The Cure For Poverty Is More Poverty
Babson, Roger
ROGER BABSOn'S BABBLE The Cure For Poverty Is More Poverty Wage Redactions WouldMake Worker*'aPoy, For the Breakdown of Capitalist Industry "¦y^AGES of workers are being slashed in Arherican ...
...He showed the paradox of over-production and underconsumption and suggested Socialism aa the remedy...
...They will be able to buy less while industry is producing more...
...It would not reduce taxation of capitalistic enterprises but would make more equitable assessments of and collections on capitalistic property...
...Your system is bankrupt before intelligent Working people and others who see it in all its hideous failure...
...get all you can...
...When the Socialists talk of municipal ownership these politicians hold up their hands in horror...
...The speakers emphasized the need for principles and planned action, otherwise, anarchy results...
...While the workers are told that city treasuries cannot stand the "burden" of unemployment relief, the Democratic and Republican office-holders continue to allow the public utilities to loot and exploit the cities and their workers without hindrance...
...The Appellate court, in reversing the conviction of Rifkin, found that the detective's testimony was practically uncorroborated, and that Rifkin was corroborated by nine witnesses whe> were unimpeached and uncontradicted...
...Pb gardzations istendhe t» meetings are only mm tify the police of jfe This had been dost W ists...
...Lichtblau was thereafter arranged on two charges of assault and held for trial in the Court of Special Session where he was unanimously found guilty on May 25...
...The income from cify-owned enterprises would then be available to finance various social services beneficial to the working class...
...When wifl Babson and the bankers be satisfied.'' We do not know...
...There was no dos* the whole attack hat...
...ettaf/of 2j0fafe^H week represenUtiwT Jesty of the law is* button dig-city halted . just as Trimbk sm thirty minute speech to introducing the si tional Organiser When Crosswaiui Urn and began ia kU aZ manner to lay & 2 tion for his Haci ,]S lag officer, geipuisS buttons and stripe, L fore and in a ItaaaJ authority demand*: », permit for str—t^J cessary in Boston...
...The police arrested 10 persons on various charges and 80 cops, armed" with tear gas bombs and riot guns, prevented the picketing of the General Fabrics mill and the Royal Weaving Co...
...The1 wages are cut in the third period and purchasing power will be lower than ever...
...The policy which they recommend means reduction after reduction until the workers wear overalls and eat baled hay...
...Your social order is tilled with such contradictions...
...On the occasion of the trials* before Sabbatino, Gross was acquitted...
...Jesse H. Holmes, professor of philosophy at Swarthmore College, spoke on "Youth and War...
...There were none last year...
...and Babson to interfere, v wages And jobs It is asserted that in the past two years "food has declined 22 per cent and clothing 18 per cent...
...The great bankers of American capitalism are the real rulers of industry today...
...We will be called to use violence, but we must appeal to the intelligence...
...The- owners of surplus commodities cannot now sell them...
...There isn't more produced than workers can use but more than they can buy...
...J...
...The police department defense Is an attempt to state that the kidnapping was a hoax...
...We begin the new period where the old one ended— with a glutl We will begin the new period with a lowered purchasing power...
...The reason ? it is because all 'expenses of running the city are being paid from the profits of the gas, water and electric plants owned and operated by the city of Clianute...
...For six months some of these fat usurers have been urging more wage reductions...
...We intended at first," says Ha Hen M. Bell, state chairman, "to circulate petitions for the model Socialist Party unemployment insurance bill, but owing to the fact that Michigan has no income tax at present," we found that it would be necessary to circulate two petitions...
...Taunton, did not wut I their guest soaker to comfort of ^ JEejaaea) confinement...
...But Babscn declares that a general reduction of wages will reduce the cost of production, enable capitalists to open their plants, and put the unemployed to work...
...No one can tell what may ensue...
...They should be owned by all the people...
...Boston^ Lose Til Withgel Crossw»Jik3 Defy Pota3 VpBigMeetJJ Awn^sTiS (New tmtt, l3m 0 and Gicn Trial to held another o2 ^fl*ej»rn>t|f lajj downtown ahoppia^2 week Crosswalk...
...His latest letter carries the advice that wages must be slashed...
...Commissioners of seven counties requested funds to buy food and supplies for inhabitants, feed for livestock, and assistance in fighting the grasshoppers...
...At a business meeting, the organizers in the -various sections of the country reported a great increase in enrolment and activity...
...We want a human society of men and women able to gain life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness...
...It has occurred in every such period in our history...
...Supplementing the orders of the financial monarchs is the current letter of Roger W. Bab- . son which goes to hundreds of publications throughout the nation...
...iously planned and C gods of the milk a* they grind rathsaj(B death, as witnessed hi the martyrs to the a and Vanzetti...
...By that time they will purchase so little - and produce so much that the surplus will pile up so liigh we will be smothered by it...
...This, of course, makes 1* an unemployment compensation bill instead of an unemployment insurance bul...
...If it continues this ratio of decline and the intelligence of the working people increases, the end of this wretched system is not -far off...
...All industries will operate on a lower wage level but the surplus stocks will also be carried into the new period...
...The arrests arose as the result of the distribution of Socialist literature by Gross and another at Erasmus Ran High School...
...that Officer Heckart, while in the vicinity of the kidnapping when it occurred, permitted the kidnappers to pose as humane officers...
...The aa so far as to have *| woman who after ft whispered consultttkaj police would shrhljl terical voice, "Anegjj up for talking Ilk* a Socialists, knewisj it i several hours or am a bondsman in Da iha fred Baker Leehaai} town holding • stasis...
...He said we are now faced with a tremendous conflict between the old and the new systems, and urged intelligent action' for victory...
...This he then refused to do, yielding two days later to the insistence of Solomon...
...Henceforth ballot-armed workers must use this power for themselves and employ every measure of power they win to strangle the capitalist system that has thrust them into a hell of want and anxiety...
...Stone is the principal witness in the case against the restaurant "I was made by my captors to pr*"-!— to write an apology to the proprietor of the restaurant, not to appear in the case if it came up again, and not to speak again in PueSo...
...a; } i You say that "Business by the Babsonchart now registers 29 per cent below normal compared with 10 per cent below normal at this time a year ago...
...He interpreted the facts of present day civilization as pointing toward a Socialist government, but, he hastened to add...
...Faraueis in 7 Counties Of S. Dakota Starving PIERRE, s. D.—An urgent appeal for federal funds to aid farmers in.gTaashopper-ridden areas of Soutlt...
...No more Republican and Democratic ballots cast in elections for you and yours...
...Nay, more...
...Babson barks for big business...
...from his experience, he said, "one can't succeed without the other, they must go hand in hand...
...Perhaps, but Babson intelligence now registers a decline of the same rate...
...The fs% ment was well repra our hysterical female a. so present, was daeha police woman...
...It is doomed...
...Holmes showed the evils it has resulted in and suggested aa the only solution, co-operation...
...August Claessens addressed the mass meeting which closed the conference...
...Babson, you and all your kind are like every ruling class before you...
...1* adjoin meeting with Oa assoc...
...Warren Green...
...Police Under Fire Carl Whitehead, attorney for Stone, has issued an attack on the police department record in the case...
...In other words, they tell the unemployed workers to jgo oat and eat grass...
...Socialists Fight Legal Bar On Jobless Aid Party Seeks Constitutional Change to Permit of Unemployment Insurance (Br m Raw Leader Correspondent) DETROIT.—Faced by the necessity of chopping out most of the vital parts of their model unemployment insurance bill, because of adverse constitutional provisions and court decisions, Michigan Socialists have decided to push the fight for compensation to Jobless workers by an initiative petition to change the constitution itself, writing in a complete authorization for legislative enactment governing this question...
...Action of Michigan Socialists in seeking to write unemployment insurance into the basic law of the state is expected to be only the first of similar campaigns in other states, where the model Socialist unemployment insurance bill is widely at variance with state Court Frees Socialist Held By Sabbatino Solomon Wins Reversal of Red-Baiting Magistrate in Rifkin Case rE Appellate part of the Court of Special Sessions, New York City, has unanimously reversed the Judgment of conviction for disorderly conduct imposed by Magistrate Sabbatino, last April, on Bernard Rifkin, young Socialist...
...this change to Socialism is not inevitable, "it depends on an educated and disciplined working class...
...They have been #9*td*r a IB-hour week...
...A counsel of hope The Socialist movement brings them different counsel...
...The workers of this nation should resent your intolerable insolence and fight your advice that they should sink loiver into the abyss...
...Society is not baaed on accumulation, but on co-operation...
...ROGER BABSOn'S BABBLE The Cure For Poverty Is More Poverty Wage Redactions WouldMake Worker*'aPoy, For the Breakdown of Capitalist Industry "¦y^AGES of workers are being slashed in Arherican industries...
...At the least session, held on Sunday morning, Dr...
...Textile Workers' Union...
...Why let the privately-owned gas, electric and power companies soak them with profits so high they" could excite the envy of an old-time pirate ? These utilities are needed by all the people...
...would return uaHsaa Thursday eveahaag large group of oaW Socialists hack tM Tremont street coaat we were prepaae^awH| erwise for anything I happen...
...that police bulletins the night of the kidnapping Ignored the case and thus failed to give out-of-town police the usual warning so that they might watch for Stone and his 'kidnappers...
...Not satisfied with the normal trend downward they urge more slashing of the incomes of the working class...
...BABSON WILL Rdg^g-jg^^^ When that occurs Babson wiH again turn up with his babble...
...If the so-called balance comes automatically there is no reason for the banker...
...You don't say so...
...That wages should go down in the same proportion, says Babson, and with smaller working class incomes economic conditions will improve...
...0 Silk Workers Strike In Putnam, Conn...
...His order was read to the force in the presence of Mayor Holt...
...but started no trnuble...
...The Socialist movement is the gravedigger that will bury it and we summon the working masses to attend the funeral...
...It must go the way of every order of human bondage...
...To the unemployed workers the politicians prate of "sound finance," and to the public utility jobbers they say, "full speed ahead...
...Economic laws inevitably work to a balance in all things," declares Babson...
...Reduce the hours of labor, make room for more workers in industry, increase wages and thereby increase purchasing power, and break down the feudal rule of your class by organising the working masses into fighting unions of their own...
...Miss Burlak is an organizer of the Natl...
...Socialists should get political dominance before economic Therefore, the speaker said, "labor unionism and socialism is the same thing and can't be separated...
...which was addressed by August Claessons, William E Bonn...
...Hoffman asked for co-operation between the economic and the political powers...
...Dull and stupid as you are you would make the situation worse...
...We can't call ourselves civilized until we have plans, and not anarchy, in production, distribution, and exchange...
...TO have compulsory contributions from industry to aa insurance fund written into their measure, it was felt, would leave too much room for legal loopholes aa a result of several contradictory provisions in the state constitution...
...the speaker continued, "because the capitalist - class is organising the criminal glasses in many countries to gain control of the government when the crash of capitalist civilization cornea...
...The comm Isaii mi i u reported their small grata was gone and corn facing destruction in many areas...
...Bohn said, "that, inasmuch as all cultural movements are a reflection of the dominant economic system, the new educational system which should accompany the success of Socialism should be planned now...
...Simply this...
...A large mmt ily grew listened HI address by Lewis too, phatically stating to and aims of Socialism Crosswaith...
...I was told to discontinue attacking "patriotic organizations' and to Watch my step' if I returned to Denver...
...He went on to say that the aim of the socialist system is not to destroy capitalism, it is to own itTracing the rise of individualism in the United States, Dr...
...have gone on strike for the 48-hour week with no reduction in pay...
...Central South Dakota was sent to President Hoover and Secretary *? Agriculture Hyde this week ey Gov...
...at 55 Snyder avenue, Brooklyn, by Detective Harry Lichtblau who* Invaded a meeting of the Socialist party branch in the 21st assembly districtOn the trial of Rifkin and Gross it was testified that Lichtblau beat them in the basement of the Snyder avenue police station...
...We" will have started the new period with smaller incomes for the wage workers and we will again land in another industrial panic...
...However, a Socialist administration would advance beyond the Chanute idea...
...Whitehead declares that Police Officer Heckart had the license numbers of the ears which abducted Stone, and then lost or destroyed the numbers...
...Oneal Sees Labor Trtoylv "gYm ft) a class with a future, class WttaVn past...
...He was arrested a few weeks ago while in Pueblo...
...A group of thirty-five striking silk mill workers from Allen town attended the session...
...Then another glut and stoppage of industry...
...A Taxless City Chanute, Kansas, Illustrate* the "Horror** of Municipal Ownership ?jpHE cities of the cxKmtry- ¦ large awl ernafl-—are holding the * municipal purse-strings tightly these days...
...His order to the police followed the deportation of Amia Burlak, strike leader, who was told to leave the city at a conference in the office of the General Fabrics Corp...
...To avoid this, and also to avoid any question of unconstitutional - ity involved in enforced contributions from employers, we decided to provide for financing the plan out of income tax alone...
...Stone says...
...Babson is the "advisor" of those who live by looting...
...The kidnapping is alleged to have grown out of the prosecution of the Silver Grill Restaurant jrhich had tried to "Jim Crow" Frank Crosswaith, Negro Socialist organizer, when he was here some weeks ago...
...It is demanded that a special grand jury investigation of the police be ordered...
...They talk of "sound finance," "financial stability," and keeping the city safe from "unsound tinkering with finances...
...Here is an example of how "horrible" municipal ownership is: the city of Chanute, Kansas, offers this example...
...State ponce circulated through the strikers'a mass ntewthtg...
...Wage reductions will "enable business to operate profitably...
...Pennsylvania, last Saturday and Sunday, July 11 and 12...
...The proposed constitutional amendment would make it obligatory on the state legislature to provide for a graduated income tax, the funis to be used solely for compensation to citizens who have been resident in the state for five years or more, who are unable to find work...
...Since no income tax is at present collected in Michigan dor any purpose, the cost of' completely, state-supported insurance against unemployment financed by an income tax alone would be less than systems advocated by the Socialist Party in some states where Industry is already paying heavy income taxes...
...among the resolutions passed was to boycott California goods and the Olympic games until Mconey and Billings are released...
...It is inevitable that the trend should be downward in a period • of industrial collapse...
...But in this tan but absolute sfitasjfl mediate departure flCJ would appease thh ¦ van t of the public afj| ous cohorts...
...Yon and your class are gorged with the surplus gains of useful labor on the farms and railroads, in the mines, shops, and great plants of industry...
...Being tut on the head never helps the understanding...
...There, Lichtblau said, Rifkin interfered with him while he was arresting Gross...
...Alfred Hoffman, an organizer for the Hosiery Workers Union, was the speaker at the "Tenth and Industry" session...
...At the close, one of the leaders of the strikers told the reasons for their strike, successive wage' cuts, and predicted a favorable result...
...Assume that this is true, what is the conclusion...
...Rifkin and Jesse Gross, another young Socialist, were arrested March 31st...
...Cut wages in general and assume that industries resume operation...
...Thereupon, Charles Solomon, attorney for the Socialist youths, demanded that Sabbatino issue process against the detective...
...ordered the hoys away and when they ware leaving blew a police whistle which attracted the attention of Lichtblau who pursued them into the Socialist meeting place...
...Then why not permit these laws to run their course if their free operation means a "balance in all things...
...Oneal, and Socialist Mayor J. Henry Stump of Reading...
...Mich...
...About 10,000 workers attended the picnic and the speeches were carried by amplifiers to all parts of the grounds...
...Babson...
...No, Mr...
...that the ftiwHng of the abandoned car, owned by Stone, was reported to'the police but they refused to do anything about it...
...The management premised the workers that the owner of the mill would come to town and discuss the demands...
...Solomon characterized the result as a victory far the Upholders of civil liberties sad saiddh* Civil Liberties Union was contemplating further action along the line of damage suits...
...With this pfaraas James Oattel, editor of THE NEW LEADER, summed up his address at the mass meeting held in connection with the Yipsels second annual conference and Jamboree which assembled hi the Socialist Party Park in Reading...
...Chanute's example offers an important lesson for the workers of all cities...
...Providence Police Ordered to Shoot Textile Strikers PROVIDENCE, R. I.—(FP)— "We do not intend to countenance sjsjy manufactured trouble here...
...In his address Oneal said, "the workers must primarily shape the new world...
...You would heap the results of your miserable failure upon men, women and children - who already suffer privations, who are already in the breadlines...
...He will tell us that the lower . wages are too high and that they most be reduced to lower the cost of production...
...But workers will not then work as profitably for themselves as before...
...That means that more surplus commodities will be added to those inherited from the old period...
...They are besieged by hundreds of thousands of hungry men,-Women and children for a chance to cam a IvhaJ or j& cad.lht' pangsof rmnger.'~^But tfie'Denaocratic and Republican politicians in the city ha3s, many of them whi AeJr^ftots stnl wet from wallowing in the public trough, hold up their hands in horror...
...What then, Mr...
...William E. Bonn, educational director of the Rand School, addressed the large throng of Yipsels who were gathered on "Youth and Education...
...There is likely to be a death grapple within the coming year in Europe between Fascism and Socialism...
...The organization of labor in its own party and a courageous fight to unseat the representatives of your class in every law'making body of this country...
...Stone Lays Kidnapping To Klu KIux Colorado Socialist Secretary Warned—Denver Police Attacked <*» A mm lulu CirM»i»li«l) DENVER.—Kidnapping of William C Stone, state secretary of the Socialist party of Colorado, who was Seized in Denver, bald eaptive four days and then turned loose in Cheyenne, almost 100 miles sway, is ascribed by Stone to anti-Negro and anti-foreign elements...
...Under the main heading of "Youth and the Mew Social Order," three sessions were held on sub-topics of the principal subject...
...This is the theory of the bankers...
...Yipsel Rally Draws 1O>0OO ToReadin^Pa...
...The ri the public, nc—-"f«iii| vate property," tattl tempted, to halt tmi the sympathy of the *J assembled had not at viously enthusiasticallyj The meeting WM_**i ing success demonfttsl the great stride* MM Socialism here...
...The principal of the night'high school, MacNamara...
...Let us see...
...Read the riot act and then shoot," is the order of Police Chief Charles Hill for any emergency the police may encounter in the Central Falls textile strike...
...When state troopers warned her sharply to stay out of the city, aha walked across the bridge to Pawttrcket, where there is a strike at-the plant at the Royal Weaving Co...
...What becomes of the "balance...
...that two detectives assigned to the case were taken off it after a day or two...
...that the police department failed to act on complaints when they were made...
...Socmlism is not certain...
...PUntAM, Ctonn.—(m—Tree hundred workers of the Edward Bloom S ilk Co...
...plant in Pawtucket The strike committee voted not to attempt arbitration through various "Civic organizations which have offered to act as intermediaries, ftn the settlement of the atrtka...
...He said that economic power without political, power would not accomplish its ends...
...Besides these three conferences there was a banquet, dancing, a sight-seeing tour, a business meeting of the Yipsels under National Secretary Kmanual Switkea, and a mass meeting...
...Calamity has come to the working masses of the nation and of the world...
...They will have a lower purchasing power than before...
...The city commissioners announced last week that there will be no municipal taxes this year...
...Presiding Justice Mclnerney found that the arrests by the detective were unlawful and that "there was no disorder, no violence of any kind" on the part of the Socialists...
Vol. 13 • July 1931 • No. 3
