A Socialist View of the Week (Mill Girl)
Ward, William Allen
A Socialist View of the Week MILL GIRL By William Allen Ward SHE was like other girl* . . . She wanted a new dreaa ... her ambition Was to be attractive . , . so is the ambition Of the...
...It is a world crisis and the world's specialists are to diagnose the ailment...
...To a workleas existence with iu ant, ger and privations must be added tins death-toll indictment of capitalism, h is a fearful price for the masses to fern for the continued rule of the capitalist class — Hitler's Master Plan Not a Master Stroke KIAZI Germany has yielded on the en...
...In the United States 23,000 human brings took their own lives and many other countries recorded new high marks...
...The Communists on this iasue as on all others in the past have shown an iron discipline...
...Members have been divided and some heat has accumulated because of the divergent opinions...
...TIIK NEW LEADER, an official publication or Hi* Socialist Purly, tupportt Hm straggles of the organised working class...
...Upper Silesia, giving way to a decision of the Council of the League of Nations, but we doubt whether the Nazis will fully live up to this retreat...
...When we wrote we did not have the figures of the salaries paid by some of the big insurance companies buy the Chicago Daily Newt has given some details of five companies...
...Deliberately to provoke those who disagree with you is to raise a barrier against possible education of potential converts...
...Either we are a collection of autonomous groups bearing no responsibility to the party as a whole or we shall recognise thia responsibility by observing some reasonable discipline that will keep our ranks intact...
...Most of the leading nations are off the gold standard and ten billion dollars are owed by European nations to the United States and it isnt likely that the full sum will ever be paid...
...The modern prostrations have come with regularity whether war had been waged or not...
...If a student venerates the American flag ;t is due to his training and education...
...refusal to conduct the Wagner festivi* ties at Bayreuth and they have revoked the radio ban on his works...
...There is no enduring cure for it short of a Socialist holding company for capitalism in each country and based upon the ethic of no income without some useful service...
...Last week we called attention to the Khaki shirts...
...A comparison between the salaries paid in 1929, the year of the Wall Street crash, and n 1932, shows that these executives have in general received handsome increases...
...the director...
...In no outer period has there been such widespread misery, such a hopeleas outlook for adequate relief, after nearly four years of privations...
...This is a psychic product of our depression era...
...the millionaire...
...S Mantfca In Ik* United stale*.....»' •* I V*at to F.r.l...
...We hope that many of our members have learned something by thia recent experience...
...1 ' forcement of anti-Jewish laws fa...
...The death toll in New York City increased from 18.8 for the five preceding years to 22.1 per cent in 1932...
...California wants "America for All Americans" snd New York wants "America First...
...The Democratic Party came into the seats of power because it could not be chsrged with responsibility at Washington, not because it had earned the support of the distressed millions of workers...
...On the other hand It welcomes a variety of opinions consistent with its declared purpose...
...Now say what you will...
...This week we get a Blue Shirt circular from the Hotel Westover in New York City...
...There had been depressions before but they generally followed some long war...
...President Zamora objected last week to the terms of the church law which prohibits teaching by religious order* This week it is reported that the Ministry of Education is rushing the establishment of lay schools and that the republic will take over $500,000,000 s| church property for secular education...
...Nor will the "radical" give up his special banner if conservatives burn it...
...In Germany the Nazis celebrated bonfires of Marxist and other literature, the assumption being that if this literature is destroyed that is the end of Marxism...
...That is to say, the exploiters have(one view and the workers another...
...The latter also wants to restore confidence...
...Our aim is to eliminate all our opponents from German politics," said the Nazi...
...The Nazis also backed down on the Olympic games to be held in Bar...
...Individual Nazis have combined patriotism with profit and as self-appointed commissars some of them have been jailed by order of the Nazi chiefs...
...Contributors ' are requested not to write on both lidr) of the paper and not to use lead pencil or red Ink...
...During the war and post-war period 100 per cent patriota in many localities staged similar stunts They raided Socialist headquarters and burnt Socialist banners and literature...
...CaantrlM...
...in a depression, many workers take their own lives...
...Roll of Depression Suicides Increases M/IIKN capitalist imperialism sends " workers to war the result is enormous destruction of material wealth...
...A button is pressed in Moscow and they respond in all nations...
...They cut her salary . . . then, the mills closed . . . Hunger whipped with a cutting lash...
...Finally, the Nazis have also re...
...Signed contributions do not necessarily represent the policy of Thi New leader...
...We' v anxious to do our bit in saving the nation from the bow-wows...
...The California brand offers 10 issues and the New York brand seven...
...To that job let ua turn with earnestness and a determined will...
...I Powerless Workers THE patience of American workers under the most trying conditions ia striking...
...But our party organizations have gone to the other extreme...
...The Board of Aldermen passed a bill on Tuesday to raise $17,500,000 in revenue from taxes on motor vehicles and from bridge tolls...
...Manuscripts thai cannot !>• used will not bo returned unless rctura pottage Is enclosed...
...Will they be disillusioned before the next Congressional elections...
...Insurance Executives Get Salary Increases LAST week we approved the ruling of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation that corporations paying huge salaries to executives will not receive any loans till heavy reductions are made in these salaries...
...When capitalism enters a depression physical assets of society remain intact but its paper tokens, bonds, stocks, etc., suffer enormous destruction...
...Join Our Pajamas Crusade And Help Save America...
...Goebbels, the wild man, again than* dered last week...
...in a new dress . . . whispering rhingF to men...
...IS IMS .< Ik- Put Ofle* si N.w York, ..at* at*, si Msrtfc...
...The American Revolution mads an end of the kept Episcopal Church ia Virginia, the Carolinas and New York but the Congregational organization held on in Massachusetts and Connecticut for some decades later...
...Friction between the Socialist and bourgeois ministers has been in* creasing for weeks, especially oveT church legislation...
...Contradictory actions have been tuken' throughout the country with varying results...
...It provides subsidies for marriages, a bachelors' tax, extension of govern* ment credits to public and private works by issuing a billion marks in treasury notes, and acceptance of "voluntary gifts" as amnesty for past tax fraudsl A Berlin correspondent of the New York Timee reports that financial and nidus, trial circles are pleased but labor ia "less enthusiastic...
...Its official parasites in useless offices hang on although expenditures must be reduced or new sources of income be found...
...In fact, they have no minds of their own...
...But the sad thing about this volcanic political upheaval ia that it revealed a blind revolt, not an informed attempt to obtain power by the masses...
...We hope so, but if they are it will be largely because Socialists will employ all their resources in awakening the workers' consciousness of their power, as a class once they know where their interests lie...
...Both revert to childhood when they engage in these playboy methods...
...On the human side, in war the lives of workers are taken...
...bor conference at Geneva on Thursday also refused to admit Robert Ley, Hit* ler's gangster who seizec the German trade unions...
...All is not quiet ia Hitler's heaven...
...Hitler's recovery "four-year plan,1' announced late last week, is not start* ling...
...In New York City Tammany is sweating blood...
...Any plan must be approved by two-thirds of the creditors and the court...
...Later: The taxi fare raise has been dropped but not the pap-suckers...
...Thia is discipline to the point of oligarchy, something that no genuine movement of the working class desires or will accept...
...The "neediest cases" are not the starving workers in the streets but the official pap-suckers of Tammany Hall...
...The world price level, the monetary chaos and international trade barriers will concern the delegates When modern capitalism emerged out of old home and shop enterprises a little over a century ago we had the beginning of periodical crises...
...Federal Milk Bottles For Needy Politicians THE House Judiciary Committee has reported a bill to refinance cities that face bankruptcy...
...it favors "buy American," urges that we "see America First," and opposes "Anti-American Propaganda...
...World's Specialists To Doctor Capitalism DELEGATES of sixty-six nations will meet in London Monday in a World Economic Conference in the hope of pulling capitalism out of the ditch...
...At first they were confined to the nation of their origin...
...If Tammany's robber burg gets a Federal milk bottle under the terms of the above bill much of the pap will go to the parasites...
...The, workers' group of the international la...
...In some cases the increase is as high as $25,000 per year...
...So there's your cure for the depression...
...Whether it is war or peace the workers lose...
...Net results, one burnt flag, one flag displayed, and a barrage of epithets hurled by one front against the other...
...One night she Walked in the streets...
...I T*or to Canada...
...The N. E. C. Decision DV a vote of seven to four the National Executive Committee of the Socialist Tarty has decided that no state committee or party subdivision should cooperate with the Communist Party or any of its affiliates without obtsining (he consent of the national executive...
...The figures clearly reflect the effects of the industrial depression...
...As we go to press word comes frost Madrid that the Asana Cabinet hss resigned...
...The Madrid correspondent of the New York Times states that "The situation has now developed into a strug* gle of the upper and middle class parties' against the proletarian groups...
...Thia is precisely what the other side has wanted snd evidence of it may be found in their literature...
...lin, agreeing to no discrimination against Jews...
...Spain is facing the same job in disestablishing the Catholic Church and the class lines are being clearly drawn in this struggle...
...Ostensibly intended for relief, it will really help parasites to hold on...
...DLACK Shirts, Blue Shirts, Brown Shirts and Khaki Shirts with millions of workers without a second shirt...
...Frederick L. Hoffman, statistician for an insurance publication, reports the increase in suicides for 1932...
...The bill provides that cities and other local taxing bodies may, with the consent of 30 per cent of the bondholders, petition a Federal ipurt to work out plans...
...As the masses waited for Hoover to pull industry and themselves out of the slough so they now wait for Roosevelt to do the same thing...
...This was also true in some measure of th# earlier American struggle...
...To this was added a five cents tax on each taxicab ride...
...Shirtless masses seeking colored shirts to advertise mystic aims...
...if he is to become more intelligent it will be due to other training and education...
...Con¦eioasness of class interesta was not recorded in the election results...
...Spain Speeds Church Disestablishment WHEREVER a church is established " by law it is disestablished in a revo» lution...
...Eal*t*d a* S*ewsd class Malt...
...her ambition Was to be attractive . , . so is the ambition Of the daughter of the mayor...
...Our slogan is, Pajamas Against the World I Flying Banners and Playboy Provocation WHAT the "radical" students at Amherst College expected to accomplish by burning an American flag we do not know...
...treated in the matter of Tom anini...
...then they spread to a few nations, then to more nations, and this one has swept all nations into the ditch...
...They have displayed no more solidarity than a rope of sand and inexperienced locals have been easy prey to the Communists...
...Now that this decision ia made it may be worth while to consider some recent history...
...Will somebody please start a Black Pajamas, or Blue, Brown or Khaki Pajamas...
...Last February we received 4 mysterious r.rcuh.r from California announcing the arrival of the Blue Shirts of America...
...We would prefer to rule these corporations entirely out of order if we had the power by taking them over as social property...
...It brought a counter-demonstration which displayed the flag...
...SUBBCEIPTION RATES i I Teas in Ik* United Blales...
...That there is widespread resentment waa evident in the election last November that swept the Hoover Administration into oblivion and gave the Democrats an absolute majority ia all department* of the government...
...We pass this item on to the stricken farmers and the workers in the breadlines, "meanwhile retiring to a soundproof chamber...
...This group had alas isolated Mussolini's two delegates some years ago...
Vol. 15 • June 1933 • No. 23
