A Socialist View of the Week

...The shadows are gathering over capitalism all over the world and the educator that educates has been a rare bird because of the coercion exercised by the rubber barons of the modern era...

...Asquat of his pile of sagging dollars the cheerful Babbitt opined that the "bad times were back in 1929 and before . . . Business was never so bad as it was in what we call boom times...

...The "good old times" are "gone for another cycle—perhaps forever...

...We thought we were now enjoying the "best times" and that the "old times" were bad, but let that pass...

...light on Oar Royal Aaaoricaa Crawl Dwka WE devote the first page af this leeoe to oar menacing financial oligarchy, a monstrous offshoot af Amarieaa capitalism...

...Embattled Ladies Go to the Front "INHERE are women who can also qual* ify for a place with Henry Ford as serious little thinkers...

...The farmers are in an ugly mood and their fighting spirit is to be commended...

...The change comes late, but better lata than never...

...As the educatora atate, It "is one of the most serious hazards to peace In the present critical world situation...

...With Russia recognized the Communist International would be very cautious to avoid any complicity with Communist agitation here...

...In other words, the discovery of a revolution In the upper structure of capitalism produced a revolution in the opinions of Prey...

...Last week these companies acted to suspend foreclosures in that state upon the plea of Iowa's Governor...

...When powerful nationa do not exchange representatives it is like neighbors who refuse to speak to each other...

...John A. Simpson, president of the National Farmers' Union, read to the committee a letter sent by the loan division of the R. F. C to a Montana farmer who applied for a loan for a cooperative...

...On Tuesday John P. Fray continued his testimony and declared that J. Pierpont Morgan is the real dictator of wagea and other conditions of Ufa to the working class...

...unemployed men and women walking the narrow streets...

...An Educator SpeeJu For Socialism IT requires courage for a teacher te * probe to the funds mentals of capita* list society but it appears that Clyde R. Miller of thjs Teachers College, Columbia University, has dona so in a study just published...

...Iowa has been a Gibraltar of big Republican returns iij elections and farmers are getting returns on their political investment...

...There is even a cert sin advantage to the unions of recognition aside from trade relations...

...It Is also ssid that dictatorship is in conflict with ideas of democrscy held by the masses here...

...a bell that barn* ont the souls of men and woman...

...The enormous cum of 81,700,000,000 is the claim of the insurance companies and it is said that ten billion more is held by local banks I Democrats in the Senate offer a $1,500,000,000 bill to make loans to farmers, postpone mortgage payments, and cut interest charges...

...The answer was that Morgan declines to deal with labor organizations...

...The only key post held by his party is the Interior Ministry in control of the police...

...I" I visited a tenement boate in the slums...

...Thanks for this clear speaking...

...Revolt in the Corn And Wheat Belt /CONTRAST the reign of our Grand ^ Duke with the plight of bis subjects out in the country lids...

...Again I beard the preacher shout: "The devil will get you if yon don't watck ont...

...And today...

...I had seen hell...

...We commend it to Henry Ford...

...They are shocked at the legislative proposal to eliminate the 78-hourt overtime allowed women factory workers...

...He holds that Socialism Is essential to destroy the maladies brought upon millions all over the world...

...A normal person reading these profound observations will contrast them with what follows a minute later...

...There is reason for thinking that he was manouvered into this position for the purpose of deflating him...

...President Green of the Federation in the current number of "The Nation's Business," organ of the 11 8. Chamber of Commerce, frankly reviewed the old policy which had failed to bring desired results to the members, but he went farther thsn that...

...A few days later tats moratorium eras made to cover (as entire country and Canada...

...Such incidents have been repeated in other states of the wheat and corn belt...

...This revolt has had its echo in the East...

...His application waa rejected, the R. F. C telling him that he eould personally borrow (800 if he would give as security his farm, his wheat, hia livestock, his farm equipment and his crops for the coming season...

...Socialists and unionists sent aid In 1921...

...I think these are the best times we have ever had...

...We are thinking...

...Morgan directly...

...recognition and trade will now help and they should be granted...

...Men, women and children arc involved...

...American capitalism and its official agents could hardly sink lower...

...not in the hereafter bat bell right now...

...The fact is that Russia is likely to purchase more from the United States than the latter from Russis and there will thus be a net gain for workers in this country...

...Senator Black added, "And borrow the money from him, to pay for the roads...

...Flnslly, In the Russian crisis there are millions needng consumption goods...

...They and the Communists are prepared for repressive measures...

...low earning and purchasing power for the great majority...

...He doesn't know when the "good old times are coming back...

...We will tear down their pinnacles If we can...

...Not in years have we had such a light thrown upon the Imperial Grand Duke of American capitalism...

...to an increasing number no chance to acqui»e any earning power...

...a baby crying for milk when there was Bona...

...In Minnesota 8,000 farmers provented evictions from land for non-payment of debts where five farms in three counties were involved...

...but in international relations Green slipa back into an old policy that cannot help the workers or promote the peace of the world...

...We can get out of the mess we sre in on y as the vast resources of our nation are socialised, only as this wealth is so distributed as to give to the whole public the earni .g and buying power ets<ntial to prosperity...

...Hitler Becomes the German Chancellor I ATEST events in Germany bring *•* Hitler to the bead of the Cabinet but under circumstances that differ much from what be had hoped in the past few years...

...But Green fears thst the Americsn market will be flooded with Russian goods...

...They are funny...

...Iowa farmers are indebted no less than $200,000,000 to Eastern mortgagee?, mninly life insurance companies...

...That Is a fine fighting cry to raise in the organ ef business and banking interests...

...At the same time that his statement appesred there appeared a story regarding a petition to President-elect Roosevelt signed by 800 college professors, including a few college executives, arging official recognition of Russia...

...Ha comes into office not at the head of an all-Fascist Cabinet but as a hostage of the Junkers and big industrial magnates who do not really trust him...

...The R. F. C. is a.usurer...

...This recalls the final chapter of Taine'a "Ancient Regime" who paints certain empty parasites Just before they were hurled into oblivion...

...Russian Recognition AMERICAN trade anions reveal the impact of a ¦** decaying capitalism on leaders and members...

...Organised workers need not necessarily follow the nniversitiea an all issues, but it so happena that they are right In this plea to Roosevelt...

...We recall that when the Bourbons in France and the Romanoffs of Russia were on the eve of being damped Into the ash can there were Rasputins and idiots in the upper circles who driveled optimism as their doom approached...

...But why worry considering that they are "the best times we ever had...

...We are learning something...

...At the same time 36 representatives of the Labor and Industrial Departments of nine eastern states met in Boston last week and adopted a program calling on these states to enact minimum atandarda of working conditions for women and minora in industry...

...Across the city, coiled beside the mighty river like a serpent, I saw the smokeless stacks of the factories...

...It haa fed the big corporations with vast funds and it strikes hard bargains with desperate farmers...

...As a wind-bag out of office he was a power but his following will now look for results and they will be disappointed...

...We presume that factory women cry for excessive hours like babies do for a certain famous specific These business and professional women offer an abstract concept of freedom for working women and insist that legislation should apply to men and wo* men alike...

...Hindenburg has authorised Hitler to dissolve the Reichstag and new elections will occur on March 5, but we doubt if another election will settle anything...

...Had Hitler come <¦» power when his vote was high instead of when it is on the decline he wmld be more dangerous...

...What could be better tban that...

...He hinted at unfolding plana for labor resistsnce and added, "we do not intend to forewarn the money-fat enemies of America, who, through one device and another, have wrung from the people auch a proportion of the fruit of their toil that they are strsnded in a motionleaa sea of unemployment...

...For we shall aoon be on the march...

...To be sure, ho represents his class but his crowd is not the crowd that is down in the ditch...

...The 19 directors of Morgan's firm bold interlocking directorships in the key banks, the biggest corporations, the insurance, railroad, steamship, manufacturing, public utilities and other companies...

...He vigorously opposes recognition of the Soviet Government by the United States...

...In this organ of capitalism he threatened a labor "uprising" and declared that "we are out to end legalised robbery in the United States...

...The Socialists are reported as confident that Hitler will soon "blow up and be disposed of definitely...

...I saw a big man with a grin ordering the mill closed, and then I thought: The Devil is walking around sending men and women to hell...

...Resistance to foreclosure sales of farms la increaaing...

...Usurer Bargains For the Farmers U7K note that while Secretary of the ¦¦Treasury Mills speaks for ¦ sales tax in New York he could also inform the Senate Banking and Currency Committee that,he was opposed to a bill to refinance farm mortgages with money at I'A per cent He asserted that this would mean inflation but he is perfectly willing to inflate the cost of living with a sales tax...

...The nice ladiea who know not the aweater's den or factory regime raise the standard of revolt The embattled ladies want to preserve the "opportunities of women to secure or retain wellpaid work or advancement to higherpaid positions in business and industry...

...Two farm leaders at Washington say revolutionary sentiment is brooding in the West Make no mistake about it, Socialist statesmanship may soon be facing grave trials...

...As the economic basis of society crumbles, some of the basic conceptions of the unions have not only crumbled but have been discarded By reversing their former opposition te almost every form of social legislation for the workers end favoring the 30 hour week, old age pensions, and unemployment insurance by legislative enactment the unions discarded some basic ideas and an 'Individualist" philosophy Ihst could not possibly serve the members...

...Why don't you save time and trouble," Senator Norris asked, "by holding your discussions of labor conditions snd wages with Mr...

...This week we were regaled with the solemn drool of Henry Ford whose plants lay idle because of the strike in the Briggs company's factories...

...The Women's Trade Union League is fighting for certain legislation for working women and no less than ten business and professional clubs of women rush to Albany to save women workers from the calamity...

...Bat a Russian Ambassador st Wsshington no more means the rule of Moscow here than an American Ambassador to Russia means the rule of American capitalism there...

...Such measureless stupidity shows how the official governing mind functions at Washington...

...I heard the baby crying...

...Norris observed that Morgan would save money by dealing direct with the unions "instead of through all these middlemen" and added that if the government purchased the railroads "It would have to talk to Morgan...

...I don't think there's anything wrong with the world...

...Drooling While The Masses Hunger WJIENACING aa economic conditions '** have become we would not cultivate gloom...

...It would not be a revolution if enacted by these states but it would at least check the freedom of the exploiters, not the women and minor workers...

...They certainly injured the Socialist Party even more than they did the anions, but this is no reason for continuing a policy of non-recognition...

...Abstractions butter no bread...

...beard a mother coughing...

...To be sure, Communists here have injured the anions...

...The course they urge will better serve the welfsre of Americsn workers than the course recommended by Green...

...The great promise of capitalism cannot be fulfilled aa it has meant "more and more profits to the few, the owners of the machines...

...Conflicts between Communists and Fascists have occurred and efforts of Socialists to get a common understanding with Communists have proved unavailing...

...It was because of bis investigations that Prey, once opposed to legislative Interference in industrial relations, has been eonverted to support the Black bill for the 30-hour maximum work-week by Federal statute...

...Again I looked at the stopped mill...