A Socialist View of the Week
A Socialist View of the Week joblese Army Now Number, 12,700,000 THE tanking crisis has sentenced mere millions of workers to idleness. Preeident Green of the A. F. of L., on the basis of...
...The DolHuss Government has curbed Nazi activity by restricting the radio, press and meetings...
...Thus President Roosevelt's determination to reduce salaries is part of his program to keep the government solvent but these reductions also reduce buying power and the latter makes a sick capitalism worse...
...The total number of families cared for in February was 103,250, representing nearly 500,000 human beings, averaging nearly $40 per month...
...Poland has reinforced her Danzig garrlson in fear of Hitlerism and emergency powers are sought by the Polish Govern, ment from Parliament...
...The movie is a source of a few hours of forgetting our troubles...
...1*1 pulillcatlnn of the Socialist Parly, support...
...Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Prof...
...Oat press story from Berlin declares that hundreds of thousands of Hitler's "bitterest opponents, the Communists, helped the Nazi cause by abstaining from voting...
...He promised farmers a program of relief...
...A cry of derision went up from the farmers, many of whom declared that they had not been getting enough cash for more than a year to pay their taxes and interest.'* So reads the press account...
...Almost without exception these families are without a single wage earner of even the most modest amount...
...They came by special trains, special buses, in shining new autos and ancient muddy models, grim, serious-faced men with weatherbeaten faces," reads one press story...
...Is night to settle over it and deprive us of this surcease from sorrow or will Congress get the beer bill through in time to serve as a substitute t < Hkieriem Footers Sadism and Reaction HITLERISM won ia the municipal elections in Prussia bast Sunday although the Socialists and Communists together polled more votes in Berlin than the Nazis and the Nationalists...
...the •IruBflr* of the •rianlaca working class...
...the opportunities and responsibilities facing the psrly were never greater...
...Bear in mind that the figures relate to the eve of the financial panic which I n hurled still more workers out of employment...
...1 Tear to Canada...
...As s role these field workers msde little above their bare expenses in the first seversl yesrs of their work, but ss they built enduring am effective organizations in the states the work became easier snd the states could guarantee them a w gc above their expenses...
...THE NEW LEADER, as old...
...They threatened political reprisal if they do not obtain relief...
...They packed the Assembly chamber at a committee hearing, supporting a pricecontrol bill...
...Roosevelt hedged, declared that wheat prices had decreased, the banking crisis was urgent and sent a message to Congress regarding beer...
...The enrollment lists are now available and party members will soon be .canvassing enrolled Socialist voters...
...The government has no affection for Socialist Vienna but it also has no lovs for Hitlerism...
...Then the President began to get teleNEANDERTHAL __•« By William Allen Ward CAVES are not bad places...
...Another "Peak" in Jobless Relief /CONFIRMING the above observation...
...Many Socialist and Communist papers wers stifled by rigid decrees and even ths Catholic press suffered in the Rhinelaml...
...SUBSCRIPTION RATES s 1 Tear la th* United lulu...
...The "derision" of the farmers should be replaced by concert of action between rural and urban workers...
...Moderns who live in skyscrapers use machines of industry to tear at each other's throats...
...The triumph of Hitlerism in Austria would likely unite Austria with Germany in some form, but Catholic reaction has no desire to come under th* dominion of a Fascist Germany...
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...The Socialist Party has always been a volunteer organization and the larger part of its work has always been rendered without compensation...
...Neanderthals squatting beside dim camp fires could use a club to kill...
...Movies Affected By the Crisis nPME depression shadow has come to * Hollywood with the closing of the picture plants for one day this week in an effort to cope with a financial emergency...
...It is evident that this pauperization cannot continue much longer without some elemental hysteria that will lead to food riots...
...Tugwull, conferring with farmer organizations, worked out the Administration plan which Included the domestic allotment scheme but certain farm leaders wanted a more complete plan for price control of farm products...
...Mgncil contributions ilo nal necessarily represent the policy «f The New leader, on the other hand It welcomes ii variety of opinions consistent with Its declared purpose...
...Refugees in flight from the Hitler bands who arrived in Vienna relet* stories of tortures of Socialists, Jews and Communists following the national election on March 6. The Arbtitr.r Ltitung, Vienna Socialist daily, gives details of these atrocities...
...Preeident Green of the A. F. of L., on the basis of government figures, estimate* that there w»s »n increase of 800,000 in the number of the unemployed from December to January...
...grams from millers and other middlemen protesting against plunging into Socialism and predicting disaster...
...Assume that the Federal program of employing 500,000 workers is immediately carried out...
...For the moment Austrian Socialism is mobilized with arms in its hands snd prepared to beat back, as it did in former years, any attack upon the working class...
...One who had predicted a few years ago that this would come to the province of Harrison Gray Otis would have been hustled off to a hoosegow...
...Then the old Hapsburg monarchists dream of a restoration of the Austrian monarchy and these aristocrats are shocked at the prospect of taking orders from Hitler, the former house painter...
...are requested not to write on both eldei of the paper and not to imp lead pencil or red ink...
...However, Austrian Socialists are better, armed than their German comrades were and the armed Socialist organization was mobilized last Sunday in preparation for any attack...
...Austrian Socialists Mobilize for Defense AUSTRIAN Socialism is now imperilled as a result of events in Germany which have stirred the Austrian Fascists to action...
...1 Year u Partita Oniric...
...Mary L. Gibbons, director of the Home Relief Bureau, reported that the total spent for home relief of the jobless was over $4,000,000 in February, an increase of $1,500,000 over the highest previous month...
...Every canvasser should carry with him a bundle of The New Leader and introduce it to Socialist voters...
...The incident reveals the lack of knowledge of the farmers regarding workers' incomes...
...Each form of Fascism, whether Italian, Polish or German, reveals a reversion back to primitive savagery and the release of sadistic passions...
...To such a pass has the "New Capitalism" come...
...Here is a conflict, one of those contradictions which plague capitalist society...
...They can only see that $34 per week but do not see the rent' and other living expenses of workers in New York City...
...We may send a tboussnd speakers to churches, forums and clubs and we will not approach the task that was rendered by the pre-war veteran Socialists who built the .Socialist Party...
...Twentieth century methods call for an automatic to slay rivals...
...Socialist Party Work Cot'I A 1.1 ST branches and their members through*^ out the country are affected by the industrial crisis and the financial panic which has plunged American capitalism to a still lower level of prostration...
...Jen»»'« M. tut...
...And the price of emancipation is a majority with Socialist intelligence...
...Basing hia statement on trade union reporta Green also says that in January 12,700,000 workers are now unemployed, "a new high watermark for unemployment in the depression, and represents an increase of 2,400,000 since January, 1932...
...that cannot be nv,i will Dot tie returned unleia return poilago Ii enclosed...
...Canvassers can do two jobs at one time, and If this is generally done tens of Ihoussnds •f Socialist voters will receive a copy of The New Loader for the first time and without any extra effort on the pert of the canvassers Act snd act without delay en this Important natter...
...Our job is to reach the working masses in the cities, towns and the countryside and they can only be reached by such pioneer crusaders who will give their lives for a few years to the hardships and sacrifices of this work...
...Here is the gold mine of the Coolidge era transmuted ipto dross by the capitalism in which it reposed like an egg in a nest...
...A representative of the union of milk drivers of New York City urged protection of their wages which have been steadily going down...
...Asked, what the wage is he answered $34 a week...
...Agricultural Relief Strikes a Snag 'THE recovery of capitalism in part * depends upon the increase of buying power and the Federal and state authorities assert they have a duty to aid III that recovery...
...From many quarters The New Leader receives information of how the collapse has interfered with party activities...
...Dairy Farmers in March at Albany UPSTATE dairy farmers get into the picture again when 2,000 of them marched upon the capital at Albany on Tuesday demanding legislation to save them from disaster...
...The movie houses in New York City are also affected and two shows closed one day this week because of a wage dispute between the League of New York Theatres and the stagehands and musicians...
...National, state, local and branch organisations require funds...
...Copies may be sold to voters and in some cases subscriptions taken...
...Entered Ss Seeaai Class Matter...
...They never asked what the compensation would be and very often it was nothing more than the reward ef knowing that the agitator had done his duty...
...This is now an old story as the Communists have often proved lackeyi of reaction in Germany...
...This working clsss idealism has not been awakened by the movement of today and until it is the party is far from being the organiiation it can be and should be...
...He also finds himself up against a class conflict in dealing with agriculture...
...Mora of this volunteer service should be at the disposal of the party in this period of the moat terrible crisis in all history and to the extent that it is given by the members will we rise to the emergency that faces us...
...We want action," a sober judge cried out, speaking for the farmers...
...Members are unable to make financial contributions to various phases of party work and local organizations) in many cities find it difficult to even meet the minimum expenses that are necessary to maintain their bare official routine...
...Hugenberg and von Papen, the capitalist and Junker allies of Hitler, no doubt intervened for on Monday Hitler radioed a decree ordering his storm troops to end these acts of terror...
...Primal methods were use of clubs...
...Assuming the average family to number three, this means that about 40,000,000 men, women and children are afflicted by this curse...
...How many new recruits there are we do not know but a conservative estimate would probably be 300,000, making a total of 13,000,000 jobless today...
...Facing this class conflict he does net know what to do, but in the meantime the impoverished formers are getting real election returns...
...That is .these families have been pauperized and February did not mark the peak of suffering and of applications for relief...
...Tbit wa» a tremendous increase for this ihort period...
...Correlating with what is said above, we call attention to a fine opportunity facing party branches in New York City...
...Recent applications, Miss Gibbons reported, are "the most impressive of the depression...
...In the first days of the banking holiday beginning March A the average number of applications lacreased, reaching as high as 2,403 a day...
...Many members who are unable to contribute financially because of unemployment can contribute their services in many ways...
...this would leave 12,600,000 jobless men still without hope of an income...
...All but two of the neighborhood theatres clesed last Saturday...
...The executives of all downtown motion picture theatres in Cleveland also announced that they would close Thursday night following notice received from union stagehands and picture operators that they needed more time to consider a proposed 25 per cent wage reduction...
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...Give us something to pull us out of the hole...
...However, there is no prospect of this immediate employment of that number and in the meantime there are fewer sales because of the bank crisis, fewer factory orders, and a continued decline of purchasing power...
...Moreover, the Catholic Chinch has much more prestige in Austria than it would have in an Austria linked up to a Fascist Germany...
...This "old gusrd" Socialist work must be duplicated, and we hope that we will find party workers in the coming months who will revive that fine era of party building...
...Another reason why conservative classes in Austria oppose Hitler is the resentment of the Tyrolese against Hitler's "betrayal" of irredentist interests for the sake of maintaining good relations with Mussolini...
...Hundreds of workers left the Industries in the two decades of party-building, going out into the field as agitators and organizers, holding meetings, taking collections, selling litersture snd sccepting the hospitality of comrades to save hotel bills...
...Yet all this should not be an occasion for discouragement...
...In this respect it must be admitted that one type of service that was given in the pre-war period of building the party haa not been developed today...
...The Nazi movement is small in Austria but it is growing...
...Europe apain rests on a volcano...
...Socialists in all countries will wish them well in any emergency...
...At the same time the authorities seek to reduce expenses of government to balance budgets...
...Hitler's brown shirts have also occupied the demilitarized German Rhinelaml and this has aroused French opposition...
...i Mentha In th* Unite* Mates...
...Civilization is a thin veneer over the cro-magnon...
...Year after year we hare had one "peak" piled upon another and •there does not seem (o be an end to It...
...at the P.«t Ollce at New Tern, nador set of Mareh I...
...Producers are all in a flutter between studio unions that refuse to accept a wage cut and unorganized working staffs, including clerks, stenographers and others, who are requested to agree to work three weeks, either without salary or on half pay...
...of the effect of the banking crisis is the situation in New York City...
Vol. 15 • March 1933 • No. 11
