INDUSTRIAL DECAY THREATENS STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT
INDUSTRIAL DECAY THREATENS STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT A Human Tragedy of Idleness and Misery Money Bags at the Top Gain by Destitution PJKRE is a problem as simple as the statement that the sum of...
...After the secret meeting, the board members would come out of their huddle and conduct a nock session in the open for a few minutes, and then adjourn...
...Big Socialist Sentiment There is a great deal of sentiment for Socialism here, local observers report...
...Under the terms of the latter bill, workers would be paid not less than 40 cents per hour and, in communities where a union scale of wages are in effect, would receive the union rate of pay...
...Denied work by these owners, Uncle Sam tries to provide jobs for 4,000,000 idle persons at a small wage...
...But between the handful at the top of the industrial system and the many millions at the bottom are middle layers...
...But this cannot go on forever...
...He followed up this question by shouting, "It's a shame to have all this rubbish and show while people are starving outside...
...Mayor McLevy cialists will be the election of a opposed the erection of an armory and a drill ground on the park Bite, suggesting, instead, that the city use the unemployed in further developing the appearance and the recreational facilities of the park, which has been shamefully neglected...
...But it is in his official character as spokesman for the Socialist Party in Wisconsin that Benson will appear at the Thanksgiving Day affair...
...Before the World War the public debt was only $1,225,000,000...
...others beloiv to the next lower, and so on to tin broad ledge at the bottom...
...The Federal debt on November 15 was more than $23,000,000,000...
...It should be ours, not the property of a handful...
...The decaying structure of industry and agriculture can only be restored by a Socialist Commonwealth...
...Workers of the nation...
...Under the terms of the Wilson liquor bill, the state would manufacture and sell all liquor and private profit in this commodity would be prohibited...
...After November, 1934, the terms of the nine Democratic and three Republican holdovers will expire, and no new aldermen will be elected, so that the Socialists will then be in the dominant position until 1935, with 12 members out of 16 on the board...
...Under pretense of providing Work for the unemployed, a member of the Joint Relief Commission with none-too-pacifistic leanings, proposed that the city exchange a large recreation center, Beechwood Park, for the present State Armory, so that the State could build a new armory on the Beechwood Park site, and establish a drill ground adjoining...
...The annual opening of Parliament is a scene of royal pomp and splendor, of silks and jewel*, that emphasize the ease and riches of the ruling classes...
...The handful of owners of industry have thrown millions of toilers into the arms of the government...
...All the above bills were introduced by Hoopes...
...There on the top ledge are the super-rich clutching their money bags and looking down at the decay below them...
...13, Independents, etc., 10...
...The 36-acre park is situated in the heart of one of the most populous workingclass sections of the city...
...When I saw those robes and crowns and diamonds In the House of Lords I could see at the same- time tba rags of starving men and women on the banks of the Clyds in my own Glasgow constituency...
...In the past the important business of the city has been transacted behind closed doors, without even a reporter being permitted...
...Of vital importance to the So-President of the Board of Alder-Men, to take place when the new Ward meets...
...When the Socialist alder-Men take their seats on the Board •f Aldermen Monday night, December 4, they plan to make it possible for citizens to express their opinions freely on public matters within the board's jurisdiction, in Ine with the principles of true •ocial democracy...
...Some lose their hold each month and fall into the bleak hole below...
...The handful at the top of the decaying ledges profit by the misery of the millions of toilers...
...Tracing the struggle between workers and those who exploit them from the beginning of the industrial system, Benson will show that rural workers, as well as those in the city, can get the fall product of their toll only when the profit system has been abolished and Socialism substituted in Its place...
...Another move that has met widespread approval is the elimination of secret board meetings...
...Since the president of the p*»rd, chosen from among the aldermen by the aldermen, becomes acting mayor in the absence or incapacity of the mayor, it is of importance to each party to strive to elect one of its members to the presidency...
...The three Republican holdovers hold the balance of power...
...The gates of employment are closed and millions are turned in*o the streets...
...I simply couldn't help ex-pressing my disgust and resentment for all that medieval pomp and all it costs the State...
...At the present rate the total deficit of the fiscal year will run to about $2,000,000,000...
...The paradoxical situation, of course, was caused by the multiplicity of candidates and parties or groups...
...McGovern is a plumber by trade and knows the life of the working class by cxperierce...
...The T'edcral debt is increasing steadily...
...The debt is again climbing and is within three and one-half billions of the all-time high peak...
...The word of the few is law...
...McGovern shout* ed to the King...
...It was not premeditated...
...What about the means test and cuts in unemployment insurance...
...The Socialists, in the busy single week they have been in office, have already eliminated several sinecure jobs, including a $5,000 a year "executive secretary" kept by Mayor McLevy's predecessor...
...The Liberals secured 113,150 votes, the C.C.F., 90,112 and other candidates, 67,279...
...Profits to Finance Welfare The Wilson liquor bill further provides that all profits accruing to the state as a result of the manufacture and sale of liquor shall be appropriated to state and state-aided educational and welfare institutions and for any other kind of welfare work in which the state is engaged...
...Here on the lowest ledge is a desperate fight to hold on...
...These include measures for the improvement of workmen's compensation to make sweeping Inclusions of ocupational diseases, a city housing bill which will open the way for slum clearance and the construction of homes for rental by municipalities, and a bill for the appropriation of $100,000,000 for work relief and direct relief to be paid in cash...
...As a result of the war it leaped to $26,597,O0O(O(X...
...Mayor...
...Another bill to be presented by Representative Hoopes is an anti-eviction bill with provisions more sweeping than any yet introduced in t he state law-nuking body...
...Socialist Bills Introduced in Pennsylvania (By a New leader Correspondent) READING, Pa.—The opening of *^ the legislature last week found the two Socialist representatives, Darlington Hoopes and Lilith Wilson, ready to push bills in the interest of the working class...
...The few fail to keep industries going...
...It is expected that in a few days most of the unemployed in Bridgeport will have been enrolled on the public works' payroll...
...Lilith Wilson presented three bills, one for ratification of the Federal Child Labor Amendment, another for a 80-hour work week, and still another for control by the state of the manufacture and sale of spirituous liquors through a Liquor Control Board...
...Administration of the law would be in the hands of a board of three members who would be appointed by the Governor for terms of four years each and who would receive salaries of $7,600 for the chairman and $7,200 per year for the other two members...
...Industry is owned by a few and the work in industry is done by many millions...
...On Monday, no less than thirty-nine candidates will contest the six seats in Vancouver Centre and Victoria...
...Human beings cling to their own ledge and each ledge is rotting...
...Jasper McLevy, although ex bsnsted from the feverish weeks of campaigning, immediately attended the conference in Washington of the Civic Works Administration, aiming to put 4,000,000 to work this winter on public works projects...
...Imagine capitalism as a series of ledges—say four or five —narrowing to a small one at the top...
...Need of Proportional Representation Shown By Canadian Vote MONTREAL.—Complete returns of the election in the Province of British Columbia show the injustice of elections by a plurality in this country and the United States...
...Every effort to make farming successful under capitalism has been tried and found wanting...
...And this decay of ledges and fall of human beings are due to the orders of industrial monarchs who, have closed the gates of employment in the faces of tens of millions of workers...
...The incident occurred as the King concluded the speech from the throne and, accompanied by the Queen, was about to retire after asking the blessing of God for the members...
...An analysis of the vote shows how the system has worked to the disadvantage of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (a Socialist alliance of farmer and labor...
...To such a sorry pass has come the glorious regime of the prosperity boys of the Coolidge-Hoover era...
...INDUSTRIAL DECAY THREATENS STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT A Human Tragedy of Idleness and Misery Money Bags at the Top Gain by Destitution PJKRE is a problem as simple as the statement that the sum of two and two is four...
...Below the top each layer is broader, the lowest being the broadest and with a yawning pit below...
...Four hundred farmers will hear the cause of Socialism at this banquet...
...They fear the working class...
...They have returned to the city garage the expensive mayoral limousine in which the ex-mayor used to ride with two police sergeants as his chauffeurs and have sent the two chauffeurs back to active police duty...
...They hope to stop the rotting process, hope that the whole structure will avoid destruction, and try to feed the victims of this decay...
...There is a limit to government borrowing, taxing and giving...
...The Socialists are not afraid of criticism or of constructive suggestions...
...Those who are sentenced to idleness have no appeal to a higher tribunal...
...High at the top there is also fear, but fear of another kind...
...The decay in industry is eating into the government structure...
...A new aldermanic president is chosen every year...
...Clearest indication of this trend, which although It has gained recent impetus from the current strike has its inception in the careful work done by workers who are already convinced of the inevitability of Socialism, is given in the extension of an invitation to Al Benson, State Secretary of the Socialist Party, to be the principal speaker at a Thanksgiving Day banquet to be held here Nov...
...There is a limit to this...
...NRA agents give their time to repairing ledges...
...Two years ago, McGovern was ejected from the House when he defied the Speaker...
...Royalty Dubbed 'Parasites' by Labor M.P...
...Uncle Sam also buys wheat, pork, shoes and coal to help keep jobless workers alive...
...Later in the smoks room of the House McGovern continued to ex-press his resentment...
...Some fall from an upper ledge to one below...
...From 1920 to 1930 this enormous debt was being reduced, but now two-thirds of the reduction have been cancelled...
...admission...
...ours to own and operate for the welfare of all...
...Fear and anxiety brood over the human mass as this process of rotting ledges and dropping from one ledge to another continues...
...f*IIE opening of the British * Parliament by the King and Queen on Tuesday was the scene of a dramatic Incident when John McGovern, Independent L a b off member form Glasgow, shouted "parasites" at the assembled lordi and ladies...
...The old armory, it was suggested, could be used as a recreation center...
...Farmers Turn to Socialism in Wisconsin pRIVITZ, Wis.—The farmers of ^ Marinette County are preparing to turn to Socialism as the only way out of their financial difficulties...
...But repairing the decaying ledges costs millions, nay, billions of dollars...
...The Liberals polling 41.9 per cent of the votes elected 80, the C.C.F., polling 38.3 per cent of the votes elected seven, and others polling 24.9 per cent of the votes elected five...
...The Democrats, with *Jne holdovers, will hsve 13 men m the council, the Socialists 12, •nd the Republicans 8 (all hold-*»ers...
...The electorate of the province is 367,267 and the votes cast for the 41 seats numbered about 270,500...
...The mounting debt is mainly due to the failure of the corpora/ion magnates to keep the industrial machine going...
...Requests to form locals in Marinette County have been going into the state Socialist office in increasing numbers...
...No group of men have supported the three strike movements of the past year mora loyally than the group near hero...
...I have no ergret for what I have done," ha exclaimed...
...You're a gang of lazy, idle parasites living on wealth created by the people...
...Socialists Get on the Job in Bridgeport By Abraham Knepler BRIDGEPORT.—-The enthusiasm of the workers who elected a Socialist administration to office here continues at high pitch...
...Benson is already a familiar character to the farmers, who hart met him as he toured the state in support of the Wisconsin strike movement...
...It wss the contrast between this rich- display and the jobless millions throughout England that aroused McGovern'* anger...
...And who will profit by it ?* The big banking magnates who have their grip on the nation's finances...
...Had the wishes of the electorate prevailed they would have produced a stalemate, for, awarding the scats according to the aim of tthe votes cast, the result would have been something like this, Liberals 18, C.C.F...
Vol. 16 • November 1933 • No. 22
