A Socialist View of the Week
Ward, William Allen
A Socialist View of the Week Tear Dowi the Monuments By William Allen Ward 'TKAK down the monuments . . . Hi..* towers of stone erected on the boulevard to killers . . . Napoleon . . . and ...
...The depression has made it impossible for all legal bargains to be carried out...
...to the man who builds . . . who works...
...Contributor...
...Carl Severing, former Prussian Minister of the Interior, collapsed on s train enroule to the Reichstag meeting...
...Because that sweet harmony between Biother Capital and Brother Labor and olher groups with conflicting interests which the Roosevelt Administration fosters will not work...
...Such scoundrels should be hunted down and driven out of their dens...
...It will be a gangster election and nothing else...
...Judges do not faint and John Marshall continues his peaceful sleep of a century...
...Among these strikers are men who went over, seas in l'.M7 to "make the world safe for democracy...
...It was not as carefully read as it should be owing to the large smnunt of mate-riul that had to be edited that week and it slipped by us...
...Tear down the monuments erected to the master politicians who led the masses like a.tses along the murky paths of history...
...Charges of third degree methods used again t arrested strikers are made and it is said that a number where drilled the right to consult lawyers...
...Merited Criticism TIIK NEW LEADER has received several letters in criticism of a contributed article in the issue of May 13, entitled "Social Democracy in Danger...
...The mortgage "guarantee" companies simply do not guarantee although the guarantee is written in solemn documents duly signed and sealed...
...Many in>|iortant persons predicted that with the new power machinery poverty would be abol-i-hid There would be enough produced for all...
...They have that itch that is widespread in this country, a desire to get rich quick in s gambling game...
...They are swept along by the giant forces of industrial decay and do not know where they will land...
...Everywhere devoted friends are collecting coins and returning the boxes...
...Government itself will look out for labor interests...
...They sre alien to the Socialist movement snd like the slave Jo sny other form of gambling they return to the game after they have been skinned...
...They cannot make Amos, keag safe foi their families...
...A Socialist View of the Week Tear Dowi the Monuments By William Allen Ward 'TKAK down the monuments . . . Hi..* towers of stone erected on the boulevard to killers . . . Napoleon . . . and others of the cutthroat fang tear down the monu nients erected to butcher...
...It has substituted a ) cent additional tax uponjfgaaolene and^increased the normal income tax rates to a range of 6 tn in per cent and a tax on corporation dividends, but the struggle over the 'bill's provisions is by no means ended Why...
...United HI.I.......tit* 1 YtWI Is Partita) (vanities...
...This is the sarredness of contracts...
...We shall await with amuse ment the attempt to reconcile conflicts that are basic in capitalist industry but we predict that they will never be ironed out...
...On the other hand, readers should keep in mind the box announcement on thin page^ which states that signed articles "do not necessarily represent the policy of The New Leader...
...They are on strike against intolerable conditions...
...Millions of investors in all sorts of securities were "cleaned out" in the past four years and now many are again becoming "investment conscious...
...The former Socialist sheriff of Milwaukee County, Al Benson, declared at one strike neeting that "If I had been sheriff I would have made deputies out of milk pool members...
...Ilugenberg wants to preserve the big I'russian estates and Adolf wants to break them up...
...called for the votes of the workers last November and many of the strikers gave them...
...Minimum wages will be encouraged only in a few industries where sweatshop conditions exist...
...Small collection boxes have been designed in which collections are being made...
...The Nazis are also terrorizing in the Saar, ruled by a League of Na» tions commission, and the head of the commission has protested to the League...
...May these workers lesrn the lesson of class solidarity, win their strikes, snd go on to rapture the governing powers in the next elections...
...We are facing marked changes but they are mainly bandages and salves for preserving the possessions of the ruling classes...
...Security Charlatans And Jobless Exploiter* TTHE Better Business Bureau of New York City has for its mission to keep business gambling straight...
...The 30-hour week will be given lip-service, hut not enforced in a general way...
...Some 3,000 shoe workers are on strike in the same city, Manchester, N. II...
...About a -thousand delegates of the pool recently voted in favor of this affiliation, j These farmers also aim to establish a farmer-owned distribution system and i the cooperative pool idea has spread to | Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, New York and Illinois while pools are already organized in Ohio and Indiana...
...Farm Strikers Aim To Join A. F. of L. OUT of the tesr and gas bombs accompanying the strike of dairy farmers of Wisconsin may come the affiliation of the Cooperative Milk Fool with the American Federation of Labor...
...SUBSCRIPTION KATES i 1 Tsar in Ida United States...
...The Mayor called for the troops and the Governor sent them...
...The Commissar issued a manifesto saying, "The State is ours and so are industry and business enterprise.1* This made Hugo uncomfprtable...
...It will be socialization with "private ownership and operation, but public control and planning...
...That does not look very promising for the workers...
...The "partnership of all interests" refuses to emerge by the waving of a wand...
...The Bureau warns that tipster sheet operators and security charlatans are again active in "testing out their sucker lists" with the view of drawing in some oodles of cash...
...There is an especially revolting racket that is more contemptible than robbing a blind man of his collection...
...Quite a group of German scientists have become Hitler's bootlickers and certain Nazi authors have announced that they will combat the world in support of Nazi "culture...
...He reversed the order of a Nasi Commissar who was going too far in penetrating in* dustry...
...I»l«, al Post Olltt ' Naw Task, aatter art «f March I...
...Every party branch in the country should have a number of these boxes...
...They should be used at every meeting and the boxes returned as soon as possible...
...Pressure is being exerted to extend the bankruptcy act to include cities and corporations, which indicates a lower tempo of capitalism...
...We Join our critics in disagreeing with It as it does not represent The New Leader's editorial policy...
...Election returns are coming in accompanied with tear gas bombs...
...The Rand School Drive IN the family of Surtaliat inatitationa there are ' a* favorites, bat there are time* when one mem lit-i m in store distress than any other and when this occurs all others should help to get it out of its difficulties Thin is the situation now facing the Rand School of Social Science, the pioneer in labor education in the United Stales Hnn4re4kt of branches and aysspalhetic organisations are cooperating ia the drive to raise the fund of $17,004) that is required to meet the most pressing essergeaey the school hss fsced in its career It survived the wsr terror when it was raided s number of times and efforts were made to strangle it by srhitrsry legislation...
...Nazi promises to all sorts of groups are now returning to plague Hitler...
...Steel brlnieted militiamen hurl tear gas bombs into the ranks of the striken and local police are added to the military force...
...Two Pain of Nervous Nellies in Nazi Reich "TMIE cost of living is going up )i Ger-* msny and housewives are grumbling...
...However, the article that was criticized was in a different category and we again congratulate the comrades who were quirk to point it out...
...Months la Ik...
...We want to congratulate these comrades for their scrutiny' of the columns of The New lender and to agree with them that their criticisms are justified...
...We seem to be drifting to general insolvency with the jdecsy of thst holy of holies, *he breaking of contracts in wholesale...
...Hitler has also demanded of Finland the return of the former Socialist Min» ister of Finance for Prussia and the Nazis have so terrorized the free city of Danzig that they are practically cer« tain of carrying the election on Sunday...
...So the class struggle bobs up in one of the most important bills of the administration in the very week when Roosevelt philosophers announce that the administration will represent "all interests...
...It's an old story...
...Quite a number of contributions hsve also appeared to which objection might be made on the ground that a sentence or a paragraph is not in accord with Socialist principle or policy and even the best informed writers will make a mistake or be misunderstood...
...The law is a steel net for catching small offenders but a spider's web which powerful financial institutions break through...
...Socialism will abolish the conflicts, not try to reconcile them...
...The Nazis have seized 600 tons of Marxist literature which will be sold for pulp...
...lii' liuild new monuments . . . monuments to the toilers...
...Eateied at Stcaad Class Matter...
...If you have not received yours, write immediately to Bertha Mailly, 7 Bant 15th Street, New York Cltf...
...It will be interesting to observe the outcome of the farmers attempt to affiliate with the organized workers of the cities...
...That is what the Socialist sheriff did in the steel strike in 1919 with the result that no brutalities occured as they did in strike areas in other states...
...It is s fine example of how changed economic conditions nullify solemn stat- j utes and judicisl decisions...
...Before we were awsre of any criticism, we considered the same issues in the issue of May 20 in the fifth editorial on the second page and those who read it will observe that it ia in marked contrast with the contributed article in the previous issue...
...Jan-¦ary It...
...This service declares that the increasing control of railroads, industry and agriculture is a "permanent revolution" but it will take ten or twenty years to perfect it...
...This statement shows confused thinking for the quotation implies a half-way station between private capitalism and state capitalism...
...Another So...
...Bandages and Salves For Sick Capitalism r*KOM the Washington financial news ¦ service from which we hsve previously quoted one gets the impression of politicians caught in a Kansas twister...
...Old Man Depression Kills Sacred Contracts /\NE sacred dogma of capitalistic property that is wrapped in the folds of the Constitution has gone into the discard...
...both official...
...Class Conflict* Disturb Roosevelt's "Partnership" "TMIK House Committee on the public * building program has rejected the sales tax which, if incorporated, was to be known as a "re employment tax...
...One means of helping the school has been pro, durtive of aubstsntisl financial aid, although the full sum required has not yet been realized...
...The article came from a parly member who is living abroad, who is much concerned over what happened in Germany...
...U 1 Tear t» < nutria...
...Job hunters are being offered employment if they will invest savings in the company and are then discharged unless they are willing to invest additional funds...
...cialist, a Reichstag Deputy, was found dead by the side of s railroad...
...The propaganda in 0f railroads and factory enterprise at that period was much like Hoover's later worship of mass production A century has passed and A i.....kiag has become a vast plant employing 7,800 workers...
...Hitler promised higher prices to farmers and lower prices for workers and Adolf cannot satisfy both...
...LcI'n put this tine job over without delay...
...THE NEW LEADEB, an official publication of the Socialist Party, supports the itrutslri of the organised working claiii...
...Tear Bomb Gas For Amoskeag Strikers WORK than a hundred years ago the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in New Hampshire was hatched with the usual "idealism...
...In normal times any violation of contracts has been considered the unpardonable sin but Old Man Depression came along and wiped out millions of solemn words which judges have been piling up in learned legal opinions since the days of John Marshall...
...Manuscripts that cannot be used will not be returned unless return postage la enclosed...
...They avoid fulfilling these contracts and do so with the as] Bent of the public authorities...
...We have little sympathy for those on the "sucker lists" of the security skinners...
...Hugenberg, Hitler's Junker colleague in the Cabinet, is getting nervous...
...On the other hand big business: favors its organization into big trade associations, One Big Unions for the owners of capital...
...Trade unions will not be recognized although collective bargaining will be encouraged...
...It did not yield to the patriotic crowd thst would have abandoned their attacks if the school would only agree to be a "safe" institution...
...are requested not to write on lioth tides of the paper and not to use lead pencil or red Ink...
...It appears that Nazi "culture" was deadly in both cases...
...Signed contributions do nut necessarily represent the policy of i'h« New I .rmirr On the other hand it welcomes a variety of opinions consistent with Its il.i iiinl purpose...
...Voa Papen hinted at a return of the monarchy . and this makes Adolf nervous...
...Two psirs of Nervous Nellies maintain a precarious alliance in the Nazi heaven...
...The plight of small home owners and investors in mortgages shows that the depression exercises a veto stronger than the veto of the courts...
...Mase meetings are being held in many counties of Wisconsin to protest Sgainst attacks by state militia and strikebreakers...
...Or- I ganized capitalists want to kill the guar- | an tee of labor's right to organize in all I industries and labor wants this right written into the bill...
Vol. 15 • May 1933 • No. 21
