A Socialist View of the Week
A Socialist View of the Week NO adequate figures of the Social let *™ vote are available for the present We have always had to wait weeks for the complete returns. Socialists used ta say that...
...The ruling classes will always be under the expense of maintaining two establishments till a Socialist movement menaces both...
...John A. Simpson, president of the Farmers' Union, declared thet the "farmers won a wonderful victory in the recent election...
...The Communists are credited with 16,410 votes and it is obvious that the returns for both parties now available will be increased...
...Capitalism may be satisfied, but the working class faces more torture and anxiety and we are confident that the will be aa much hated two years hence aa the G. 0. P. ia today...
...Thst approval was given but he wss forbidden to grant snother one without the consent of thst body...
...If the American stock ticker registered favorably to the election of Roosevelt, the same ia true of the exchanges in London, Paris and other capitals abroad...
...Fourteen years lster the capitalist statesmen are swestlng over that peaee and its aftermath, while Socialists look on with mixed feelings of humor and disgust, 11 ¦ 1 " i* A hundred yesrs hence our descendants will consider us and oof institutions with the same contempt we vouchsafe upon the Middle Ages^-Emlle Zola...
...The bureau then directs our attention to other phases of the industrial trend...
...With the election out of the way, France and Great Britain asked for reconsideration of war debt settlements and postponement of installments due on December 15...
...Bsch talks of the desirsbility of sealing down, but esch also wsnts the balance of power tipped in Its favor...
...If modification comes R will st least remove a red herring that for years has served political brokers In diverting attention from real issues...
...It Is reported that the Wisconsin Democracy plans to develop a "liberal" party to "take the steam out of the LaFollette group" and in New York Nicholas Murray Butler proposes to do the same thing for the G. 0. P. If these two trends develop on a national scale those near-Socialists who are also thinking of a "liberal" party will be facing an embarrassing situation...
...The future ia rife with Socialist opportunities...
...These problems received little attention by the candidates of the two capitalist parties...
...A. F. of L Convention To Face New Problems TpH k Convention of the American Fed* oration of Labor meets In Cincinnati on Monday and forecasts of the report of the Executive Council are interesting...
...modern farmers do not know this art and they helped to roll up majorities for the Roosevelt wing of capitalist politics...
...Some years ago Olson prosecuted and suppressed a number of papers under the notorious "gag law" and even the capitalist Chicago Tribune led in a fight against the law...
...On this matter there has arisen a dual authority which is in strange contrast with Woil's opposition to dual unionism...
...In Minnesota the Farmer-Labor Party appears to have gone the way of the "liberal" middle class parties...
...This came as a shock to many workers who had -hoped to make the F, L. P. an important section of a national Labor party...
...Organised early in the period of the post-war terror it had a definite Class character, but with success in the ensuing years it drifted from its original purposes and * Socialist Returns Sffl Uncertain...
...Labor Standards Lower As Production Rise* "¦'•illj monthly economic review of the * Labor Bureau, Inc., reports: "During the month ending August 15, 611 decreases in rates of wages and only 12 increases were reported for factory, organized workers and certain other groups of wage earners...
...The Cermsn turnip has been bled si most to the limit, so the victorious powers can expect little more financial blood from that source, but they also find it difficult to pay their debts to Uncle Sam, the world's grest usurer...
...For the first time in forty years the Democrats have a governor in Wisconsin and the LaFollette movement haa gone down in the wreckage...
...He had fat hand* and hi* stomach stuck out...
...Our Socialist comrades in that state should now turn to building their own party...
...He had donated to the community chest...
...The gain haa continued into October...
...His words were Icicles that broke A* be spoke of depression...
...Modern agriculture has sunk from its once high estate to the bottom of the social order...
...We produce wonderfully...
...A dual authority inside the Federation differs little from a dual federation itself...
...September figures show an average loss in workers' income of 17 per cent as compared with September, 1931...
...The suggestions again teach us that raising the red banner of Socialism and going direct to the working class are essentials to clarity and the growth of the Socialist Party...
...Private insurance should be barred...
...It observes an upward "movement of production and employment" and that "encouragement" is derived from the fact that "in 1930 and 1931" the trend was downward...
...must be paid snd, of course, our statesmen Insist Hi at Europe should pay...
...This background makes the annual convention of the National Farmers' Union meeting in Omaha this week of interest...
...Liberalism" Rises on Two Fronts as LaFolletism and F. L, P. Receive a Shock...
...Of the ten presidents of the United States from Washington to Taylor, seven were landed magnates served by Negro slaves...
...Bound up with this problem is the question of armaments and the capitaliat powers abroad cannot agree on this matter...
...The resurrection of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, Minnesota and a few other states shows the value to capitalist politics of having a aecond organisation into which discontent can flow...
...The F. L. P. now appears hopelessly mortgaged to the Democratic Party and next week we will run an article by a Minnesota Socialist showing what has happened to a once promising movement...
...returns for minor parties were fragmentary in many states...
...The sentiment against the old-time saloon, however, is so general that it isn't likely that it will come back...
...Soma aspects of the election are interesting...
...It report* a staggering 86 billion dollar loaa in wages this year end asserts that $500,000,000 for jobless relief la Inadequate...
...Hungry children meant little to him...
...When that time arrives they will find it aa easy to get together as they always have in localities where one is outvoted...
...If the F. L. P. had any basic labor objectives left and kept free of deals with capitalist parties in elections there would be some reason for Socialist cooperation with it...
...In fact, it ia in periods of vast dissatisfaction that the value of two parties of the capitalist class becomes evident...
...The proceedings next week will show to what extent the depression has fostered progressive ideas within the affiliated organizations...
...In September the number employed gained five per cent over August, while industrial production advanced 10 per cent...
...So long as the tillers of the soil airy themselves with a party of their exploiter* rather than with the workers of the cities, they can expect nothing but disappointment in their struggles...
...We must keep this In mind when report* of increased production and employment are made...
...They do not necessarily/ mean improved living condition* for the working class as a whole...
...It was "wonderful" as the farmers will discover before Roosevelt is in office, one year...
...Was that not enought The Chamber of Commerce of which Ae was director Named him on its committee to solve the unemployed problem...
...The major portion of these decreases—600—occurred in manufacturing plants...
...Each suspects the other snd rightly so...
...These factors are no longer true of the F. L. P. which has become a floor mop of the Democratic Party...
...let us take advantage of them...
...The present seasonal averages of production and employment are slightly more than normal...
...More complications...
...Part of the shrinkage in wages has been due to the curtailment in hours of employment" These figures show losses for the workers, a further decline of their living standards...
...Big Business Man By William Allen Ward uk talked in a brittle tone...
...Unemployment Insurance by each state will be urged, the fund* to be raised by a direst charge on industry, the worker* to be exempt from contributions to these funds...
...The dd landed magnates were class conscious snd knew how to obtain and use government power for their class...
...The organized working class of this country have exhausted old policies and a new orientation is made imperative > Farmers Anticipate Democratic Relief IT is difficult for moderns tb under* stand that agriculture was once an aristocratic occupation...
...If a new arrangement is nut made there ia a possibility of the debtors commuting that sum of all villainies in the capitalist code of morality—repudiate the debts and telling Uncle Sam to try to collect them...
...He said thst with respect to the war he wanted the same thing we did, a durable peace, but the difference between Woodrow and us was that he knew how to get it and we did not...
...Despite the Hoover moratorium of last yesr the full results of that action have not measured up to expectations...
...Great Britain declares thst if she is forced to pay $96,500,000 now she may have a setback that will plunge other nations deeper into the depression, and this is no Idle forecsst...
...The Democrats also control the legislature although a few sessions ago they had but two members in that body...
...That is to say, that while production and employment show tome gain* tkil it alto accompanied by a further decline of income for the worker...
...It doesn't even pay the farmer the costs of production and the farmer himself is a pariah in comparison with the former landed gentry...
...The burden of armaments Is sapping the resources of each, but each also regard* its own arms aa a "security" sgsinst others...
...COURTBEN years after the end of the World * War the great powers still face a financial mess with the British, French and Belgian governments pleading for an extenaion of time for payment of war debts...
...The report is said to favor economic planning to make more consuming power available and proposes the celling of an economic conference in which organized workers will be represented...
...1 The next, day he recommended to the board of hi* < Company, that one thousand Him be laid off...
...But there are still more complications to this world made safe for democracy...
...Meantime, those who think grog is the important thing are jubilant over the results...
...Debts, Grog, and Socialist Duty in the recent campaign Floyd B. Olson, its candidate for Governor, made a deal with the Democrats in support of Roosevelt...
...The Liberty Bonds sold to secure our liberty (take a look at that "liberty" now...
...Hoover hsd grsnted the moratorium of last yesr when Congress wss not in session, relying ¦pon It to spprove when it met...
...And so we understand how the world ha* been, made safe for democracy...
...we distribute abominably.- Victor Hugo...
...Hoover invites Roosevelt to a conference on these matters and the latter is "delighted to confer with him" but adds that "responsibility" rests with the Hoover Administration...
...Safe for Democracy...
...Some 800 delegates from 28 states are in session and while they are furious they appear to think that the Democracy will in some wsy raise them out of the ditch...
...A report from Washington on Tuesday by the Associated Press states that with 9,618 voting units missing Thomas and Maurer have 567,816 votes but even this report also states that the...
...At the A. P. of L. convention in 1917 Woodrow Wilson expressed his eontempt for all who did not follow him In the holy war...
...So the British, French and Belgians urge Uncle Sam to agree to some compromise snd hint thst If it is not forthcoming the financial and commercial prospects of Europe and the United States will become much worse than what they are...
...But Europe ia saying that she cannot pay and must have an extension of time and possibly even a new deal that will let her ofT for a smaller sum...
...The matter of non-partisan political action may come up because of the conflicts between recommendations of the Council and thu«e made by Matthew Woil's tariff lobby...
...Over s hundred drys la the present Congress have been defeated and an advertiser in the Mew York Times announces that preparations are being made for handling the best known brands of Bavarian beer "upon modification of the prohibition saws...
...The powers agreed last year to a sharp reduction in German reparations to svoid German bankruptcy, and the two actions have entirely altered the problems of government wsr debts...
...Hoover cannot grant a further extension of time without the eonsent of Congress and that body does not meet till December 5. The time for psyment Is due ten dsys later...
...The convention opposes cancellation of war debts and favors refinancing farm mortgage loans at reduced rates Of interest while Senator Thomas of Oklahoma declared that he would ask for an investigation of the high cost of farm machinery...
...Socialists used ta say that the Socialist returns come in by freight and this remain* true...
...They haunted Hoover and they will haunt Roosevelt...
Vol. 14 • January 1932 • No. 21
