A Socialist View of the Week

...a big drive against this revolting situation arid we are sure that they will rise to their responsibility...

...In other cities such "leaders" have been shown to be allies of capitalist politics and in turn have pocketed large sums for themselves...

...The comrades in that state should get the unions In line for...

...They possessed expensive cars and had large incomes but were caught in the meshes of Federal law because of violation of the Federal Income tax law...

...War is a merciless, brutal crime 1" Socialist Executive's Approach to Labor "TMIK National Executive Committee of * the Socialist Party has congratulated the American Federation of Labor for the more advanced position it has taken on unemployment Insurance, its opposition to the hypocritical "share work" plan, and some other decisions in keeping with the needs of the worl|ers...

...Our Absolute Third House THAT the bankers constitute a Third * House in the governing scheme Is obvious from a number of sources...

...Racket Politics and A "Moral" Reaction •"PHE trial of Patrick J. Commerford * of the Building Tradea Council and Tammany leader which we report on another page is giving publicity that means serious injury to organized workers in general...

...There is no legislative body to check its decisions and no such body to which it reports...

...Shout with voices eons may hear . . . may heed...

...The Fusionists DERIIAPK the flag under which the fusion forces .in the City of New York will march in the campaign next year will be the "City Party...

...If we do not lick the unemployment situation it is likely to lick us," he told his class...

...The "workers oppose any further reduction in wages snd the utmost they declare that they will concede is the extension of the 10 per cent wage reduction which expires on January 1. The railroads are top-heavy with the crimes of other years that run back te the Civil War when construction was a matter of glorified thieves who plundered and again plundered the companies...

...Pay cuts of women have been forced to new low levels and sweatshop owners of "gypsy" industries are taking advantage of the desperate needs of the women...

...Magazine articles in recent months have even shown that the "gypsy" sweaters have evfn obtained girls for as low as a dollar a week...

...It does not answer and it makes no recommendations...

...The Republican wing is practically certain to swing into line with Chairman Macy and former Governor Whitman who ia consulting the sages of the party as to their action...

...A Socialist View of the Week When Dead Men March By William Allen Ward WHEN deed men march, war lord, stand still and watch...

...The Chamber voted to defer payment until after a general settlement has been reached at a conference, probably one called by the debtor nations...

...Now the leading kingpin In this work yesrns for fusion in the name of "reform" next year...

...10) Miss Francis Perkins, New York...

...Not only have more than 110,000 railway workers lost their jobs in the last year, with several hundred thousand working only part time, but all industry has been sliding down hill...

...They were up to their ears in the politics of the Hague Democratic machine...

...Studies now in progress indicate the existence of conditions even more serious and growing steadily worse...

...This is usually the shop that runs away from the unionized cities to take advantage of non-union conditions...

...It refers to the "Communist Party's tactics of sending hecklers to rlvsl meetings to embarrass speaker- " The A. C. L. V. advises speakers to answer questions when asked, urges recognition ef the right of each group to occupy a designated corner free from interference, appointment of a committee to keep order, to avoid calling of the police and use of vituperation, and urging submission of any conflicts to sn impartial agency for arbitration...

...It is a legislature, executive, court and police power combined...

...They have sapped Germany of all that she could bear and they can get no more from that source...

...It may...

...The sages, to be sure, hsve often worked in harmony with the Tammany nobles but when there is a crusade-against sin even the sinner may seek purity in company with other purists...

...to say the least, disingenuous...

...Perhapa nothing could better aet in bold relief the fact that sach crusades have nothing in common with a working class movement...

...The Socialist movement ia not sectarian and to the extent that it can cooperate with organized workers It has done so and it will do so again...

...Men who felt a bullet bite along the bloody Marne...

...Let it be quite clear that railroad labor will not submit to such a program of national suicide...

...Reparations and The War Debts DREMIER HERRIQT falls in France * by a vote of 402 to 187 in the Chamber of Deputies on the matter cf debt payment to the United States...

...Great Britain has agreed to pay, Czechoslovakia and Latvia agree to pay installments due, but Belgium votes to default and the Cabinet resigned after taking this action...

...With them are sitting 1,600 chairmen of the unions aa "observers" who win keep the members bnck home informed of the proceedings...

...The Standard Oil executive became sentimental in presenting this method of bringing fully employed workers to' s level of part-time employment with a consequent reduction in wages...

...State Industrial Commissioner, reported that factory employment in the state had decreased in November 1 per cent In the adjoining column Walter C. Teagle of the Standard Oil Company reported that the "share work" plan is reducing unemployment...

...Ghoul with merciless soul, leave not your room...

...Belgium defaults on the ground that the Hoover moratorium and the later Lausanne accord deprived her of the reparations necessary to balance the budget...

...The drive for "share work" is to be carried to the department stores and the chain stores of New York City and the oil magnate expects to do the workers good...

...This Third House has no voting constituents...

...That body Investigated the matter and has made a report...

...It if' organizing in all boroughs to fight Tammany and the chairman of the central committee announces that it will nominate a complete municipal ticket...

...j New Jersey has had a bad dose of this and a year or two ago certain building trades leaders faced indictments of the same character...

...Such conditions are an abomination and we understand that Connecticut Socialists are aroused...

...Socialists will have an easy job in pointing thia out with men like Whitman nigh in the councils of the fusionists...

...When Governor of New York State more than fifteen years ago his record and that of hia party amaied even the most hardened reactionaries...

...A Dodging Report TOURING the recent political campaign meetings " of three opposition Communist organisations snd the two Socialist parties were physically assaulted by members of the Communist Party...

...Now Hague has turned sgslnit this tribe and is striking a "moral" pose against racketeering in the Jersey unions...

...The appalling downward spiral of the depression since last January baa demonstrated that we were right,'' says A. F. Whitney, chsirmsn of the Executives, Mora "Share Work" Urged by Oil Man IN one issue of the New York Times (Dec...

...TWs became such a scandal that some of the assaulted groups presented complaints to the American Civil Liberties Union...

...The fact is that the depression is ef such a destructive character that organizations of workers are now at stake...

...Socialists have been critical of the trade unions and when the latter move forward to more progressive policies our attitude should be as cordial as it Is critical when this advance is not made...

...The "Gypsy" Shop As Woman-Sweater II70MEN of the working class are re" pcrted as losing jobs faster than the men and certain industries are more intensely exploiting them, declares Mist Mary Anderson, chief of the Wcjmen'i Bureau of the Department of Labor, in her annual report...

...In Connecticut the "gypsy" or "runaway" shop has become numerous in recent years...

...He offers cooperation with the employing class agsinst the evil and there is likely to be a drive against unions in general as a result of Hague's public denunciations...

...The publicity In that case Injured the organized workers in general in New Jersey as tens of thousands who read the story of the trial must have concluded that unionism is Just a racket Incidentally, Mayor Hague of Jersey City had the support of the New Jersey leaders for years aad they wen Important cogs In the Democratic machine...

...We agree that many parasites are on the payrolls and should be removed, but when bankers can dictate on this matter they can also dictate on other important matters that a labor administration might desire to put over...

...The Third House is also supporting the "share work" crusade throughout the nation...

...He will—if you get what we mean...

...How do you like this Third House T Railroad Workers Facing a Struggle AS we go to press the Railway Execu*¦ tives' Association, representing twenty-one railroad unions, is conferring with the railroad masters...

...Poland ab>o defaults...

...Lsst Jsnuary when the workers accepted the wage reductions they declared that recovery could not be brought about* by reducing purchasing power...

...For deesdes it has been a custom of all radical groups to permit heckling and even to invite questions when the speaker Is through if they are not asked during the speech...

...Even if this share-poverty program —for that is what it means—is absorbing some jobless workers the report of Miss Perkins shows that in factory employment the situation was worse last month than the month before...

...In Detroit and other cities in recent years this Third House has ordered wage slashes that include the lower paid city workers...

...The appearance of ex-Governor Whitman In the fusion drama admirably depicts the Junker coloring of the fusion movement...

...Stand by your window aa the ghost band plays a dirge— Coward...

...The unemployment census in April, 1930, reported 668,<>G1 women out of work and the number has increased...

...Every similar case in the trade unions has shown similar reactionary views...

...The A. C L. V. has not acted on the real Issue ¦ubmitted to it What does it think of the use of physical force to break up meetings...

...They turned to the labor code of legislation that had been built up since the Civil War and ripped one item after another out of the statutes Socialists, trade unions, social settlements and other groups and organizations roared protests against the vandals, but the damage was done...

...The latter alternative would be welcome...

...Wizard finance and watered stock since that period have added to the problems...

...That is to say, by reducing the whole working class to a level of bare existence he and his class will be "earning better times...

...Does it mean repudiation all around...

...Will some Tammany leader strike a aimilar "moral" pose...

...To confine its rtport to this aspect of meeting that has been a matter of routine fomany years and that has rarely led te disorder fa...

...Now that the railroads feel the depression the owners seek to unload the results of their folly and greed upon the workers...

...The report does not ssy one wor' sbout the reel isHue raised by those who msde the complaints, that is, the use of physical violence by the party Communists against their opponents...

...They withhold loans to New York City till the Tammany rulers agree to certain economies...

...Uncle Sam is the usurer who demands his pound of flesh and if he does not get it his job of balancing the budget is also made the more difficult...

...They are taken on "trial" and as they are released other floaters are taken on under similar conditions...

...In the smaller cities are to be found many lessen desperately in need of work, and Miss Anderson reports that wages in the "gypsy" shops run .from $4 to $6 for a 48- and 60-hour week...

...It is also notorious that the Third House is dictating labor policies in many industries, ordering wage reductions...

...It is significant that the man involved is opposed to all progressive union views and policies...

...What the outcome will be in the next few weeks no one can tell, but payment in full of the debts is out of the picture...

...The complete text will be found on another page...

...It Is an upper chamber that is as absolute as the former Czar's imperial council and from its decrees there is no appeal to any court...

...And so the Allied statesmen and their heirs who made the peace, of abominations at the end of the World War are now facing the results...

...He believed in the "fundamental soundness of American institutions, businesa and political," but "we must take our coats off and earn better times...

...Come from your gravea and'march the halls of time...

...This matter came up in the recent A. F. of L. convention at Cincinnati when Delegate Fry gave some interesting details of the bankers exercising an overlordship in labor policy in many industries...

...That report, in our judgment, dodges the real issue involved in the complaints...

...We call upon all workingmen and working women by hand and brain to enlist actively in the defensive struggles of their class on the economic field and to join us in an aggressive political fight against both old parties of the employing classes through an independent political party of and for labor," the committee adds...