The World We live In
The World We live In A SOCIALIST VIEW OF THE WEEK fc«K»»*>w/l'« Blood Pressure Is High A8 the national campaign get* into full swing, a book appears describing a scientific apparatus called the...
...The strikers near Sioux City, Iowa, invited Senator Brookhart to speak on Wednesday...
...It ia claimed that it registers the changing blood pressure which is said to accompany tiring...
...Anderson attended the "anti-war congress" inspired by the Communists In Amsterdam...
...j act'on in the party and use the state organization as a base for ousting the national brokers of the party...
...He is unhappy but dumb...
...So here is a novelist with am eminent reputation who ia involved in absurd contradictions, who can support Foster for president and edit two papers for the two wings of capitalist politics...
...This position is an advance beyond that of 1920, when many unions in the middle states joined the Farmer-Labor party...
...and Pitta-burgh's stench serves as a substitute for the smoke that once signified a working capitalism...
...If there was something of vitality for the workers in this progressivism, one would expect it to make a sharp advance considering the depression...
...American workers have a higher standard of living, but they part with a larger percentage of the total values they produce than the coolie does...
...Railway workers have suffered a 40 per cent loss of employment and a majority of those still working have only part-time employment...
...Coolie Labor ami American Labor AMERICAN workers are the poorest paid ia the world...
...We believe it is the first time in a decade that the unions have declined to go into a conference on wage scales...
...I Swiss Guards Win In Wisconsin rw-vHE Progressive slate, headed by JL Governor LaFollette, has been defeated in Wisconsin in the heaviest primary vote polled in that state in years...
...In that pity, 36 indictments have been returned again-st big and' little "shots" in the political game and racket murders have stirred the county since last July...
...The total production of the coolie in a given time ia much smaller than the production of the American worker...
...That being true, we are ir-terested only in seeing that our pron-erty is "managed properly...
...Has Hoover anything new to say in the face of a still larger number of jobless workers...
...No other capitalist enterprise has the rotten history of looting and graft as toe railroads...
...and i the elate the Swiss Guards appear to ive rr jumed control...
...That fight la gathering under the banner of the Socialist party to put an end to capitalism and its servile parties...
...The World We live In A SOCIALIST VIEW OF THE WEEK fc«K»»*>w/l'« Blood Pressure Is High A8 the national campaign get* into full swing, a book appears describing a scientific apparatus called the "lie detector...
...The coolie gets a larger percentage of his smaller production and the American worker receives a smaller percentage of his greater production...
...New York City has a huge accumulation...
...Former Senator Reed of Missouri adds a touch of the comic to the two-party campaign...
...v Meantime Daniel J. Tobln heads the labor section of the Democrats and President Hutchinson of the Carpenters Is the labor advisor of the G...
...In em Minnesota area, the farmers armed with clubs and used wire cable, spiked machinery belts and stool girders to block highways...
...The fact 'is that many of them do not know where they are going, and they wander like a man who has lost his sight...
...But since Colonel Woods took command two years ago about two million more workers have joined the unemployed army...
...We bloated capitalists will not be that foolish, of oourse...
...That it has been defeated by the "stalwart" wing of the G. O. P. may indicate that this counter-reformatlo.i within the Republican party of that state is passing Into the shadows...
...We are sure that the device would have registered 100 per cent...
...and each would save It,In his own way...
...O. P. They still live in the Egyptian period of labor history...
...coolie is still a human energy producing unit, but human energy ia being rapidly replaced in this country by machine energy...
...We must "maintain the bedrock principle of our liberties by tie full mobilization of individual and local resources and responsibilities...
...If we have a savings account or an insurance policy, we are railroad magnates...
...What the next move of the masters will be ia a matter of conjecture...
...He was succeeded by Walter Glfford, who led the offensive in the winter of 1932...
...Railroad Labor Against Further Plucking riE railroad unions have declined to meet the railroad magnates to consider a wage cut and this refusal is significant...
...2,000,000 Farmers Catted to Strike THE farmers' strike has flared up again...
...It was only yesterday that he gilded capitalism as an enduring structure and promised a chicken in every pot...
...They are both tarred with the pltoh of capitalism...
...This is, I trust, the last winter of this great calamity,'' he continued...
...The .vorking class wastes time in atronUing such movements, as the .oilers' cause must be fought by the workers themselves...
...If Roosevelt succeeds Hoover, he will be as helpless as Hoover...
...Two years ago he commissioned Colonel Woods to slay the depression and a cheerio chorus was commissioned to broadcast the war against disaster...
...Either that or he does know that It Is dead and refuses to believe toe evidence...
...Final returns are not complete as this is written, but it appears that LaFollette has been defeated by a wide margin...
...Ere long we may expect a conference on conferences and a commission on commissioned commissions to , review the conferences and commissions he has called since his beloved capitalism plunged into the ditch...
...We cited the queer views of Lincoln Steffens...
...President Green later explained to the Federated Press that he does not think the time yet ripe for such a party, al thor^h at Newark he had explained that when the organized workers anywhere desired to establish a party of their own, such action would not ¦ conflict with federation policy...
...Of course, neither Roosevelt nor Hoover is "tainted...
...We should like to have tested the blood pressure of Franklin D. Roosevelt when he spoke in Salt Lake City last Saturday regarding the ownership of the railways...
...How come, you ask...
...If every professional politician were required to carry this apparatus be would register a high percentage of lieing, proving that falsehood is one of the great powers...
...Newton Baker succeeds him in time to hear Hoover deliver another speech...
...Sidelights on the Two-Party Campaign wt is rare that the parties ¦ of capitalism can carry on without bad odors rising from the decaying political garbage they heap up...
...When the "Chronicle" accepts both Hoover and Roosevelt, we may be sure that the sentiment is general among the fat boys...
...Roosevelt's blood pressure would probably Have burst the most powerful "lie detector" had some wag attached one to tilm when he made this speech...
...Capitalism is a Frankenstein monster that devours the working class...
...From every front cheer and hope was rationed, but capitalism continued to sink and Colonel Woods gave up...
...The railroad kings want to impose another wage reduction although toe 10 per cent reduction this year was to cease next January...
...Having done that, he can start Series Number Two of conferences and commissions and so on without end—unless capitalism itself is ended by its own follies and absurdities...
...Another Note on The Intellectuals IN commenting on the intellectuals who are supporting the Communist candidate for president, we said last week that "the intellectual may be qualified, but it does not follow that he is qualified because he is an intellectual...
...Nationally, the two parties are having difficulty raising campaign funds...
...It took 100,000 men twenty years * build one of the pyramids...
...The milk revolt near Memphis, Tenn, and Toledo, Ohio, has broken out near Vmcenaes, Ind, where three truck loads of milk were dumped on the highway...
...The Moscow Dally News of Sept...
...Hoover stands at the bier of his "rugged individualism" and does not recognize that a death has occurred...
...Matthew Josepheon said that the intellectuals were "going leftward...
...This is striking evidence of the cheapness of American labor compared with ancient slave labor and modern coolie labor...
...The difference in type of energy is evident from the following comparison...
...Both are agents of a bankrupt capitalism...
...A party of the working class faces a two-firm party of toe capitalist class, and it is toe laboring millions who must fight their way out of the depression...
...What is this but an unwitting admission that his "bedrock principle" of dealing with the depression has the substance of a bladder emptied of wind...
...American labor is cheaper than Chinese coolie labor...
...Now a citizen in the west has brought suit against him for failure to provide the chicken, which in that section costs only 19 cents...
...Yet despite a dawning hope upon the horizon, Individual need In the meantime may be greater than before...
...We own the railroads and we shall be taking them away from ourselves if they become collective property...
...We should see that "no man, woman or child shall go hungry or unsheltered through the approaching winter...
...So the candidate weat on to tell us what re should do as railroad magnates with our vast properties...
...We are sick and tired of hokum and hooey...
...not become a matter of benevolence on the part of a ' few men who would cure smallpox by whitewashing a pimple...
...He in turn surrendered his command...
...This included instruction of its delegates to the next convention of the A. F. of L. to support a similar resolution In that convention...
...So the issue is stated and the unions "stand pat...
...However, the corater-reformation never extended b yond the borders of the state...
...This makes the American worker cheaper than the coolie...
...Rarely have we had a more interesting bird in the house of the presidents than Hoover...
...Now we turn to Sherwood Anderson, the novelist...
...The Democratic candidate for president transformed all of us into ownerc of the railroads, including the ragged farmer and the jobless man in the breadline...
...Nothing new...
...Some Republicans charge Roosevelt with being "tainted with Socialism," and Reed answers that Hoover has established Socialism, a "capitalistic Socialism...
...Who wants to rob himself...
...Is it possible that the need of reMef may be greater than ever after two generals spent two years fighting the calamity and a third one ia ready to take up their work...
...What...
...President Gompers took the position Oat such action was la conflict with federation policy and In a telegram to William Mitch of the Indiana miners Gompers scored Mitch because of the miners' support of the F. I- P. The Green statement implies that the federation has" advance1, from the policy of prohibition to one of toleration, and that is something...
...Recently a handful of American laborers, working on the Mesabi range, moved a greater tonnage of ore in three weeks...
...It's all old stuff, the same old tune with toe same old wheezing accordion...
...So Socialism which but a few years ago was burled by the bourgeois politicians and editors comes back as a "taint" m this campaign...
...Hoover's Conferenees PRESIDENT HOOVER again came to the aid of the unemployed last week with another apeech and another conference, the third one since ' he began to speak and confer on the depression...
...5 reports Anderson urging at Amsterdam that writers should draw "closer to the working class and show "the way to a better future...
...The fat boys who underwrite the expenses of the two parties apparently take the view of the "Commercial and Financial Chronicle" of New York that "the country may with perfect confidence rest in security and peace no matter what the outcome of the November elections...
...In the invitation they state, "We have been keynote*, sour noted, radio keeked and Hoovertsed th a point where our families are ¦SMtorplvlleged, our schools menaced, and we frt- mere caretakers of the farms we live on at the mercy of a poHttcal-flnancial system which wants us to slop the hogs only for the benefit of eastern bankers and railroads...
...Brookhart himself was one of the Senate "agricultural bloc" in the years while »the farmers were being looted, and that group marketed much "hokum and hooey" in those years...
...Having put his auoienoe in a coma srith this premise, everything, else followed as a matter of course...
...On his arrival' in this country, Anderson said that he would return to his task in Virginia of editing two papers, one Democratic and the other Republican...
...The Drift Toward Labor Party Politics rn-iHE declaration of President Green of the A. F. of L. at the New Jersey Federation of Labor convention regarding politics was followed last week by the adoption by a unanimous vote of the United Textile Workers' convention in New York City of a resolution in 'avoi of tui independent party of the workers...
...The' way of each differs only in words, not in views...
...It is counter-reformation that LaFollette has stood for in Wisconsin, an attempt to oust the Swiss Guards of re1' seven days' news digested 1 and interpreted from the viewpoint of the Socialist , movement...
...It was this statement that brought the New Jersey delegates to their feet cheering...
...Technocracy, whose work we have considered in these columns, gives the answer that Socialists have given...
...Eleven states and 2,000,000 farmers are involved In this struggle to at least realize the cost of production on farm products...
...This also accounts for the spawning of our super-rich, the most intensive' exploiters of labor in all history...
...If Roosevelt ia paired with Hoover, there la no contrast...
Vol. 14 • September 1932 • No. 13
