Slow Descent of Capitalism Brings National
Slow Descent of Capitalism Brings National Food Rations and a Call to Socialist Duty piRST effects of the NRA tonic " are wearing off. Getting a majority of the jobless back to work by winter...
...To recover that loss loans or more taxes or both will be resorted to...
...Getting a majority of the jobless back to work by winter has*failed ana the Federal Government is preparing food rations on a vast scale...
...The pro-ps.ni suggested to the Governor includes the following: Ready With Program 11...
...With lecture engagements that took him to the Pacific Coast, Thomas arranged to have the last few days before election free to aid the New York battle...
...4: James Madison High School, Brooklyn...
...The victory, therefore, assumes sensational proportions and importance...
...Make the final weeks of the campaign a period of devoted service to the struggle...
...John Wilmot, Labor, received 17,700 votes to 12,960 for Alderman W. J. Waldron, Tory, running with MacDonald's blessing...
...Thousands of meetings have been held, from street corner meetings and house meetings to vast demonstrations in the biggest halls in the city...
...He was given a State funeral, and more than 4,000 people followed the remains to the graveside, Thomas Aids in Whirlwind Finish to N. Y. Campaign JUORMAN THOMAS is rushing * * across the continent to be in at the finish of the great New York mayoraly campaign...
...Citing the fact that there are it ill between 10,000,000 and 11,000,-(00 jobless in the country and that *»nly one thing keeps going on #p—the cost of living"—Benson States that "Wisconsin figures show mbstanl ially the same situation as the Washington figures...
...Average hours of labor in the NRA codes is 40...
...And what hope is there for us even if the full expectations of the NRA codes are realized ? Stuart Chase in Current History for November considers and offers an answer to this question...
...As such he personally represents the class struggle between the Socialists and the exploiting capitalist groups in this section...
...The output per man hour has steadily increased during the depression and is probably still increasing...
...Thomas' dates in the last days of the campaign are as follows: Friday, Nov...
...BRITISH LABOR WINS IMPORTANT VICTORY 1*11 B British Labor Party scored * a victory at the bye-election at Fast Fulham in London of an importance that can hardly be overestimated...
...This would paralyze what there is of trade in the affected areas, but the farmers are justified in their action...
...An expert showed a self-igniting and rapid burning substance he claims was found in the Reichstag in Ave places...
...Assume that the average be cut down to 85...
...If the farmer strike in a number of states becomes effective the strikers will refuse to buy and sell and withhold payment of taxes and interest on mortgages...
...A bill to lower the old age IJeJon eligibility to all persons of ¦•age of 60 or even less and to increase the size of the pension...
...Each month there is to be purchased 9,000,000 pounds of butter, 1)0,000,000 to 50,000,000 pounds of pork, 10,000,000 dozen eggs, 8,000,-000 pounds of beef and large quantities of coal, shoes, clothing, cod-liver oil and mattresses...
...Bills amending the income and ' nce laws to PIace « tax of i* P*r cent on all incomes over ilMnn and all inheritances over JWOjOOO, so that money can be pro-**"*d for the various measures •numerated above...
...The little storekeepers are caught between the higher priced goods of the NRA codes and the lower farm incomes while they are also required to limit hours of their few employees and pay minimum wages...
...8: Grand Paradise Ball Room, Brooklyn...
...ifflk A bill enabling unemployed ,|**pn* owning homesteads or Wlding and loan stock to a value | exceeding $5,000 to receive un-I "BpToyment relief...
...Heap inflation on top of the mass n.isery of many millions and it may start a conflagration that will consume Hitler and his murderous regime...
...the Socialist Society of America, which receives bequests for the Socialist Party, $1,000...
...Thousands •re still jobless...
...Two years ago Sir K. P. Vaughan-Morgan, Tory "Nationalist" (whose death caused the bye-election), polled 23,438 to 8,917 for Sir John May-nard, Labor...
...8. A bill to make the 30-hour *»ak compulsory...
...If we were to cartoon this ghastly *ilnation we would picture huge surpluses of the things mentioned above with tens of millions of men, women and children in a social pit unable to reach these things...
...It was .a straight fight, Labor versus the Tories...
...The German economic situation induces the financial expert of the London Daily Herald to predict that the government may soon resort to inflation...
...He added: "All the unions have °«M incorporated since May 2 into % Nazi organization and that in...
...A bill to create an emergency industries board with power to take over and operate all industry nmning at less than 50 of capac-W- Adequate representation must Ji given organized labor and f arm-,M on such a board...
...For a long time he was editor of the New Zealand Worker, official Socialist weekly of the Dominion...
...With the price of grains tumbling from the peak reached in mid July and farmers paying more for things they buy, the farmers' anger rises...
...The Leipzig Trial and Another Hitler Circus Marinus Van der Lubbe testified in detail at the Leipzig trial that he flung 27 firebrands into the Reichstag building, but little was added to this confession that has not been reported in cables to the Am erica 11 press...
...Sunday, Nov...
...Winter is almost ri and the people cannot count winter clothes, coal and food with the same confidence with which they can anticipate four-foot drifts and zero weather...
...That in the impression of thousands of workers in the shops and mills of Reading...
...Town Hall, Jamaica, L. I...
...The turnover of votes In Labor's favor was 19,361...
...Party Groups Remembered In Comrade Hillquit's Will Bequests totalling $3,000 were made to three Socialist organizations by Morris Hillquit, late national chairman of the Socialist Party...
...The Reichstag "election" will take place with all Nazi opponents in Jail and only known Fascist leaders' names appearing on the ballot Fusion Foces Of Reading Are Unhappy READING, Penn.—Prospects of the Socialist Party defeating the Republican-Democratic Fusion candidates are bright...
...The big shot leaders of Fusion are by no means happy...
...Wellington Bertolet, leading general of the unhappy coalition, is conservator of Reading's closed banks and chief counsel for the Wyomissing industries...
...Radio Talk...
...The Fusion campaign has been carried on be* hind closed doors, the politicians are by no means united, and it is expected that they will begin a barrage of lies in the last few days before the election...
...This measure Would spread work...
...The "balanced budget" is not so balanced as the costs of trying to revive industry and agriculture are high and the deficit o the Federal Government by the end of the fiscal year may exceed $3,000,000,000...
...The bruised and tortured workers and leaders of unions In the concentration < hells of Germany i will be interested to learn that they voluntarily turned their organizations over to the criminals...
...There may be others, but it is certain that Comrade Thomas will be fully occupied during the few days he will be in his home town...
...4'A bill to abolish piece work...
...Hitherto one of the most conservative constituencies in Great Britain, never even considered as a possible Labor seat, the district was captured by the Labor Party by a majority of 4,840...
...Thirty thousand people lined the route to the cemetery when Holland was buried in Wellington...
...This became known this week when his will was filed in Surrogate's Court...
...The Fusion ticket is not hitting...
...Failing to get the jobless masses to work, a government corporation has been created to ration food, clothing and fuel to over ten million heads of destitute families...
...At the General Election two years ago the Labor Party was defeated by 14,521...
...Flushing High School, Flushing, L. I. Saturday, Nov...
...Ife It Was Voluntary...
...2. A_ bill to create a farm prod-•tets distribution agency so that the middle man and speculator can le eliminated...
...Holland was a man of great ability, and was highly thought of in the Socialist movement of Australia as well as New Zealand...
...They resent the failure of the Fusionista to make good...
...Representatives of organized farmers and workers would be on the board...
...the Liberals, who polled only 1,788 votes two years ago, having completely vanished...
...and The New Leader Publishing Association, $1,000...
...The lette ralso outlines a pro-fram to meet the emergency and Benson reminds the Governor that Socialist members of the legislature had presented bills that would have been \ ry helpful, but they were not passed...
...The Tory vote dropped nearly half, by 10,488, while Labor doubled, increasing 8,873...
...Ours is a struggle of the working class tor power in a capitalist world that is crumbling into chronic paralysis and the future is not bright without extensive Socialist ducation...
...The better things promised by the Fusion administration have not been realized and workers arc learning that they have been "taken for a ride...
...j?,''onc hv their consent is HP*" 'y the fact that many hundreds of thousands joined, although no compulsion existed...
...And his influence in the election campaign will be felt...
...6: Madison Square Garden...
...A gigantic power scoop directed by the Federal Government digs into the surpluses, swings over the pit, and drops the life-saving materials into the outstretched hards of the starving...
...Part of the funds for this fighting of hunger will come ovt of sales taxes disguised as "processing taxis," thus increasing the cost of living...
...On this basis there will still be 9,000,000 workers out of jobs...
...Middle West farmers are again on the march, many thousands of little stoiekeepers in that region are deflated, the government is now trying price-fixing, and big government deficit is in prospect...
...At the present tempo of production, hours of labor must be reduced to 20 per week to even promise re-employment of the millions of the jobless I Workers in the Socialist Party...
...This week the prosecution's witnesses testified that van der Lubbe could not have acted alone, and as last week the prosecution obtained a virtual acquittal of the Nazis an effort is now being made to prove that van der Lubbe had Communist accomplices...
...Socialists Tell Executive of Wis...
...Such is the plight of the working masses at the end of the fourth year of the greatest economic crisis in the history of the world...
...Workers Mourn Holland, N. Z. Socialist Chief Henry Edmund Holland, pioneer Socialist of New Zealand and long the leader of the '.abor Party in the Parliament of the Dominion, died last week at the age of 65...
...Slow Descent of Capitalism Brings National Food Rations and a Call to Socialist Duty piRST effects of the NRA tonic " are wearing off...
...DeWitt Clinton High School, the Bronx...
...The campaign will come to a climax at a monster demonstration at Madison Square Garden, New York's greatest hall, at which over 23,000 people will cheer the candidates, and outside of which it is expected tens of thousands more will listen to the speeches through amplifiers...
...h answer to the A. F. of L. boy-J*t of Nazi-Germany Wilhelm ii**«dt, secretary of the Nazi ijfMters' Front, declares that it ¦ • He of the "emigrants" that workers have no free "nions...
...The governor of North Dakota' ordered an embargo on wheat shipments, the governor of Nebraska declares that the farmer's throat is "cut from car to ear," the National Farm Holiday Association calls a farmer strike and the railroad unions pledge the farmers sympathetic cooperation...
...The Socialist ticket, headed by the three brilliant standard-bearers, Charles Solomon, Harry W. Laidler and Frank R. Crosswaith, has done wonders in a peculiarly difficult situation...
...The American Socialist Society, which conducts the Rand School of Social Science, receives $1,000...
...His Duty By Andrew Biemiller fllLWAUKEE, Wis.—Declaring we that after nearly six months of the NRA the continuous upswing President Roosevelt had promised had not been realized and that "real recovery under capitalism is impossible," Wisconsin Socialists, through State Secretary Al Benson, have demanded that Governor Schmedeman call a special teuton of the legislature...
...The Socialists are working night and day, holding street meetings and distributing large quantities of literature and they feel that they are gaining ground...
Vol. 16 • October 1933 • No. 18
