Vast Human Wreckage of Machine God Is a Call to Support Socialist Party
Vast Human Wreckage of Machine God Is a Call to Support Socialist Party rpEN days hence the political struggle will be over. To awakening masses of the workers it is no longer a question of...
...They have more and more displaced workers...
...These ten millions are only supplementary to what MUST be raised privately...
...Special Offer of THE NEW LEADER Expires On November the 15th...
...more food, more hunger...
...That is, the machine piles up a mountain of commodities but it consumes much less than the tvorker it displaces...
...more homes, more homeless...
...Some in New Jersey are paying employes in paper scrip and some are receiving notes to be paid out of future taxes...
...Its candidates for President and Vice-President, Norman Thomas and James H. Maurer, and its standard bearers for all other offices stress these basic causes of our misery...
...Hideous Products of Capitalism The machine, scientific management and consolidation of industry produce the millions of outcasts and make necessary the feeding of millions of workers and their families...
...rVUE warning is given that the special rata of one dollar per year for new subscribers to THE NEW LEADER regular 16-page weakly edition will expire on November IS...
...The number of destitute women tramping the streets is on the increase...
...Turn to the announcement on an inside page, fill out the blank, and send in your sub...
...Make it count for yourselves in a huge Socialist vote on November 81...
...When a few orders are received by idle plants the ballyhooers shout, "Prosperity around the corner...
...A survey of the crisis shows the appalling situation that confronts us...
...It does not cat, it does not sleep...
...It participates in no class struggle...
...A vote for the Democrats is a vote for the preservation of this thinq- A vote for the Republicans is a vote for the same tiling...
...Three "Hooverville" camps of rickety shacks are today the "homes" of outcast workers in the largest city in the world...
...It is not concerned with wages and profits...
...Consolidation of industries, scrapping old ones, and operating modern plants have eliminated other workers, including the "white-collar" men...
...Do not throw it away...
...Use that vote for ourselves and our families, It is all that some of us have left...
...To awakening masses of the workers it is no longer a question of putting some men in * office and putting others out It is a question as to whether the masses shall have power to take over the management of their own interests...
...It consumes some gas, some oil, some coal...
...A vote for the Socialist candidates is a vote against this thing and a vote for relief and final emancipation...
...They cannot buy because they have been ousted out of their places of work by the Machine God, the servant of its ruling class owners...
...Not only does the Machine God thrust millions into idleness...
...Whether Roosevelt goes to Washington or Hoover stays there, there isn't the slightest hope of staying the industrial disaster that has overwhelmed tens of millions of working class families...
...More production, less work...
...This special rata positively will not be renewed...
...The machine buys no flivvers, radios or houses...
...The Nation's Human Wreckage i Translate this vast human wreckage in the city and state into terms of population in other cities and states and xve have a picture of the ghastly human suffering that prevails throughout the republic...
...He must raise his children who also consume food, clothing and shelter...
...It consumes no clothing or shoes...
...It obeys the orders of its owners...
...These are the hideous products of capitalistic ownership of the machines and industry...
...This is one-third of the working population of the city...
...Its output undermines our own workers, the low-paid labor of peons, the wage laborers of Europe and the Chinese coolies...
...It can operate day and night, 24 hours per day...
...The machine does not complain against long hours...
...Moreover, a conservative estimate places the total number of jobless in the state at not less than 3,000,000 workers...
...It produces vastly more than the worker, and consumes but a tiny fraction of its product...
...Many cities and towns face bankruptcy and they have exhausted or nearly exhausted sources of relieving hunger...
...The cities sink info bankruptcy, foodstuffs rot in farming areas because it cannot be sold and because hungry workers cannot buy...
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...In many instances they have become almost automatic, j The machine does not receive wages...
...Many cities cannot pay salaries of their own employes...
...Back of it are the years of accumulating changes in industry that have thrown workers out oi employment...
...The Machine a Perfect Slave The machine works longer than the worker...
...the Machine God itself becomes idle because it has flooded the nation with vast quantities of commodities that workers cannot buy...
...The machine is the most perfect and the most productive slave in all history and it is the cheapest slave ever employed...
...Fundamental Stains in the Campaign Do we hear of issues in this campaign...
...Thousands of new subscriptions have been received at this special campaign rate...
...Here is the fundamental issue from which radiates all others stressed by the Socialist Party...
...The machine is indifferent to exploitation...
...The machine forces the wage worker out of the plan's of production and performs his work...
...They will not permit the jobless to enter industry...
...It runs when desired and stops when ordered...
...It does not organize and go on strike...
...Scientific management has reduced working forces and more intensely sapped th«: vitality of the workers...
...Then machines, machines, MACHINES...
...OBEY THAT IMPULSE...
...Machinery remains idle and the workers remain idle...
...Some 32,000 free or cheap beds are insufficient to meet pressing needs...
...Idle Machines and Idle Workers Throughout the nation it is a battle against hunger and cold- The capitalist owners of industry have loeked out over 11,000,000 workers...
...Vain hopel With grim irony the cartoonist portrays the mockery of this deceit on this page...
...The New York State Temporary Emergency Relief Administration reports that not less than 10 per cent of the state population depend on aid to prevent suffering and that $10,000,000 a month is needed for state relief...
...t * The machine consumes little while the worker must consume food, clothing and shelter...
...In New York City the number of the unemployed has increased from 300,000 in 1930 to 1,150.000-this ,year...
Vol. 14 • October 1932 • No. 18
