TIMELY TOPICS

...2—Six billion dollar programs of public work should be established by an integration of federal, state and local programs, but the chief burden would doubtless have to be federal...

...If the maintenance allowance resulted in a quick relief, the amount would be less...

...That policy must include recognition of Soviet Russia, of which President Roosevelt has not as yet given any sign...

...And the Indianapolis comrade1...

...and that with this la view we will do all we can to destroy democracy...

...that what we desire is a "resolute minority," leading a mass of blind devotees...

...The Socialist and Labor position Is just the reverse of this at every point It, too, is thoroughly consistent...

...The whokj plan, the spirit of the men in the camps, and the spirit of the community with regard to the ntea will tend to a Fascist state rather than to a per...

...He thinks of these in terms of glorified Boy Scout camps...

...At least one half of this sum should be directed to a program of re-housing under municipal, state and federal authorities...

...Credit could only be extended to those industries which lived up to a labor code, including the 30-hour week for the checking of technological unemployment...

...After Mitchell...

...We suggest as an emergency measure, $10 a week allowance to unemployed families with a $4 or $5 allowance to single workers...

...It must, of course, h« kept in hand...

...It may help to dispel the superstitious reverence for "master minds of big business" and the carefully cultivated belief that there is more inefficiency and corruption in politics and government than there is in private business...

...I have not spscs to comment on it at length this week, but I want to express my appreciation of the original Socialist thinking that has gone into this program...

...and a few days later it editorially opined that removal from the presidency of Motion Picture Operators No...

...What I wrote was "that the German Social Democracy has come out almost unscathed and that the other democratic parties have slightly increased their strength...

...To do otherwise is to betray the Inner soul of Socialism...

...The farmers must be helped...

...W» should insist upon a maintenance allowance to every unemployed family and to a great program of public works, totalling, let us say, 6 billion—3 billion for housing at cost under municipal, state, and federal authority...

...A large part of what was thus invested could be returned out of rents...

...This, notwithstanding the fact that a nationalized system is not necessarily a socialized system but might go along with a Fascist society...

...In so far as bond issues are used, these bonds must, be underwritten by income and inheritance taxes, and by that capital levy which Socialists advocate as essential in any process of socialization...

...Other uses to be made of this fund should he the erection of hospitals and schools, in region* where the need is greatest and the poverty Is greatest...

...This program would raise construction to the level of 1928...

...Dark Clouds Abroad /""REATLY as we are now concerned with our ^* domestic troubles, it is entirely possible that la a few weeks or months the outstanding issue will be an issue of war or peace, through the triumph of Hitlerism in Germany, and the Far Easteri crisis...

...Such a plan inevitably tends to tear down wages, to militarize labor and to prepare the way for a Fascist society...

...It is quite consistent to say that we do not wish to have a normal and self-reliant workingclass movement...

...Some relief has been offered to banks, and I understand that this relief is likely to be extended to state banks and savings banks...

...Or was Hegel right in thinking' that peoples as well as princes never learn anything from history...

...Both contain dynamite enough to blow up the insecure structure of whatever peace we think we have...

...The active young New Orleans local crowded nine meetings for me into s 12-hour day...

...did a .mighty good job of entertaining the National Executive Committee and turning out twe good meetings in spite of the bank holiday...

...Camps for Workers 'THE Labor Committee of the Socialist Party has * very properly protested strongly ag|inst President Roosevelt announced plan to put the unemployed in work camps in forests and in construction in the Tennessee Valley...

...There is* perhsps some encouragement for what Socialists can do under democratic . machinery i n the success he has had in driving legislation through Congress under the spur of popular interest...

...Having helped the Fascists to abrogate the constitution, they should not be astonished at what logically follows—a Fascist-Junker combination using all its power to suppress Communism as well as the Social Democracy...

...but It is not the theory nor the policy of International Socialism nor of Organised Labor...

...John T. Scopes and the other Socialist comrades of Paducah, Kentucky, gave me a worthwhile day in that city...

...306 was by no means an adequate penalty for Sam Kaplan, that he must by all means go to jail...

...The question of democracy is not one upon which Socialists can afford to run with the hares and hunt with the hounds...

...He was presented with an ideal situation in which to make an impression upon the country and he seised it and used it skillfully—which is not the same as wisely...

...The entire program we have suggested would not cost the country in excess of twelve billion dollars, the first year, which is very much less than we used in a war against Germany...

...Actually what will happen will be that local- authorities will force workers to take cnmp work or nothing...

...School Attendance to 15 Years Urged by N. Y. Labor Leaders ALBANY...

...A controlled inflation directed to the purposes of unemployment relief will be to the good...

...When we turn from work in forests to regular construction work, the competition of men employes' at this scale will further depress wages...

...As fsr as actual relief of unemployment is con...

...The Federal Reserve Bank by its control of short term credit, and the Credit Board, by its direction of long term credit, can compel industries to maintain labor standards and put into effect the 30-hour-week on the control of technological unemployment...

...Did you ever think, for instance, how control of short-time credits through the Federal Reserve Bank and long-time credits or investments through a national credit board could be used to strengthen the position of labor...

...We demand instead: For Real Keliei "1— Weekly allowances made by the Federal Government to unemployed families, the same to be ml miniitcred through local agencies and through properly organized In Inn unions, for the benefit of theii own unemployed...

...Socialist Bank Program (Continued from Psge Three) the testimony of the officers of the National City Bank...

...The only opposition came troB representatives of the Western Union Telegraph Company...

...If President Roosevelt has any plans to prevent this, he certainly has not revealed them...

...As time goes on there will be a great many banks which either cannot open at sll or will be opened under the severe restrictions of operation by Mr...

...It is the adequacy of the relief that I doubt...

...Immediate passage of tne Desmond-Bernhardt bill raising the age of compulsory school attendance from 14 to 15 years was urged by labor leaders and social workers at the hearings on the bill before the Senate Judiciary Committee...

...The words "hss come out almost unscathed" were omitted...

...Room Test's Start A NOTHER long trip to the South and Southwest, ** bark up to Indianapolis and then down to Washington itself has given me more impressions than ever I could get on paper...

...Roosevelt's new officials, the Conservators...

...I should like t* see in the columns of Socialist and labor papers a full discussion of the very Interesting agricultural program that the Socialists have adopted, first is Oklahoma and now in California...

...They can operate when other banks are closed...

...Of course, it would have been surprizing if the opportunity from a Socialist standpoint had not been lost...

...That chance is lost...

...Will it...

...It was not the German Social Democrats who erred in steadfastly upholding the republican constitution, as a necessary condition for Socialist and Trade Union action...

...Even on the much lower plane of stabilizing the financial situation, I am skeptical whether as much has been done as the current popular enthusiasm would lead us to suppose...

...Moreover, the strdng banks of the great cities, the forces which wo usually identify with Well Street—though temporarily chastened—are likely to come back stronger than ever...

...One could hardly expect a "liberal" President tjj nationalize the banking system...

...They msy be divorced from affiliates and outwardly more respectable than they have been in the past...

...Nevertheless, a great opportunity has been lost...

...But to take a part of one view and a part of the other—to pay lip-service to the working class and in the same breath gibe and sneer at its organized efforts, to taunt our own brothers when they are defeated and offer the hand of fellowship to those who have com passed this defeat, to damn democracy with faint praise and yet not frankly accept dictatorship as its logical alternative—that is neither consistent nor expedient nor brave...

...Moreover, as construction goes into operation, the amount spent on relief would automatically be cut...

...Who's next* This torchlight procession of multimillionaire confidence men may have one good effect...

...another 3 billion for roads, tunnels, hospitals and schools, the latter to be put up la poorer districts where the need is very great but the poverty too great to meet the need...

...It was the Communists who erred (if that be a strong enough word) in attacking democracy on one side while the Fascists were attacking it on another...

...Self-respecting workers, used to a regular wage, cannot be expected to be happy at any dollar a rate rate...

...cerned, the plan is ludicrous...

...Localities In dire need should receive federal aid as outright gifts...

...Only the most resolute policy for ths preservation of peace can hope to accomplish anything...

...that our policy is to bring about social chaos, so that this minority may have a chance to seize power...

...The President pro...

...Harriman...

...Speaking of crooked financiers— which some may consider a tautological expression, like "black soot" or "empty vacuum"—but anyhow, speaking of crooked financiers, that enlightened organ of goo-goo liberalism, the New York WorldTelegram, editorially opined a week or two ago that Mitchell had been condignly punished by having to resign the presidency of National City Bank...

...The emergency powers of government have been strengthened...

...A great deal, however, could be returned on the money spent on housing in rents if the matter is properly handled...

...The program of vigorous action may actually prove cheaper than a continuation of stsrvation doles...

...Recognition does not involve the somewhat perplexing problem of the balance of good and evil in Stalin's recent hsndlinf of agricultural unrest in Russia...

...Mitchell...

...It involves commonsense relations between nations upon which peace may depend...

...The federal government should give, not loan, money for this sort of work...

...The one way is to nationalize banking...

...That is a consistent theory and policy...

...Progress is slowly being made in better racial relations in America...

...I hope he was wrong...

...Last week, by the way, the printer mangled one of my sentences...

...The Socialist program for the relief of unemployment criticizes President Roosevelt's plan for semi-military camps for workers, who are to be paid at the rate of $1 a day...

...Abraham Lefkovitz, representing the American Federation of Teachers, declared that if the nation were to avoid "social suicide," It ahould compel as mutk educatlon as possible...

...This Is a frank emergency subsidy to unemployed workers as consumers, snd will do more to start proper agricultural and industrial activity than any single thing, because it will create purchasing power...

...actuation of democracy or the establishment ef a Socialist society...

...An Inspiring Tour BIRMINGHAM, Alabama, turned out between 3,000 and 4,000 people on a rainy night to our Socialist Mass Meeting...

...This law should be an emergency six months' law and revised at the end of that period...

...Their resources are liquid...

...If we could finance a war against Germany, we can finance war against poverty...

...An immediate crisis hss been passed...

...The Russian refusal to cooperate with the League of Nations because of tat unfriendly attitude of some of the Powers points directly at the United States...

...Socialism is growing and so is Socialist organization...

...In time—probably in a very short time— they will take over by merger or otherwise a larger and larger share in the whole business of banking...

...Without a large measure of political democracy there can be no normal and self-reliant movement of the working class...

...Nor can I think that what is happening over there furnishes a very good text for preachments on the worthlessness of political democracy...

...The method of help is important...

...He sees camps under the War Department but not under genuine military discipline in which workers will be free to come and go, though not without notice, where they will have a healthy life and a dollar a day...

...They will be essentially more powerful...

...A Program I ABOR unions and the Socialist Party must mskt " their protest emphatic on this matter...

...beaten, and murdered by Hitler's janizaries, i: docs not seem the most appropriate time for any of us, sitting safely here at home, to reproach them for alleged tactical errors in the past and by implication boast of how much better we should have done if we instead of they had been on the firing line...

...It is difficult to exaggerate what might have been done by a Socialist government...

...There is no justice for workers which qualifies the workers with the adjective "white" and forgets thst the great slogan of Socialism Is: "Workers of the World, Unite...

...Where the $10 allowance is inadequate it should be supplemented by local sources...

...After Insull...

...That is what you call tempering justice with mercy, according to the googoo way of thinking...

...One of the encouraging impressions of »* trip concerns the way in which Socialist locals *r» welcoming Negroes and trying to work with Negroes...

...No Middle Ground on This Burning Question IL'ST now, when party comrades in Germany are being jailed...

...His intentions are good...

...They are now getting what they asked for...

...Unquestionably President Roosevelt, at least for the present, has captured the popular imagination...

...He seems to have almost Mr, Hoover's fear of what he calls the dole in iti effect upon morale...

...vides for no increase in purchasing power, which U the keystone of any plan for immediate relief of unemployment...

...Agricultural Relief (SOCIALISTS will do well to study very carefallf *^ whatever agricultural relief bill the administration flnallly introduces...