Lack of the Will to Win Alone Keeps Workers From Power

Lack of the Will to Win Alone Keeps Workers From Power No Hope For Jobless Masses jn the 'Revivalist9Spells of Hoover 98 Conferees or Blue Book Boosting of New York's "Leading Citizens" their...

...No hope may be expected by the working masses from any activities of that crowd...
...The laboring millions must fight their way out of the" social pit into which they have been plunged by the breakdown of capitalism...
...The less work they have means another reduction in Wages, as there is no proposal to pay the same wages for the shorter hours worked...
...During the years of Jim's roosting at City Hall, the pickings of the Tammany yeggs have been richer than at any time since the ttfgn of the Forty Thieves...
...whether Seabury goes in or a reform goo-goo wields the Mayor's gavel...
...Each book contains ten tickets and Oftch ticketjs good for three meals and a night's lodging...
...He is—as safe as Hoover is...
...Only Socialist Program Can Frty Labor first they make you jobless...
...What is proposed is that workers still at work shall work less time...
...Such masked "relief" is an abomination and a fraud...
...MAUHEH AND FOR EVERY OTHER roiM.IIHKAHEK ON THE SOCIALIST TICKET IS THE DUTY OF ALL IN THESE DARK DAYS OF UPPER CLASS EMPTY POLITICIANS AND THE DRIVEL OF OUR BOURBON HUSlNf VS KINGS...
...It is typical of the capitalistic crowd which rules the United States...
...This Cinderella of a Vermont cabbage patch assures us tliat Hoover should be re-elected for "what he has done and what he has prevented...
...Neither the reigning business kings nor their political retainers, whether they bear the Republican, Democratic, or Reform libel, will serve'the jobless...
...The Socialist program means the emancipation of labor and the banishment of the economic hell that is now our lot...
...We haw the numbers, and if we have the will we can take over" the governing powarst The Socialist Party brings this idea of self'reliance and hope and a tviU to power to the xvorking masses of the nation...
...Now he is asked to spread misery among his fellow-toilers...
...The Jobless are to be given, "Little Blue Books...
...The program of so-called "spreading of jobs" is in the hands of a high noble of the Standard Oil Company...
...We Socialists are concerned with winning power for the workers, for those who are jobless, for those who have a slender hold on jobs, and for the working masses as a whole...
...whether Hoover returns or Roosevelt succeed* him, it is all the same to us, the workers...
...We, the working masses, live in the lower reaches of society...
...Winning Power for the Workers m As fhis is written, we do hot know and we do not care...
...But in addition to spreading misery, this me tin xl tends to shift even the present forms of inadequate relief from government and private agencies to the backs of the workers themselves...
...Its tariff will affect various types of American exports, some prohibitively...
...The announcement Itates that this is a campaign against begging...
...Bernard M. Baruch of the financial nobility declares that Franklin D. Roosevelt is "sound...
...He is all sound and nothing else...
...They must also place the stigma of "panhandler" and W*War" M&mwktt* ore unemployed through no fault of their own...
...If he is trying to be funny, it is like cracking a joke at a train wreck where human lie ings lie mangled fn the debris...
...Their hours may be even less than Ibe hotir3 worked by the other workers...
...Calvin Coolidge pipes a tune for Hoover in the Saturday Evening Post...
...Jobless workers will be taken on in proportion to the shorter hours worked by those who have jobs...
...Those who have jobs Have had their wages cut, some of them two tnd three times in the past three years...
...The total purchasing power will not be increased one cent throughout the nation...
...at home closed plants leave him outcast...
...Whether Walker stays out or returns...
...Will Walker run again...
...It is a drive against "panhandlers...
...Funny As a Crutch'* In imagination we look over the sea* of starvelings throughout the republic and wonder what Cat means...
...Germany is the latest nation to strike back...
...Will Seabury run...
...A STRAIGHT SOCIALIST VOTE FOR NORMAN THOMAS AND JAMES II...
...Since the end of the Civil War, they have urged high duties toj protect the American workers from the "pauper labor of Europe...
...Meantime the tariff policy of our kings of oil, steel and other commodities Continues to make the depression worse...
...Will the reformers and Republicans fuse on a candidate to "clean Up" the city...
...Spreading Misery The jobless who are taken on will not work full time...
...In the, modern period they have been exporting their factories to Europe |nd have been exploiting the European workers in their own countries 1 The v. S. worker can't picket in Europe...
...To tome extent our ruling business magnates escape the reaction by building plants behind the tariff walls abroad...
...So it is not enough that the ruling classes have failed to keep their jgploiting system going...
...Its one contribution to the issue of unemployment, if carried out, will not help the jobless millions...
...s This may be spreading jobs, but it also means spreading misery...
...We agree...
...Democrats' 'Reforms9 and Republicans9 'Clean-Ups9 Have No Meaning For the Workers...
...What is done outside the range of working class political action is no concern of ours...
...In New York City, "leading citizens" have adopted another method...
...The candidate is declared to be safe for "business interests...
...In the City of New York, Jinimie Walker resigns ; and the brokers of the two capitalist partie» wonder what effect this act will have on state and national politics...
...The general situation ivill not be helped...
...then they call you panhandlers And what of the politics of these stupid masters of our economic life...
...1 Big-wigs of the Stock Exchange are back of the campaign against the "panhandlers...
...Lack of the Will to Win Alone Keeps Workers From Power No Hope For Jobless Masses jn the 'Revivalist9Spells of Hoover 98 Conferees or Blue Book Boosting of New York's "Leading Citizens" their way of ''spreading jobs" . means spreading misery as well "lu^THILE President Hoover's collection of * capitalist magnates gathered in Washington to deliberate on measures helpful to their class, the pillars of capitalism continued to sag...
...This policy is an interesting evolution of «ie tarjffites...

Vol. 14 • September 1931 • No. 11


 
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