The World We Live In A Socialist View of the Week Trees
Ward, William Allen
The World We Live In A Socialist View of the Week Trees By William Allen Ward THE treca la Carolina always wrn pretty... I liked to look at them aa dawn walked acraaa the...
...The honest mem-1 bers will be the main losers for the net result of such trials is to provide fuel for the propaganda of anti-union organizations of the employing class...
...Wait till the Democrats have complete responsibility In both Houses with Roosevelt at the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue...
...General Goemboes is the "strong man" in Hungary...
...The lower South also comes within our range...
...Their response set all our fears st rest...
...An amendment to include dairy products in this measure will further confuse the statesman many of whom do not know the difference between a farm and a flivver...
...The big capitalists and bankers apparently cared little whether Hoover or Roosevelt occupies the White House...
...Are they ghosts, tombstones or dead cats...
...There sre over 900 election districts in Manhattan i and in seven districts slone the official returns gsve Tammany csndidstes 976 more votes than were recorded on the machines...
...The sum total income* of the nation would not be increased but the masses in general would pay more for foodstuffs snd farmers would receive more...
...That would do violence to lew 'n' order," you say...
...Court rule and private espionage can be averted by dean and progressive unionism...
...In the esse of Tammany it should be smended to read, 'To err is to stesl...
...At the same time income tax collections have declined...
...The thefts ranged from twenty to 125 votes in each district...
...The adjustment would be similar for other products...
...They whistle to keep up their courage...
...How many of these districts show similar thefts...
...As we go to press it appears thst the government has the upper hand...
...A complicated federal machinery would effect this stabilization at the level of pre-war prices...
...In brief, the bill would provide a bonus for farm products on the basis of pre-war prices...
...If so, and the Hungarian ruling class starts such an adventure, it might also start something in Europe that would lead to chaos...
...In the revolt last year in the same province evidence of funds provided by some old grandees was unearthed and it is possible that some funds have again been obtained from the same source...
...Plug Hats Pour Out Soothing Syrup U7ELL, everything is all right now...
...Mississippi already has a sales tax while large quantities of land were forfeited to the state because of inability of farmers to pay taxes...
...There sre shout 3,500 election districts throughout Greater New York...
...It is like trying to cure a tick man by trantfuting blood from one weak leg to another...
...The farm problem is also crowding the Democrat* to th« wall...
...A thorough Junker reactionary, he is a willing tool of the Hungarian magnates who clamor for a "territorial revision...
...France would almost certainly be brought in for she has allies across Europe to the Russian border...
...There are stsrving families, many of them, in New York City, and they may at some time, under tremendous emotional tension, decide to occupy the robber burg on Fourth Avenue and its brokerage houses in each district without the formality of an election...
...While Iowa farmers in some counties are successfully blocking sales of farm lands to pay for back taxes the Democrats at Washington are split on the parity plan farm relief bill but the gap made by desertions was jn part filled by so-called "progressive" Republicans who favor the bill...
...Here is a secret espionage group of reaction that may turn undemocratic anion practices to its own account That group has no affection for the workers...
...I never hare cared for trees since that time...
...A Tinder Box in The Balkan States Iff IIII...
...Originally confined to wheat, cotton, hogs and tobacco, amendments have added rice and peanuts...
...Capitalism has become a hideous farce...
...Expenditures of the state have been exceeding income and in 22 parishes there is little prospect for schools opening for the nine-month term...
...The proposal was shelved and the Democrats will try to cut government expenses to the bone...
...Reports from Madrid state that many of those who revolted had as much ss $300 in their possession...
...During the boom years the working masses were urged through high-powered publicity to own s home...
...Phases of Our Decaying "Order" IF we were on a high tower with all * the states within our vision and hearing we would observe many processes of decay...
...Working farmers need relief but we doubt if this will help them...
...How many have lost their homes is not known but the number is certsinly enormous...
...You may commit "errors" once too often and so lose the loot which is your sole aim in life...
...I liked to look at them aa dawn walked acraaa the country aide...
...For many months after the revolution that deposed Alfonso the province wss strongly separatist in tendency and there was considerable difficulty in ironing out differences with the Madrid Government Martial law has been declared and "El Sol," the Madrid daily, ran an editorial declaring that "Money from Mostcow does not pay" the expenses of the revolt This is undoubtedly true as Moscow neither has funds for this purpose nor would it finance a movement which in part is influenced) by Trotsky...
...One morning I saw a dark figure dangling from a tree...
...K tension grows in the Far East " because of Japan's raid on China we should not overlook the Balkans...
...Tammany Thefts "FURORS'* in the vote reported cast by various *-* parties have been discovered in the Federal investigation into the election returns of the Esst Side, Manhattan . With very few exceptions those who reported the vote did not err in seeing that the "errors" favored the Tammany candidates...
...Democrats Now Facing Some Troubled Times THE Democrats are already sweating blood at Washington and for the present can lay the blame for any miscarriage of plans to the "lame ducks...
...Sloan declared that "Research, invention, improvement of labor-saving devices are more important today than ever" and that in spite of depressions the Urge corporations "recognize their moral obligations to allow no lag" in this economic development There is little doubt that the General Motors chief took the initiative in this matter to counteract the publicity given to Technocracy in recent months...
...The latter two powers are allies of Yugoslavia and they also have the friendly consideration, of France which in turn has little liking for Mussolini and his bellowing...
...Mors disgraceful publicity la promised by this trisl which will injure the organized working class...
...We will probably never know, but we suggest to the fat •grafters that it is a little dsngerous in these times to kick voters in the face...
...The system has confiscated the home and the ssvings put into It...
...Incidentally, last year was poor for campaign funds...
...Prospects were rosy and then came the crash with Its calamity...
...We do not urge it but we do wsrn of its possibility...
...The fsct is that they know little of the economic laws of capitalism snd are sitting on top of a sagging industrial system...
...The investigation reveals that 501 votes cast for Republican, Socialist and Communist candidates were not recorded and of this number Socialist candidates were robbed of 415...
...Especially Carolina trees at dawn...
...Once the bonus 4kwdgates are opened to one commodity they are also likely to be opened for commodities in general...
...A revolt started against the exemption proposal and the leaders beat a retreat Many Democrats favored a manufacturers' sales tax rather than hit married men with an income between $2,000 and $2,500...
...If we assume that the 501 stolen votes are included in the 976, there is still a remainder of 475 recorded for Tammany...
...The situstion hi i become so tragic in Brooklyn thst the Civic Council urge* appointment by the Stste Leglslsture of s commission to determine whether sn emergency exists that requires a moratorium on payment of the principal of mortgsgesl Thousands of people are unsble to replace first mortgages...
...The Bonus Plan For Farm Relief "pilR agricultural parity plan bill In * the House is a maze of complexities but that such a measure can get considerable support is an indication of how far political thinking has traveled from Hoover's "individualism...
...President Green of the A. F. of l. had protested to the president of the international anion against appointment of recetvers and for this reason Frsyne had not served, Meantime twenty -1 wei members and officials of the local union go to trial while the anion's assets are in the hands of the receivers and two others appointed by Judge Cotillo...
...The bonus on farm products would be passed on to the final purchaser} which would mean a heavy sales tax upon the masses...
...A Negro was ¦winging at the end of a rope...
...The region of the revolt has always been a stronghold of the Anarchist movement but the Trotsky Communists hsve also msde considerable headway there...
...Ia the shipment of arms by Italy to Hungary a preparation for an extension of the Hungarian frontier at the expense of Yugoslavia...
...Dangers Facing the Organised Workers SUPREME COURT JUSTICE COTILLO has replaced John W. Davis and Hugh Frayne as receivers for Local 306, Motion Picture Operators Union, with former Justice Rosenman and George W. Alger...
...The responses to General Motors represent the "moral obligations" the ping hats owe to as In rent mining any undue excitement about the advance of the machine...
...The Home Owners /~\N...
...Another Rising m Southern Spain I AST Saturday it was announced in Barcelona that syndicalists in Spain had $600,000 on hand for a revolt while syndicalist publications were campaigning for "liberal communism...
...When the total of human aacriBeas to the God of Capiteliaai Is sammed ap the price paid for it Is certsinly tremendous...
...It is an old ssying thst 'To err is human...
...President Sloan of General Motors wired some 150 plug hats representing banks, corporations, journalism and universities what they think of the machine age and its prospects...
...The' figures of labor displacement cited by Technocracy have been challenged but that the machine haa brought misery to masses of workers is true...
...The Balkans is still a tinder box that win bear watching...
...of the most tragic results of the depression ^ is the loss of homes by workers...
...The State of Mississippi will be unable to pay Ha employes for two months and 64 parishes in Louisiana may have to close their schools...
...The next day the revolt occured...
...The Republican state and national committees spent $2,670,652 and the Democrats $1,708,000, exclusive of a deficit of about $700,000...
...At the very time when the unions should take the aggressive in a fight against the disintegrating forces of the depression millions of readers of the daily press are given the Impression that the trade union is only another "racket" There is also a paragraph in a circular of the "New Vigilantes" regarding the unions which we quote on the first page of this issue which should sober the organized workers...
...In some places in the West hundreds of organizations are apringing np to give publicity to Technocracy and its claims...
...The great capitalist kings think of quieting us with soothing syrup...
...Where did Tammany get them...
...It would, but you are proving excellent teachers of the art and many intelligent people may decide to turn that art against you...
...At least, thst is the way it looks to us...
...For example, whest selling in December for 81.6 cents per bushel would net the producer 03.7 cents...
...From Cincinnati comes a cry of local Babbitts against University of Cincinnati professors who broadcast "damn fool nostrums" which "upset business.*' Next comes the cry of the Federal Council of Churches that noo.OOO people in the mining regions of Kentucky and West Virginia need aid, that 91 per cent of the families are under-nourished and that the economic life is paralyzed...
...A special session of the legislature may enact a sales tax by way of making the parents of the schoolless children happy...
...I .ate last week the leaders appeared to favor an increase in income tax rates snd lowering the exemption for married persona from $2,600 to $2,000...
...Rcsl estste soared and fortunes were msde...
...The banks did s thriving business...
...The Socialist Party suffered the heaviest loss, but aside from the votes stolen there is a mystery in the 976 unrecorded votes reported ss cast for Tammany...
...It is an attempt to pull the farmers out of the ditch and they certainly need help...
...Austrian Socialists assert that the arms were sold to Hungary at a handsome price and that Hungary, in case of-an Italo-Yugoslav conflict, will be expected by Mussolini to keep Czechoslovakia and Rumania in check...
...The "New Deal" will be due and then will come deflation...
...The night mob had done its dead...
...Mussolini has been showing his teeth to Yugoslavia and a recent large shipment of rifles and machine guns from Italy to Hungary over Austrian territory caused a mild sensation...
Vol. 15 • January 1933 • No. 2
