A Socialistic View of the Week
A Socialist View of the Week The Bonus Army Disturbs Capital CALLING themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Force toe jobless soldier* in Washington are giving the politicians some...
...Baled by Blockheads EVERY well informed person knows that the official policy of the United States is one of the most influential factors in the world crisis and this policy of Isolation has made a bad situation worse...
...The best way to prevent war Is not to prepare to make war, but to prepare to make war impossible...
...A Socialist View of the Week The Bonus Army Disturbs Capital CALLING themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Force toe jobless soldier* in Washington are giving the politicians some unpleasant hours...
...The only danger of a mix-up of the delegates might occur if some tanked up' too much on a little oil of joy...
...Issued a manifesto declaring: "We wish' to call a constitutional assembly, which at the earliest date will draw up a plan for a new political constitution based on the Socialist organization of the state...
...The Democratic women's organization takes the rooms that were occupied by the Republican women...
...An alienist pronounced him a paranoiac...
...The Kinship of the G. O. P. and IK O. P. THERE Is something suggestive of the kinship between the two capitalist party conventions, one meeting last week and the other next week, in Chicago...
...The Davila group, now in power...
...because of their cash, maintained kept women while the ugly sore of prostitution baa always been an "essential industry" of the capitalist system In the foul shuns of the cities the "family" has been a disgrace and the home a farce...
...Here is a nation of starving men, .women and children and the noble Senator uncorks a bottle of wrath, not over the destitution of these millions, but over the future of John Barleycorn...
...Europe used to look forward to the Republican and Democratic national conventions with some hope but no more...
...In 1981 the number of marriages declined 8.2 per cent compared with the previous year while the number of divorces have also Increased by nearly 300...
...Whnt will happen when thry adjourn nobody knows, least of all these doctors feeling the pulse of a sick capitalism...
...The foreign affairs committee of the German Reichstag two weeks ago proclaimed the readiness of Germany to defend Danzig against aggression and the poppy-cock Polish Fascists roared in angry reply...
...It adds that the reason for the new revolution was that Socialist principles were endangered by the regime of Colonel Grove...
...One feels that if a giant scoop were to grip the reaction and dump it Into the Adriatic there would be little loss to mankind...
...It Is not even mentioned...
...In Munich several Nazis were injured in a clash with the police...
...Capitalism hasn't given us an opportunity to try our hand at It and the system is doing a very good Job of Its own in dispersing families and destroying homes...
...The New Republic gave a parlor Bolshevik interpretation to the Chilean •revolution only to have events belie its predictions...
...A New York Times correspondent in Geneva writes that in Europe "few expect either party to do anything in debts and tariff relations with the League, etc., which would come near to what they'consider necessary to check the rapidly worsening condition...
...And now shed tears for British and American bankers who have about t billion dollars at stake in Southeast Europe...
...Clarke had promised his dupes that within six months Esskaye would have 2,000,000 members with sufficient power to force on Congress a bill fixing the price of farm products at pre-war levels...
...Uttle Yugoslavia, the bubbling cauldron out of which issued the hell's broth of the World W say is a mane of warring factions and groups, with a monarchy ready for the pawn shop...
...One platform could be adopted, one section being given to the Republicans and the other, to the Democrats...
...If we had a peerage in this country we would favor his promotion to that august body of mummies...
...One day's report of the clashes includes the following: One Hitlerite was shot dead In Berlin and a young anti-Fascist was stabbed to death in Essen, making the week's death total six in political disorders...
...As great capitalists and bankers finance both parties they could also have me campaign chest and divide fifty-fifty...
...Clarke once had the ambition to expand his Invisible Empire throughout the world...
...All in favor say aye...
...One Congressional bill would appropriate money for troop trains to get the soldiers to their homes, the politicians not only want to get the soldiers out of the capcital out they also do not wish to see them wandering about the country after the force breaks up...
...Tet this chap was once a power in state and national politics...
...A world of Socialist equity and equality of opportunity would put an end to these forms of the family and the home...
...Two entrances would also unhelpful...
...Eighteen thousand killed themselves last year and in Berlin alone there were nearly 400 suicides in the first four months this year...
...We have always emphasised the difficulty of understanding LatinAmerican revolutions...
...The suicide curve seems to be rising steeply," reads a press dispatch...
...The "Ins" go out and the "outs" go In...
...One Brunswick policeman was seriously stabbed during the breaking-up of a Communist meeting...
...The Revolutions In Chile rtE Chilean revolution reminds us of the famous Irish telegram which read: "Off agin, on agin, gone agin, Flnnlgan...
...That Is-^n^say, American capitalist politics is not vested with even that Intelligence that is necessary to preserve capitalism itself here and abroad...
...This accusation no longer serves reaction...
...Carlos Davila and Colonel Grove ousted the old regime...
...They will get little sympathy from the Chicago convention...
...Meantime there Is a truce In the Prussian Diet until after the elections to tne Reichstag...
...He recalls that Stephen A. Douglas had said that he did not care whether slavery in the territories was voted up or down...
...So the great "independent" will take the stump and with the courage of a tiger he will bring his great message to the ragged, the destitute, the hungry and the starving...
...Both groups speak in the name of s Socialist revolution...
...The class struggle atone is a safe guide to the workers out of the capitalist jungle...
...What Is pathetic about this Kluxism is that hundreds of thousands of workers and fanners were taken in by this halfwit whose generals accumulated fortunes out of the credulity of their dupes...
...The Nasi and Centrist (Catholic) parties, who together constitute a majority, have reached this agreement and the Socialist Premier, Otto Brt.ua, will remain in office until August The last Reichstag elections were not decisive and the next one may not profs any more satisfactory...
...Whether he was bolting from a wet or a dry issue it would be the same...
...We hope that the Democrats will consider these suggestions for the conventions of 1936...
...In Oppeln a Nasi was reported dying as a result of a Communist attack...
...The "Welcome G. O. P." flags come down and up go the "Welcome Democrats" banners...
...Hitler's Fascists (Nazi) have gone on another rampage - throughout Germany because of opposition to their wearing their brown uniforms...
...Many millionaires...
...In Berlin Communists used bludgeons, knives and rocks, smashing street lights In various quarters and attacking' the police under cover of darkness...
...Now he is committed to a nut college...
...On the question of grog, "we will see whether there is a desire to let it go up or to let it down...
...Their next course is to inquire of the Democrats what they propose to do...
...Add all this to the families that are "doubling up" and the children who are being sent to Institutions and boarding houses because the parents cannot feed them and we have an idea of what capitalism is doing to the home and the family...
...Both meet In the same great building, one moving in as the delegates to the other disperse for their homes...
...Whether grog goes up or down millions of workers are down and out Borah Is a bore...
...He even goes back to the days when Whigs and Democrats were fighting over the extension of slavery to find a parallel for this tremendous "issue...
...The economic depression disorganizes government finances and the bankers see their ducats vanish...
...They might as well go back to the first Egyptian dynasty for guidance in this period of a diseased world...
...Destroying the Home and Family ^"vNE of the horrifying charges made \J against Socialism Is that it would destroy the home and break up the family...
...So ends the career of the general of the Kluxers who raked in some ten million dollars by selling bed sheets to morons In the name of a 100 per cent Americanism directed against Catholics, Negroes, Jews and foreigners in general...
...Suicide and Fascism In the German Reich SUICIDES in Germany are on the increase...
...Meantime diplomats representing Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium and Japan at Lasanne declare a moratorium on reparations and war debts during their sessions...
...We are ruled by blockheads who know little of the world in which they live...
...The sum powers represented there had a hand la creating the Danzig corridor which divides Poland from Prussia...
...It is working class homes and families that are most affected by the crushing force of the depression and unemployment The objection to Socialism on the score of the home and the family never did have any force even during normar periods...
...Some quietly leave but others are arriving every day...
...Moreover, the total number of marriages per 1,000 of the population has declined In the same period...
...We are thinking of Senator Borah's bolting of the G. O. P. platform on the liquor issue...
...made by the brokers to be ratified bj^he rubber stamps...
...Southeast Europe Ready for Pawn Shop WHILE the diplomats of five powers In I^auaajune decide on a mora, tori urn on reparations and war defcti during their sessions Europe continual a sad picture of distress...
...Some precautions would have to be taken to Identify the delegates but this could be accomplished by pinning different colored ribbons to them...
...Colonel Edward Young Clarke, former Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan and founder of Esskaye, Inc., a "back to prosperity movement," with $100 membership fees, was committed to the Psychopatic Hospital in Chicago on the plea of the Esskaye executive board...
...they are Jraggcd into it.—J...
...How much money Clarke gathered in is not stated...
...They are coming to realize that most of it Is lost...
...Resentful of the defeat of the bonus, soldier sentiment has turned against the Republicans...
...Borah a Bore THERE is a tyrie of politician who will affirm that two and two make four and who will not •empromise on such an Issue...
...The Democratic general, Shouse, takes the office that was occupied by the Republican general, HUles...
...Perhaps our own usurers can arrange for Congress to pass a stiff sales tax and collect their lost Investments from the masses...
...Their hopes for a bonus have for the present been dissipated by the Senate and the Washington administration is trying to coax the veterans out of the city...
...Only eight years ago he and his morons were the secret power back of what was called the war of the "Klucks and Turks" In the Democratic national convention...
...The heroes of the 100 percenters are today feared...
...Several persons were gravely Injured and hundreds arrested In skirmishes involving Nazis, Communists and the police...
...These nations are on the auction counter with no purchasers...
...will defy the lightning to strike him down if he swerves a single inch from his course...
...It is like a splinter in the flesh, causing an irritating sore...
...General Moreno declares that the opposition was "exploiting Communistic ideas" and added: "we must start ¦ period of social peace and welfare today . . . Socialism must materialize into the happiness and welfare of the country without class distinctions and without consideration of wealth, political or re* gious considerations...
...Then there la talk among the rank and file of a third party although this does not have a distinct labor character...
...Informed persons expect that, "no matter who is elected President on no matter what platform, conditions In the United States and throughout the world are bound to grow worse...
...Socialist state . . . with no connection/with the extreme Left or the extreme /Right" We await events before expressing a definite opinion...
...The two parties of* capitalism may eventually meet in the same convention hall at the same time...
...In that case they would stray into the wrong reservation...
...On his own account Davila declares that "we aim to oreate a purely...
...At Wandsbek, near Hamburg, the police fired on fighting Nasls and Communists, seriously wounding two...
...In New York State many young folks are unable to marry...
...So long as the soldiers are in Washington they are a standing accusation against politics that has reduced them to wandering outcasts...
...They quote Washington's "wise words" on keeping the United States a hermit nation and this year we are celebrating the 200th anniversary of his birth...
...Grove then ousted Davila and the latter in turn disposed of Grove and returned to poWer...
...It is a long road these soldiers have traveled from 1917 to 1932...
...In serious disturbances at Cologne, Nazis hammered the police with iron rods...
...Then the climax...
...Kair Hsrdif...
...After all, isn't that all there is to the two parties in conventions and in office...
...He will stake bis political career on firm support of his principle and, like Ajax...
...Their political ideas are in a state of flux with every type of view from the "patriotic" to the "radical" going to make up the peculiar mixture...
...Austria, Hungary, Greece and Ron mania simply cannot meet their obligations and even foreign bayonets cannot dig treasure that does not exist...
...The common people do not enter into war...
...However, this would not make any difference in the decisions of the two-party convention as decisions rjj...
...King of Kluxers Goes To Nut College AN obscure news item in the press this week is of more importance than all the columns of print- that will appear regarding the Democratic brokers in convention next week...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 26
