Workers in Flight From Panics Must Now Fight For Freedom
Workers in Flight Froiji Panics Must Now Fight For Freedom ANOTHER dread winter approaches. Millions of toilers in industry and on the farms are like driftwood tossed by mighty waves. They are...
...How to escape the cruel rigors of winter is beginning to haunt them...
...The power that brutally treated the jobless in '93 and in '32 was simply the transformed voting power of millions of voters given to their enemies in elections...
...Workers in Flight Froiji Panics Must Now Fight For Freedom ANOTHER dread winter approaches...
...Over the mountains into the Ohio Valley came the outcasts of industry in the first two crises...
...Even the agriculture of the West which had been created by the fathers and grandfathers of the outcasts of '93 was prostra.e before the capitalism which had also spread over the new region...
...The two capitalist parties have ghastly records in their dealing with you...
...Both appeal for votes in support of a system that has pursued the working class for a century, that has robbed our fathers and their fathers and ourselves of a decent human existence...
...It presents Norman Thomas and James H. Maurer as torchbearcis lighting the way out of our Egyptian bondage...
...Cast it for Socialism and the emancipation of your class...
...Winter approaches and the Socialist Party, the party of these masses of the disinherited, raises the standard of political revolt against the parties that have brought ruin to us...
...Like their fathers of '93 they trek back to the jobless and homeless regions from which they emerged...
...The Democratic Party ruled at Washington...
...Herbert Hoover is the candidate of the party that in '32 drove the jobless out of Washington...
...The Great Collapse of 1929 Time passes and the most terrific industrial crash came in October, 1929...
...For the first time in our history the trek was from the West to the East, from the fertile valleys of the Ohio, the Mississippi, and the Great Plains to the East...
...Cast it for you and yours, the jobless, the hungry, the destitute, for whom winter yawns with its menace of further privation...
...In the West millions of the farmers are bankrupt...
...Its Officials met the vanguard of the jobless armies, threw We are blind if we do not begin now to face it —Dea Moines Register them into jail, and the rank and file shambled out of the nation's capital, disappearing into the jobless and homeless regions from which they had emerged...
...The Republican Party rules at Washington...
...It is time to end this folly...
...Many sons of millions who had fled westward in previous crises had become wage workers and the industrial blight extended from the Atlantic seaboard to the Pacific Ocean...
...Many thousands had not even a cart and carried their equipment and their babies, walking foot-sore over the rough roads into the * l l e y . There they i found a refuge against unemployment and hunger...
...The terrific crash of 18f>3, however, presented a marked contrail...
...Cast it against both your enemies...
...The great-grandsons of the men and women who had trekked into the West before the Civil War were caught in the terrible disaster...
...By 1857 the fight of the outcasts from Eastern capitalism took them into the Mississippi Valley and in the ensuing years they filled up the great spaces to the very foothills of the Rocky Mountains...
...By 1932 over 11,000,000 of them arc without work...
...How often must this terrible history l>e repeated before we learn that control of the governing jwwers is of vital concern to the laboring masses...
...In 1893-4 the working masses found themselves penned up in the capitalist system...
...So in three great industrial disasters the working masses fled westward and found relief...
...Both divisions of the labor army, working farmers and wage workers, are caught in the ruins of a paralyzed capitalism...
...It is time that we used our ballot power in support of our interests and for the welfare of all toilers...
...Jobless ex-soldiers trek into the nation's capital, a "petition in boots" like that of '93...
...We must fight not only hunger but also battle for shelter against the icy winds and «now within the next few months- Time was when the working masses found a refuge against industrial collapse, in the industrial crises of 1819, 1837 and 1857 tens of thousands of workers fled from the East into the West...
...There was no flight into the West...
...Winter, Job*, and Votes Workers of the nation: Winter is a terrible thing for those who are homeless, who are without jobs, who are without income...
...The March of Broken Men Men, women and children, members of broken families of workers, stocked carts with a few cooking Utensils and some bedding and made the weary trek into the wilderness...
...They want relief...
...Your ballot is the last thing many of you have...
...That was the problem of our barbarian anceitors who lived in caves many thousands of years ago What a fate to come to the working masses in the twentieth century...
...The outcasts of the newly settled region marched eastward to Washington as divisions of Coxey's ragged army of the unemployed...
...Their wretchedness is paraded before nice people, well-dressed, well-fed people...
...The Refuge of the Jobless Gone The working class no longer had a wilderness into which they could flee...
...The jobless are dispersed, their wretched shacks are put to the torch, and they flee before clouds of tear gas...
...They became farmers...
...The capitalist system is shaken by the severest convulsions in all its history...
...They are the victims of the malign collapse of an industrial system which they once thought to be a workable one...
...Detpoilers Appeal for Vote* Winter approaches and Franklin D. Roosevelt is a candidate of the party that in '93 drove the jobless out of Washington...
...The tragedy of '93 i9 repeated, this time with more ferocious brutality...
...In the West the yeomen of the soil vegetate in the desolation that capitalism has brought to the countryside...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 14
