War Temporarily Halted, but There Is Danger While Capitalism Lives
War Temporarily Halted, but There Is Danger While Capitalism Lives EUROPE has been on the brink of war for months and it was this danger that prompted the Roosevelt message to the powers. H i 11...
...Full information can b« had from Uie office of the Workers' Unemployed League at 7 East 15th Street...
...A wide distribution of leaflets announcing the demonstration is to be made, and every relief station will be covered...
...The imperialist statesmen may dread the coming of war but they will never abolish the basic roots of war that are planted deep in the soil of capitalism...
...Wnldman maintains the allega-tions are facts from the record, and he will continue now to a jury trial to prove the facts, in order that the franchises might be set aside and public operation of busses be inaugurated...
...The corporation is obligated to pay $100,000 a year for ten years for the franchise, and the profits are estimated at $14,000,000 at the very least after all obligations are met...
...The legal situation, therefore, is as follows: Tom Mooney is guilty of planting a bomb that killed one of ten men and is serving a life sentence for that crime, (as is Warren K. Billings), but Tom Mooney, charged with planting the sun* bomb that killed another Ban with the same blast, is acquitted because the state has no evidence to prosecute him...
...Hitherto that policy has been one of isolation, a pretense that what happened across the Atlantic was of little concern to us...
...The court's decision, written by Justice Crane, is to the effect that if the facts alleged are sustained they are sufficient to set the franchise aside...
...We are confident that thia mild alteration of the old doctrine of isolation would not have been conceded were it not for the stark danger of war into which the United States would be eventually dragged...
...It was regarded as a European problem, not a world problem that involved the fate of all nations...
...There can be no good-will between Hitler's Germany and the working masses of thia country and decent men and women in general...
...Nazi insolence in the free city of Danzig, in Upper Silesia and in the Saar Valley on the French frontier has also kept European nerves on edge...
...All organizations are asked to cooperate...
...That means that the United States would not supply materials to any nation that was being chastised by joint action of the powers...
...Any representative of this barbaric regime in this country should k» asal will be m« with eaeeration and loathing...
...MONEY ACQUITTED IS STILL IN J All...
...H i 11 e r was generally regarded as the idiot who might touch the match to the powder magazine, and the Roosevelt message was timed for one day before the Hitler s|>eech as a warning to the Nazi chief to l>e careful- There was a nervous tension in Berlin while Adolf pondered over his job...
...Involved is not only a sum of money estimated at $14,000,000 at the very least but also a principle of profound importance...
...The Socialist Party feels that the entertainment of any personal representative of Hitler is a disgrace and Insult not only to the masses of the American people but to those elements of the German people whose civil rights have been destroyed by the terror bands of Adolf Hitler and his aides...
...In the meantime Adolf's big brother, Mussolini, has somewhat cooled down, although in recent years he has roared like a lion ready to whip every nation in the world...
...Then came the statement at Geneva of Norman H. Ddvis, chief United States delegate to the Disarmament Conference, on Monday, which indicates an important change of American policy in relation to Europe...
...This bizarre result of the second Ifooncy trial brought to a close the attempt to review all the evidence thai resulted in a first degree mur-ier verdict shortly after the crime...
...Tentative plans are tor a demon-atration on June 6, at 11 a. m., at ^"y '(all, where a delegation Mailed by Norman Thomas and Npresoatatives of the unemployed r1" present their demands to the Board of Estimate...
...M. L. Campbell, Kingston, Jamaica...
...Street meetings on the 1st, 2nd and 5th are to be devoted to this subject...
...The United States is the strongest imperialist power in the' world and its assurance that it is interested in checking any power that may turn gangster has relieved the top-hat statesmen...
...One indictment remained untried jnd undismissed, charging Mooney with the murder of a second of the victims...
...It was hoped that a sincere prosecution of that indictment on the basis of the evidence that resulted in the original conviction would give the defense its first opportunity legally and officially to blast the testimony as perjured and purchased, something that has not yet been technically possible...
...Waldman's suit was contested by tha Corporation Counsel of the city and Clarence J. Shearn, appearing for the B. M. T., who maintained that even if tho charges made were true a franchise cannot be voided once it has been granted...
...The statement follows: "It is announced that Hans Weidemann, personal representative of Adolf Hitler, will arrive Thursday on his way to the World's Fair in Chicago...
...The demand for a complete Pardon goes on, buttressed by the tact that the state admitted it has so evidence...
...Mooney and his main attorney, Frank P. Walsh, insisted upon inch a trial, but when the case Anally came to trial after long and {heartbreaking delays the prose-hutor, William Murphy, told the eourt that the state had no case and rouId not prosecute...
...The New Leader keeps me informed about working class activities as no other periodical docs...
...Not until the German people are released from the chains In which they are bound csn such good-will be restored...
...Judge Louis H. Ward thereupon instructed the jury to bring in an acquittal on the ground that there was no evidence of guilt...
...Socialist opposition to war in all countries and educating the working class to th* need of acquiring power to destroy capitalism itself is the only secure guarantee of a warless world...
...Unemployed Units Plan City Hall Demonstration THK Workers' Unemployed league, in cooperation with the Socialist and Labor Conference on Unemployment Insurance, has issued a call for a conference of •II trade unions, fraternal bodies, onemployed organizations, church rroups, etc., for Saturday, May 87, •t 2 p. m., at the Rand School Auditorium, 7 East 15th Street, to Plan a demonstration at City Hall to protest against the recent action « the Home Relief Bureau in cut-u«* »U payments of rents of the unemployed...
...Waldman maintained in moving to set aside the franchise of the Brooklyn Bus Corporation that it had been granted by the Board of Estimate and Apportionment under Mayor Walker in violation of the city charter, wrongfully and in collusion with a favored corporation, that the franchise had been rushed through without other bidders being given a chance to make offers, and that no investigation was made of the finances and possible profits involved...
...The decision of the Court of Appeals seta aside a long-standing principle of Jaw that has stood as a barrier to progress and a bulwark of loot...
...That the situation is becoming critical has been indicated by the fact that marshal: handled over 12,000 eviction cases in March, where they handled 9,500 in February...
...German Jews have been brutally beaten, ousted out of their occupations, and reduced to a helot class...
...The result was a speech by Hitler that was in part the cooing of a ilove...
...Further than that, in the event that the States, in conference, determine that a State has been guilty of a breach of the peace in violation of its international obligations and take measures against the violator, if we concur in the judgment rendered as to the responsible and guilty party, we will refrain from any action tending to defeat such collective effort which these Hates may thus make to restore peace...
...War might well be the final blow that would end capitalism in the convulsions of a social revolution...
...War Temporarily Halted, but There Is Danger While Capitalism Lives EUROPE has been on the brink of war for months and it was this danger that prompted the Roosevelt message to the powers...
...Adolf sheathed his saber and waved a white flag...
...Authors, scientists, and philosophers of world reputation have either fled from Nazi Germany or they have been terrorized into silence...
...The Davis statement changed this ancient policy...
...Local branches of the Socialist Party have been asked to give full aid to this work...
...The income is about $4,000,000 a year...
...Waldmao Wins Important Decision From High Court Id Bus Franchise Case ALBANY...
...His mission is said to be to create friendly relations with the United States and to promote German-American trade...
...By a unanimous *" vote the Court of Appeals, the highest court of the state, sustained the contention of Louis Waldman, acting as counsel for the City Affairs Committee, that fraud and collusion on the part of New York city in granting a highly lucrative bus franchise to a subsidiary of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Transit are sufficient grounds to void the franchise...
...Any one who can spare the use of a car or truck on June 8th la requested to notify the office...
...The labwr, Socialist, cooperative and other sections of the labor movement in Germany have been crushed with savagery...
...r*3M MOONEY, charged with the murder of ten persons by slanting a bomb during the jingo 'Preparedness" parade in San Francisco in July, 1916, was ac-¦oitted by an instructed jury in Ian Francisco Wednesday, but he |i still in jail on a life sentence for planting the same bomb...
...It does not promise positive action with the powers should one run amuck but it pledges not to do anything that would interfere with joint action...
...Outside the fact that Mooney and Billings remain in jail, the cue resolves itself into a tragic farce...
...This has relieved the tension in Europe and provided a breathing spell...
...In preparation for the demonstration two days will be set aside when all relief stations in the city will be picketed, the tentative dates being June 2nd and 5th...
...This will be '•"owed by a parade down Broad-•»» t« Wall Street and to be *»»«h«d at a maaa meeting at the Battery...
...This is the principle established over a century ago by the Supreme Court of tho United States and sustained in countless caHes since...
...Arrangements are subject to approval of the conference...
...I am particularly interested in the foreign department and the articles by Fred Henderson...
...We must provide transportation for the unemployed...
...Some of the world's best literature has been consigned to the flames...
...The simplest and most accurate definition of an aggressor is one whose armed forces are found on alien soil in violation of treaties...
...Its most important sections are the following: "We are willing to consult the nt 11ci states in case of a threat to peace with a view to averting conflict...
...Each capitalist power has no sincere desire to yield any of its imperialist gains but at the same time they do not want some idiot like Hitler to upset the apple cart...
...Mooney, together with Warren K. Billings, had been convicted on an indictment charging them with the murder of one of the victims...
...However, the American concession in no final guarantee against another blood bath...
...SOCIALISTS IN PROTEST AGAINST WELCOME TO NAZI PROPAGANDIST DECLARING that the presence of Hans Weidemann, personal representative of Adolf Hitler in this country, is an insult to the people of the United States, the Socialist Parly of Local New York, through its secretary, Julius Gerber, issued a statement expressing the views of the city Socialist organization...
...Peace is within the keeping of the class-conscious worker* of the world alone...
...Under that decision it was held that the notorious "boodle" franchises for street railways in New York of the Jake Sharp days could not be voided, even after the men who negotiated tlicm were in jail...
Vol. 15 • May 1933 • No. 21
