A Socialist View of the Week
A Socialist View of the Week ' THE INTERNAIONAL By Eugene Pottier ARISE, y« prut'ner* of *tarvatior, ** Aria*, ye wretched of the omrtk, For Justice thunder* condemnation, A better world'*...
...There is so muclj harrowing infofrmation pouring into The New Leader office regarding the terrible disaster that we find it di.i.cult to express our reaction...
...The Bavarian Socialist newspaper has ' been confiscated and the building is used f as a club for the Nazis...
...Last week Goring declared that "we must be ready to redeem with blood the pledge written in blood...
...With the big s capitalist allies of Hitler soon to be pushed Into oblivion these gentlemen r will pay a well-earned penalty for their t stupidity...
...He reports that in dress making wages of from $2.66 to $11.52 are being offered...
...Whether an article is useful or not docs not count in a system of production for sale...
...So our children must suffer because of the failure of the stuffed shirts who dominate our industries snd banks...
...But capitalism ia a system where "price" and "value" in of first considerstion...
...The Socialist in such times owes overtime to the party...
...Meantime duels are being fostered by the Nazis, which is a distinct reversion back, and Bavaria is swinging to the Hitler regime, many of Hitler's former opponents in that state insisting that * he is the only bulwark against Socialists 1 and Communists...
...On the contrary, Socialism muat be delivered from the wreckage of an old system by the conscious action of the workers...
...Raw main Is, machines, industrial plants, commodities, homes, foodstnffs and so on are aa abundant as ever...
...But thia end does not mean liberation of the working class...
...It is "price" and "value" that are decaying, not the physical wealth...
...Imposed upon it is a vast load of atocks, and bonds, and securities, and mortgages and other paper bearing these fatal words...
...A New Leader correspondent in Connecticut also sends us a story of how the "welfare department" in his :ity is used as a clearing house for •heap labor...
...Bughouse Germany wants revision, wants union with Austria, wants to get back the Polish Corridor and Upper Silesia Mussolini and Hitler desire a holy alliance, but while Hitler wants Austria, Mussolini is opposed...
...Mississippi's c< wretched public school decline is no-1 c< torious, Louisiana Is in a bad way, and ft Alabama now faces a erisla...
...A Socialist View of the Week ' THE INTERNAIONAL By Eugene Pottier ARISE, y« prut'ner* of *tarvatior, ** Aria*, ye wretched of the omrtk, For Justice thunder* condemnation, A better world'* in birth...
...In Chicago the d teachers staged a demonstration after t< many months of unpaid service and c, there is talk of closing the schools...
...We most know what we want, organize to get it, and be prepared to make sacrlflees for it Capitalism will not quietly pass into Socialism...
...MAY DAY returns this rear with the industrial h>Hl»m atill on the decline in thin and other nations...
...If some bright chap were to invent a special type of padded cell on a mass production scale the , demand for it would be so enormous thst it might revive world capitalism , and give it a new lease of life...
...Perhaps the madman will risk a venture that will consume the Nazi regime-in a fiery holocaust...
...To rule u* from u judgment hall...
...Jeetings are attended by Nazi officials ml police, and decisions that do not neet their approval are reversed...
...France, Poland and the Little Entente, which includes Czechoslovakia, Rumania and Yugoslavia, represented in Warsaw on Monday, will oppose revision of the peace treaties which range them against the fonr-powei European conference favored by Mussolini...
...Let in- consult for all...
...A union carpenter with line children was sent to a union employer by the welfare department and le was informed that the wage would >e $2 a day because the welfare crowd :ould furnish all the workers required it that rate...
...When the "price" or "valae" of a home, for example, declines to a half or a third, the owner becomes panic stricken although the home as a physical entity survives...
...When the United States passed off the (old standard last week this was evidence of a new low level reached by the capitalist system...
...All the physical wealth of the nation carries the invisible label of "price" or "value...
...State Industrial Commissioner Andrews declares that "payment of starvation wages . . . has become a racket...
...Socialists t! everywhere should get in touch with n deflated farmers...
...Of course, being caught in the "price" system the worker may lose the home because of this system...
...One financial news service estimates that the limit of the Federal Government's borrowing for the purpose of pumping life into the capitalist system will be reached next year...
...The actnal physical wealth in the United States has not decreased...
...The Nazi at• tempt to seize the Protestant church in - Mecklenburg by placing it in charge of ' a Nazi commissar was halted by Hitler 1 revoking the decree after a nation-wide protest of the Lea rue of Protestant 1 Churches...
...Conditions are bad in some other states but school authorities do not like to advertise their poverty...
...Liberation is something that must be fought for...
...German exports do not improve and the Nazi brutalities have made it difficult for Germany to get foreign credits...
...Then there is the "probation" racket The sweater hires women for a week or two on trial and then dismisses them without any pay...
...In the United 8tatea it appears to be a drift to national insolvency...
...si Teachers and Children 0 Victims of Depression EDUCATION of our children declines 0 with the depression...
...The social order that deprives our children of an elementary education is thrice damned...
...A dispatch to Berlin from Amsterdam tates that the International Federation f Trade Unions has decided to break ff relations with the German members, he German group being charged with ffering Hitler cooperation, thus abanoning the class struggle...
...The Heim- j wehr split, one faction seeking to link 1 up with Hitler, and the Minister of War ¦ threatens the Hitlerites with the army...
...no more in thrall The tarth ehall rise on new foundation* We have been naught, we ekall be all We want no condescending *avior...
...The Nazis continue to penetrate all forms of business and their ignorance of business technique is bringing demoraliyt cation...
...Information should soon arrive in lis country from the Internnt'^nal on lis matter and we shall r>*»- it on to iir readers when it Is available...
...Nazi students are to...
...In New York State the Milk Control j Board has fixed the price of a quart of . milk at ten cents for all up-state dealers within three miles of a city or a village in the hope of satisfying dairy farmers...
...That Mb is coming may be gathered by the fact that Hugenberg, Minister of Economics, protests against r the rumors that he and his Nationalist cronies are to be canned...
...This sppears to be what we are heading for and Socialists watch thia changing scene from day to day with the knowledge that production of commodities—capitalism—ia reaching the end of its career...
...The decrease in physical volume in this period is 48 per cent and other nations show heavy declines...
...The economista nay that we are the prisoners and victims of (he "price" system which is only another way of saying the "capitalist" system...
...German Masonry is reported as nationalized along Nozi lines and a manifesto of the Grand Lodge "pledges allegiance to the ideal of pure Teutonic folkdom...
...These who are awake, who understand the course of events, should give yeoman service to agitation regarding the disaster that awaits them...
...The appointment of > General von Epp, a Catholic and ' Monarchist, as governor has helped to - bring Bavaria into the Hitler heaven...
...It Isn't easy to explain to the "man in the street" what is happening, but we will try...
...Sweaters and Their Nice Apologists FOB contemptible meanness few crea* tures descend to a lower level than the exploiters who seek sweatshop standards out of general misery...
...Berlin police raided the German-Russian Petroleum Company and a Nazi commissar ha...
...The Farmers ia the Depression Sectors ' JkffORE than a million persons have ; *" been driven to the farms in the , past three years and four million families are on the public relief lists...
...Statesmen of the capitalist nations are flocking to Washington to see what can be done about it...
...The Nasi slogan of "work and _ bread" is not being fulfilled and that means disillusionment for tens of thousands of despairing young men who (_ helped to create the Hitler heaven...
...If a home valued at $10,000 cannot now be sold for $3,000 or even find a buyer at any price, it is still an assemblage of the same physical materials thst it was some years ago...
...Jobs are not ' avaflsble in the cities and workers who ' flee to the country cannot hope for { success where the 'armer with years of J experience has become a serf...
...Tha Times correspondent tells of a six-dollar ' a week messenger boy placed in charge of a big Berlin carpet shop owned by e a Jew and of the demoralisation of the ' business that followed...
...Over 1 a million persons also left the farms for the cities last year, which means that millions are fleeing from one depression area for another one...
...This is the first retreat of ' the Nazis and Hitler's new religion is 1 yet to be shaped by his allies...
...ther sources of information indicate hat the Nazis are taking over the nfons outright...
...Mary Day in This Lonatic World MAY DAY and what a mess throughout the world...
...The union man is thus lorced to either scab or to see his family inffer...
...To make the thief disgorge hi* booty To free the tpirii from it* cell, We mutt ourselves decide our duty, We must decide and do it well...
...With propaganda agencies controlled by the Nazis an effort is being made to intoxicate the whole nation with the Hitler wine and neighboring peoples are inquiring whether it will eventually end in the drunken debauch of war...
...In the meantime the Wisconsin farm 6 strike called for the middle of May will v not be called off because of the Roose- " velt inflation program and a district . attorney in one county announces that J the militia will be called out if the J strike occurs, Milwaukee Socialists support the strikers, State Secretary Al Benson, J speaking at a meeting of the Wisconsin * Cooperative Milk Pool, declared that * "if the farmer is going to get some- J thing out of this crisis, he's going to get , It through, his own efforts...
...The teachers are 01 suffering privation and some are living in school houses and manage to live on vegetables contrilnited by friends...
...Throughout the United States "values" are dissolving and the more they dissolve the closer we are to bankruptcy...
...Desperate lower middle class groups join the Nazi war against big business, especially department stores, and also single out workers' cooperatives for destruction...
...purge" book shops and libraries of literature offending the "new spirit,* and even the famous Passion Play, due ! to be performed in 1940, ie to coma under Fascist auspices...
...TTHEKE is little doubt that Nasi rah) 1 ia Germany ia inflicting severe blows on industry and thia is likely to become more acute aa Hitler's followers M extend their mastery...
...Capitalists will produce beer or Bibles, pictures or poison, if they can get a price for them...
...It is a struggle between Protestant and I 1 Catholic Fascists, each desiring power 1 but also seeking the destruction of Socialist Vienna...
...been installed...
...Of all the classes in society the working class should be the most progressive in preparing for this change and in most countries millions of workers are pledged to it despite difficulties and dangers that we do not yet face...
...Here the organlaed workers on the whole drift to a stage of national Insolvency without knowledge of what is impending...
...It is these various forms of paper bearing these fatal words that are dissolving before our eyes although the physical wealth and its useful functions remain...
...Then Great Britain and Russia break relations while the Austrian Fascists make the headlines...
...How long will the working class indure the insolence of the nice people vho say that they rejoice that we ire so patient...
...National Insolvency...
...These are merely the hi^h spots in the lunatic asylum that capitalism has I made of the world...
...The dispatch > the New York Times says that no anfirmation of this report had been btained, bnt it is obvious that with the ule of the Nads a genuine unionism in no more exist In Germany than it mill in Italy...
...We worker* auk not for their favor...
...The New York Times Berlin correspondent expects the m Nationalist members of the Cabinet to 11 be edged out of office and with them will go the capitalist "brains" that helped to put Hitler in power...
...Oklahoma City Socialists will bring the n plight of the schools to the Continental ci Congress in a resolution...
...No more tradition'* chain shall bind m Arise, ye slave...
...A shortage pi of funds in that state has already closed 85 per cent of the schools and tl the state's finances have reached the tl lowest since 1865...
...The U. S. ConsDepartment reports that American commerce has declined from $5,240,995,000 in 1929 to $1,612,306,000 in 1932...
...When the government can no longer help capitalism in this way, we will reach national Insolvency...
...German Trade Unions Jnder the Nazi Regime pi IK London Daily Herald carries a story regarding the control of the rerman trade unions by the Natis...
...An underground party raid exist but real unions have to inction in the onen and this is imossible under a dictatorship...
...The flight to the country is as pathetic as ' the flight to the cities...
Vol. 15 • April 1933 • No. 17
