The Masses Must Hold the Key To End the Money Madness
Cohen, Joseph E.
By Joseph E. Cohen The Masses Miist Hold the Key To End the Money Madness Scrip Is a Revolt Against the ThraUdom of GoldThere Are Signs of Protest Everywhere Among the Masses. DU SIN ESS is...
...They just lend them to the lobbyist next door at the hotel when he runs short of votes...
...liters are any Senators throwing away their votet in these hard times...
...He held up a pair of patched, ragged pants...
...The gate to business is locked...
...Business must go on just the same...
...Give us this day our daily bread...
...Jack (Baron Munchausen) Pearl, sputtering delicatessen accent and all, will be there to do his stuff, and Dave Rubinoff and his baton will likewise be oh hand...
...A. Lesser, 631 Sutter Ave.—Radio...
...He battled the Communists in the last years «f his life as he had fought the syndicalists in 1910 and 1912, the impossiblists in the •90's and the anarchists in the '80's...
...There is no sign our ruling class is ready to compromise its control by sharing its guard of the gate...
...An aura of unanswered prayer Hovered over them...
...Eager to work, they swap services, eat and get the simple things they must have to exist...
...It is setting itself only for another cleanup...
...But milk costs money...
...But the master key to the gate of big banking is in the hand of the government If capital will not opens the government must...
...An end will have to be made to the money madness...
...He lid at some i bulk, and isphere was ). And then r—from the t," he said, ; am not a Communist," and be told why...
...Tickets are on sale at the following places: Manhattan—Jewish Daily Forward, 175 East Broadway...
...Ths Judges have obtained ths consent of both sides la tha new lure Svataa* Profiles Burger sswatse...
...Such talk is really only a trap...
...Tk* lea* givethtn the bankere...
...Finnish Book Store, 2056—Fifth Ave...
...And yet...
...They control too much...
...came dience...
...They turn their backs on the mountain of money in the great cities...
...What ii needed...
...Considering that the wage loss is about ten billion a year, even that half billion is hardly a sprinkle—unless the gorged and pampered critics of relief are able to put over the five-cent meal for the starving...
...L. Winters, 18 Graham Ave.—Radio...
...But he was even more than that...
...So much of the wealth of the country has turned to idle gold that the country is idle...
...Rand Book Store, 7 East 15th St...
...Instead of the Hoover-Mills fables in figures balancing the federal budget, the last checkup promises a shortage of a billion and a quarter for the year...
...Bronx—-M...
...said a reporter at ths press table...
...But the people come first They'll pay the tax...
...Farmers pitching pennies to halt sheriff's sales are nullifying the robbery of the land by the law...
...I heard them crying for bread...
...Instead of lending money for relief of the destitute it could adopt the Costigan-La Follette bill to give a half billion outright...
...Teesler A Damsky, 183 Tompkins Ave.— Radio...
...And brave enough to face life In drab, cheerless hovels...
...1 Last night, I saw Antonio, Dark and fiery Antonio, Hia fierceness calmed by grief...
...Beware...
...Hungry men, hungry women, Beaten men, beaten women...
...His proudest boast was that he had been given the title of Organizer of Socialist Victory in Milwaukee...
...To realize the sublime courage of that act one must endeavor to recreate the passions of that long-past time...
...However much the promises of the party soon to be In power have been made to the forgotten, the government will have to act...
...Sty convents...
...To meet its deficit It will have to take more from the poor by a salea tax, or take more from the rich and return it to the nation...
...The older ones are either too hoarse with' ineffectual shouting, or just too sick to speak at all...
...I am gainst the fish...
...Coin must be kept in circulation...
...The diewhich pro¦ion...
...dictator, ompel businw o/ rA« *pm» State ergeant-ateused Con«• Now he •old an arkmt true', >ngressmen ftty vote, don't tote * and give t' ' ¦¦fMssmen ¦ thai they ** *f this " the Con.Paid - for ^•"away W T"tin(t |r wtssdW fcWmp « »«H>tsttm...
...and 14th Ave...
...Many told their tales...
...In a hundred communities, those out of work and out of luck refuse to accept an unkind fate aa final...
...Beware oh, masters, lest the prayer change...
...Tulman, 481 Claremont Parkway — Drug store...
...Either old party running for office could then promise at least as much aa the diet of the Far East—a handful of rice for a meal...
...Philip Hackman, 107 Ave...
...They were forgetting how To pray...
...Big clothes for little boys...
...is mors law—the right kind e/| law...
...Justa littIn boy, lika dat, Junta so beeg, so high...
...Louis M. Green berg, 3891—3rd Ave.—Radio...
...Most was probably the best-hated man of his time, a bitter, venomous, snarling man...
...They were for Tony's little Guiseppe,—five years old...
...Sometimes they borro%* glass of beer in return...
...The bankers have pocketed the key...
...Big enough for a fourteen year old boy...
...LAST CALL FOR THE FORWARD BALL TTHIS is ^he next-to-the-last call , * for the annual Forward Ball...
...She also advises that she is s member of tha Y. P. 8. L., and that this is her first serious attempt at serious writing...
...When he waa through there waa emphatic cheering...
...J. Koplowitz, 1800 Pitkin Ave.—Advertising...
...The reason is that the people have no money to spend...
...Friedman ft Goldstein, 29 W. Mt...
...Quivering souls, young and old...
...There's a real man...
...Brooklyn—16 A, D., S. P., 7308 Bay Parkway...
...Such charity could very well start in the homes of the affluent, so that they might sell thoir riches snd give them to the poor...
...For their birthright of shelter, Clothes and warmth...
...Even babes begged for warmth, In a land of plenty, In a Land of the Free, And the Home of the Brave...
...I DORA S. PEARLMAN...
...crowd, / Itftf I wal ritl...
...Now the nation refuses to die to make a holiday for capital...
...idy I r." ttbast—only I a man of I ideals, its to mind...
...w Money and Credit cannot continue to be hoarded by the big bankers...
...Swart's Men's Shop, 876 Utica Ave...
...H. S. Hurwitz, 1330 Wilkins Ave.—Optician...
...Master-Mindi Will Now Solve the Problem CLEVELAND—Six man juries have become common as a result of efforts of local judges to reduce expenses...
...It helped him get to wherever it Was he got to...
...Joseph Daly, 101 Delancey St.—Clothing...
...But most of them sat mute, Their lips sealed tight by fear Or sad bewilderment...
...Berger was always a Socialist and he never had any use for those he called the R-r-r-revolutionaries...
...All who had a grievance there Were free to speak...
...P. H. Cine U$ This Day Our Daily Bread...
...Up to now they have imagined, capitalism can go on at the old stand...
...Recently I attended an unemployed meeting held under the auspices of the radical elements of this city," she writes, "tarn I cannot forget the restlessness an* the sincerity of suilering among those who attended...
...Scrip, Axed by labor performed, takes the place of gold A Holiday for Capital It is just as though the concrete and steel-clad vaults holding the immense liquid capital of the country had sunk to the bottom of the ocean and could never be recovered...
...Scrip is a revolt against gold...
...i Beauty had died within their souls, Long, long ago, it seemed...
...Hia wife was sick...
...Meanwhile the government sinks deeper into deficit...
...I don't know what it's all about, but I like him...
...Perhaps the boycott on the big bankers may bring them to their senses...
...Berger was many things: scholar, editor, statesman, Socialist leader...
...Governor Lehman, proposing a sales tax, says he'll "take the rap...
...tAs usual, the ball will feature a number of Broadway features...
...And let them come from youth . . . from now on...
...Brownsville Labor Lyceum, 219 Sackman St...
...Ho was listened to, even by the turbulent gallery...
...Somebody else's rags, big rags For little Giuseppe . . . ! Last night a broken man cried for milk...
...C— Delicatessen...
...Big boy pants...
...Not for hia own crippled self...
...Fred Spitz, 74—2nd .Ave.—Florist...
...S. L. Hotvinik, 494 Ave...
...This may account for the talk coming from high places that credit may be made easier, prices start rising and business being resumed...
...The big frolic of the Socialists of New York and thereabouts, held by the Jewish Daily Forward for the benefit of the Socialist movement, will occur next Saturday, February 18, at the 71st Regiment Armory, 84th Street and Fourth Avenue, Manhattan...
...In the darkness of the depression are now flaring these many sparks of protest against surrender to mammon...
...Last night I saw them Huddled together in the low, smoky room...
...W. M. F. Penthouses , as in the ir...
...A Poem Come* Tom horn the Heart Of a Girl After a Jobless Meeting By S. A. DeWitt THE poem that follows my comment here came is ths mail from Rochester, N. Y. with a letter from tha poetess explaining just how it was written...
...GIVE US THIS DAY .. . ETC...
...Cash and credit are in the grip of the big bankers...
...PUZZLE: Could a fellow who wanted to buy some votes in Congress obtain a loan from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for the purpose...
...So the people and the government famish and freeze and despair wfule they look through the bars at the abundance their labor has created...
...But in a Land of the Free, Of Justice and Equality...
...They not only have enough...
...He was strong, he would work...
...They reciprocated his lack of affection for them...
...But the exploited are the majority and they have the last word...
...I heard a quiet voice crying for bread For clothing, for coal...
...Free to starve...
...Those who knew him well recall him with admiration and with respect, and most of all, with warm and genuine affection...
...After the Haymarket tragedy In 1886, when it was worth a person's life to express sympathy with the anarchists, Johann Most came to speak in Milwaukee...
...No one would sponsor Most in Milwaukee, except the young high school teacher Victor L. Berger, who was rapidly coming to the front as the leading Socialist in town...
...Where even healthy, whole young men Did not work anymore...
...troptrty ejtiitt only by law...
...The Law...
...Now to run the next...
...the Empire ¦ tarn a eo«M turn RflWnson...
...We take to ourselves our daily bread...
...Boro Park Labor Lyceum, 42nd St...
...Give us this day our daily bread...
...She had to have milk...
...P—Cigar store...
...M. Herstein, 858 S. 3rd St.—Drug store...
...Gustave Eisner, 1123 Broadway—Steamship tickets...
...DU SIN ESS is going from bad to worse...
...As fast as it gathers in the cash combines the government must take hold of it...
...What chance had he for work For money or for milk . , . ? Last night, I saw them all, The starved progenitors of a race To come...
...Debs in minated for wee, defiant Banded the lination, for ponsible for made him a on the Coms new subToe gallery Communists, gar, next to 1 particular le platform, i the kindly cle...
...Lot me inform this young comrade that Una poem, and one other that I have received from a comrade out West and which will appear here shortly, are the first harbingers of what the poetic and emotional earth will bring forth in the days ahead...
...To atay outside the gate la sui-i cldal...
...Eden Ave.—Cigar store...
...Samuel J. Rosen, 860 Longwood Ave.—Advertising...
...he was a Man...
...Bad times among the workers and middle clasa are good times among the plutocrats for pounding wages and squeezing out small holdings...
...Without heroics, without apology, without yielding his Socialist opposition to anarchism, Berger took it upon himself to sponsor Most's meeting and to act as his chairman, as his contribution to fair play...
...The law ess take it «w ay...
...The old fire in him quenched by tears...
...He advocated the use of force, he printed formulas for making bombs, he explained how best to poison policemen...
...He said, "I am strong...
...That is, it will begin on Saturday, but it will be well into Sunday before ft adjourns...
...To Provide Relief With that the lame-duck Congress has apparently to do at least one decent thing before it sinks into oblivion...
...Capitalism is being burnt by the touch of King Midas...
...Barry says that most Congressmen dont sell their votes...
...Mayor O'Brien of New York wants to tax all non-residents who come to New York The Czar of Russia tried a stunt like thst once...
...Strangely enough, no body there Asked for roses...
Vol. 15 • February 1933 • No. 6
