A Socialist View of the Week
A Socialist View of the Week A FOOL By WiHssum Alta Weard 'Tartnewhip" of Labor And Capital Shaky OMOTHERING the class struggle in a *^ "partnership" of all classes aimed by the "New Deal" is...
...But M'So is owner...
...We hope that the silk hats that are affected by this order will not have to go into the breadline but it is one shuttle in the "New Deal" that we approve...
...Governor Schmedeman, son of a refugee of the German revolution of 1848, served the reaction with these troops...
...One of the shocking aspects of a poverty-stricken nation is that quite a number of fat corporation executives have fed at the public crib through' R.F.C...
...II** I Tear Is Canada...
...Nazi Antics in Danzig And the German Reich A wireless to the New York Times from Berlin states that German recovery "slackens its pace" and that Hitler's work-creation plan has not created work...
...nd.r act at Merck I...
...SUBSCRIPTION KATES i 1 Tear in the United Statu...
...The bill will abolish gold payments where such payments are pledged in obligations...
...On the other hind It welcomes « variety of opinions consistent with Its declared purpose...
...TIIK NEW LEADER, an official publication of the Socialist Party, aupiwrts the struggles of the organised working cliis...
...We are going through not an ordinary periodical crisis...
...So the class antagonism rooted deep in capitalist society bobs up in one of the chief measures of the administration...
...it is the breakdown of capitalism itself...
...A Socialist View of the Week A FOOL By WiHssum Alta Weard 'Tartnewhip" of Labor And Capital Shaky OMOTHERING the class struggle in a *^ "partnership" of all classes aimed by the "New Deal" is running against the rocks aa we predicted...
...Yes, he was a fool . . . Fool for writing poetry in an age when Men care for dollars . . . high-powered cars . . . Big guns . . .1 trust" is aiming to establish Socialism...
...At the same time J. P. was paying an income tax in England...
...An increasing number of them are unable to guarantee a minimum of food and shelter to many workers...
...One reads these items with clenched fists and wonders whether there is a breaking point in this ghastly suffering from the decay of capitalism...
...But if the government can repudiate, why can we not all follow its example...
...has led In directing wage reductions in industries through, out the nation, reducing families of workers to destitution snd suffering...
...In fact, the breach widens between the Nasis and the Nationalists each week, and Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, states that "there will be only one party in Germany soon...
...Compensation...
...Walk about flowers without trying To place a value in dollars and cents On them...
...Court costs have been assessed against them and they have been released on bail pending an appeal...
...lief becomes ever more critical and late last week witnesses filed before a committee to toll harrowing tales of human beings existing in some way without money, with insufficient food and the terror of evU tion a constant threat Experiences with "hard boiled" relief agents, the maddening delays and the insufferable red tape of various relief agencies related by desperate men and women brought tears to the (yes of many...
...Its masters have not prevented its decay and its statesmen are rushing to the rescue with bandages, salves, liniments, braces and opiates...
...Entered aa Second Class Matter, Jen »»rr II, 1114, at the Put OfSee at New Tork...
...That is a good general rale hot there are occasions when only the oaths of drunken sailors seem appropriate...
...In the cities victims of the depression have economised on the use of milk by-products, surpluses have accumulated, and price-cutting has followed...
...The Senator says that the "New Deal" sings the praises of Jackson and Jefferson but that the melody rounds more like the "preachings of Norman Thonuu, Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler...
...Socialists have 18 seats, a loss of 8, and Communists 5 seats, a loss of 2. Rauschning, Nazi head of the new administration, after a conference with Hitler, announces that the "coordination" going on in Germany will not be attempted in Danzig...
...The Senator should be grateful for this service to his class and the mine owners of his state should discipline him...
...Why...
...Because the capitalist system is in a horrible mess...
...The capitalist, banking and Junker cliques that financed Hitler are feeling the Fascist noose coiling about their necks...
...The banking oligarchy ordered a general reduction of the buying- power of the masses, ordered city governments to cat wages of city employes to the bone before it would grant loans, while in the meantime it was paying no income tsx...
...Within three months after the Democracy took over the government we learn that 300 "key men" ia politics sad business were taken care of by J. P. Morgan SI Co...
...Gerard Swope of General Electric takes the leadership of big capital in evading the labor provisions of the Industrial Control bill...
...The Morgan Oligarchy •yilKRE may be those who think that we ahoaM in all cases discuss phases of capitalism in nice academic terms...
...Manuscripts that cannot he used will not be returned unless return postage Is enclosed...
...tionalist papers have been suppressed, the Nationalist Premier of Mecklenburg has been replaced by a Nazi, four Stahlhelm leaders have been arrested, Nationalist students have been forbidden to hold a meeting in Jena, and one called to discuss the future of the monarchy has been forbidden...
...The farmers are caught in the decay of production for exchange and Socialist production for use is their only redemption from exploitation...
...They were not bribed, they were offered an opportunity to make "easy money" and thus feel a sense of gratitude to the most powerful banking oligarchy in the world...
...Socialists polled 38,200 and Communists 14,800...
...in all the history <>f capitalism we have never had such an instance of corporate greed and arrogance and cruelty...
...The Times goes back to Roosevelt's campaign speeches to show that he vigorously condemned the course he now supports in this bill, one quotation being a deadly condemnation of it...
...Repudiation of Gold Contract* V AST week we commented on the repudiation of contracts as a result of the depression...
...their credit is threatened, and they warn that more cities "will be forced to default for the first time in their history," A continuance of this trend means increasing insolvency by local governments...
...He loved to view the sunset...
...Last week a prominent Nationalist was reported as committing suicide...
...We may now inquire, What kind of "quiet life" is von Schleicher leading...
...A call has also gone out to anti-union manufacturers in all industries to ward off the extension of union organisation...
...Month...
...The spotlight shifts and we learn that the firm made no income tax return for 1930, msde a return as of January 2, 1931, and then claimed loeses of over twenty millions in two days when preparing an alibi...
...later reports were that he was murdered and it is said that he gave the information on which the Manchester Guardian story of Nasi atrocities was based...
...Ghastly Human Casuals Of Decaying Capitalism A survey by the National Industrial Conference Board shows a decline in the cost of living of 27.0 per cent for April as compared with the same month in im bat titia means little to the massea who have no incomes and not much to those workers who have taken heavy wa«e cuts in this same period...
...The Protestant Church appears to have resisted Nasi rule and the defeated Nazi candidate for Reich Bishop declares that his opponents broke an agreement for an election by church members...
...theories and constitutions must be messed in the hope of saving it...
...United States...
...Mayors of fifty Isrge cities have sent a Joint appeal to Congress for help...
...He is frightened because of the trend of government policy but he doesn't knew whether it is capitalism, Socialism, Communism or Fascism...
...In In...
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...1 Year to Foreign Coantrlee...
...The call declares that labor "proposes to see that the measure" shall not be used exclusively for the owners of industry...
...We are thinking of the investigation of the Morgan banking crowd...
...A few days later the director of the Welfare Council, representing 000 city and private charitable and relief organisations, sounded a warning of declining funds, of families being dropped from relief rolls, and the need of merging all relief work under a general staff...
...loans while men, women and children have gone hungry...
...Th,i ilnce is, And en'er wan...
...Local Government Debts Forecast Insolvency THE total of local and state long-term government obligations has doubled since the World War and has now reached 118,685,000,000, according to a report of the Twentieth Century Fund...
...In New York City the probltm of re...
...A Coal Senator on The "Brains Trust" (SENATOR HATFIELD of West Vlrffinia, apologist for the coal oligarchy In that state, has discovered that the Roosevelt Administration's "brains HE was a fool . . . A fool according to the tight Of men who sit on board of directors...
...The gentlemen who have taken advantage of the "leak" have also objected to any increase in their income tax "burden" while tens of millions of workers have found it difficult to get hresd for their families...
...Contributors are requested not to write on both ildra of the paper nml not to use lead pencil or red Ink...
...Its enactment, as the New York Times declares, means repudiation "of a solemn and explicit engagement" of the government itself...
...The U. S. Chamber of Commerce also offers help to the ruling Babbitts in whstever they undertake...
...However, the strikers have won an inquiry into the milk situation...
...On the Morgan string are high Republican and Democratic chiefs, a member of the U. S. Supreme Court, two former officials of the State Department, the present Secretary of the Treasury, ex-President Coolidge, and Norman H. Davis, American spokesman at Geneva...
...It is estimated that due to deduction of capital losses under the law the yield to the government from income taxes in general was cut in two...
...He proposes to set up social insurance of workers in the electric kingdom and the unions will continue as outlaws...
...Why this repudiation of gold contracts, this violation of a bask principle of capitalist property...
...Adolf wants to avoid foreign complications...
...These linancial swine have earned the execration of tens of millions existing on starvation rations and the masses are justified in demanding the surrender of this oligarchy to n program of nationalization...
...Signed contributions do not necetsarlly represent the policy of The New leader...
...With their allies they have 38 seats to 84, although the popular vote was about equally divided between both...
...Two Na...
...Morgan & Co...
...In eleven states the income per capita has shrunk at rates in excess of the aversge for the whole country...
...J. I...
...We are reminded of what Emerson once wrote of compensation to slave owners: ** Compensation to the oniterf Ayt\ and fill the ttup to the brim...
...The whole address gives the measure of the man...
...The returns to dairy farmers have been as low as 1 eent a quart and the average over large areas and for a long period has been \yi cents...
...News by way of Vienna on Tuesday reported the jailing of former Chancellor von Schleicher, Nationalist, and the next day a report from Potsdam stated that he was leading a "quiet life" in Berlin...
...A New Shuffle That Meets Our Approval 'I'HE Reconstruction Finance Corpora* tion has ruled that no coiporations paying huge salaries to executives will receive any loans till such salaries are reduced from 10 to 60 percent, the reduction being determined by the size of the salary received...
...in secret offers of corporstion stock at' prices far below the market...
...Farmers in Three Depression Areas WITH over 3,000 militiamen armed ™ with guns and tear gas in the, field, the striking farmers of Wisconsin have been beaten down...
...As was expected, the Hitlerites polled a bare majority in the Danzig election last Sunday after weeks of intensive terror...
...On Tuesday we learn that the firm made nearly ten millions in these two depression years, more on the sale of securities snd its underwriting business than in the boom year of 1929, but due to the faulty law it escaped payment of taxes...
...The "partnership" of Brother Labor and Brother Capital is • myth...
...About 1,120 local governments in 42 states have defaulted in their bond obligations up to last February, and one state, Arkansas, defaulted...
...What is happening, dear Senator, is the decay of the capitalist system of which you are a spokesman...
...The most remarkable example of this is offered by tin Roosevelt Administration's gold repeal resolution which passed the House on Monday by a vote of 283 to 57...
...AH this is countered by the American Federation of Labor which, through President Green, has railed a meeting of the executive officials of all national and international unions to meet in Washington next Tuesday "to secure for the workingmen and women of the nation all the rights and benefits which are guaranteed in provisions of the bill...
...Price-fixing of milk by the state In western New York has brought a suspension of the demonstrations of the farmers in that area...
...Since the government's gold repeal resolution is retroactive, why not give this rule the same character and proceed to recover something of the past salaries the plug, hats have been receiving...
...Out in Iowa seven striking farmers have been sentenced to various terms in jail for attacking Judge Bradley in April...
...But this is not all...
...Not knowing, he lumps all together in an address so stupid that he has earned the admiration of all Moron ia...
...Economic conditions dictate a course which in normal timeH would cause politicians to shudder and the ruling classes to howl with rage...
Vol. 15 • June 1933 • No. 22
