THE DAMNING CONTRASTS
Maurer, James H.
THE DAMNING CONTRASTS Riches and Poverty Belie National Ideals By James H. Maurer rpHE UNITED STATES is the richest country on earth, and yet face-to-face with bankruptcy. Individuals are...
...Since the days of the Forty Thieves the scoundrels have been plying their trade while substantial majorities have been rolled up by voters in favor of these rats...
...We need not stress the frightful conditions the ^ millions of workers today...
...apply to capitalists who have a federal tariff nursing bottle...
...Greece is the most industrially advanced of the Balkan nations and a powerful proletarian movement is developing...
...Those farmers who talk of abolishing usury but who leave the railroads, oil fields, mines, aad great industries in the hands of their enemies would be robbed Just the same by the owners of the above industries...
...In improved methods of efficiency in Confiscating the products of industry, the modern capitalist is far in advance of the feudal lord tad tribal chieftain.—H...
...sj or food only two sets I Socialist Party mraani degree aad the reu—•*] —went to organised I 1 lief kitchens aad few *>f A. depots hi the flea, j referred to ln the "N«*fj as particularly ccspsn served by the Social...
...Organized labor morally bankrupt...
...IK A NU...
...The collapse was a surprise to all of them...
...the relief that they died Miners Relief CozmniOe] Socialist Party hat ami the editor of the "Xtaarl this gross misstausJ Committee, in a letxr a] Sarah Isaaaseeh seemed oat that out of tsar...
...he pays one bushel for a loaf of bread...
...The only parage]I curity is assured so long as this system of capitalism | are those who have swined their way to the tap of J and are now gorged with their workless fcjrtoaa...
...They want to clean up but what is necessary is a Socialist administration that will represent the laboring population...
...Socialism should make a strong appeal at least to some of them despite a hangover of individualist views...
...There can be no real education for all until we have propagandized capitalism out of existence.—Dan Griffiths...
...Propaganda—that is, special education for the specific political and economic purpose—must of necessity precede general education or culture...
...Hoover is about the biggest four-flusher that ever sat in a swiveLjchair...
...Workers hang like hams in the subways and on the elevateds because plunderers fill their pockets and neglect decent transit facilities...
...let the strident voice b* *H There is horror, born of hunger, in the cadence of ts» aw And here in surly anger aad ln a rebellious glow...
...In agriculture the tendency towards large capital and large holdings has not been evident till in recent years the factorized farms have appeared...
...m night What savings we had are gone or they are pjj politicians in office are bankrupt...
...Socialists Stage Parade and Rally RACINE.—The big Socialist unemployed parade and mass meeting is the talk of the streets aad factories ln this citiy...
...The reformers are not interested in these issues...
...In the days of the old Prussia such speeches by strutting military officers were regarded here as characteristic of saber-rattling Junkers...
...When we get that income tax information we are goclean or hunt his hole...
...In looking around the so-called civilized world today, we find that the poor have been wantonly robbed by the rich of every blessing of which force and fraud could possibly deprive U)em — Morrison Davidson...
...J. Holyoke...
...t At the park 2,000 had assembled...
...And if the machinery does it all...
...They may rebel against some phases of capitalist extortion and yet not see that it is the whole capitalist system that is their enemy...
...A Junker Speaks "DRIGADIER GENERAL HOLBROOK in *¦* an address before the Lightning Division at Camp Dix predicted a war with Russia and forecasts Germany as an American* ally in this war...
...Well, general, perhaps Russia got the idea from the United States when President Wilson sent troops into Russia for a similar purpose...
...The only hope for the workers is that they must emancipate themselves, they must not expect their exploiters to get off their backs...
...Lamont was a little indiscreet because his statement will be filed by the Democratic publicity bureau for use in the campaign next year and Hoover wants to be reelected...
...You do not eat unless someone gets a profit...
...A little knowledge of Socialist economics enables the humblest worker to anticipate the thing that surprises them...
...E. Branch...
...Its trend has not been the same as that in industry...
...Capitalism is a little over 150 years old but it has managed to murder more men in war and cause more widespread hunger than any social system in ail history...
...And this is the situation which exists today in the United States, the richest nation on earth...
...For example, President Roosevelt cooperated with a revolution in Panama by consulting with the main conspirator and then sending warships off the coast to prevent the Columbian government from suppressing the revolt in her own province...
...California has the lowest birthrate of any state in the union but it manages to produce its normal quota of babbitts...
...Norman rtaati Henry Stump and a Sing a Song of Colorado (Frank H. Hayes' song of praise for Colorado u'***1 *| in a recent issue of The New Leader for the amusemmt of A ers, has evoked the following version of the poem parody it...
...Our gold braid fops indulge in the same thing without many people understanding its significance...
...They represent thes] live in security in the upper range of the system...
...Labor Movement Of Greece Seeking To Unify Resources The Socialist Labor Party of Greece opened its Congress on July 17th in Salonica, The main item on the agenda is the unification of the Labor and Socialist movement of Greece and working out a policy of cooperation with the Agrarian Party...
...commissaries as the committee of the Communist relief center should suggest but would not work anonymously through this committee due to the continued campaign of abuse and misrepresentation of the Socialist Party and to the distrust of Comnunur...
...j Colorado, speak it harshly...
...There is no substitute for Socialism...
...day after the profess stumbled upon it and m The Social 1st-sponsc-ttj is emphasized, is no« an a partisan political pafj not because it does set ¦ propaganda, but bscasKsJ trary to the pokey al tail Party and of the ReHal inject political differ*** visions of the Aaenm...
...Most of the States hopelessly in debt and the Federal Government engulfed with financial obligations, yet daring not touch the fabulous fortunes of the rich through increased taxation...
...O. W. Bourn a. Sheriff Al Benson and State Secretary William Coleman, both from Milwaukee, spoke...
...All of us owe it to ourselves to informs...
...A national appeal was made and contributions have been coming in steadily, principally from the Workmen's Circle, the Workmen's Sick and Death Benefit Society and members, branches and locals of the Socialist party...
...A Nation where 500 of its citizens have annual incomes of from one million to ten million dollars, while thirty million of its citizens are underfed...
...Say what you will a vote for a capitalistic party is a luxury that we cannot afford because it coats too much...
...Chaucer...
...Tsa and we are drifting to an abyss that threatens te swa!fe» Your First Doty Is To Be Informed And what, new reader, are you doing are proposu^ ( this situation...
...The active agrarian elements have been won over to Socialism and are ready to cooperate with the Socialist movement The Republican Party desires to join the Socialist-Agrarian bloc but it represents an old gang of opportunist politicians who want to prevent the success of a class movement representing the workers...
...Foreclosures and sheriff sales of workers' homes which represent the savings of a life time...
...eew ft] Writing ia a* "Weaatjj gren, aasociau asUm rrj* supporting Isth am thai three groups art «t^K distribution of (est m at and ail three ol tataaei ical consideraUoas * m distribution...
...Townships and counties are loaded down with bonds...
...Benson reminded the people of the Racine, Kenosha aad Walworth districts that they now had a chance to send a Socialist to Congress at the special election...
...His military highness asserts that Russia has declared war on, the United States by urging "the overthrow of this government...
...There have been other affairs of this kind in which "Uncle Sam has set an example for the rest if the world...
...1 The rest of us, the toilers who do the work of tht J who suffer, are in the social pit Anxiety disturb...
...Asked if he divided the loot with any political leader he refuse* to answer on the ground that it might incriminate him...
...Millions more working short time and living from hand to mouth...
...Other workers evicted from miserable shacks and tenement houses...
...Use this blank today: 'Nation' Prints Untruth on Miners' Relief Socialist Committee in Pittsburgh Reveals Misrepresentation by Hallgren By ARTHUR O. McDOWELL (New Letter Otl'l »¦»¦¦««*<) -aVrrsSBURGH, Pa.—An article _sL on relief activities of various groups in the Western Pennsylvania coal Strike in the "Nation" of July 29 is the subject of a bitter protest by the Miners Relief Fund of the Socialist Party at Pittsburgh...
...They Thai Pary) are at great pel that only present ass members of the party...
...And 80 per cent of those who have jobs have suffered wage reductions...
...one bushel for five pounds of flour, and one bushel for a pound* of ham...
...The parade stated at- Beach park...
...Smeared with muck and dirt, its members are likely to contaminate other persons while they are enroute to and from the next national auction of the party...
...The parody is submitted by R. C.) Colorado, speak it harshly, an around the U. ft A, Tls a word the miners mutter when they speak of set «* For the Boat's hand is on it and his presence b*ver» ae* Many thousand Uvea are tortured by his eosemcks quart**** Many thousand hearts are bleeding, from the gross ¦» to the sea, As he writes the sordid story of his own cupidity...
...All branches of agriculture financially bankrupt...
...As the work of the Socialist Committee expanded the greatest amount of the food went into local commissaries of the National Miners Union...
...American statesmanship bankrupt and hopeless...
...A small investigating committee composed of two economists, Colston E. Warne from Amherst College and William L. Nunc of New York University, accompanied by Maurits Hallgren of the "Nation," visited the strike section in a flying trip from July 11 to 14, At the suggestion of Nunn, the officers of the Socialist Committee approached the Perm-Ohio Relief Committee organized by the Communist leadership of the National Miners Union, with an offer of cooperation in relief work...
...The persistence of small holdings has also been striking with the result that small owners have the psychology of an intermediate class...
...And this Nation, the United States of America, boasts of being a God-fearing Christian Nation, where capitalism is enjoying its highest development, "where liberty and justice reign supreme...
...It is this Socialist knowledge that is required at Washington and" in every city and state executive office...
...The request of the county central committee that the council appoint a committee of three of its members to work witih a like committee of the Socialist party was recommended for favorable action by the executive board of the council...
...You tighten your belt eat less and wear less, die in content aad leave your "individualism" untainted by any help from government but this does not...
...This frightful inequity in exchange is a constant reminder that a few acres of land no longer mean independence but serfdom...
...Junkers, and vermin who insist on keeping Mooney and Billings in Jail...
...If ft, takes four hours a day for machinery to produce what we need, then we will work four hours...
...nb| administration by marH contributors to tat $ocu| the offer of eooperstm j Jected by the reaa-Ota i tee secretary mm Marts] considerable abase...
...nor do I expect that they ever will, because no relief for the oppressed has yet been offered by those who are the oppressors...
...Scores Tax Dodgers 'We are after the big fellows who slip out from under while the small home owner is made to bear the cost through taxation," said Benson...
...Milwaukee Labor Supports Socialist Fight for Jobless MILWAUKEE.—The Federated Trades Council has overwhelmingly voted to co-operate with the county central committee of the Socialist party to form a council of the unemployed to organize a plan for unemployment relief here...
...When it was explained that the Miners Renef Fund of the Socialist Party was wUUng to place its Supplies In such of the local N. M. Tj...
...The Wickersham committee reports that the prisons of the nation are a failure...
...Only two parties in Greece may be said to be democratic to character, the small Socialist parties now being unified sad the Agrarian Batty which rests upon a number of agricultural cooperative societies and is beginning to score some political successes...
...What blasphemy...
...The Greek parliamentary regime is a thinly disguised dictatorship which practically exists to ratify the orders of 1L Venizelos who has recently muzzled the press which he does not control...
...Between seven and eight million men and women suffering from enforced idleness...
...1,600 Unemployed March in Racine...
...Help it as it tries to help you...
...And do you know that the farmers in Kansas and Oklahoma are getting 25 cents for a bushel of wheat, and unsold wheat is piled up on the fields mountain high...
...National Comattttt H A National Cominlttsr known labor ayaeaUis* citizens is being former* size the independence STJ era' Relief Fund ftesu f* row political P°n*»*those who have alraw, ed invitations to ser* 1 feasor John Drwty, Debs, Ludwig Lore » Maurer, Oscar AJnerta** Oneal...
...Marketed to the nation as the engineer who knew all about industry, be is about the sorriest figure that ever occupied the White House...
...Our statesmen offer no remedy for these conditions...
...Senator Capper shows what 25 cent wheat means to him...
...The fact is that these politicians of capitalism know little of the system in which they live...
...As exploited workers we must stand shoulder to shoulder in one solid body, use our political power by voting the Socialist ticket which stands for the emancipation of our class, the workers...
...We wish it were otherwise but facts are too well known...
...A fanner pays the price of five bushels of wheat for a pair of boy's knickers...
...They fear the class above them and dread being reduced to a wage status...
...of what is happening and to fit • ourselves for the «q transform this system into a workable and decent iocs* this hell of anxiety and insecurity will no more brood ssa ing class homes...
...Had Al Smith been heaved iuto his place in 1928 Tammany's prize exhibit would have been just as sorry a figure...
...A Nation where property is held to be more sacred than human life, especially if the life is that of a worker on strike...
...More than 1,000 men marched...
...then we will have our time to ourselves...
...Many signs.were carried in the line, none of which went home to the people more than the terse, accusing one, which red, "The Nash Plant Works Fifteen Hours a Day...
...That we are governed by low scoundrels who fill their pockets with plunder is an old story...
...Where those who produce nothing own everything, and those who produce everything own nothing...
...Most large American cities have something like this and it has been current practice in many of the small ¦Latin-American countries for generations...
...We think that the wise boy who was going to put a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage was thinking more of that campaign than he was of wage-cutting...
...We must sink our narrow prejudices, no matter what race, creed or color...
...The speech of Coleman kept the crowd in a continuous high pitch...
...The Farmer's Problem ' Jh GRICULTURE has always been a problem for Socialists in every country...
...movement into tot atter fused industrial straff* responsible and antaieet acter of this article, card long reputed liberal ssfl magazine, can not but * * if only for the damage ¦ relief work now benf * by the Fund that hai lessly libeled...
...In capitalist industry the tendency has always beeh to enlarge the business until through consolidation, elimination of* the small capitalist, and creation of a .working class with interests antagonistic to the owners of industry...
...Cities and boroughs are loaded down with bonds...
...Increased taxes and decreased wages...
...A Nation where hypocrisy is honored and honest convictions frowned upon, A Nation where the highest court in the land ordered stolen property worth millions returned to the government from whom it was* stolen, but found the thief not guilty of stealing it A Nation that has more lynchings, murders, suicides and robberies in one year than all the nations of Europe combined had in ten years...
...Men and women, the people must own the machines, with no individuals taking a profit out of there...
...Mid the mighty, snow-capped Rockies, ra the eeal sdaU far below, JM I have found again the nightmare, the dream of »»»*5s J» the Bosses' wide domauda, reaching eenssaeaV-e...
...Hardly a week goes by without the Tammany House of Boodle being implicated in some dirty mess...
...Hoover might as well have said that there shall be no flood after the dam has broken _and the valley has been flooded...
...Sheriff Benson referred to a resolution the Socialists had introduced in the Milwaukee county board to investigate the income returns of the rich to see who should meet'the cost of unemployment This was unanimously indorsed...
...Wage-slashing has been going on all over the United States...
...For the same reason our schools are sinecures for Tammany lieutenants, workers are clubbed when striking, diseasebreeding tenements survive, and the unemployed receive ncr* adequate attention...
...Hoover on Wages HEADLINES report thaf President Hoover's stand on wages is unchanged and that he opposes wage cuts...
...Thirty million mothers, wives and children sutiering for the bare necessities of life...
...So long as they own a few acres they feel that they have a stake in capitalism...
...The Socialist Committee was organized for the specific purpose of carrying on relief work in the district unhampered by the indecision and confusion arising from the fact that the National Miners Union and the United Mine Workers both claimed leadership in the strike...
...Facts of tht M-qM Struggle For lusii 4n Appeal to Those Who tuJ JVetr Leader for the FrttjL THERE are many thousands of people who recent i of Tht New Leader who will read it for the firs** '< to them we address this message...
...Socialism would control the labor-saving machine and abolish the political machines of the exploiting class...
...We therefore invite you to subscribe to The Sml Then bring it to the attention of others...
...He has been a teacher in this sort jf work for more than forty years and the genMai should be proud if others follow his example...
...The latest exhibit in the gallery of Tammany tEfcks a> the hone doctor, William F. Doyle, who has admitted in the examination before Judge Seabury that he split large fees with some unknown persons while practicing before the Board of Standards...
...Besides the Bolsheviks know that the United States is an expert in overthrowing governments and they may like to imitate us...
...A Nation that has no money to spend to feed .the peace time victims of unemployment, but squanders billions for war purposes...
...The House of Boodle *^iTHEN the Tamraany delegation goes to the next Democratic convention it will have to order a large quantity of disinfectants...
...One virtue they have in the view of capitalist politicians is they wul feed, bouse and cloths the man driven to crime while the government that maintains them ignores the man who is driven out of the place of employment to starve...
...Fundamentally it is the working class that is the victim of all this looting...
...There is no final and satisfactory solution of ttis problem for the farmer within the capitalist aystem...
...Socialism is the avenger that aims to destroy it • • • In announcing the reasons for a declaration of war the government of the day does not and cannot speak the truth.—Arthur Ponsonhy, M. P. » » • m The machine hurts the worker upon the street to be a beggar and the political machine of its owner induces him to ratify his beggary by voting for the candidates of the capitalist class...
...Capital in itself is a dead thing, is as unquickened seed, for until labor puts life into tt, it yields no produce or profit.—G...
...This press act follows an Anti-Communist Act an act ¦>»aj«-*»««>g freedom of organization by civil servants and a measure for deportation of undesirables at the pleasure of the police...
...To fight oar* of our misery intelligently requires education'and orsej The New Leader has no other mission to serve thtsj you in your struggle...
...SHELL Hanger, according to the Hoover philosophy, is good for the soul...
...How much are your paying for bread...
...Where the right to work is not only lawful but sacred for a strike-breaking scab, whom the powers of the government protect, but where for those suffering from enforced idleness there is no law or protection...
...The future is black ^ and no one can tell what another year may brine 3 country and throughout the world...
...Today hundreds of thousands have lost their land while those who still possess some cannot wring an existence from the soil...
...We sen perfectly willing for the exploiters to vote for their party while we support oor own...
...This follows the statement of Secretary Lamont a few days before who had said that some idustries, faced with the prospect of closing down, may seek 'temporary wage reductions...
...Still earlier the American Minister to Hawaii worked with sugar planters in overthrowing the Hawaiian government with marines from an American warship, and one of the conspirators, Sanford B. Dole, declared himself a republic and this "republic" was recognized by the minister...
...Individuals are loaded down with notes and mortgages...
...The Greek trade union movement is not affiliated with the Trade Union International, it lacks unity and discipline, but at its next Congress to be held in Plreus in October it is expected that the trade unions wul achieve a better solidarity...
Vol. 13 • August 1931 • No. 5
