The Workers Have a Unique Opportunity Rebuild the Tragically Upset World
Laidler, Harry W.
By Harry W. Laidler The Workers Have a Unique Opportunity Rebuild the Tragically Upset World Labor Day Gives Them Hope, as It Shows Futility of Gold-Plated Anarchy of Rugged Individualism. ¦...
...the danger that company unions may be given a privileged position in many industries from which they can be dislodged only after the most bitter conflict...
...Adolf Hitler, Dopey Benny, Joseph Paul Goebbels, Little Augie, Jack the) Ripper, Ernest Hanfstaongl, WU-helm Prick, Harry Thaw, Bernhardt Rust, Jesse Poaseroy, Horst Wessel and other figures heroic la the Nasi mind...
...With few exceptions, (Mr since the high-water mark (be membership of the unions light after the war, trade unionism declined in numbers jnd influence until a few months "Si 1^20, it Included in its ranks about 12 per cent of the or-, ganisable workers of America...
...And with the advent of the NRA, the organization of labor has proceeded as it has not in years...
...I shall be one to help...
...the machinery they made had been fully utilized, if the product of their toil had been justly distributed, poverty would have been a thing of the pott, and every man, woman and child who did his share of work would have been living a life of security and abundance...
...Throughout these years, the workers were producing, with the machines they made, with the electrical power they developed, far more than any working class produced in the history of the world...
...When the United States entered the World War, Comrade Kirkpatrick was hunted by "patriotic" and militarist societies...
...He is an active member of the party in California, and his wife, Florence, is a member of the state committee...
...However, the New Deal old steal will fluke, adding to the bitterness of the multitude...
...Rejuvenated populism may become the new stew offered the cringing and hungry multitude...
...I suggest that a series of leaflets, "printed and supplied by The New Leader" for general propaganda, would be fine advertising for the N. L.—each with a fiery message ringing with the class struggle...
...It was owned by great private combines and monopolies...
...Under it, the workers will still have to divide up and give to the owners of monopolized industriea tens of billions in unearned wealth...
...Millions of farmers, wage workers, students, professionals, housewives and middle class wrecks accept the salve and sop of Mr...
...HERE'S THE RECORD OF A GREAT NAZI HERO JJET vol .K of Amsterdam prints *^ extracts from the records of a Swedish insane asylum, showing that in 1926 Captain Herman Gdring, now minister-president of Prussia, president of the Reichstag, and police-dictator of Germany, was admitted as a patient, but that his case proved so serious that it was necessary to transfer him to another institution better fitted for handling cases of violent insanity...
...that society must own and democratically operate the' machines and land, if the masses are ever to enjoy the good life...
...It brought industrial feudalism...
...Under it, there will still be the gap between our power to produce and labor's power to buy...
...Labor still has an opportunity to vote into power the party that represents it, that is dedicated to a social order in which the workers by hand and brain will obtain the product of their toil—the Socialist Party...
...But state regulation of industry is no solution, as the attempt to regulate public utilities in the past has so often shown...
...not bombastic and bitter, but mspiringly simple, warm and instructive, warning that the workers as a class must face the capitalists as a class in industry and politics...
...There are grave dangers lurking h the National Industrial Recovery Act...
...For some years before the outbreak of the World War "Kirk's" study of imperialism and militarism convinced him that the workers in this country were to face these malign offshoots of capitalism...
...Kirk'Urges Leader Drive Against The Brutal Fist in a Silk Glove 11727 are turning this department over to George R. Kirkpatrick for this week...
...Roosevelt as salvation...
...Surely the comrades will rally in tens of thousands to give The New Leader an immense audience in preparing for the testing, fiery, thunderous days ahead...
...the danger that labor mifcht wait for Uncle Sam to do the job, instead ef realizing that only as labor is militant and aggressive will there be any permanent gains worth While...
...Ten years later this had shrunk to about 8 per cent The unions had been practically unable to organise |a t|t great corporations of the country...
...the danger that the rue in prices might constantly outdistance wages, creating in-creating unemployment and insecurity as the years go on...
...Some time later, however, he again became violent and had to be confined...
...They had little or no foothold in the automobile, the ttoel, the oil and other important industries, whil' 'the mechanization of the mining, the building, the printing and other trades and industries in which labor had shown itrength was playing havoc with trade unionism The union or-gtnisers were no match for the billion-dollar corporations with their war-chests their blacklists, their spy systems, their company guards, and their control of the forces of government, of the platform and of the press...
...His work was never so needed as now...
...Under it, unemployment will continue, democracy will be but a sham and all the forces of nationalism and Imperialism will be operative, sowing the seeds for further wars...
...Karl A. K. Lundberg of Stockholm, dated April 16, 1926...
...They have proved again that, under the system of private ownership, security is impossible...
...May labor this year dedicate itself to a campaign of organization both In the industrial and the political fields that will have as its aVal not a bureaucratic state capitalism, but a democratic cooperative order under which the workers, for the first time in civilisation, will genuinely begin to live...
...of seeing that the masses obtained the essentials of life...
...And instead of bringing about plenty, security and leisure, it brought about extremes of wealth ind poverty...
...It was operated for profit...
...It Is reported (but not confirmed) that the rulers of the Nail paradise are consider-ing taking down the namea of Goethe, Heine, Wagner, Schiller, Beethoven 'and other criminals from street signs and substituting the names of Al Capons...
...He had several narrow escapes from being lynched, and the hunt became so hot that he coujld no longer be advertised for a meeting during the war...
...When his letter arrived we decided' that "Kirk" should have this position...
...By George R. Kirkpatrick Socialist candidate for Vice-President in 1916 THE NEW, LEADER at a dollar a year...
...But the machine was not owned by the workers...
...How often I wish that 'Gene Debs were with us in this struggle I I am glad The New Leader will have a far larger audience at the new low price and I often think of the editor with gratitude for his unwavering loyalty, tireless industry and knowledge of American history...
...The paper prints also an official medical certificate, signed by Dr...
...The fantastically hideous tortures that are now being systematically inflicted upon political prisoners under Goring's direction accord well with the belief that he is a sadistic madman...
...Socialistic" liberals and "liberal" Socialists will be tempted to play down the class struggle...
...It is officially reported that "awakened" Germany has changed the name of Friedrlch Ebert Strasse in Berlin, named after the Socialist workingman who was first president of the Republic, to Goring Strasse In "honor" of the hero of the "awakening...
...The present economic breakdown has compelled the capitalistic interests themselves to deliver the funeral oration over the old order of "rugged individualism" which Mr...
...Gdring was ultimately dismissed as no longer in a condition calling for restraint...
...George R. Kirkpatrick was the Socialist candidate for Vice-President in 1916...
...Ujw Toted, and found itself on •Msdllnoa tor producing too much »» Prbwsi for defending their right to organise, in imperialist wars, sacrificing their lives for another's profits...
...His madness wss associated with habitual use of morphine...
...the revolution will be mentioned as something "coming but not in our day...
...Hoover delighted to honor only a few months ago...
...This splendid book went into one edition after another, "Kirk" reducing the price till this work of about 300 pages was retailed for a quarter...
...Never before were we so desperately in need of sound and ringing revolutionary messages on what is wrong and whet to do...
...It wai not operated primarily for use...
...It led to the great and tragic depression through which we are still passing...
...It has led to a state regulated capitalism under the "great and glorious NRA...
...testifying that, as Goring was then a morphinist or drug fiend and his wife) was epileptic, their home was not a suitable place for their son Thomas, and that the latter ought to be removed from their custody...
...He developed a maniacal fury which made him dangerous to the attendants and to other inmates...
...ABOK DAY, 1933, should H n»rk a revolutionary step forward in the American labor movement...
...The workers' response to the present opportunity •suing the next few months may determine the future of trade anionism in America...
...The past few years have demonstrated that capitalism is utterly incapable of solving the question of distribution...
...He then wrote "War—What For...
...The iron fiat in the auk glove may soon be smiting the working class...
...and to throw its support on the side of the capitalist •Trtemv At each election the' capitalist h»s dangled some alluring nibbolrth before the American "Vote for us," labor has arted, "and you will receive 2? 'all dinner pail,' the 'square...
...Surely that is good news in these days of fascist-populism...
...Labor Day presents to the Amer-lesn workers a still greater oppor-•¦¦¦tjr,* tEver since T. M. McGuire fcthe: Central Labor Council in jjww York first urged the cele-¦wtkm of Labor Day in the early «f*t*ai ^>f the last century, *awrtcsn labor has been content J**"** the parties of big business •"*> power...
...the most powerful populai anti-militarist book ever published in this country...
...There is the danger that the government, with its present set-up, might undertake to prevent any strike that seems to interfere with its peculiar plans for > recovery...
...The tragic depression in which capitalism has plunged America has given the unions another chance to I urease its membership and power...
...the «new freedom,' 'a war-*wld,' 'normalcy,' •Coolidge *°™my and two chickens in ••try pot...
...It brought about panics every few years and increasing unemployment as the years advanced...
...at the new situation, despite these dangers, presents to labor an opportunity to reach the key industries with organizing campaigns M never before...
Vol. 16 • September 1933 • No. 10
