing apparatus going...
...It prohibits 1 support of "a system based upon common ownership of property and abolition of private property...
...left tax-free...
...While he has this power under certain eoadlMbna Centrists aad Socialists declare that In the present case It would be an Illegal use of this power...
...Various sections of a bonus army are arriving in Washington...
...In 1982 ragged and hungry soldiers to the number of 7,000 march into Washington to "collect our back wages...
...The Socialist party Is the party of the whole working class, men and women, black and white, of all nationalities and tongues...
...raw Smidier Marehet, In 1917 and 1932 IN 1917 the war god, roared and soldiers were on transports on their way to Europe to make us all safe for democracy...
...Ia the previous election, 1929, the National Mechlenburgers obtained 23 seats, the Socialists 20, the Communists3 and the Fascists a. On Sunday the Fascists ear...
...Railroad property took over the Job during the Civil War and ateel property followed cloae behind with textiles as an associate partner...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 24
