Fight Wage Cuts And Starvation!
THOMAS, NORMAN
Fight Wage Cuts And Starvation! !1T STARVATION? * special edition of any paper to tell ua that es tben our friends and comrade* to toe mgry and miserable. To the misery of the lillion...
...Old clothes wearing out and millions of farmers and workers m need of decent clothing, and textile mills idle...
...the ore beds and other sources of raw materials, and the vast banking powers of the nation...
...It only helps In the event of natural diss ater or in the violence of war fought by more deadly methods than strikers to the fustest Cause have ever used, rtant than to rehearse the sorrows that scum what's to be done...
...Why this hell of suffering in the midst of abundance...
...lite ludnetilie and services must pass into' the hands of the people, through municipal, state and national ownership according to did character of each...
...Make no mistake about it, workmgmen and women...
...Once more I give t Relief Committee for Striking- Miners, yceum Building, Pittsburgh, Pa...
...themselves...
...production for profit means a hand and brain never get back the equivalent To be sure, the profit takers ultimately reinhey take...
...Nothing matters except profits and dividend* for the ownert...
...Then they try to market them for profits for...
...Jobless millions wanting access to mills, shops and mines yet mills, shops and mines are idle...
...capable of supplying all with plenty of shoes...
...There is the secret of the capitalistic system of industry...
...They throw us out into the street where we become the prey of hunger and some of our women-and children are compelled to eat weeds and grass...
...The capitalism of the Jnited States has driven women and children to subsist on weeds while babies in the zone of starvation are thin and pale, hungry fathers and mothers...
...We are now the prisoners of ihis POWER and we will remain tfteir prisoners so long as they own the industries upon which our very lives depend...
...Back to the Galleys Industries and offices are consolidated, clerical workers are discharged, superintendents, are dismissed, and they fall into the ranks of the disinherited...
...Crops are more abundant than ever...
...the steel industry and other great industries...
...will disin that area...
...Vast quanries of goods we produced are in their hands...
...No wonder ishing-ton tools have done so little when, ave asked so little...
...Simon wrote that "the people in Normandy, (a French province) live on the grass in the fields...
...The answer falls under three heads or mediate relief...
...Written upon that collar is the brand of the POWER...
...Railroads are not owned to transport freight and passengers...
...Why Bosses Hate Socialism The POWER that has made us jobless serfs and galley slaves hates the Socialist movement That is one good reason why you...
...The POWER wants more profits out of the toil of the workers...
...So let us push city programs and etore the governing boards, delegations which must be FEDERAL RESPONSIBILITY ES alone can't do the job...
...Hunger facing millions and an enormous surplus of wheat on hand...
...The ancient regime in France under Louis XVI reduced great masses to hunger and drove many to eat grass...
...It must be repaid out of income and inheritance t wffl not interfere with industry because there is still ft for industry and because It is consumption, not products now needs a subsidy...
...Hunger in the richest granary in the woild...
...This is the second chapter ram...
...We will never be free, never have economic security, never be wasters of our own lives so Ions...
...should support it What is good for you is bad for them...
...The human slaves that remain are studied by experts...
...Workers want to work but a POWER bars their way to the raw materials, and the industries...
...Textile industries are not owned to provide us with clothing...
...Raw materials are awaiting the labor of millions to be transformed into commodities...
...Ve should register a vow that we wffl fight oar way out of this hell and save our children from the fate that has come to us...
...The industries will belong to us and not one cent of profit will go to useless idlers...
...During the terrible winter come from governmental agencies, city, must agitate and organise to get it In ild take the lead to forming labor conferi,' which should be stiff but not impossible, les are handicapped under our constitution sowers and particularly to their power to pht people...
...They are mechanical slaves, cheaper than "hands," and are productive of more profits for the POWER that owns...
...The machines do not eat, wear shoes, or clothing, or organize unions or go on strike...
...Only Socialism, and lnter: that can core unemployment...
...One of the encouraghe awakening of the workers to coal fields w to that list must be added the gallant >r road makers and the beginning of the Workers strike to New York City...
...The masse) can legalize, the abolition of this monstroui POWER by voting themselves into control *e| the governing powers...
...There isn't a commodity that we produce for them that we own...
...WILL CONTINUE TO STARVE can or will be made right by docile workoiseries of these capitalist crises aa if they r heaven or hell to be endured...
...Most an be used to add to our national wealth and stimulate «J public works...
...Starvation with giant machines to flood our homes with goods that would make every human being comfortable...
...To feed our families we must, ask them...
...In the coal fields of West Virginia, Onto, Kentucky and Pennsylvania serfdom la added to s tarvatifn and the rule of the coal barons is enforced by violence and by fraud...
...after 15Q years of wonderful inventions, of vast increase in producing power, are men, women, and children living on grass and weeds...
...Have confidence in your class...
...The Power That Rules Vs There is no Black Death sweeping the nation and paralyzing workers so that they cannot produce...
...The industries are owned to make fortunes, profits, dividends, for the owners...
...We are nothing, they are all...
...That power is not hard to find...
...We have to decide first to md distribution for use not profit...
...The POWER wants less labor, cheaper labor, and more profits...
...In •ebon an idea of Professor Beard's about a building syndiIope in an article to the July Forum is worth Dan doesn't do enough we may have to go faronsumptlon even more directly...
...Why are babies thin and pale, why are their fathers and mothers hungry...
...Must men starve Must farmers go shoeless with elevators le shoe factories are idle and shoe workers it is wrong "and what can be made right...
...Why This Misery...
...Do your own thinking...
...Oof minds are poisoned by this nrooaganda...
...One of the most recent evidences of their cruelty la an order, a copy of which I have, enjoining any of the striking workers from even so much aa going on company-land (and In many coal regions that's most of the land) for so Innocent a purpose aa picking the berries which are an Important item in the menu of starving strikers...
...Nine times out of tan or oftener *ae pay roll For that reason only, the new ?P— Basai aa fui Tbrasl Capitalism Means Hunger-Socialism Means Plenty COME DECADES before the French Revolution St...
...So long as we LOtic, unplanned production for private profit, rill have recurring crises like those which made early 90's and now our Urns, so tragic...
...Hence we should demand that I meet early to vote a five billion dollar Hunger Loan, mall compared with 37 billion dollars to "Liberty" Loans— I the mark...
...The Socialist Party has this for its fundamental aim...
...So we are out of the industries and starve because we cannot obtain the goods which our labor has produced...
...Every movement of the body is registered and useless movements are eliminated...
...This is the POWER that stands between us and the opportunity to work for ourselves...
...See that adequate free public i are established...
...We may have urns, under certain circumstances, on farmers' s. We certainly must keep up wages calcuae hourly but the annual basis...
...The POWER that locks us out is the POWER that inflicts unemployment and hunger upon us...
...Fight unemployment and hunger...
...More intense labor is enforced at the machines and more values are sweated out of the workers...
...Keep children from work adults age pensions...
...This loan is for life not death, construction taction...
...Even een lost have made the bosses mors afraid on labor...
...They constitute the POWER that can turn us adrift into the streets...
...Shoe plants are not owned to provide us with shoes...
...Go to the mines and oil fields...
...abject let me insert a kind of parenthesis, bout relief for strikes...
...It was not so a century ago when there were thousands of small shops and plants and plenty of free Lnd for us to flee to...
...Our present due to bad distribution of the national income, lorter hours will help that...
...Even states are often embarked by poverty or bad laws...
...Success to these strikes...
...To the misery of the lillion unemployed la added the misery of farmers who cannot sell wheat or cotton at the cost of producing it...
...The Wealth We Create Is Not Ours Eventually the markets are glutted and they order us out of the industries...
...Suspect any publication that is not yours and look for the collar of the man who sings the praises of the present system...
...Our* money wage is soon gone...
...We are their dependents...
...The capitalistic class that constitutes this POWER is the master of the industries of the nation...
...Fruit ied to hogs while children and the sick of the cities yearn for it...
...These sources of production and distribution that are the basis of life and human well-being are in the hands of millionaire capitalists and bankers...
...Meantime, fight for insurance for the jobless and every other measure that will help the de* titute and the hungry, hut also join in die gk>r ions struggle for the abolition of the system tha has become a curse...
...Their will is law for us...
...We are becoming a nation of serfs and galley slaves to serve the measureless greed of this capitalistic POWER...
...wt find it difficult to think our way out of the hell in which we stew...
...For this reason millions are stewing in an economic hell of hunger, disease and rags...
...Not Jduction wasteful...
...The nation can reach the peol ample or more than ample incomes by income and inheribsl The nation can do the 'job uniformly and distribute jformly on the basis of need...
...That ought promptly to never again shall rich Americans be caught provision as poorer European countries have, the miserable charity of the bread line Is a cploitation of humanity...
...This is our ogical unemployment (the unemployment due ury as cyclical unemployment is incurable while i Profit...
...What is common to fill of them...
...Poorer states iequately...
...They do not need them -and cannot sell them...
...Hurl your mighty ballot power against those who have made a wretched botch of civilization | and whose rule is a menace to the toih...
...isurance should be nation-wide...
...tins plan...
...We are the heroic Allentown Pennsylvania textile with a local Socialist Relief Committee, n, large or small, and if you are a union our local and the A. F. of L. to more vtgMVST DO t can touch the problem of unemployment...
...as the tsafissssafj class own the Industries and have the power to lock us out...
...From the mining section of West Virginia a correspondent writes that the babies "are thin and pale and their gaunt fathers and mothers suffer with them from the digestive troubles and skin infections that a monotonous det of scanty food brings on...
...When they say that the industries shall operate they are operated...
...Mines are not owned to warm our firesides...
...If society can't furh work, it must at least give them bare econ¦try and those who gain in incomes from rent, lust pay the bill...
...The working class does not count...
...The masses have legalize*: the monstrous POWER that enslaves us by vot ing for the parties of capitalism...
...R FOR ALL TIME deals not with relief or amelioration, but cure, ipters lead up to it...
...Join the Socialist, Party...
...iff this five billion must be used for immediate relief...
...BLESS AND THE AGED iepression little or nothing can be done by unirance or indemnity...
...Otherwise the system would have But they do it wastefully, slowly, chaotice remedied, as some writers pretend, by trying « capitalist chaos...
...The Nation .last week describes one section of the coal region where "the miners' families were subsisting on weeds and on hard, blackened crusts from the bread boxes of more fortunate townspeople...
...This may require a Constitutional i Socialists have proposed...
...What is this monstrous power that sentences us to such a dread fill life...
...The owners are more and more replacing workers with machines...
...The Emergency Committee which I am chairman, at 112 East 19th . will concentrate on relief of the West Vlrrhlch fewer other committees are working, ted funds to other regions, especially Kenit relief workers were arrested...
...Shoeless children and great shoe plant...
...observe the railroads, the steamship lines, the telegraphs and telephones...
...When they order the industries closed they are closed...
...jjsjafaffrjfcfr m+M% asaj Ipjssssil are- now compelling us to think...
...To work we must ask them...
...Let labor organize iich for our first chapter...
...Our welfare and our happiness do not count...
...4 0 ' Some years later the Bishop of Chart res said that "the famine and the mortality were such that men eat grass like sheep and died like so many flies...
...Especially houses should be built The snrnment should re loan at the low rate at which it borates in some cases give—large sums to municipalities or ¦•orations to replace slums with decent homes...
...Socialism Stands for the Workers Socialism is pledged to this ownership ark control...
...The first king in Europe is great simply by being a king of beggars of all conditions...
...With a Socialist movement triumphant throughout the nation this POWER will no longer have the industries...
...We need them but cannot have them...
...Later on sne us money in the cost of prisons and hospitals...
...The individual employer may be ever > keep going in a competitive order ha must tkm costs...
...Only Profits Count They are workless owners and masters of these great powers...
...Human welfare does not count...
...They have to tax real estate «tween land and improvements, between ne owners.' Too heavy taxation may mean of small home owners already hampered rgerated as it is by Mayor Walker to New ild do more for the unemployed without irtlng small home owners if they would save what they i graft sad inefficiency...
...They give us a money values up which they take...
...The POWER has its journalists, its publicity men, its politicians and political parties to justify it before the millions of its victims...
...Down all the stretch of history from the men of the caves to the present hour there ha* never been a time when there was' less reason for this hideous suffering than now...
...Meanwhile there A to state plans which should to turn be finsmiums assessed to industry, half from taxes itances...
...In the industrial warfare that agent of mercy, the Red does, does nothing...
Vol. 13 • August 1931 • No. 5
