Solomon Raps Attempt to Put Over Sales tax
Working Women, Awake; Join With Us In Fight Against Hunger, for Freedom By ESTHER FRIEDMAN WORKING WOMEN OF NEW YORK: Your rent Is due every first ol the month. If present...
...Breadline* for workers...
...Who can tell who's next ? The Socialist party is the partj of the working class...
...Families are separatee...
...Walker might be any Mrs...
...The law does not protect you ir this tragic plight...
...Your home may be broken up...
...Another national hero Is made...
...I say undeservedly, because so many other people did the work for me (particularly my co-workers in the Amalgamated), that I felt It was Just handed to me...
...If yov don't listen today, tomorrow you may go mad with grief...
...Renew Prize-Winning Subs...
...They found over eleven billions to finance a war to kill Germans, became they wanted to kill Germans...
...And we might never have known what Mrs...
...They will find all the cash they want to kill Japanese and Russians, because Japanese capitalists want to wrest profits from China that our capitalists want...
...Good for nothing—except tc line their own pockets and pas* "good" laws for the owning class which owns both parties...
...In a crisis, they are priceless...
...Last year, at about this time, I was returning from a European trip which I so undeservedly but so very gratefully won In The New Leader contest...
...Whose ever idea it was, it was a good one, only a little too late for Jimmy to benefit from it...
...landlordism li bad...
...Come to our meetings...
...If he could have called that off, he might have gotten by with or without the wife's picture...
...It receive* nothing from and owes nothing tc the owning class...
...Thousand...
...On the one hand thousands of vacant apartments...
...All at once - where we had become accustomed to fancy scenic backgrounds - we were greeted with the mayor's wife smiling toothfully Into the camera...
...On them falls the task of supplying the aura of respectability to their politician husbands...
...Personally, I never did think Norman's pictures did him Justice, except the one In the Ice-cream pants which Sam has been running on the back page of The Leader...
...Build Houses to IJve In Over 500,000 people live In rot ten, disease and vice-breeding tene ments on the East Side alone...
...fiAi what you will, women have their place In politics, ij I'm not talking about those women who stick their noses into everything, like- well, like me for instance' (I'm a self-invited guest conductor, In case nobody else tells you...
...With the women's votes, we could put II over and make a new world...
...And sure enough, she reminds somebody either of Aunt Sal, or the grocery lady, or the next door neighbor, or even the old ball-and-chain herself...
...Other politicians get away with it...
...Then we will find mo.iey to kill unemployment, to kill low wages, landlordism, war and the whole profit system—instead of to kill fellow workers...
...Not that Walker had done anything which any other old-party politician has not done...
...What Are They Good For...
...One thing more, and my reason for occupying this column stands revealed...
...We are good men...
...When we women decide we want no more wars, 4|»presslons and broken homes, we shall abolish them...
...Theei houses should be built by the community at...
...we build our schools bridges, tunnels, the Panamt Canal, playgrounds, golf courses etc...
...Look around you, mothers of children Among your own relatives anc friends, hearts, hopes and home...
...And not to loaf . . . oh, no...
...But there bad to be a goat...
...When has a people ever before been afflicted with such a calloused, stupid and corrupt officialdom as the two old parties present *-*dayT Yes, slater, listen to us...
...Walker's unexpected debut in the prebs, during Mr...
...at least 100,000 families ir New York City live on charity's crumbs...
...1 mean the wife of the exlate-mayor...
...YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT < All TAI.INM, A NO A WORLD OF PEACE AND PLENTY—SOCIALIBM—TO WIN...
...Socialism will de stroy the home...
...you should ask...
...Grown sated with bathing beauties, movie actresses, channel swimers and prize winners of one sort or another, we could not quite rise to the tamer fare of Jimmle and his comfortable wife beaming trustfully at each other...
...Walker...
...In the past, the old parties have found the way to finance big thlngi —though not for you . . . They find one billion each year to finance the army and navy, because they want an army and navy...
...The One Best Bet No politician, made or on the make, should overlook his best bet- the wife doubling with him in the newspaper pictures...
...Still they ballyhoo: "Vote for us...
...If present conditions continue, how will you pay it ? How will you keep the roof ovei your children's heads...
...Norman Thomas, she says, Is the only one of the presidential nominees who has sex appeal, photographically speaking...
...It's bad because the landlord lives by owning wealth others produced and by extracting profits for its use...
...That and the depression...
...Walker's short period of labor as a mayor...
...Only this: Billions for hankers...
...are broken and ruined...
...And talking about pictures In the papers, reminds ms of the article pointed out to me by Sam Friedman, who has been assistant-editoring on the New Leader the past several weeks (didn't you know...
...Smith always at his side, giving everyone the feeling that they are so "folkscy...
...Part of Al Smith's charm Is the Inevitable Mrs...
...Housing is the special theme ol this message to you...
...Think of the folly and tragedy of capitalism...
...THE CHATTERNOX Wily Politicians Gotta Be Careful of Window-dressing...
...Now a lot Of people have been saying that all these subscriptions were Just a personal gesture with all my subscribers, that they don't read the paper and won't renew their subscriptions...
...Just in order to itork harder for the Socialist movement What with committees, canvassing, writing, outdoor and indoor, and other exhausting incidents of the most vigorous campaign in years, the colyumncondut tor hat invited a number of "guest-conductors" to fill this spate for him I his week it's Gertrude Weil Klein, long a talented contributor to this paper and to others...
...Walker looked like...
...Al Smith might be Mrs...
...But it gives the landlord the right to throw you and your family out on the street if you cannot pay...
...Even such ladies are essential...
...By Gertrude Weil Klein J SAMUEL A. DEIUTT, who has been conducting his weekly column, "The Chatterbox!' without pause, let or hindrance {or diminution of brilliance) for over tight years, says he's gotta have a vacation...
...JOIN US NOW...
...To accomplish this we must get together, organize, educate and make the Socialist party the power in a government serving the working class...
...of families in this richest city ii the world are doubling up wltr relatives...
...This was Jlmmle's fatal error...
...The Folly of "Great Minds" If a mother ran her household t- such an insane and inhuman way, she would land in a padded cell...
...In no country In Europe does the worker pay so large a share of his wages to the landlord as here...
...Of course we think It's dumb of them, but since they are that way, maybe we ought to do something about It...
...This woulc at once stimulate steel, lumber brick and other Industries...
...Being a practical woman, yoi ask, "How will we get the money?' We answer: "Where there's a will there's a way...
...But, it's an idea...
...It clearly points the way oul of the capitalistic plague of depression...
...I'm talking about nice, retired women like the exwife of the late mayor...
...There are 11,000,000 worker* idle...
...I know that if I had written things they would have read them...
...At the end of three years of industrial breakdown, hunger, dispossess and degradation face us...
...And these same "good" men ane their parrots have warned yoi these many years, "Don't listen t< those radicals...
...If things had gone along In the same high, wide and handsome fashion, with those on top sitting pretty and enough crumbs trickling through to those below to keep them satisfied, we might never have bad the Seabury Investigation and its attendant embarrassment to Walker...
...Smith of any town, village or city In the country, Just as Mrs...
...Well, I can't swear about their reading the paper (though they're missing more than they can afford to If they don't...
...Starting almost anywhere, we can assemble a most devastating...
...Good for what...
...gallery of male handsomeness and sex appeal...
...This program provides, among other things, for useful, necessarj work at decent wages and shortei hours, and eventual abolition ol the whole profit system...
...The nearer to the scrub pail the big men's wives look, the better the unconscious proletariat likes it...
...Our granaries are bursting with wheat and millions have nol enough to eat...
...because In these hard times fathers of families, thrown out of worl t! nough no fault of their own, can not meet the rent...
...We Socialisl women want houses built to live In, not to provide profits for land lords...
...Yet the Hoovers and Roosevelts are "great" minds, and are given office and power to continue this madness and inhumanity In our social household...
...The more houses he owns, the greater his income and the more luxuriously he and his family live...
...Therefore, Its program is honest and constructive...
...I know they expressed their disappointment and surprise over and over again at my failure...
...Pul them down and build new, modern well-equipped dwellings...
...Henry Dubb picks up the paper and says, "Hey, who does she remind you of...
...But as things were, there was no chance...
...another 100,000 families live on starvation fare...
...They found three billions in this year of depression to help the poor rich bankers because they want to help the poor rich bankers...
...His pictures should be displayed as prominently and frequently as possible, she says, wherever the ladies are likely to gather...
...James J. Walker, the wife of the man who was the latest Mayor of New York City...
...Bring your growing boys and girls to our Sunday schools and to the Young People's Socialist League...
...on the other, homeless families...
...But when a person (CMltaa** P»t« ItaMS...
...Why, Mrs...
...r— We Got 'Km, Too Of course, we all look forward to the day when women won't be swayed by a handsome fact or an Infectious smile...
...Now, now, I mean Mrs...
...tVe need you and you need us...
...And there you are...
...Watch for next week's . and who knows who's next after that!' EDI I OR...
...What do the Democratic and Republican parties offer...
...Oh, yeah...
...So we witnessed Mrs...
...but he remains as useless socially He takes from society—he gives nothing...
...In which a prominent woman Journalist says that the Socialists don't exploit the pictorial potentialities of their presidential candidate...
Vol. 14 • January 1932 • No. 12
