A Socialist View of the Week
A Socialist View of the Week Political Confusion like Roaring Forties THIRD party movement! are a* thick X as Mm, Coin Harvey last year founded the Liberty Party and in a few months the money...
...The Democrats once believed that such nursing was an unforgivable sin...
...Carlos Ibanez, former dictator, returned from his exile on July 6, declared that he was not looking for honoca and advised all citizens to put aside personal ambitions...
...Chile and Peru In Upheaval rE revolution in Chile remind* one of the stories of O. Henry regarding Latin-American revolutions...
...The jobless army numbers at least 10,000,000 and more are signing under the ragged banner...
...are a* thick X as Mm, Coin Harvey last year founded the Liberty Party and in a few months the money faddists war* split...
...Nordskog, his running mate, left the...
...Throughout this region Republican majorities have generally ranged from 60 to 90 per cent of the vote cast and with few exceptions this has continued since the Civil War...
...New York Times, "or has it been offered sufficient Inducement on the other to impel it to break it* habit of voting Republican and call for a new deal...
...The rebels are said to have occupied the city which in turn was taken by Peruvian regulars and bombing planes...
...At the Vancouver convention of the A. F. of L. there was a strong group of delegates supporting unemployment Insurance...
...Of course, It Is useless to argue with a scamp who makes such wild statements' but so much of this la coming from the Communist camp that it Is obvious it has descended to the gutter...
...Republicans hope for a break in the market upward and Democrats pin their hopes on continued stagnation...
...The total of loans proposed for the states ($300,000,000) would average a little over, $6,000,000 to each state and this sum la ridiculous considering the vast extent of unemployment...
...The Federal and State sovereignties under the Constitution give some color to this contention but it Is repudiation just the same for the states to hide behind this fact...
...Last week a German court was startled to learn that Hitler's storm troops were also acting as an auxiliary "border guard" to the Keischwehr, Germany's official defense army, and that this is done with the understanding of the Keischwehr Ministers...
...It is a period of confusion like the ; Roaring Forties when Mormonism...
...In New York State factory jobs decline 24 per cent this year, June showing the sharpest drop on record, while the payrolls decline 5 per cent...
...The local forms of relief are also "doles...
...The appeal to Congress is for a Federal "dole" and means nothing else...
...Perhaps, but our American politicians have for decades assumed that this matter of debts repudiated by state governments Is m affair of the Federal Government...
...Brokers Gambling on The Farmer Vote WILL the con and wheat belts support Hoover, or Roosevelt...
...All over the West Harvey's text I book on the "money subject" is a good seller and Populism promises to gather ¦ in a good number of distressed but illinformed voters...
...Sadist Communism NEVER has there been such i. barrage of sadist falsehoods from the Ctmmunlst camp as in this campaign...
...Fate of the Jobless , At Washington EXERCISING the ancient king's right of veto President Hoover has turned 1 down the Federal relief bill after the two houses have spent two months in getting it into shape...
...Father Cox with bis blue shirts are yet to be placed and it is sr.ld that Coin Harvey and Father Cox will march ] under one banner as a Jobless Liberty ; party...
...Some Germans consider this a hint of declaring "a state of emergency...
...Mobilised as a great Socialist army, ballot-armed and marching' on the-seats of governing power in November, the masses can effect the social revolution that will end the frightful uncertainties and sufferings associated with a rotten capitalist system...
...The Baron declared that the withdrawal of permission to wear uniforms would not be effectual, but that the government would "consider other measures...
...The situation Is not only worse than when the Vancouver convention met but It is agreed that it win be still worse next winter...
...There are times when fundamentals must be stressed more than ; ever and this is one of them...
...Do Communists really believe that they can make much headway with this Bort of thing...
...AU of which is true but It also applies to the G. O. P. which has nursed tts own capitalist babies with a tariff bottle since the days of the Civil War...
...We select one paragraph as an ex- 1 ample of the style in buncombe for 1932...
...The T|mes writer suggests that the repudiated bonds might be considered in liquidation of the British war debt...
...There was a ten-hour fight between the masses in the commercial centre of Trujillo and alleged Communists and Apristaa...
...Meantime the "Socialist" government Is consolidating its power under Carlos Davila as Acting President iukI is taking strong measures against any further attempts of Senor Ibanez...
...Miners' families starving in all coal areas, dosed with tear gas in West Virginia, their leaders framed for the penitentiary in Kentucky, thousands marching on the capital of Illinois in protest against a basic wage scale, and militia in Ohio answering the strikers with rifles...
...The Two-Party Nursery ] SECRETARY of the Treasury Mills opens the ' campaign for the G. O. P. In Boston with a speech that may be regarded as* typical of what 1 Is to follow...
...Mil- i lerism, phrenology and other strange cults were emerging out of the old so- i ciety that was being conquered by the new factory capitalism...
...when he goes to Oregon and Washington and condemns the protective tariff,on lumber, I wiU believe In the sincerity of his crit- ' ictsms of barbed-wire entanglements...
...Between 1842 and 1844 eight Southern States repudiated obligations owed abroad and the total ranges above $77,000,000...
...The G. O. P. was the first to undertake this nursing and if the Democrats have selected babies to raise they have followed the example set by the G. O. P. Itself...
...The council now pleads with Congress to remain In session till funds are voted for the relief of the unemployed...
...Mills has 1 the floor: 1 "When Governor Roosevelt goes to Texas, Kan- * sas and Oklahoma and condemns the protective 1 tariff on oil...
...Debt Repudiation Abroad and Home NOW that there is fear of our plug hats in the noble republic that there may be a repudiation in part or In whole of war debts it is quite in order for a writer in The New York Times to call attention to the American record...
...It Is hoollgan In thought and action, a shameful offshoot of that Left Wing in 1919 whioh sincerely believed that the United States was facing a social revolution...
...The election returns for the whole period have been reaped In broken homes and broken lives...
...Most of the labor chiefs opposed this-on the ground that It meant "doles" and placed their faith In the current method of helping the Jobless...
...Early this week it was reported that the city was "staggering from massacres by red revolutionists" which was followed by the statement that rebels were being lynched...
...Hoover would accept the provision for loans up to $300,000,000 by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to the states for jobless relief but objects to two other provisions...
...He counted on certain army groups but the strength of his support did not come up to expectations...
...This la all there Is to the Interest of the two brokerage agencies of capitalIsm In the yeomanry of the West...
...However, whether Congress .revises the bin and Hoover accepts it or not, each party through its agents will accuse the other of neglect' If both parties are carted to the dustbin In November that would certainly be some relief...
...Over in Queens Borough building has dropped 85 per cent compared with June, 1931, and thousands of building trades workers have been walking the streets for months...
...This is the question that is disturbing the...
...when he goes to Kentucky and condemns the tariff on coal...
...modern period they have fallen in love with capital invested in capitalist enterprise...
...If they can repudiate there is no reason why debtor i nations abroad may not retaliate...
...when he goes to Arizona, ' Utah and Montana and condemns the 61 per cent . tariff on copper...
...For decades a committee in London representing the heirs have been endeavoring to collect but without success...
...Neither Hoover, the House, nor the Senate has a program to meet the situation...
...Most of the old American Bolsheviks have left the movement in the past five years and the movement today Is largely composed of hooligans...
...In the Great Nation Of the Starvelings APICTURE of the republic at this period which Vice-President Curtis had predicted would be known as A(fter) D(epression) 1932...
...Thomas Is unwilling to understand the Negro question and will only see the Negro In the light of the white upper classes...
...Whatever may be the price trend at any time they are at the mercy of our ruling classes...
...The other section provided loans to "persons," which word embraced Individuals and a variety of organizations, including states and their subdivisions...
...Both parties now compete for the favors of the ruling class and that is all that there is to this "Issue" between them...
...A fundamental attack i on the whole system of capitalism must be made...
...A Colonel Webb heads the ticket and immediately he wires that he repudiates part of the platform...
...Socialism is the hope of the farmer as well as the wage worker...
...These were debts contracted by state governments...
...Most anybody with a glib tongue and a printing press can today get a hearing for any strange : "remedy...
...Only a few of the Items that reveal the decay of human life while vast productive powers of the nation remain Idle...
...Stay home, young woman," broadcasts Lillian D. Wald over the radio in New York City, who adds that it isn't even easy for girls "to secure a room and meals In return for services while one Is looking for a job...
...Of course, the G. O. P. may not like the competition in the nursery business but It should at least appreciate the compliment paid it by following its example...
...Three days later Ibanez was again a refugee, in flight after an attempt to Belze power...
...Even if the bill become a law it would not help much...
...A. F. of L. Council, - ¦ For a Federal Ihile '* rrc Executive Council of the American Federation of Labor meeting In Atlantic City declares that "it is the solemn duty of Congress to remain in session to pass an unemployment relief bill that will meet the demands for food, clothing and shelter for the unemployed and those dependent upon them during the coming winter...
...President Green states that the Reconstruction Finance Corporation has not benefited the jobless masses and that Federal funds must be made available for relief as local relief agencies have broken down...
...Capitalism has produced some weird types of "culture" in this post-war period and Germany has a fearful dose heaped upon her economic misery...
...The language of the scullery and the ethics of the brothel will bring this thing to the dump heap where It belongs...
...All of which Is true, but we note the absence of any reference to the word "dole...
...national leaders of the too old parties...
...For twenty years before the Civil War they threatened to take the Southern States out of the Union because of tariff nursing of capitalist interests but In th...
...Other Tin-Pot Napoleons have appeared...
...Germany's Koo Koos Running Amuck HITLER'S squads stiU run amuck in Germany and the toll of their victims last Sunday alone hi estimated at 18 dead and 200 wounded...
...jThe New York Herald Tribune last Sunday presents a lengthy interview with Ford, the Communist candidate for Vice President, in which that gentleman gives a specimen of this malign output: Ford la quoted as follows: "The Socialist Party candidate, Norman Thomas, says self-determination for the black belt is dangerous, bad Socialism and an incentive to race riots...
...Like our own Ku Kluxers of blessed memory, Hitler's squads also spew their venom on the Jewish people and efforts are made by the German Koo Koos to make life miserable for Jewish students in the universities...
...Many of them have yet to learn that their emancipation is bound up with the deliverance of the whole working class from the rule of the exploiters and their parties...
...Peru also has had an outbreak of revolution on July 7 which is still under way...
...Meantime a Socialist delegation early this week called on Baron Von Gayl to submit facto regarding the clash of Hitlerites with Socialists...
...From all over the country The New Leader receives letters and press clippings showing that this filthy crusade Is general...
...Yet it is possible that the Democrats may get a large vote from these unfortunates in the belief that they will get a "new deal...
...To be sure, "doles" are all that Is available now but a smashing resolution at Vancouver and a nation wide fight for unemployment insurance would have been better than to drift to the tragic emergency of today...
...Meantime he is accused of being a government agent So we have two Liberty Party , candidates...
...reservation and becomes the candidate for the same office last week in Kansas City...
...One would expend $322,000,000 in addition to other expenditures on public works but Hoover wants assurance that it will not unbalance the "balanced" budget...
...He actually Incites and justifies lynching by the white upper classes...
...i Socialist propaganda must cut through ; all this confusion with the sharpness of a razor blade...
...Five billion dollars should be the minimum for any such purpose but it isn't likely that the well-fed statesmen will ever face the real situation with legislation that will really relieve...
...Has the corn belt "taken punishment enough," writes a correspondent of the...
...It is difficult to tell what Is happening but it is possible that "law 'n order" may be staging something like a Paris Commune reaction...
...They apparently do...
Vol. 14 • July 1932 • No. 3
