A Socialist View of the Week
The World We live In A Socialist View of the Week The "New Deal" At Washington BY a vote of 43 to 33 a 16 to 1 silver clause in the farm bill was defeated in the U. S. Senate. The proposal...
...It vests Congress with power to do what it cannot now do...
...Ratification would be by state legislatures...
...Stale Capitalism IS the old creed of individualism which Hoover chanted so often dead in the United States...
...And what of the proposed 30-hour week in industry...
...Not that the government wants them but because it cannot afTord to have them die.' The owners of the babies do not want Uncle Sam to adopt them and yet they cannot fjkjr care of them...
...In its tentative form, as presented by Congressman Kvale of Minnesota, it reads: "Congress shall have power, during the existence of an emergency, to regulate the production and marketing of any ar.d all commodities, to prescribe minimum wages for labor...
...The trade war between the Soviet and Great Britain and the antagonism of German Fascism to Russia does not improve the economic situation of Russian Communism...
...Meantime von Papen failed to strike a bargain with the Pope to' consolidate the Centrist (Catholic )Party with the Nazis...
...Mora Deflation of Farmers and Workers MOST of the $72,000,000 economies *** Postmaster General Farley expects to make in his department will be accomplished by discharge of workers and reductions in wages...
...A. Fenner Broekway and John Paton, secretary, opposed the resolution...
...Divergent Trend* in Socialist Parties TTHE Communist parties have, in re* cent .vers, split into two, and in some . nations, three or more groups...
...Von Papen offered the tempting bait of a general concordat for the whole of Germany, but the Pope doubts whether the Nasi regime is permanent, and he politely declined...
...At any rate, individualism for the present is as dead as an Egyptian mummy...
...One was acquitted, two received jail sentences and three are expelled from Russia...
...The economic ruin of Jews threatens business, and arrears in taxes since March have increased...
...State capitalism may bring some order into the snsrch forces that disturb corporate capitalism, but It will not eliminate any of the depression diseases from which the industrial system is suffering...
...The Nationalists do not get' a smell...
...It means state capitalism if capitalist parties act under it but may lead to Socialism with workers in control...
...His wage cuts for government employes also indicates that the labor policy of slate capitalism does not differ from the labor policy of corporate capitalism...
...Is it not the most extensive interference with the "rights" of the capitalist class in our history...
...As this is written it appears certain that the British Government will bar all Soviet imports as a measure of retaliation...
...The railroads are to come next...
...When Russian industry and agriculture have faced important crises in recent years a trial has been staged with accused persons facing charges of sabotage...
...talistg to appease the jobless workers, but you cannot butter bread with a Fascist howl...
...It is feared that the LLP...
...The proposal coming from states not of a pronounced industrial character is significant, but even this amendment, if enacted, would mean nothing without a party of the Working class with power to enact a program in accord with its provisions...
...Turning to the agricultural section of the depression, we note that a farm strike to begin May 18, during which farmers propose to "buy, sell and pay nothing," is being organized by the Farmers' Holiday Association...
...Secretary of Labor Perkitu will begin hearings next Monda«» uii hef , section of this program...
...Not because it wants them but because they are sick and are unable to take care of themselves...
...In some cases it may even have to take over sick industrial babies and adopt them...
...The British Independent Labor Party split last year over the issue of affiliaI tion with the Labor Party and at its annual conference this week decided by a vote of 83 to 79 to make djrect approaches to the Communist International...
...What a fearful mess capitalism has made of human affairs...
...We pass this on without comment but it may be borne I out if the 30-hour bill becomes law.' Congress is not as dociL' as it was in j the first few weeks of the new ad...
...His organs howl against big espi...
...Socialist Delegate Ellenbogen declared that Germany "is' now regarded by the world as identical with inhuman bestiality" and Socialists would oppose union with Germany...
...So a Hoover baby will be placed on Itoo.se ' velt's doorstep...
...To substitute government for capitalist does not solve the more basic problems of capitalism nor does it necessarily mean higher standards for the working class...
...Still others are gloomy and hope for a Caesar to police their rotting structure...
...What is this attempt to save the homes and farms of millions but a thrust into the private concerns of citizens by the Federal Government...
...Roosevelt's reforestation program with wages of a dollar a day shows that state capitalism ran be as bad and even worse than corporate capitalism for the workers...
...Nordic Paradise IT is difficult to summarise events a ¦ the Germany of the Nasi nuts, bat one thing stands out: the Reich's finances are alarming and Hitler has been unable to frame a policy to create work...
...News of Hide...
...The Fascist noose is slowly coiling around the necks of the Nationalists and their wealthy backers and the Stahlhelm, soldier organization of the Nationalists, . appears to be merging into the Nasi storm troops under the control of Adolf Hitler...
...Four Nasi nuts last week crossed the German border into France in a car flying their swastika and they were sent beck a little mussed up...
...The holiday convention I will be held in Des Moines, Iowa, and ' President Whitney of the Railway Trainmen will address the convention...
...On Wednesday came the announcement that the United Statess is off the jold standard...
...Paton declared that the Communist International's compulsory policy had been "completely disastrous in its international effects, and the Russian policy is unworkable in Western Europe...
...On the other hand, one of the accused Englishmen confessed guilt at the first session of this trial and maintained it at the end...
...Some of them, having little knowledge of movements and programs, denounce these measures as ' Socialism...
...The government steps in to help but in the process of helping finds that if must take over some of the responsibilities of the bankers snd capitalists...
...Governor Schmedeman in1 duced Wisconsin condensaries to jack i up the price of milk and has asked 19 governors to take similar action to avoid a general strike...
...One aspect of the trial is recalled...
...Its estimate is based upon reports from more than a •¦ thousand manufacturing establishments which show average hours per week of 82.6 for February...
...ministration and the Roosevelt "honey- ' moon" is fading...
...He did not do this willingly, ("hanged conditions compelled him to set...
...We must wait for Hitler's new religion which is still baking in the Fascist oven...
...Moreover, a silent boycott of Hitler's Germany is carried on in many nations...
...A Right-to-Live Amendment Proposed CAKM KIM.ABOK PARTY and Non* partisan League members of Congress are considering a constitutional amendment to be placed before the voters of the nation...
...President Roosevelt has expanded what Hoover began...
...State capitalism is rising in this country...
...By its loans and credits the government is becoming a partner in the ownership of many institutions and enterprises...
...faces another unlit...
...The London Daily Herald reports that the fur boycott will cost Germany $100,000,000 annually, and other boycotts are in prospect...
...While Mubsolini smiles on Hitler, from Rome comes the news that Italy faces a big deficit next year...
...Milk strikes are also threatened in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan ' and Iowa...
...A bid will be made for labor support...
...Moscow Trial Leads To British Embargo /CONFESSIONS and repudiation of confessions marked the trial of six Englishmen in Moscow who were charged with sabotage...
...Meantime the National Industrial1 Conference Board has estimated that 1 the proposed 30-hour week in industry , will absorb only one million jobless of the estimated 6,000,000...
...This proposal will probably be changed to make ratification by state conventions, and the emergency clause Is likely to be dropped because of continuous unemployment...
...What happens is simply this...
...The proposal runs current with the changed thinking of today...
...Little business men alts demand measures against big capitalist firms, but this policy would also further demoralise German capitalism...
...Some hope that the Roosevelt program, which moves in the direction of state capitslism, will be halted by an upward trend of employment and a business revivsl...
...The proposal belongs to the Bryan period of the nineties and its ghost now stalks in the Senate...
...Wisconsin seems 1 to be the worst hit...
...Gold and silver are commodities the value of which fluctuates and any attempt to establish s dual standard will only demoralize the currency and make matters worse, yet some "progressive" Senators support this freak legislation...
...Returning to the Hitler paradise, nearly 4,000 Socialists and Communists are still held in concentration camps while the Nazis celebrated Hitler's birthday on Tuesday and governorships of Prussia, Bavaria and Saxony have gone to the Hitlerites...
...This means that the capitalist system has reached a new low level and that prices of commodities, except labor power, will increase...
...It is certainly j an amazing thrust of government into the affairs of our ruling Babbitts that ¦ it emerging and it will be a year or two before we will be able to fully | understand the present period...
...The latter have got into a horrible mess and fhey need help to pull them out of it...
...Ten Russian defendants received sentences ranging from eighteen months to ten years and one was acquitted...
...They want them hack when they are taken and yet they fear (hat Uncle Sam will keep them for good...
...Another confessed and then swore that the confession was extorted from him...
...The president of ' the milk pool in that state declares that the surplus milk of dairy farmers can'. not be converted into butter and cheese | at present prices and that all dairy ' products will be withheld from the | market on May 10 if there is no I favorable change...
...In Japan an anti-Jewish demonstration was staged in Tokyo which took the form of a protest against General Electric mazda bulbs...
...The power of the several states is unaltered by this article except that the operation of state laws shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by Congress...
...A resolution called for a demonstration against Fascism on May Day, and a few days before Socialist representatives on the executive of the Austro-German Arbeitgemeinschaft, which favors union with Germany, resigned...
...The Socialist parties present divergent opinions but with few exceptions remain intact...
...What is this Tennessee Valley program which he has linked with Muscle Shorls but a drift into stste cspitallsm...
...With the continuance of the depression a few more years the government may eventually become (he owner of many banks, railroads, and other enterprises...
...Due to the folly of millions of workers, governing control is in the hands of parties representing the barons...
...A minority of 25 per cent favored cooperation with Socialistic Radicals, taking equal responsibility and equal rewards, as the voters had elected a Left Government IB Austrian Socialists meeting in a national congress the same day stressed the need of caution with the rise of Hitlerism in Germany...
...So we drift into state capitalism lot because anybody wants It but because gigantic forces of decay compel it...
...Even Hoovers' spraying ef great capitalist enterprises with Federal funds was a shocking violation of his own creed...
...These two measures alone have brought weeping and knashing of teeth in the haunts of the American barons...
...The presidential program of mobilizing industry, regulating hours and wages, materials and commodities, is being drafted into bills and big q»pi talists are being consulted in this program...
...and to prescribe maximum hours of labor...
...The railroad workers will also face a fight against another wage cut in June, and the Labor Research Association reports more machines displacing workers in industry...
...The French Socialist Party has three tendencies which have been expressed by its Deputies in the Chamber, and last Sunday at the party congress the delegates voted against support of the government on all policies inconsistent with working class interests...
...Many powerful capitalists and bankers think ee...
Vol. 15 • April 1933 • No. 16
