THOMAS SAYS: ABOUT CHICAGO THE DIFFERENCE THERE'S AL SMITH ANTI-SEMITISM .A VICIOUS BILL
THOMAS, NORMAN
THOMAS SAYS: ABOUT CHICAGO THE DIFFERENCE THERE'S AL SMITH ANTI-SEMITISM .A VICIOUS BILL By NORMAN THOMAS 'gestae* CHWtlt Itr rrwMMt A RATHER POOR SHOW jnY all the account* the Republican...
...The fundamental difference is that Franklin D. Roosevelt, unlike Mr...
...So it appears, at any rate, this Wednesday evening...
...He said the could do nothing but he ordered them to leave town...
...From another camp one of the finest men traveled sixty miles for a few days' work...
...Like Mr...
...It will require a good deal ot gall for the G. O. P. to point with pride this year, but the elephant is not given to blushing...
...Of course, you've guessed what it really is—a bitter, stupid, anti-Semitic paper which masks dangerous prejudice under a false show of silence...
...What the platform committee can view with alarm is more than I can guess— unless on the principle which President Hoover followed in his last Thanksgiving Day proclamation, when he told us to be grateful that there was even more misery In some other countries than in our own...
...SUPPLY TOUR OWN COMMENT The "mate Issue" to be side-stopped and shadow-boxed in capital's two conventions, is .liquor...
...The law applies to members of the Communist party or to organisations affiliated with It, which I suppose would Include the National Minen Union...
...This is the life that both the old party ^conventions will ignore...
...The parents have not the most ordinary food, much less orange juice and milk to save their children...
...Baker the Democrats have such a man ready Ube drafted into service...
...1, of the American Guard published by the Swastika Press, Brookiine, Mass...
...In 1938 the Republicans for the first time ohose as their candidate a man Who WM not primarily a politician, but a conscious, sincere, wholehearted representative of capitalist thought and capitalist Interests...
...1., No...
...They won't arrest me the next time...
...Union men are steadily discriminated against by the Red Cross which doesn't do much anyhow...
...The Times dutifully adds that the Mayor, however, like a loyal Tammanyite, will vote the way Curry -tells blm at Chicago...
...His past record is as free from political scandal aa was Mr...
...The meeting of Congress hi spoken of as a calamity, its adjournment as a blessed relief,, and the suggestion ia always being made that the country would get along bettor without it This is a sort of talk which Socialists should carefully avoid...
...Instead under the direction of the union leaden they camped for about a week near the river front...
...a> - THE HUNGER MARCH AND this the papen an reluctant to help you find out...
...He worked two days of 16-hour shifts and when the company had .deducted the usual Check-off for doctor, insurance, burial funds, smithy, etc.—none of which he had used—he had $1.98 coming to him for the two days' work, but the company paid him $1.90 because they don't pay odd-cents...
...the campers, men, women and children, had no adequate shelter and little food...
...Among other properties he owned mines, banks, power plants and political parties...
...Yet this Is the stuff on which Hitlerism has grown in Germany...
...The noise Is there, just the same, and the same effective control from the White House...
...Hoover, is going to be the next President of the United states...
...JL -It will nave equally litUe to offer...
...Whichever wins, they will have a president who doesn't have to be rewarded for serving them and couldn't be bribed, bullied, or cajoled into doing anything else...
...The only thing that might give the convention a certain historic importance would be the nomination of Newton D. Baker...
...Speaking Of mirth control, how about the voters who never crack a smile when the two old parties dust off their worm-eaten platforms T ; LONG RANGE PLANNING Capitalism has two names for the four year sham...
...Plutus is busy had alert, while Demos Is napping...
...THOMAS SAYS: ABOUT CHICAGO THE DIFFERENCE THERE'S AL SMITH ANTI-SEMITISM .A VICIOUS BILL By NORMAN THOMAS 'gestae* CHWtlt Itr rrwMMt A RATHER POOR SHOW jnY all the account* the Republican convention |L» isn't even a food ahow...
...A VICIOUS MAGAZINE AS if America did not have enough trouble, 1 got the other day a copy of as vicious a magazine as I have ever seen...
...Congress is aa apter tool for doing democratic work, and a predominant executive Is apter for doing the work of plutocracy...
...It Is our task to wake him up, and not to blunt the instrument, he will need when he awake...
...In the Ward tent colony of .evicted miners children are dying of dysentery...
...The Democratic party and the Republican party...
...It Is too much like a horse race with all but one of the jockeys fixed to lose...
...It announces that It is "to maintain, defend and advance American ideals...
...And close the door on your way out...
...They are skeptical of anything doing any good...
...To some of Al's faithful old friends and to his big business friends who love him for his sales tax ideas has now been added the Scripps-Howard syndicate which did not support him in 1028 Likewise has been added hone other than the famous Mayor Jlmmie Walker...
...0*M ALLEY'S VIEW rn-uus Democratic ahow may be better ss a show...
...They don't arrest hungry men, they just kill them...
...A Republican national convention with a Republican president intent on renomlnatlon Is seldom much fun anyway...
...SAVE WITH SAFETY" Ninety thousand tax liens will come up for sale this week In Detroit...
...The cohorts of capitalism never throw their votes away...
...Smith with whom after a lapse of several yean he Is again on friendly terms...
...Tet he who ' has can to hear can surely detect the first rumblings of the distant storm which lies like a ground swell beneath the sorrowful cries of fathers and mothers who cannot even save their children alive...
...CONVENTIONS, CANDIDA TES, AND SO FORTH I'M reminded this week of what tho New Tork Sun said in 1908 —that President Roosevelt had told the delegates to go out to Chicago and make a noise like a convention...
...When one member of the party reminded them that they had always been met with machine guns and tear gas and that they would be again, one man soberly replied: "Man, when you're hungry you don't see machine guns and gas bombs...
...Easy," said Jim...
...Sparks From the Anvil By Ben Blumenberg TAKE ADVANTAGE OF CUT RATES Seats at the Republican convention dropped from $100 to $40...
...Yet the New Tork Times declares openly: "Friends of Mayor Walker let it be known some time sgo that he favored Mr...
...The companies an trying to dispossess the tent colonies and especially they are trying to keep them from planting little gardens on the steep hillside* and near the creek bottom...
...It cannot be too vigorously denounced and exposed...
...Hoover did and does...
...That's about the only extravagance left to members of the working class...
...The unemployed owners of steel, gasoline, gold, machinery, textile mills, meat packing plants, etc., see to It that political errand boys put up the right kind of ticket for the dictatorship of capital...
...What a party...
...And I ask you if that's a blessing to a man Who wants to pose as the people's friend...
...Hoover, he has earned a reputation for being humane as well as personally honest...
...Ayrian concepts and culture, to further the cause of National Unity and Social Justice...
...The presidents and their appointed judges have already arrogated great powers to themselves at the expense of the legislative branch, and it suits the purpose of our exploiters that this process should go on and on...
...Hoover's four yean ago—even less open to suspicion, for he had not sat in a cabinet containing quite such types as Denny and Fall...
...The bill must be defeated in the Senate...
...There will at least be some conditional uncertainties to bet on...
...And he belongs to the great capitalists just as completely as Mr...
...For instance, how many of you have heard about the Hunger March of the coal miners on Charleston, W. Vs...
...Frank Ward O'Mailey ends an interesting syndicated a.'tlcle In Which he reports an alleged conversation between bim and Roosevelt's friend, Chairman Jim Farley, with this bit of dialogue: "What's the fundamental difference between President Hoover and your man Roosevelt...
...NO tool does Its work without a guiding hand...
...It was a tragic assembly of about a 1,000 human beings on the verge of starvation...
...Jean Benson tells of one of them who said: "Things have gone too far, marches won't help now unless they an armed marches...
...What's become of the figures dealing with lorn of wages through striken T —MM— Samuel Insult is broke...
...Whether poor dear Franklin Roosevelt gets the nomination or not—and the "not" seems increasingly probable—there will not be a new principle set forth, not a vital word said on say real issue, very likely not an honest word even on the subject of prohibition...
...Governor Conly wss his usually futile and Incompetent self...
...It is Vol...
...On eleotion day be had one vote and so far as kaown, he haver "repeated...
...The law refen specifically to overthrow by force or violence of governments not under the control of Communists, leaving it perfectly legal for autl-Communlsts to plot openly the overthrow of Communist government...
...DANGEROUSLY INTOLERANT -at wORE dangerously intolerant probably than IvJL this paper Is the bill which has passed the House which makes it possible to deport an alien Communist merely for accepting a doctrine, whether he or the party is or Is not doing anything to push it at the time...
...And for twenty yean past that has been the only sort of interest that has attached to any old-party convention...
...JIBING at Congress, and especially at the lower house, not for any particular act or omission, but just for being a deliberative body composed of men of diverse views, is more in fashion now than ever before...
...The weather was rainy...
...Consciously or unconsciously, those who join in the chorus of ridicule and condemnation against Congress as such an playing into the hands of a nascent fascism which, in a country so politically thoughtless at oun now Is, does not need even the paraphernalia of black or brown shirts aad Roman salutes...
...THE Democrats will put on a somewhat livelier show...
...Not merely WUl Rogers but far more conventional editor* in conservative papers an openly contemptuous of it and of the keynote speech...
...SMITH AND WALKER OF course Al Smith doesn't think Franklin D. Roosevelt Is going to be the next nominee for President...
...If he is nominated, they, need not worry over the result in November...
...Sickness broke out At last some of the families were put back on county relief and evictions were stopped In the little town of Gallagher, but fine, upstanding men whose strength we admired a year ago are starved Into a dreadful apathy...
...In Mr...
...FISH IS BRAIN FOOD 1 The good old herring will be dragged across the trail again...
...It seems almost incredible that it should acquire any real influence...
...This super racketeer until recently had $100,000,000 and controlled companies worth over $2,000,000,000...
...Everybody knows that thia convention Is a cut and dried affair with nothing to Worry about for any delegate except the high cost of liquor and whether or not he'U have a chance to vote the way he thinks about a Vice President, or prohibition or something of secondary Importance...
...Whether or not Jlmmie Walker is going to lose his Job or ought to lose his fob, I'm not arguing now, but all I want to know about a Presidential candidate 1s that he haa accepted Walker, in the face of Walker's record,-as his ally...
...The newsreels are worse...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 35
