A Socialist View of the Week
A Socialist View of the Week Capitalism Shows Some Symptoms of Recovery THE Socialist movement isn't organized calamity howling nor do Socialists believe that "the worse the better." That...
...Corrections were sent to the press...
...A strike in Memphis for 1.25 a day brought the rate up to this average in three other cities...
...It cannot of itself effect such a cure...
...The capitalist owners of the means of production most be discharged and Socialist cooperative production must become the rule...
...Whether this is a normal and continuous trend we will not hazard an opinion...
...Judge Horton held that the one girl witness against the accused . was not corroborated and that her testimony "bears on Ha face indications of is*, probability and is contradicted by other evidence and in addition thereto the evidence greatly preponderates in favor of the defendant" Moreover, "Her testimony was contradictory, often evasive and time snd again she refused to answer pertinent questions...
...Judge Horton deserves commendation for his courageous act, for it takes courage for a Judge to render such a decision in the South...
...R. F. C Fosters Low Wage Standards THAT the workers must be prepared to fight and not take anything for granted is evident from another angle also involving government polity...
...There isn't a section of the nation that is free of these revolts...
...More power to the unions now fighting this vampire...
...The conflict produces a crisis...
...The theory of the Recovery Act is that capitalists and workers should be organised to function under its terms but many big corporations have company unions...
...Two days before Von Star hem berg, leader of the opposition Fascists, roared against the terrorist outrages of ths Nazis in Germany and Austria...
...The working clasa itself ia compelled by the new situation that faces it to prepare 1st sock a struggle...
...That income would not feed a horse...
...Whether "national recovery" is on the way ia a matter of conjecture but recovery by the organised workers of their fighting spirit is more important Socialists will find a place in these struggles by the Mite of their class brothers which will not only be helpful to the workers but will be educational for our members as well...
...Workers of the country must be on their guard every minute, take nothing for granted, and be prepared to fight for strong, organisations in the industries...
...T. M. Brandle and Thomas J. Sherlock were the leaders whose power extended throughout the state...
...Prices, not useful things, count A Socialist society would regulate production needs and if a surplus did accumulate we would store it and give the producers a vacation...
...Fascist Illusions f}NE aspect of the Fascist dictatorships In Ger^ many and Italy should not be forgotten, especially by Socialists...
...The R. F. C. is charged with fixing wage rates far below a living standard...
...No such hndbill has been revealed...
...The prospect of grains reduced in quantity by adverse weather and a government policy of deliberate destruction of cotton means "prosperity...
...The padded cell Industry will resp big profits when social revolution gets rid of both types...
...Why does this basis decay...
...The government's program of reducing the cotton acreage by 25 per cent has also contributed to the upward trend of cotton...
...Impose upon this rotting structure a thorough democracy, or a monarchy, or a Fascist dictatorship...
...t Agricultural Prices Up in Gamblers' Market STRAINS and cotton made record gains ^* in prices on the exchanges early this week but it should not be forgotten that it is a speculators' market...
...The reversal Is one of the moat hopeful decisions for the Negro masses in the South since the Civil War...
...The A. F. of L. figures regarding employment have been very reliable and the report that 1,200,000 jobless workers have returned to work since last March is the first hopeful item sines capitalism collapsed...
...The effect of this change in the speech has left a bad impression on the labor men at Washington and it emphasises what we say on the first page this week...
...The Nazi freaks are organizing all Jewish workers into a separate group so that the Nordics will not be contaminated...
...Hugenberg offered his resignation, then withdrew it, it was accepted and ieported again withdrawn...
...Whether nature or man destroys what we produce it becomes a blessing...
...Iron Workers Oust Jersey Racketeers E*IVE New Jersey union leaders have 'been ousted by the national executive of the Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Iron Workers for racketeering...
...Back of the speculation is the forecast of a wheat crop the lowest since 1896 due to adverse weather conditions while corn and oats are likewise affected...
...This basis is rotting snd ss it decays it rocks the upper structure of society...
...German Cabinet Crisis as Nazis EnslaVe Jewish Labor ALFRED HUGENBERG'S Nationalist Party (capitalist) has been dissolved in Germany and the remnants of other parties have met the same fate...
...All of which suggests that if the accused had been a white man he would not have been convicted by the jury...
...The fight is also on in Chicago against gentlemen of a similar type and others are being investigated in other cities and states...
...Nasi Senators staged a comic scene on Tuesday when they expressed indignation sf suppressing "orderly opinion and poWU ical liberty...
...To emancipate itself the working class must know what it wants, not strike blindly out of sheer suffering...
...Complaints are mad* in a number of states by union men and others of a sweatshop policy followed by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in making loans to finance work projects for unemployment relief...
...To recognise one of these "unions" is a fraud >n its face...
...The original contained the statement that "No code can be even considered which does not recognise the right of organization and collective bargaining...
...Such men do more harm to the organized workers than the open-shop organizations...
...The assumption is that a change in the governing structure will in some way satisfy...
...The Democratic orators will hurl back the base accusations and both will summon the starvelings to pile up ballots over the "issues...
...But note how the capitalist system works...
...In another Tennessee city 45 workers employed on a R. F. C. job quit work in protest against a low wage and returned for $1.25 per day...
...Today it ia impossible for The New leader to chronicle a fraction of these struggles recorded in the daily press and other agencies of information...
...Administrator Hedges On Recovery Act IT now appears that Hugh Johnson, 1 administrator of the National Recovery Act, changed his radio speech of last Sunday just before its delivery...
...They only Insure that when the hour strikes for their overturn it will come, as Lassalle once said, "shod in the Iron sandals of the revolution...
...Re* publican orators will be splitting the ether with roars and Democratic spielers will respond in kind...
...Congratulations are in order for ousting these creatures who had made unionism a thing of barter for their* own enrichment...
...However, this still leaves no less thsn 12,540,000 workers without Jobs* On the basis of an average family of three this means more than 37,000,000 men, women and children enduring varying degrees of privation...
...This means that Jewish workers will occupy the status of a helot class, the lowest in the economic and social life of Germany...
...High in the councils of the G. O. P. comes the announcement that the Democracy will be charged with unconstitutional practices, the "abuse of power," and indulging in extravagance...
...Ths apparent fraud is duo to a desire for a fleet of airplanes...
...Hitler neglected to have a supply printed...
...In the end that disease will destroy them...
...That is, we do not believe that intelligent social revolution necessarily emerges from widespread misery...
...The system of production and exchange must be completely revolutionized...
...Nazi Antics in the Austrian Republic AUSTRIAN Nazis, witn their storm " troops dissolved and their represent" atives facing expulsion from the Senate, are on the defensive...
...Ths .economic basis of society will then become stabilised and democratic...
...However, dollar wheat and 10 cent cotton may represent a recovery trend...
...Ia the intervening period the National Recovery Act has become Isw and this has had a stimulating effect upon the organized workers...
...Because capitalist production and the capitalist method of distribution come into conflict...
...Two-Party Show Getting Ready for Next Year TTHE big show is one year away...
...The mother unable to provide milk for her children, the farmer buried under a load of mortgages, and the man in the breadline are waiting for these champions to tell them about the constitution, executive power and government economy...
...The big capitalist exploiters are in the coils of ths snake they fed...
...We may yet read of the mysterious disappearance of Dr...
...The prostration . eats into all phases of economic life, including agrlcolture, transportation and commerce...
...Whether a government is of the most democratic type or the most despotic, it of itself settles nothing...
...Nothing short of inspiring the working masses with a consciousness of their class position in society will enable us to make any headway against it...
...The fighting spirit has awakened not only ia the matter of ex*, tending organization but striking for better conditions...
...The Socialists support the troop ban but warn against driving the Nazis underground...
...Hitler knows that Hugenberg knows and the latter knows that if he tells what he knows his life isn't worth a plugged nickel...
...Hugenberg and in any event the curtain is descending on the capitalist crowd that financed Hitler...
...Isn't that thrilling...
...Textile and steel production, as well as car loadings, revest steady increases while the number of business failures for May were fewer than in any month in four years...
...Capitalist politics and investments were conspicuous in his career while the union members were terrorized by a loyal squad...
...i Scottsboro Verdict Voided by Judge Horton 1 ATE last week the press carried the . news that Judge\Hortnn had reversed the conviction of on of the Negro defendants is the notorious Svottsbora ess...
...Mussolini has not solved it and Hitler will not' They change the governing structure hut do not destroy the basic disease that plagues all forms of capitalism throughout the world...
...Fven bourgeois circles of Europe have no liking for ths mountebanks that rule Germany...
...Industry becomes psralyzed and there is no place for tens of millions of workers...
...The disease afflicting modern capitalism is located in its economic basis, not in the governing structure...
...It is to recognise a corporation dealing with itself, not a labor union dealing with a corporation...
...Hugenberg knows" the story of the burning of the Reichstag building...
...All of which means that state capitalism has the same mean soul as private' capitalism and '.hat a fighting spirit is essential for working class betterment...
...President Hindenburg summons Hitler to a conference and a Cabinet crisis is admitted...
...They come into power with the promise that the arbitrary rule they establish will bring satisfactory results to the masses...
...The capitalist system it bound by to many tiet to world capitalism that it would be foolith to accept the current trend as a permanent one...
...Late last week the Nazi press also roared against a mythical airplane said to have dropped antiFascist hndbills over Berlin...
...How will we smash this farce...
...He added that it was not his job to organise industry or labor...
...Brandle was the pal of Mayor Hague of Jersey City and was known as the "millionaire labor leader...
...Fascism faces this fundamental problem...
...Austrian papers were filled with news of Nasi destruction of ths Socialist and other parties in Germany while the Austrian Nazis were roaring for "liberty...
...Within a week after this comment appeared reports of strikes became numerous and these reports have increased in number frost week to week...
...Other items indicate some measure of recovery...
...In Chattanooga the wage rate on street work has been reduced from JU5 to $125 and then to $1 a day with only three days a week permitted...
...This upheaval within a ftw weeks is one of the most encoursging signs in the depression period...
...Does it or can it cure the basic disease...
...For this was substituted a statement that labor problems could be left to his decision...
...A Hopeful Spirit POI'K weeks ago in this column we commented * upon the apathy of the masses snd their long resignation to the depression...
Vol. 16 • July 1933 • No. 1
