New Leader
Debs, Eugene V.
The World We Live In A SOCIALIST VIEW OF THE WEEK Rootevelt Offers A Puzzle to farmer SHEA KINO to farmer* at Topeka on Wednesday, Governor Roosevelt ooaed tome wisdom on the farm problem....
...It pursues the ragged veterans with the malign Implication that they were the dwpes of criminals, when their only crime was that of being Jobless and hungry...
...What it is really all about is not clear...
...The emancipation of the organised working class from non partisan action will be a blow to the evils now being fought The Intelligentzia And the Working Class COMMUNISTS have annexed a group of artists, novelists, playwrights and others of the intelligentzia to support Foster and Ford...
...On the other hand, Davilla may have been getting ready to "fix" the election and has been forestalled...
...Moreover, why is it assumed that a novelist Is competent m the field of economic history, a playwright reliable la interpreting" the labor and revolutionary movements, and an artist or an associate editor of the "liberal" New Republic an adequate adviser In working class politics...
...There Is something la It to shut up the Jails, to do away with prostitution, to reduce crime and drunkenness, and wipe out forever the sweater and the slums, the beggars and the Idle rich, the useless fine ladies and lords, and make It posslsU far sober and willing woorkers to live healthy, happy sad honorable lives...
...President Green's declaration of the possibility of Independent party action at the New Jersey Federation convention last week brought a storm of applause...
...reorganisation or the agricultural credit system, and a lower rate of interest...
...Therefore, away with effete parliamentarism...
...That waa stupid and brutal enough, but all this Is followed by a publicity statement intended to give the Isspresston that these hungry and Jobless men had quite a percentage of criminals among them...
...One might as well assume that a physician hi also qualified as a ntltyMnn Pursuing Ragged Veterans PERHAPS the oM theory of the "natural rights sf man" Includes the right of any person to be a fool...
...In Chicago a mass meeting will be held in the Coliseum next month, presided over by John Fitzpatrick, president of the Chicago Federation of Labor...
...In one Instance the answer was, "It costs too much money...
...sound expansion of the currency...
...That official en Tnesday replied to Attorney General Mitchell, spokesman for the administration, and from the records of his department showed that of the MS arrested during the two aaoaths •f the bonus Invasion, only 12 were charged with offenses of a criminal character...
...The governors' program will accomplish nothing for the fanners, who should unite with the workers to build a Socialist civilization...
...Fanners have yet to understand that they are enmeshed In the colli of a merciless capitalist system, from which they cannot be released without destroying capitalism itself...
...Some time later we intend to give some attention to the intelligentzia In relation to the labor and revolutionary movements, but for the present we will be content with a few observations...
...Realizing that Hoover and his advisers had committed a political blunder in the first place, the statement published test Monday was released la the hope of removing the curse from the first'offense...
...Hoover sends a message to Chairman Sanders, of the Republican national committee, advising a stronger effort to state the "issues," Roosevelt la Jubilant, sad the Democrats In general are happy...
...Man MCriptt thai cannot be uaed will not to Mamad onlett return postage » melotad HtlMCBiPTION SATES...
...Naturally, the Bolshevik spook Is also dragged in far good measure...
...It is probable that the present ruling group feared the results of the coming October elections...
...However, the administration did not consider General Olassford, superintendent of Washington police...
...On Sunday, leaders of the holiday movement in 12 states will assemble in Sioux City and set up a strike program on a wider scale...
...We note that Lincoln Steffena heads this group...
...Less than two weeks later, Colonel Grove ousted Davila, but a few days later the latter recovered control and exiled Colonel Grove to Juan Fernandez Island...
...aid from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and "surplus control legislation" to "elevate the domestic price level of American products...
...Matthew Josephson announces this as a "move leftward among the Intellectuals ra America...
...Meantime the Stalhelm league of veterans through Its executive haa spoken frankly against the Reichstag ,"The past 14 years have proved that an independent responsible government cannot be obtained by elections," the statement said...
...Had the Republicans won, the O. O. P. would have forecast a triumph In November with little effort and the Democrats would ha\* said that Maine is not a barometer, which is true...
...and they often are...
...The political parties have had no hand in the affair...
...Whether new elections will provide a more workable Reichstag is something no one can predict...
...Mear.ttme picketing on many highvays continues, and Mllo Reno, president of the National Farmers' Holiday Association, Is reported as approving the governors' program...
...What is interesting is that the total vote cast is 22,000 larger than the vote cast In 1028 and nearly 100,000 greater than the vote cast two years ago...
...It appeared for a tfcme to be a deadlock between the Reicliatag and the government which might bring on a test of armed power, but the Reichstag finally gave way...
...Robert BmfchMML Five Full Pages of Socialist Campaign News Ih Thin Issue of The New Leader TBI NEW LSADKX, sn omclRl pubHMtton •! Um Socialist Party, tup psrU Um tiraggUa of um organlaec serum elate...
...Sanders Is "not greatly disturbed" and expects Hoover to hold on to his Job...
...On UM oth«> ii«nil It welcomea a varleta of opinior cnnrUtent with IU dec It ml purpow Contributor* IT* MSmtted not to wrttr on toUj oWhs of til* paper and not to utt Mad panell or red Ink...
...Vnotable Power in The Gorman Reich ONE of the...
...Hie Maine result, however, is not a forecast for November...
...The .fanner strikers urged an embargo on the marketing of ussmrprteed farm issducto...
...Last June President Monterb was overthrown and replaced by Davila, who had the support of Colonel Grove...
...We demand that this government march forward and act, not talk...
...i Tear n> Um TJaMt* Main « ' * Meaun Is Um Uwrted Sttlea »• <"> I Tew m raroitn Oaastrlee aa< Oaa»Sa M>** The point hi the* the intellectual may be qsnhfUd, but It does net fellow that he Is qualified because he Is an intellectual...
...It is said that 28 national unions are affected by this disease, and the campaign against it will include nation-wide radio broadcasts...
...The two go together...
...In a manifesto issued by army officers it Is asserted that 'It is useless to maintain further the Socialist government which, instead of keeping within' Its program, has merely returned to tbe practices of previous administrations.'* The officers will designate a group to assure "free and well organized elections in October...
...Rarely has there been such a shameful exhibition of brutality and cawardlee by high officials at Washington...
...Next week may give us more light Westchester Rally Saturday THOMAS, WALDMAN, SOLOMON, CLAES8EN8 AND LOCAL CANDIDATES SPEAK SATURDAY AT WESTCHESTER RALLY, WHITE PLAINS COUNTY CENTS*, 8 I'-M...
...Martin Van Buren was consul ered one of tbe cleverest politicians in stringing words together that appear to mean something and yet defying analysis...
...They are thinking In terms of votes next November, not hi terms of eqnHy towards distressed men who are JsMess through as fault of their own...
...This attitude was even more pronounced this week, when Speaker Goering, Fascist, ignored von Papen and put a Communist motion of no confidence in the government which was carried by an overwhelming majority...
...We do not know whether he excepted the period of Fall, Doheny, Sinclair, Denby and their ilk in this comparison because of tender regard for Hoover who sat in the Cabinet with name of these worthies, but General Olassford alas answered that "there was less crime In the District of Columbia during cither June or July than during the month of August, after the veterans had been evicted...
...Mitchell had declared that the bonus army had probably "brought into the city of Washington the largest aggregation of criminals that had ever assembled In the city at any one time...
...Roosevelt said that a farm program "must provide for the producer of staple surplus commodities such as wheat, cotton, com (in the form of hogs) and tobacco, a tariff benefit over world prices which is equivalent to the benefit given by the tariff to industrial products...
...had been made of the need of certain repairs, especially of the boiler...
...They Include Wilson, Debs, Lenin and even Mussolini...
...More later on this theme...
...If there Is any clear underlying thought in a man who will include such diverse men of such diverse thought, ranging from reaction to revolution, In his affections, we should like to know what It Is...
...Wherever this situation prevails in the unions, it will be found that there is an Intimate relation between the racketeer and capitalistic politics...
...Testimony thus far available shows that complaint...
...Thus spoke the cocky militarists who see "responsible government" in the use of the mailed fist...
...If this larger vote is generally polled in November, it will be the largest vote polled toi the post-war period...
...this was rejected by the gov •mors...
...Ekl Nock els, secretary of the federation, declares that tbe situation is serious in Chicago, where local union leaders and poMUciens have been murdered or kidnaped in the racketeering union war...
...This was a cowardly performance, for It means the mobilization of odsulsl prestige against a few thousand Jobless men who are scattered and who cannot consider formulation of an answer and obtain the same publicity for It...
...The first named union had complained that the boiler was unsafe and the boat itself had been sunk twice and swept by fire on two occasions...
...Fortunately, the answer of General Gteasford Is a sharp rap over the knuckles for these stupid politicians...
...Now Davila Is overthrown by General Bartoiorae Blanche with the aid of the chief of the air force...
...SIsmo esntrftsUonr lo not nniiirBs Monwnl um poi!«» 51 Tbt fnm Leader...
...Farmers who had that poured into their heads have seven weeks to puzzle over what it means...
...A huge mass of Information regarding this grave situation is being assembled In New York City and is being classified for some 20 broadcasts throughout the country...
...Socialtout are Utile concerned with the fate of either...
...The steamer was an old hulk built sn the 80s and many of the dead were members of ironworkers' and plumbers' unions...
...It will receive the support of every Socialist and progressive member...
...Out Again, In Again Drama in Chile THIS so-called Socialist regime in Chile, headed by Carlos Davila, has been ousted by a group of military officers...
...Ghastly Dividends For the Workers ALL indications, are that the destruction of the steamer Observation Met week by air-explosion that brought death to 08 workers and injured many more was due to Indifference to human life...
...They recommended tariff revision to "give equality of protection to agriculture...
...It Is not enough that these ragged veterans should be driven out of the city at the point of the bayonet, that they should be gassed and their encampments put to the torch...
...A sense of decency would have Impelled Intelligent men to regret having made a horrible and brutal blunder In Oils affair and to hope that silence would be suoceeded by obttvtoa, bat the Heaver coterie goes on to add malice to its folly...
...Had this boat been used for frequent slilnsaint of cattle we are sure more care would have been taken...
...After November 8 the "forgotten man" can forget it as an unsolved riddle together with the mystery, Who hit Bill Patterson" Elections in the State of Maine fTPHK Democrats have elected a govX ernor, two members of Congress out of three, and many county officials ha Maine...
...So far as working people are concerned, the Maine result means the shift of a section of voters from one wing of capitalist politics to the other...
...Governors Meet and Farmers Continue Strike NINE mid-western governors met in Sioux City, Iowa, last week to deliberate on the ruin of the farmers...
...War of A. F. of L. On Racketeers THE campaign of the A. F. of L. against the gangster and the racketeer in the trade unions has become extensive...
...If so, President Hoover and his advisers Insist on assertion of this right In their attitude towards the dispersal of the bonus army a few weeks ago...
...One turns to his autobiography and finds a collection of others of his heroes...
...A slight upward trend of prices a few weeks before election will help the Hoover firm and injure the Roosevelt firm of capitalism...
...seven days' news digested and interpreted from the viewpoint of the Socialist movement...
...On the contrary, the aevehst and playwright may be absurd In these other fields...
...Cattle may he marketed for profits, but the killing mt human beings may be risked, as a morgue stocked with mangled bedlea Is so saw oh labor power destroyed and the labor market always yields a plentiful stock...
...The politicians marched up the hill and marched down again...
...Thu differential bnacflt mint be so applied that the Increase ti farm Income, purchasing and debt-paying power will not stimulate further production...
...We shall not deny them the right to be fools, but even that does not require that they must also be malicious...
...That's all...
...They have vied with the Centrists (Catholic) in the demand to keep the Reichstag's powers, prestige and prerogatives intact...
...and the mercenary politician is in part the outcome of trade union failure to abandon political action within the parties of capitalism...
...Only one thing is dear: each group that has come into power in ChHe talks of its "Socialist" aims, but in each case it is also a military group that seises power...
...There is something in Socialism to kill Ignorance and to destroy vice...
...It was safer to risk the lives of working men, which ate becoming cheaper every day, and so labor again reaps a ghastly dividend in thai terrible disaster, which is listed second to the sinking of the steamer General Siocum in 1904...
...comic turns of politics in Germany is tfas role being played by the Hitlerites, who have assumed the position of protecting the parliameatary regime...
Vol. 14 • January 1932 • No. 12
