Our Answer to the"NewDeal"
Oneal, Jama
By Jama Oneal Our Answer to the"NewDeal" Democratic Program Proposes to Move Forward and Backward at the Same Time While It Undermines "Radicalism" and Represents All Classes. A NEW YORK...
...more culture than any of them...
...It abandoned defense of property in slaves and became the party of the small capitalist to the end of the nineteenth century, but for 33 years it has wooed the big capitalist and banker and finally won their confidence...
...For Supervisor, Chas...
...J Ramsay could not find, in the Labor Party, the cultured ease that he needed...
...He adds that "labor has rights as well as the employer, that the debtor as well as the creditor, must be protected...
...With the Socialist local but a few months old, the comrades placed a candidate on the ballot for every office...
...But, observe that the administration proposes to rise above group and class Interests...
...The Democracy rules at a period when capitalistic property is decaying...
...These considerations throw light on the Roosevelt program...
...The meeting constituted a preliminary conference, designed to draw Into tha campaign on behalf of the school every Workmen's Circle branch In Greater New York and vicinity...
...Socialism is th* movement of the working claaa for obtaining this object...
...Senator Wagner also outlines the new Democratic faith...
...This Welch division believed in him when few people did—in the days after the war...
...And yet something has happened...
...Holloway received 291 voles, and Carl Watne, candidate for Town Clerk, 2 8 3 . For the short period that the Socialist local la organized in Nokomis, this vote shows remarkable strength and Influence that Socialism has and is making headway in a town where there haa been no Socialist organization for a number of years...
...They do their bit and then they pass •n—or, sometimes, they go over to the enemy...
...A NEW YORK TIMES correspondent Iff Washington pre gtats the basic idea of the Roosevelt Administration...
...Other opinions of a similar character are quoted...
...A Striking Change This is a striking change in Democratic Party history...
...State capitalism and corporation capitalism arc fundamentally the same...
...Although none of the Socialist candidates were elected, Robert McLean, Socialist candidate for Justice of Peace, received 3 04 votes, Frank R. Luschnig 299, and George Janzekovich 2 7 0 . For Constable, William McLean led the Socialist candidates with 3 0 3 votes...
...Many of them would do much to relieve the masses, anything but get off their hacks, anything that did not dint HI l, the bat is of the slave system...
...The Democracy is compelled to intervene...
...We wast no corporate eapiaaliasa and no state capitalises...
...The industriaf crisis compels Roosevelt to follow the same policy...
...The only difference between the "New Freedom" and the "New Deal" is the character of the crisis out of which each issued...
...The Socialist candidates for supervisor, school trustee, town clerk and other township offices polled a remarkable vote in the recent elect ion j here...
...2 8 8 . The Socialist candidate for School Trustee, V. Pintar, polled 284 votes...
...He and R^mtsv are an eternal ••ntrast...
...The workers have identical interests throughout the nation...
...Rivera's own work is also a contribution to the Socialist cause as typified by the Rand School...
...What is it...
...Well, leaders come and go...
...Wilson's "New Freedom" eventually proved to be sn era of amazing profiteering and jailing of Socialists and others for their a n d war attitude...
...The Democracy looks forward to a "new deal" and declares that "We are going back to the fuith...
...He was a poor man then, and with few friends...
...What benefit* one class injures the other lesson of human solidarity in the struggle to be free...
...mechanics and several millions of illiterate poor whi^ps without any interest in preserving slave property, There were "kind" owners and fine "gentlemen" holding office in the South and in Washington...
...No claaa above ever funded freedom to the claaa below...
...So he went over to the aristocrats who he thought possessed it...
...It is likely to become the heir to bankrupt enterprises...
...He said he was acquainted with its 27 years of struggle for workers' enlightenment and workers' emancipation...
...Hillquit himself possesses some exceptional reproductions of Rivera's work...
...We want a Cooperative Commonwealth of free men and women, free of the robbery, the uncertainty, the ware, the miseries of a social system that is rotting all over the world...
...So declared Lord Allen of Hurtwood [the former Clifford Allen, once chairman of the I.L.P., elevated to the peerage by MacDonald.—Ed.], as we call him now- when we mention him— I" his little-known apologia...
...Alexander, of Branch 696, pre sided, and S. Roaen, of the City Committee, acted as aecretary...
...And except the Masters of the llread yield in time to its nemesi*, Hurling them and all their works before it Amid booming of the one dread tocsin-word, "REVOLUTION...
...The Federal Government more and more places its hands upon agriculture and industry...
...Out of this we may get State Capitalism a* a subttitut* for private capitalism...
...He says: "The administration is ready to employ the centralised resources •f the government as one of the means of correcting the maladjustments in the relations between capital and labor, agriculture and industry, creditors and debtors, one business and another...
...Credit for obtaining Rivera's offer of his a r t goes to Miss Anna BercOwitz, executive secretary of the school...
...It is understood that, while the artist is on the scaffold, admissions will be charged to watch him, the income to go to the Rand School drive for $ 1 7 , 0 0 0 . The school has developed the slogan, "Save the Rand School for Rivera's a r t ." The artist said he could think of no more appropriate building than the Rand School for the rejected Rockefeller art...
...But the Cause reauina...
...By Jama Oneal Our Answer to the"NewDeal" Democratic Program Proposes to Move Forward and Backward at the Same Time While It Undermines "Radicalism" and Represents All Classes...
...Truly, the** b* threa Mighty Word...
...Secretary Ickes sayat "Tha old concept made farmer and wage earner fair game for ruthless high finance, long-tenacled and powerful...
...The new concept concedes to these men a chance to live and an effective voice in their way of livelihood...
...essence, it wai authoritatively stated, w i th special application, however, to the American labor movement...
...W* are engaged in s class battle for th* liberation of ourselves and our families...
...We are going back to the faith...
...Raymond Moley, Assistant Secretary of State, says that this idea is "an American purpose, older than Jefferson," but it is "coupled with a new sense of unity born largely" of the depression...
...Had the stales in the South taken over the natural resources and slaves anil preserved the slave economy as state enterprises there would have been little alteration in the lot of the poor whites...
...This decay has buried tens of millions of the working class in a common suffering...
...So long as the owners continue to own or share their ownership with th«* government the workers will rerrsin a subject class So long em there are classes with interest* that conflict there can be no equal consideration by the government of each group...
...small farm owners and tenants owning none...
...It is not...
...Rivera's associates, who worked with him on the Rockefeller Centre project, have offered to decorato other sections of the school gratis, and their offer was accepted...
...The natural resources, the ma* chine* and Industries, saust be brought antler cooperative owner* ship and democratic control...
...It is based on cooperation and individual liberty...
...Capitalist and laborer, banker and borrower, creditor and debtor, landlord and tenant, exploiter and exploited will all be united in a partnership, a "common interest in national well being and prosperity...
...Wilson proposed to curb "radicalism" and Roosevelt proposes to do the same thing...
...What of the future of the "New Deal...
...Workmen's Circle Aid* Delegatea from forty New York branches of the Workmen's Circle, meeting in the Rand School auditorium, voted unanimously to endorse the drive for $17,000 and to participate in tha fund-raising campaign...
...Their life will not be fundamentally changed by substituting the state for the corporation...
...The Republicans ascended to power when slave property was on the decline as a power in the republic...
...Morris Hillquit, Algernon Lee, Harry Lichtenberg and Dr...
...Presented in clever phrases it is intended to undermine "radicalism" by inducing poorly informed workers to accept it as s substitute...
...The Democracy was the party of the s i a v e owning magnates, but during the Civil War it* struggle to change its policy was a painful one...
...Rivera showed great that he will proceed to work immediately...
...Wilson looked forward to a "new freedom" and backward to Jefferson...
...The murals will adorn the Meyer London Memorial Library on the enthusiasm for the unique wall space the Rand School library offers for his subject and declared second floor...
...OUT of the myriad* of word* this be three that *hake the heart* of men* I Th* rush and road of th* tnm-delvgc down th* mountain's *te«p flank...
...It bear* a striking resemblance to the "New F reedom of Woodrow Wilson, which he explained in a book bearing that title...
...We, the workers, are chained to the system of capitalistic property as the working masses one* were to slave property...
...It is their duty to fight for them, not look to politicians of a capitalistic party to represent thasa...
...TTiia was the basic economic layer upon which was built the whole structure of slave society and its groups and classes...
...Diegd Rivera's Murals to Adorn the Rand School J \ I E t i O RIVKRA'S great mural decorations, reflated by 4he Rockefeller interests because they included a portrait of Lenin, will adorn the walls of the Rand School, it was announced by the school following a conference lielween the noted artist and officials of the school M a k i n g allowances f or the difference in wall space, the c e n t r a l working -class theme of Rivera's famous mural will be retained in it...
...There were merchants owning no slaves...
...It is supported by statements of the PrasiItnt's advisers...
...The KooU of Misery The workers of the nation must come to understand that the basic causes of the depressi in and of their misery are rooted in the corporate ownership of natural resources, industries, railroads, etc...
...The "New Deal" is of the same character...
...The white peril eliding and tmoking toward the settlement of high-perched chalet* in its path, While frantic runner* through th* village ttreet cry their warning— All conveyed in open-throated tyttable* of the one terror-word, •AVALANCHE...
...Slaves and Estates Is thin true...
...Just as the life of the mechanics, tenant farmers and poor whites in the South was determined by the basic institution of slave property, so the life of m a n y millions of rural and industrial workers today is determined by the basic institution of capit a l i ' t ownership of induitry...
...The old South was based upon private ownership of large estates and slaves...
...BIG V O T E P O L L ED IN N O K O M I S , ILL...
...That ia oar answer to the "New Deal...
...Owners of capital and sellers of labor power, farmers and banking usurers, will get equitable treatment...
...NOKOMIS, III...
...Rivera's art is a contribution to the Rand School during its present drive for $17,000 to prevent the school from being foreclosed...
...S a v i n g capitalism takes the form of the "new deal" as outlined ubove...
...Yes, and I slept last night In the bed in which he used to rest in those dark days...
...I t proposes to represent all interests...
...To Morris Hillquit, Socialist Party national chairman and adviser of the school, Rivera suggested that such noted leaders of the masses as Eugene V. Debs, Abraham Lincoln, John Brown and others should appear in the panels...
...Eventa scheduled in the Interest of the Rand School drive include a dinner at Shindler's Restaurant, Hotel Imperial, June 9. A bridge party, the proceeds to go to the campaign, will be held at the Bronx headquarters of the Socialist Party June 19...
...This "new deal" is not a deliberate choice but the outcome of necessity...
...Forward and Back There is another similarity...
...He shared his With 1 common people and aought beauty, not for his own life, but for those of others...
...August Grill received 259, John Tsylor 278, and Andrew Cibulka, Jr...
...They must learn to rely upon their own intelligence, numbers, organisation and power...
...It returns to pvuer under extraordinary circumstances...
...Sectional considerations are abandoned and the •Id idea of ind:vidualism is doomed The nation as a whole will be considered, each group and class will be taken care of and •radicalism" will be undermined...
...T H E C A U S E R E M A I N S . . . | WAS In Aberavon yesterday, * writes Hannen Swaffer in the London Daily Herald, speaking at the May Day meeting in the constituency which sheltered Ramsay when his future looked so black that he couldn't see one...
...Today I visit, for the first time, Kelmscott, the home of William Morris...
...William Morris ''ai...
...L. Shore will be hostess...
...The total vote was approximately 1,700, of which the Democrats polled 364 straight ballots, the Republicans 2 3 1 and the Socialists 189...
...The Democrats return to power when capitalistic property has brought the worst disaster in our history, but it is still a power in the republic...
...It is the old creed of Wilson in a new suit of clothe...
...Freedom is a prize to bt won, not to be received a* a gift...
...n After ominoue tUcnoe, the nreaming bellow and tiger-pounce of twisting cloud, Greenish-black, ragg*i, lightnlng-fanged, Crunching village* to their eyelone-cellar* And tucking pond* and itrtamt dry in it* track With fugitive* thoutmg b*for* it* flertc advancing funnel Th* portentous alarm-word, "TORNADOI" III After long endurance of injustice, plunder and starvation, The crashing overswirl of all barrier* by the delayed but *ure requital, Retitllet* a* the plunging snow-burden of the high sierra, furious as th* gyrating blast of the prairie...
...The crisis of the war compelled Wilson to exercise extraordinary powers over the railroads, industry and agriculture...
...William Bohn, all associated with the Rand School...
...There can be no peace, no security, no industrial freedom, under this system...
...Let us take an example...
...The Democracy un.it> to save the basic institutions of capitalism, while the Republicans took up the task of destroying the institutions of slave property...
Vol. 15 • May 1933 • No. 21
