The System that Fattens a Few Idlers And Socialism that Enriches Workers
The System that Fattens a Few Idlers And Socialism that Enriches Workers TlM"ODERN capitalism is a system that fattens a few at the expense of millions of workers. r The cartoonist has...
...They are a human layer of laborers who share nothing in the ownership or control of the plant...
...It is the collective property of those who do useful and necessary work...
...Socialists of Spain For a Labor Regime Zhurch-State Problem Becomes Acute When Government Prohibits Sale or Transfer of...
...En Virginia, Connecticut and Maalachusetts the State Church hi •ach instance was disestablished without harsh measures and over i number of years...
...I policy which Dr...
...Regrettable as this decline is, it was to be expected, for every economic crisis means a fan in trade union membership...
...The plant with its machines and raw materials are no longer his...
...The total expenditure on.benefits amounted to 7,600,000 schillings, of which 4,400,000 was spent on unemployment benefit alone...
...There he is, the master of the lives of thcusands of useful workers...
...The Report records the fact that big concerns which used to employ thousands of workers have now reduced their staffs to a few hundreds...
...The artists were O. Rubin, Coppel and Mrs...
...Capitalism or Socialism...
...The workers whose backs had been bent with toil now stand erect and with v joy receive the income which formerly went to the Fat Man...
...The govLc ii absolutely determined Ifasw economies through, Ifsestion of wage reducm Afferent matter, as leg••Hon would be required Kdalist party regards it •el to give way on this Youth to Discuss rand Unemployment at young people can do in (resent economic crisis and • of a coming war will be ted under the general topic, l tad Our Times" at a twoIcampment arranged by the I Circle league of Chicago [Veld August 29th and 30th [nuner camp of the V/orkprcle in South Haven, Mich Mening session dealing with ' tad War" will be addressaarence Senior, national iy of the Socialist Party, •at the summer visiting h countries...
...It is yours to choose and the breakdown of the old capitalistic order makes that choice imperative now ! T of Eight ations War Against War -Socialists Gather i Jrmany m Big D c ^jration Against and War — Socialist* g Wage Cuts LfflfT youths representing Holland, Denmark, 1 Cjfca, S w i t z e r l a n d , 1 Belgium met in I y.tn in Germany < m a d?monstration ( jmrlarr "Against Fas- , L War: for Democracy and , L Reconstruction" was . , m (be slogan for the in- • demonstration l_ thousand young...
...There are superintendents, foremen, specialists, skilled and unskilled workers busy keeping the flow of profits going to the Fat Man through the tube...
...His hired employes do all this and when he dies a relative as idle as he will inherit this kingdom of capital as a Crown Prince inherits the throne of his monarch father...
...there has been little change in the respective percentages of men and women...
...Income was reduced by 1.9 million schillings and 95.8 per cent of this income was again expended...
...The income per head for the year was 35.8 schillings, expenditures 34.3 schillings and benefit 12.4 schillings...
...men , Ja marched in a torch- , -eaeion and a huge mass r*u seid in behalf of in- , Lj peace in the municipal j , ^e demonstration was ] gal t? that held in Vienna , mj Socialists durinsr the , mat the Labor and Socialp^ tlnnri' in July...
...The reason for this," writes Ed Strass In "Arbeit und Wlrtachaft," the Journal of the Austrian trade union centre, "is very obvious...
...Church Property rIE new regime in Spain is following the course Is relation to the Stat* Church which ?as been followed in every country where there has been a anion it Church and Stata, Early in ibis month a parliamentary commission recommended the ex pul- : lion of religious orders sad adriaed that the Spanish Republic be denned as a "democratic republic" The Socialists bad . insisted that the name be "democratic republic of labor...
...Sacrifices may have to be made and abysmal prejudices will have to be beaten down, but the great struggle will be made...
...He is fat and content...
...Perhaps he never saw it and never expects to see i t All who serve at some useful occupation in this industry are hired by him...
...Industry hxs been brought under intelligent control...
...Workers of Austria Affected by Decline Of Big Industries The Year Book for 1030 issued by the Austrian Trade Unions states that the total membership of the Austrian trade unions has rallen by 82.073, to 655,204...
...They work for use and enjoyment, not for the enrichment of a Fat Man...
...Beneath .the machines are workers bent with toil...
...Meanwhile the government prepared to exercise these rights in the fullest degree to safeguard the new-born republic and permit the Cortes to finish its task...
...HoUand, Chicago Labor ti sad Mordecai stinim«Ti Coaference for Progressive ktton win talk on "Youth leaployment" The final kaong with "Youth and sr Movement" will be dia*7 Louis Benensohn, prom•*kr of the Workmen's K. V. Haluahka, Chicago f ef the Young Circle twal David Shier, district the Workmen's Circle...
...He and his class never produced a bolt or belt, or tended a machine, or contributed to the transformation of raw materials into finished products...
...The percentage of manual to non-manual workers in the total trade union membership la 64.2 per cent te 35.8 per cent The finances of the "free" trade unions have not been unaffected by the unemployment of ths past year...
...The income that once passed through a tube into his capacious paunch now flows to the workers...
...The passage from the old to the new is not a rosy path trod by the indifferent...
...The System that Fattens a Few Idlers And Socialism that Enriches Workers TlM"ODERN capitalism is a system that fattens a few at the expense of millions of workers...
...Due to the close cooperation of aH organizations functioning within the House $532 was raised In spot cash which was turned over to the Emergency Relief Committee, 112 East 19th street, New York City, of which Norman Thomas Is the chairman...
...The amplifiers for the overflow crowd were furnished by Locai SM of the Motion Picture Operators Union, who la now waging a brave and persistent strike against the Ochs circuit Appreciation is expressed to an members of the joint conference who worked hard to make the affair fully successful...
...A few days later twenty-eight thousand troops m swiftly-movtnr columns were marching into the Basque provinces and Navarre the strongholds of .Spanish cleric aliam, and the cruiser Liberty wrrushing from Ferrei to the indu.* trial city of Bilbao to forestall r reMgious Outbreak during the period of difficult negotiations with the Vatican and during the discussion of the separation of Church and State and the seizure of the property of religious orders...
...r The cartoonist has portrayed this in the Fat Man who has become bloated with wealth...
...ills young Socialists were j tettof hig German capi- • bnagh the Federation of Industries were Insisthag . HBti to reduce production fsjfronted with this de- : ^aarnHnr Bruening faces |g the organized capitalisssstance by the Social, tre determined to fight Ht for the workers' stand- J •ammulinili of the capiste contains suggestions jsje economies in the pubssM of the Reich, the Gertm and the municipalities, BlsBttaa of freight rates Buco, all of which the •tat, it is asserted, can esrssgalate as the finances of ad municipalities are debt on their share of the Fedi i receipts...
...This is why the membership has fallen...
...those present were Prussian Minister ( n: Paul Loebe, President . p?astag: Premier StaunBassark and many mem10» Reichstag...
...Machines no longer enslave workers for a Socialist society is the master of the machines...
...V I--:?* • - - " ?• rm' If we walk through the plant we will not find him at work...
...The industry belongs to the Fat Man...
...Assets amounted to 45.4 schillings per head...
...In Latin-apse king countries ••verity against the State Church las generally followed a revolution...
...A profit tube leading from the machines and the workers carries a surplus of wealth from the great plant to him as the master of a great industrial enterprise...
...532 Raised for Miner, by The Amalgamated Houses The benefit concert of last week arranged by the Amalgamated Cooperative House for striking miners was a complets success...
...On August 19 the Spanish Government issued a decree prohibiting the sale, transfer, or mortgage rf church properties belonging to the Church or religious orders or Institutions, thereby tying up millions of pesetas in cash lying in banks all over Spain and making it impossible to dispose of the •hares in subways, railroads and utilities which are held by these institutions...
...Industry is no longer the private graft of a few exploiters...
...The reports from the federal provinces give a clear picture of how industry is being rubied...
...geiinauent will be attendof the Young Circle |k Chicago, Detroit, Gary, kj hKhanapolis, Cleveland ••••at fee i n c l u d i ng Jkb and admission to ses• f c 12.50...
...The Fat Man has disappeared from the picture...
...Max Raskin, Bt Milwaukee attorney...
...The Socialist ideal is presented as a contrast...
...It is a road strewn with difficulties...
...At the end of ISSO there were In Austria 88 national unions, 3,024 local branches and 655,204 trade union members...
...Bruening: Bovini is this respect alr hu <mh the municipeiiI aabpt drastic economies, to I half their budgetary exI iad to reduce the wages le functionaries, resulting Item of protests...
...in fact, 18.4 per cent of the total expenditure went to unemployment benefit...
...Of these latter, 513,087 ( 78.3 per cent) were men and 143,117 (21.7 per cent) women...
...Oraenatem...
...The machines and the raw materials are his...
...It requires education, organization, courage and solidarity by the working class...
Vol. 13 • August 1931 • No. 9
