A Socialist View df the Week
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...The workers are stirring throughout Latin-America and important struggles may be ahead Reform and Reform r artHE "reform" movement to New Tork City has M ascended into the upper heaven of banking and corporation interests...
...Country party...
...Outcasts in want while liiitoatrlm art idle and bread becomes a luxury...
...To paraphrase a lint from Msrirhira, down all the stretch of hell to its last gulf there is no plight more terrltot than this...
...They try to avert doom by selling or pawning some possessions or by borrowing from friends and relatives but eventually they are drawn Into the flood...
...Chancellor von Papen will likely tell the Lausanne conference that German* cannot any longer pay and that even the unconditional annuity to France to impossible...
...i»regards the asanas...
...They want to cut from 120,000,000 to $100,000000 from the expkenses of their governing regime...
...The standing of and Country Progressives, 41...
...The visiting Socialists declared that the revolution was being watched with great interest by other La Un-American workers...
...It may mean whirlwinds of desperation and chaos...
...If we can translate their misery into Intelligent action there will be a huge rise in the Socialist vote next November...
...They are seeking shelter In emergency lodging house• of thh Salvation Army...
...They would abolish many parasite offices but there to no reason why they should reduce the taxes of the huge property owners...
...They would do everything to retain this income and use it to finance measures that will help the working class...
...A shipment of clothing has also been sent to the southern provinces...
...Country party, 12...
...Some Nice Pith in The C. O. F. Platform* WE SHALL, have something to say of the Republican platform next week...
...Barter has replaced trade in certain products among fifteen European nations...
...As It rises to higher levels It reaches others...
...This is an indication of a marked shift to the Right and it will be accepted ss a challenge to the armed workers and republican organisations...
...Now the tide has reached teachers, college graduates and trained office women who had been accustomed to good salaries...
...Labor Ferment in The Argentine WHILE Chilean workers plan to take over certain industries and work toward' a Socialist regime, the Socialists In the Argentine are prepared for another attempt at dictatorship in that country...
...Morrow committed suicide after days of what appears to be brutal grilling by the New Jersey.police...
...Here we may say lit to what the small boy would call a "humdinger...
...This motor tragedy Is coming to married women and women with children In New Tork City...
...Hoover called a special session of Congress to redeem G. O. P. pledges...
...Germany is the key to the whole European situation which would be bad enough but the Allied victors are hke hats sapping her vitality sad making a bad situation much worse...
...S; Labor, M; Independents, 2. Queensland had endured throe years of devastating rale by tea reactionary More gllirstnal which had sabot aged the labor code of the state and served Hat exploiting atonta* Now/ tooth Wales to now likely to got a dose of this and Labor to likely to come, bach In that State stronger taaa ever in the next election...
...They appealed in vain to Governor Con-ley and the county authorities for relief...
...That we are approaching the breaking point in world capitalism appears certain...
...Washington also fears for "disorders" and for the dollars Invested In that country.* It is this menace of foreign capitalism that must be faced In Latin-American countries that stage a social revolution...
...Herbert Spencer rightly gives the first place to bis educational scheme to the education which prepares the individual for direct self-preservation...
...We think he to right to believing that American capitalism had reached the "saturation point" High-powered salesmanship and encouragement of installment buying certainly contributed to s saturation greater than in any other crisis...
...Other miners facing the same late may be placed on nearby farms if kind gentlemen with cash will part with it for this purpose...
...A Socialist world of opportunity with its high standard of culture for all would provide no incentives for this hideous series of events...
...It is a revolting episode bubbling out of a rotting capitalism that reduces all of life to a sordid matter of profitable gains., It brings home to even the property oligarchs the fact that they are not safe from the evil things which their regime has hatched...
...The suicide of the New Jersey maid, evidently to escape the torment of thick-head police officials and not because she was guilty, provided a climax to this extrordlnary case...
...port of the government The first job tackled by the government is relief of the unemployed and 290,000 of the jobless in nine cities are being provided with meals twice daily...
...Gaston B. Means has been found guilty of the larceny of $104,000 from a wealthy woman in a bogus plan to recover the kidnapped child...
...The kidnapping and murder of the child itself was shocking enough...
...Chilean Revolution Cows Social** LAST week labor groups in mam meetings voted support of the new government in Chile and now Carlos G. Davila has been forced out of the government because his attitude toward foreign interests was too mild...
...This is the report made by the economic section of the League of Nations...
...The ¦ Jndbergh Case . rE Lindbergh kidnapping case has brought some revolting creatures into the limelight One faker in Virginia perpetrated a hoax that for weeks kept the father of the baby chasing a will o' th' wisp...
...The Parade of ike /¦Haas Miter able* ANEGRO miner has been added to the number of living sacrifices to the mining oligarchy in Harlan, Ky...
...Conquest of bread" should precede the cultivation of roses...
...Colonel Grove, Mintoter of Defense, declared that the army "wishes to remain united in its efforts to support and protect the Socialist Republic...
...Increasing numbers of thorn, said saw official, are "girls who have bosh to aught up in an atmosphere of luxury tat saw saw forced to seek food, shelter and clothing from charity organizations...
...Late last week they held a big mass meeting in Buenos Aires In defense of the republic at which five other organisations were represented, Including the Independent Socialists, Progressive Democrats, the Argentine University Federation and the Buenos Airto University Federation...
...It la rumored that a military group in alliance with reactionaries have planned a march on the capital...
...They want to> reduce the rates and they want "honest" government—tor then- class That to the essence of capitalist reform and Socialists can only differentiate themselves from it by emphasizing the fact that they want government for the workers...
...Meantime the Chancellor has also declared that the new cabinet represents a new "orientation" and that the situation demands the freeing of the Reich from party "fetters...
...Weil, if the workers know their Interests, next November they will hand some Socialist pills to the G. O. P. so that it will be "cruelly low" in the election returns...
...Labor, 56...
...Tammany has charged "unreasonable...
...In the former state Labbi Premier Lang was faced by a bitter and consolidated reaotion that fought the Laborites with a venom rarely displayed In AuttraHan elections...
...The Socialist message of deliver-ance must be heard everywhere in these days of industrial gloom...
...To aid the farmers in gulping that one down the platform admits that prices of farm products are "cruelly tow...
...The...
...The Socialist approach to this matter will induce the ruling property groups to accept Tammany itself with all Its costs rather than giving up their rule...
...Out of work, he made a losing two-year fight against hunger in a shack of old lumber and packing boxes near Pittsburgh...
...A Socialist Economic Council, with workers among its members, has been organised to formulate economic policies and reports from the provinces indicate sup...
...j We pass on to Pennsylvania, the barony of coal, steel and finance Mike Hussie was an obscure man but he made the headlines at the sge of 00...
...A maid in the home of Mrs...
...The first to be caught are working men and women...
...So the parade of the jobless and the outcasts might be reviewed from state to state...
...The farmers are told of all the aice things the G. O. P. promised them...
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...There to something to be said in favor 0« the peaaimiat view although MM risks much to making forecasts of Ik* future as a result of the present breakdown...
...They want cheap labor sad they want cheap government...
...So they are on a hunger march In search of bread...
...Early this week the storm troops of Hitler which had been dissolved on April 13 on the ground that they were a private army have been made legal...
...I suppose ws will have to start ¦tXCCtsf*,"* Here la a theme far an artist aflame with fury at thia flight of women and girls before an scsswaaic storm...
...The ruling classes want to rule but they do not want to pay an "unreasonable" price for it...
...Europe Feeing Barter Am Germany Sink* rE breakdown of the world's money system, obvious to Europe, has followed the breakdown of the industrial system...
...The supply of bread ran out and the relief never had a chance to run out ss it never began...
...Spelled the same way, it means one thing for large property owners and another thing for the working masses...
...The pills for the hungry are delicious...
...United Australia, 30...
...Such to the fatal difference In kind* today...
...He gets a sentence of life imprisonment and goes to Join Hightower and Jones of the United Mine Workers who are serving the same sentences...
...A crust of bread and two onions were his sole possession and the coroner's verdict was "starvation...
...The standing of the old Legislature wee...
...Lang was elected but the United Australia party, a combination of all aatl-Soclalist candidates, obtained 60 ssats In the Legislature and the Labor party 34...
...thia time it is the saturation pointThe pessimist goes on to aay that what Ike country moat bow look forward to to this huge mass of idle workers as a permanent feature of our economic hfe...
...The resignation of Davila "came as a shock," says a dispatch from Washington, and London to disturbed because of British investments in Chile...
...It Is probable that the Labor party vote Wat incraosod hat the returns are not a vail...
...The Flight of Women Before the Flood rE depression disease Is Hke s flood that continually rises and reaches more victims...
...We hope that a Socialist world will emerge...
...Labor Flection* In Australia rE Labor party in Australia has suffered a heavy defeat In New South Wales and made hsavy gains in Queensland...
...Then Washington to "alarmed" at the aew events...
...In the province of Tucuman there was also an interesting demonstration of solidarity between farmers and workers...
...Then the attempt of the Virginia faker to coin the agony of the parents into cash was followed by the action of the creature, Means, who has served two terms in prison and was a high mogul at Washington In the days of the unspeakable Harding regime...
...Taking all together it appears that it is to be a Socialist regime...
...Socialists would clean out the rats, to be sure...
...Powerful bankers, capitalists and real estate interests represented by" the Chamber of Commerce of the State of New Tork, the Merchants' Association and the Real Estate Board are tired of "the utter futility of protests, petitions and sporadic efforts to effect certain economies" to municipal expenditures...
...Taste this one: "Wage scales have not been reduced except under compelling necessity...
...In the nation they built and the civilization they have sustained by their labor, millions of workers have no more stake in it than the slaves had in the plantations owned by the Simon Legreea...
...The workers should make sure of a living before they seek any mental adornment...
...Moreover, the more intense ex ftottotton of workers through scientific ¦anagiaseat and new machine* justifies the forecast of a "huge mass of idle workers" as a pertinent feature of ennitsltom It to questionable whether even the five-day week and six -hour day throughout all industry win absorb all the idle much as they are desirable, to any event, the capitalist system is rotten ripe for a Socialist receivership and nothing short of it will end its malign absurdities...
...The first victims wore factory and store girls and domestics...
...Here to the farmers' pill: "They have been redeemed...
...breakdown as a permanent one "tie overproduction of goods that brought on Che present rriau H not like that of other periods...
...All of which shows that there to reform and there to reform...
...Dan Griffiths...
...Here are mothers leasing children in search of a refuge and girls driven into tit streets, a hell yawning at every corner...
...rates...
...Meantime Socialist leaders from Columbia, Ecuador and Peru participated fat two huge mass meetings with Chilean workers...
...Its motive was to obtain a large sum of money...
...Across the border In West Virginia 500 miners and their wives sad children have toft their camp nesr Charleston...
...One may interpret these words in many ways and they may hint at some arbitrary regime in the hope of saving private business firms that are sinking in decay...
...Some 30,000 farmers, mostly cane growers, began a march upon the provincial capital In support of striking sugar refinery workers who were demanding higher wages and an eight-hour day-Clashes with police resulted in six deaths and the farmers were turned back by an armed force...
...to Oaeexotoad the Labor party elected 75 per test sat its rsndtftotm, headed by Wlatitm Forga* Smith...
Vol. 13 • June 1932 • No. 35
