A Woman's Point of View
Klein, Getrude Weil
By Gertrude Wen Klein A Woman's Point of View HAVING emerged from the chattel era (as conquests of primitive warfare, woman was the first form of private property ever known); having emerged...
...HAS DONE AND IS STILL DOING...
...Schwab: "As a result ef the events ef the laat three weeks we believe that If the shipbuilder, ef the United States are to get a square deal, it will be necessary to stake a change on Nov...
...Nobody will blame us if we lift an eyebrow...
...And in Germany Socialist leaders have always urged unity upon a basis of trust and mutual respect...
...It was their rotten lies and thievery of funds that so hampered my defense that I was given a sentence of life imprisonment They are liars and thieves of the lowest sort "Send all your donations to the General Defense Committee, 666 West Lake Street, Chicago, Illinois, for they are the only ones defending us men...
...More important than the vote for individual candidates waa the straight vote of more than 18,600...
...tie disfranchised, imliecile-criminal "Are Women People...
...Mr...
...The party polled 61,186 votes ia Ohio...
...NEW HAVEN...
...Homer to the Newport News Shipbdilding Co...
...They have collected thousand of dollars in our names but not one cent have they expended in our defense...
...Even in the two Reichstag elections ef 1982, after the Communist dissentions had given Hitierism Its opportunity, the two proletarian psrties controlled s plurality of all votes cast The following table is significant: Nov...
...TO 8TEAL FUNDS DONATED TO DEFEND WORKING CLASS PRISONERS IS A BASE BETRAYAL OF THE WORK¦B8...
...Charles M Schwab...
...In Potter County 870...
...It was this bunch of Communist rascals thai caused my conviction...
...THIS THE LkD...
...Joseph Maasldda of Lynn surprised comrades in the 7th congressional district by polling 4,000 votes "Paul Wicks of Greenfield, running for Congress in-the 1st district, polled 2,876 votes...
...Kanawha County gives Thomas and Maurer 680...
...It is no secret in Germany and la informed circles anywhere else that the Socialists are anxious to see a reunion of all workers under the Red Flag, but that ths attitude of Communist Party leaders has made such a consummation thus far impossible...
...Ia 1028, 8,688...
...In the November issue of the "Worker's Defense" appears a lottery signed by-W...
...Here's Some Secret, Inside Stuff About Builders of Warships and the Neat War—And Roosevelt...
...The writer will personally acknowledge your contribution and see that the news of it reaches the Governor's ears...
...G. A Eddy, Governor Roosevelt aaid the letters were sent out without his knowledge and that hs would not have accepted the contributions...
...The average woman, if you venture to draw her down a strange path even conversationally, will present you with a cold shoulder for your pains...
...A. P. Homer, Director of the Marine Committee of the Finance .Division of the Democratic National Committee, to the builders of the nation's warships...
...And Governor—now Presidentelect—Roosevelt T What did he have to say about this...
...WORKERS EVERYWHERE ARE WARNED NOT» TO GIVE THE I. L. D. ANY MONEY FOR THE DEFENSE OF US MEN...
...From the very fragmentary reports received It is safe to predict that the Socialist vote of West Virginia increased 600 per cent...
...He is secretary of the Evarts Miners' Union, ami was the first miner to be given a life sentence...
...Any letters received will be read at the L L. D. convention and so the few honest members will be thwarted if they question the honesty of the ruling elique...
...Homer to Mr...
...The nation'a breeding machines might not be quite so amiable about supplying stalwart sons for cannon fodder if they were aware of the subtle maneuvers between the honorable gentlemen who solicit campaign funds and the honorable gentlemen who supply campaign funds and their connections with political favorites, corruption and war...
...It Thorn., it 12 Boston ______ 958 6,830 3,164 Cambridge 168 942 660 Lawrence____ 141 1,016 900 New Bedford...
...The vote this year smashes the Socialist record of 82,260 that Debs polled in 1920...
...In 1928 it was 48...
...Thomas and Maurer received S> 604 votes in Stark County, s gain of 1,000 per cent It was is Canton, county seat of Stark County, that Eugene V. Debs made the anti-war speech for which he wss sentenced to tea years in prison...
...As In all other countries the enemy fought by Communist leaders has been ths Socialists, net Capitalism or Fascism, with the inevitable result that a wedge has been driven between the two parties that has msds unity Impossible...
...Sen* a tor Fees' town, Yellow Springs, gsve 108 votes out ef 1,000...
...If you do, we will never get it...
...having emerged from the "home and mother" era...
...Socialist Party candidate for Board of Education, Mannington District, Marion County, received 729 votes out of less than 2,800...
...In answer to a letter of protest ssnt him by Mr...
...The weakness of the Communist Party has been in the fact that it contains a vast number of floating voters, who follow the Swastika of Hitler in one election and the Hammer and Sickle of Moscow four weeks later...
...There has not been a moment since the German Revolution when a unity of all revolutionary workers Upon S basis of mutual understanding and trust would not havs advanced the csuse enormously, it is no secret that if it had not been for the deliberate policy of the Communists to divide the workers and to foment distrust and dissentions the Hitler Fascist insanity could never have reached first base, snd s united proletarian movement could easily havs dominated Germany, snd thus altered ths history of ths past ton years for the benefit of workers everywhere...
...Snider for Governor 396...
...Some of them are...
...The great majority are not...
...These men have appealed for funds, and the various labor organizations throughout the country have responded, including the relief auxiliaries of the Socialist Party and the Young People's Socialist League.__,____ One of the organizations collecting funds for these miners is the International Labor Defense, the legal arm of the Communist Party...
...I k..ma...
...It is precisely these women who must somehow or other be reached...
...The vote for the candidate for Governor, A. B. Lewis, and other state officials ia approximately three-fourths of the presidential vote ; Candidates for Congress, the Legislature and other offices fared well, considering that this is the first year in a long time that Socialists have had so many candidates in the field...
...It Is apparent that if we are to have a TREATY 8TRRNGTII NAVY, we must have seme one other than a padlst In the White House, and as a treaty strength navy is of vital Importance to you Hhipbuilders, We believe that the best interests of the industry will be served by the election ef Governor Roosevelt who has fnll knowledge ef the navy's problems, having been Intimately acquainted with the troubles which casse from ¦sprepareslneas In the World War...
...Exposed as grafters and repudiated by every Harlan prisoneri the I. L. D. was forced to discontinue its open racketeering...
...Ism . .. if...
...His letter reads: "This comes from one of the Kentucky Miners and one of the defendants in the Harlan frameups...
...If, for instance, they could be made to understand the vicious forces behind the apparently honest and seemingly innocent process of electing a president— forces which are deliberately and cunningly paving the way for the next war—perhaps these women would about face, armed with a couple of hatchets a la Carrie Nation, or at least carrying some political dynamite for the ballot box...
...We beg you to read them carefully...
...It is to cover up the past and Present thefts of Harlan money that tba small gifts were sent to the prisoners...
...My dear Mr...
...Connecticut Adds 20,439 to Total NOKWALK, Conn.-The vote for Thorn aa and M surer was 20,439 as against 3,019 for Thomas in 1928, 10,066 for Debs in 1912 and 10,360 for Debs in 1920...
...GOOD VOTE IN OHIO CLEVELAND...
...All locals are now concentrating their activities on educational work...
...During the campaign new locals were organised is Danbury, Fairfield, Stratford, Milford, Branford, Berlin, Waterbury, Middletown, Vernon and Manchester, and more will be organised before the end of the year, largely because of the untiring efforts of the State Chairman, Martin Flunkett of Walling ford, and the State Organiser, Martin Rhodin of Meriden...
...We have no way of knowing whether the shipbuilders came through, but it is safe to assume they did...
...In Belmont County the vote wss 846...
...Here follows the reprint of a letter sent by the I. L. D. to H. M. Hightower, one of the prisoners, sending him a check for three dollars, in exchange for which he was asked to send s receipt in the form of a letter of greetings to the I. I,, l...
...AN IOWA VOTE FORT DODGE.—The Thomas vote here was 786...
...510 1,948 1,661 Holyoke_____ 139 1,130 1,100 Brockton____l^P 869 ____ Northampton...
...At the same time Loebe declined, on behalf of his party, to meet Chancellor Franc von Papen in a conference of party leaders on the ground that "the Chancellor's behavior throughout makes him impossible to deal with...
...We beg you to remember that warships are built to be used, that ammunition is manufactured to be used and that the building of warships and the manufacturing of ammunition is a mighty important factor in tipping the scales toward war...
...Yours for Truth and Honesty, W. B. Jones...
...Socialism, of course, is a completely foreign phenomenon which does not belong: in her world at all...
...having emerged from these dark ages into the light of supposedly independent adulthood, women, hy all rights, should be taking an intelligent interest in the world they live in and work in...
...1082 July 1982 Sept...
...In the "Worker's Defense," the official organ of the General Defense Committee, there appears in the October 3, issue, the following editorial: "For many months the I. L. D., which is the legal arm of the Communist Party, collected funds in the name of the Harlan Miners and used the money to support the Communist Party...
...convention...
...Thomas and Maurer received 82,808 votes according to the incomplete tabulation, compared with the vote of 6,262 is* 1928...
...By Gus Tyler Harlan Miners Warn Against I. L. D. "Relief" Fund Drives IN the jails of Harlan, Kentucky, are a hand of militant miners awaiting trial...
...Devere Allen for United States Senator received 19,761 votes in his first contest for public office...
...The Communists are again preparing to spread another bunch of lies so be on the lookout for that band of thieves...
...If she becomes wise that you are trying to get her into a political discussion, the job is twice as difficult...
...The strength of the Social Democracy has been the immovable und unshukable masses of organised trade unionists...
...Ralph S. Harlow, running for Congress in the 2nd congressional district led all other candidates, receiving 4,646 votes...
...The future belongs to Social- [ The next months will tell...
...B. Jones, one of the prisoners in Lexington County Jail, 113 East Short Street, Lexington, Kentucky...
...Funds supposedly for Kentucky were still collected by the I. L. D. by undercover methods...
...Thomas and Maursr received 15,400 votes ia Cuyahoga County (including Cleveland), nearly five times their 1928 vote...
...New Haven polled 2,980 votes as compared to 486 in 1928...
...Jasper McLevy, candidate for Governor, received 20,780 votes aa against his 1931 vote of 4,700 for the same office...
...If so, we ask that you beip as with a contribution to the campaign fund ef Governor Roosevelt who, as you knew, ia marineminded and hasn't the opinion that international affaire can be settled with a blue-print navy...
...It is ssfe to assume they came through to both parties so they could be in a position to exert pressure no matter who went into the White House...
...THE I. L. D. IS AN ORGANIZATION CONTROLLED BY THIEVES AND RACKETEERS...
...Help thess fighting miners I But watch out for ths Communists snd their subsidiaries...
...In respect to the funds that they collect the miners have a warning to issue...
...From the beginning of the German Communist movement at the Halle congress, when Gregory Zinoviev made a four-hour speech calling for an immediate violent revolution, Communist tactics have been designed solely to discredit, misrepresent and hamper the Socialists...
...Grace: "After what the present Incumbent of the White Roane did to the private shipyards on the destroyer matter I am sure you sre of the opinion that a change ia necessary If the shipbuilders are to get a square deal...
...Loebe, when he made that statement, had just come from an important Socialist Party meeting at which the necessity of the unity, of all the workers was emphasized by several responsible party leaders...
...Eugene G. Grace, Secretary of Bethlehem Steel, Oct 17, 1931 "Dear Mr...
...It is these women, because of their numerical strength and because of their strategical strength as wives and mothers, who must be educated out of their economic illiteracy and their political ignorance...
...American Socialists traveling in Germany have recognized Communist tactics as identical with those employed by the Union Square strategists, except that they are on a vaster Kale...
...The following table of larger cities of Massachusetts shows how the Socialist vote has increased: (ii...
...Bay State Scores 500 Per Cent Vote Gain BOSTON.—A 600 per cent jump in the Socialist vols in Massachusetts was revealed by incomplete tabulation of the votes cast in the recent election...
...the New York Shipbuilding Co., and ethers...
...Mr...
...B. I hope that yee are la accord with thie idea...
...122 485 ____ Springfield 258 1,953 1,469 Quincy______ 115 672 423 Lynn _______ 227 990 731 Worcester______ 1,236 ____ The vote in Haverhill was 338...
...Homer to Mr...
...Berkeley County 96 and 66...
...But read...
...For years the Socialists have sought to appeal over the heads of the irresponsible Communist leaders to the masses that follow them for unity...
...Of the total, 98 per cent were straight votes...
...Dear ladies, quoted here in the hope that they may rouse your fury, are letters sent by Mr...
...Unity of German Workers Is Urged by Socialist | JNITY of the German workers, ^ so passionately desired by Socialists everywhere, appears a step nearer with a recent statement by Paul Loebe, Socialist leader and for many years President of the Reichstag, insisting upon the necessity of a united proletarian front, including the masses who vote Communist...
...State-wide forums and classes in the Socialist philosophy, public speaking and organisation methods being planned for the winter months will enable the many new members to take an important part in future struggles on both the political and industrial fields...
...1980 Socialists and Communists______ 13,207,000 18,229,839 18,159,724 Hitler Fascists_________________ 11,70iVbW lu\7SI,7M MO1,0M Total, all parties_________ 86,000,000 40,000,000 84,948,460 Ths figures tell their own Story...
...West Virginia Does Watt STAR CITY.—Rldgeley precinct of Mineral County gives Thomas and Maurer 119 votes out of less than 700...
Vol. 14 • January 1932 • No. 21
