A Socialist View of the Week
The World We live In A Socialist View of the Week Hoover and Roosevelt in Final Pleas tor Charity While Hoover Distorts A mericanHistory in Hope of Saving Power and Pelf for the Grand Old...
...Wees after week those engaged in salvaging the human wreckage cry out that the job ia overwhelming, that more aid must be received because more victim...
...face destruction...
...Roosevelt in Boston the same night said nothing new and said nothing that would conflict with the Hoover fairy tale, Roosevelt consigned the hungry slaves of capitalism to "local, public and private charity" and Hoover also makes this a fundamental of bis "philosophy," One gets the impression that Roosevelt In Boston sensed what Hoover in New York was saying and had prepared an alibi...
...The Socialist Party indulges in no child's history and it wages its campaign for the abolition of the rystem that has brought so much misery to the working masses...
...Of capitalism and its governing apparatus Hoover said: "It is a system peculiar to the American people...
...Powderedwig aristocrats thought nothing of saying that the "wise and good and rich" should rule and that the franchise should be kept out of the hand* of those who had not accumulated a certain amount of property...
...Due to such a combination eight Laborites were ousted at Plymouth but the Labor Party vote increased...
...THE BALLOTS CAST FOR THOMAS AND MAURER AND FOR THE WHOLE SOCIALIST TICKET ARE BLOWS STRUCK FOR POWER, FOR GENUINE RELIEF, AND FOR AN ADVANCE TOWARDS THE CONQUEST OF THIS BANKRUPT CAPITALIST ORDER...
...It was the immediate post-war persecutions and internal strife with Bolshevism that brought about decline and every type of labor organization in the United States also declined...
...The assumption of equality of opportunity and the absence of class rule and distinctions in the Hoover address is amusing...
...The changed economic situation shows the impact it baa had on the disillusioned masses and it provides a fertile medium for Socialist education...
...It depends upon the conscious will of Socialists correlating with conditions favorable to our educational work...
...They were coming under the influence of the postwar "prosperity" illusions which Hoover capitalized in 1928...
...we have used it for those who live on our labor...
...This conception is false in every one of its contentions...
...The great weakness of the toilers is that they have no representation in the seats of governing power...
...Our Job is to roll up a huge vote for every Socialist on the ticket from Thomas and Maurer to the last man on the ballot...
...Hoover does not know that slave property ruled the republic in the last decade before the Civil War, including the Supreme Court which he was careful to vest with a halo on Monday night...
...No monarch in Europe today exercises the royal prerogative of the veto, but it survives in In' United States...
...Capitalism bad a golden calf on exhibition and it attracted general attention...
...But the changed situation should not be permitted to foster illusions in oar ranks...
...Hoover does not know that in the first eleven years of the republic the government was run by politicians representing mercantile and shipping capitalists of the North with important allies among the wealthier owners of slave property in the South...
...Neither revolutionary nor "moderate" programs appealed to the masses...
...The following oay it was reported that the visiting nurse service of the Henry Street Settlement was "fighting with its back to the wall" On the same day the Municipal Lodging House reported that it had to provide this year 1,300,000 free beds, an increase of 70 to 80 per cent...
...NO OTHER IS WORTH WHILE CASTINGI Vote Straight Socialist...
...It differs essentially from all others in the world...
...If the Hoover version of the governing structure is largely fiction the same may be said of others aspects of his "philosophy...
...Even the Jeffersonians avoided this stigma by calling themselves Republicans...
...Conservatives and Liberals combined in some cases and defeated the Laborites...
...In 1917 the Socialist Party took a course opposing the war that brought all the black forces "of reaction into the field against it...
...Last week Miss Grace Abbott, chief of the Children's Bureau of the Federal Labor Department, warned that the disaster menaces the public health, that the effort to protect the health of youth had never been so great as today...
...Once we had no votes and the property-owning classes naturally ruled...
...He does not know that the railroads allied with banks ruled at Washington in the era of good stealings that followed the death of Lincoln and through the two administrations of Grant To trace the dominion of other forms of property from those days to this hour wmild rennirA a tmnlr tttif...
...They rule because we have not used the franchise for our class...
...The ruling classes and their* dupes were possessed with reactionary delirium...
...As the campaign draws to a close, Will Rogers remarks: "That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super-nation...
...As other ruling parties have represented special economic groups and classes In the past so the Hoover and Roosevelt parties represent the heirs of those groups and classes today...
...As these panic cries ascend, Hooves declares that he has arrested the depression and Roosevelt pledges "pro* gressivee" in Massachusetts to work out a solution of the crisis...
...There are no fundamental differences...
...Hoover dot* not kno 10 it he is ignorant...
...AND THUS WE COME TO THE FINAL APPEAL OF THE SOCIALIST PARTY IN THIS NOTABLE CAMPAIGN STRUGGLE...
...The Depression And Party Bunk . , HPHE industrial depression is like i * flood which produces panic and cries are heard on all sides for help...
...Yea, depression and bunk...
...A few faint-hearted leaders left ns but the rank and file remained sound...
...Franklin D. Rooseevlt does not differ with Hoover in the letter's historical fiction...
...As a matter of fact, the reigning politicians so feared democracy in the first two decades of the republic that if one wanted to place a curse on a candidate for office it was sufficient to say that he was a "democrat...
...Banks, railroads, utilities, oil, steel, textiles and the great banks are represented by the two capitalist parties in the state legislatures and in Congress...
...The World We live In A Socialist View of the Week Hoover and Roosevelt in Final Pleas tor Charity While Hoover Distorts A mericanHistory in Hope of Saving Power and Pelf for the Grand Old Party IJOOVER in New York City Monday ** night presented a "philosophy" of American capitalism that belongs to the first-reader tales for children...
...One has only to read the social and economic historians to appreciate this childish perversion of American history...
...In fact, our membership became larger in 1919, the greatest in the party's history...
...So far as the governing structure is concerned it is more monarchist than most of modern Europe...
...Socialist warnings of an end to the illusions were of no avail...
...Workers mortgaged their wages in advance in Inst ailment buying and savings were invested in stocks...
...This is the ancient king's prerogative...
...The wage workers of these other nations are dependent upon a capitalist class for access to employment just as wage workers are here...
...In the capitalist system profit is prior to and •lore important than the Hfe or liberty of the worklngman.—Eugene V. Debs...
...m hnvp Mte>A enough evidence to show that Hoover either knows nothing or he conceal* everything regarding our hittory...
...The two tapltaliat parties were battling for the lame Iissue such parties have staged in this country, for "economy...
...That is the contrast of today with the past...
...Three-quarters of all the nets which are brought •very year before our courts have their origin, either directly or indirectly, in the present disorganized state of society with regard to the productipn and distribution of wealth—not in the perversity of human nature.—Kropotkin...
...There is little doubt that complete returns will show substantial gains •for the Labor Party which indicates that it is recovering its soul...
...Socialism is a plant that must be nursed and that requires Increasing organized activity of Socialists...
...Now we have the vote And those classes still rule...
...Our executive veto and Cabinet system are survivals of European ¦ mart ices which Europeans have been abandoning...
...In fact, competent expounders of the Constitution declare that it provides for an "elective monarchy...
...It is responsible to our elective king, not to Congress...
...Even our representative system of elections by plurality in tinglemember district* is old-luropean, while many other nation* have changed to the modern system of proportional representation...
...That is folly, for it leaves us with no public power in the period of the greatest disaster that has ever come to the toilers of this country...
...Meetings were broken up, publications were thrown out of the mails, members were arrested, some were indicted and received savage sentences...
...As the disaster spread like a disease from month to month and year to year interest in Socialist agitation revived and R has steadily increased, especially in the campaign that ia coming to a close...
...It is in theory still possessed by the monarch of Great Britain but no British king dared to ••xercise it for hundreds of years...
...Both are tarred with the same capitalistic pitch...
...Capitalist mastery of the powers of production and protected by governing agencies is t'-.e same here that it is in Europe and even in Japan...
...The campaigns of both parties are underwritten by the classes that live on the toil of the suffering farmers and workers...
...He has said similar things in this campaign...
...The idea of both is to tcss charity to the propertyless and jobless millions, telling them at the same time that capitalism is fundamentally sound although it is afflicted with a temporary sickness...
...The vote cast for Socialist candidates will show how many favor ditching both...
...In the latest issue of the London "Clarion" at hand Mac Donald is quoted aa rejecting the class struggle basis of the Labor and Socialist movement and here is the class antagonism at the very portals of the Tory ministry...
...Having done that, we must turn to the job of building a party of the laboring millions, educating and inspiring our members for the even greater teaks that lie ahead...
...While the jobless were assembling iLondon the cotton spinners of Lancashire to the number of 200,000 are again out on strike in opposition to a wage agreement providing for a wage reduction...
...And now let us turn to the task of the last few days of the campaign and make the most of It...
...This year marks an important turning point In its history and the election next Tuesday will no doubt register a very large increase in the vote of the party...
...Tory "Labor" Premier Faces Class Straggle H/ITH 20,000 unemployed workers ™ demonstrating in London in demands for relief we have a tragedy and a comedy...
...Our individualism departs from the individualism of Europe...
...It vests the President with three-fourts of the legislative power of the two houses of Congress when he exercises the veto...
...CAST THAT BALLOT...
...if he does know it ke markets misinformation...
...The end came in October, 1929, and yet a year or two almost passed before great masses became aware that this was no ordinary depression, that it was the greatest economic disaster in the history of the world...
...The institution of the Cabinet is more like the upper council of the king in the old days of regnant monarchy...
...Property is represented, not workers} as much represented as when the workers had no votes at all...
...the comedy is seen in a "Labor" Premier, J. Ramsay Mac Donald, at the head of a Tory Government facing the rise of the class he deserted...
...Had the post-war illusions continued into the present period the Socialist Party would have continued to battle against a tremendous disadvantage and could have expected to make Httle headway...
...Lodging bouses are overcrowded and the plight of home - less women is pitiful...
...It is an American s' Hem...
...over last year...
...He assumes that the social, political and economic order has been democratic since its beginning...
...A referendum ballot was being taken when on Tuesday elections occurred in 300 cities and towns and early returns show gains by the Labor Party...
...The growth of the movement is not an automatic one...
...plKTKKN years of the history of the Socialist " Party have been crowded with important events...
...The tragedy lies In the desperate situation of the jobless workers...
...In many other nations it is responsible to and can ke discharged by narliament...
Vol. 14 • November 1932 • No. 19
