The Struggle for Plunder at the Top While Masses Live in Misery Below
The Struggle for Plunder at the Top While Masses Live in Misery Below A Movie Magnate is Blackjacked of Millions by Gentlemen Who Quarrel Over the Wealth the Laboring Masses Produce; A Graphic...
...Speaking only as an English Laborite, looking forward to our coming opportunity in England, knowing the erormous strength of the U. 8. A., nothing could mors aid our hopes and plans for England than a similar movement on this great continent We all earnestly wish for your success, both for the sake of world Socialism and for the sake of our own endeavors on the other sids of the Atlantic...
...It will discharge the gamblers and wipeout the gambling...
...Out of the brain and brawn of the laboring masses there in the pit below came ths values that were taken from Fox in that struggle...
...Those who are in the hell below should gaze at the heaven at the top...
...This militant Labor Party was among the first to greet the Soviet Revolution and one of the first to join the Third (Communist) International...
...their planned nation is becoming an actuality...
...It will end the struggle of the robber barons over the vast wealth which our brain and brawn heap into their laps...
...What is it all about...
...This statement is her answer to the request...
...Urge that you use power and prestige of your high office to arouse decent sentiment oi our county to check epidemic of sadistic terror by issuing public declaration against lawlessness and on re-assembling of Congress specifically recommend to it Federal anti-lynching legislation...
...But we must not exaggerate its importance for the victory is far from being complete...
...Our labor power is 0 drug in the market...
...We are not, but if the millions of wretched workers down in the hole could understand the significance of that struggle between Fox and the wolves, they would make short shift of the "system" that makes it possible...
...They fight over what w« produce...
...It is apparently the only states' right left...
...Who is to control the nation...
...He accumulated millions out of the labor power of rural and urban labor...
...It will transform the industries into cooperative enterprises for us to use to serve ourselves...
...Such are the questions which are asked both in England and America...
...The Labor Party vote was 808,100 in 1927, 874354 in 1930 and 499,421 in 1988...
...A* I gee it...
...Howevei, the masses soon became suspicious of Moscow methods, and in 1925 forced their leaders to separate from the Communist International...
...The question now is...
...Since it lacks seven seats for an absolute majority in the Storting, the Socialist government will have to depend for its existence on the toleration of the Liberals...
...a fox meets Wolves who plunder him plunder was produced by the workers socialism will end looting and looters Big Opportunity Seen Coming for Socialists Here By A. Susan Lawrence (V/ithin a fiu days after Comrade Lawrence's arrival in this country to study eeonomi* conditions and the toRA, we asked her to give readers of The New Leader her impressions...
...There are still 81 non-Socialists to the CD Socialists...
...A few figures will illustrate this statement...
...Fox runs to a Senate banking committee and tells his story...
...Two years later, the party opened its arms to the remnants of the few faithful Socialist- that withstood the lure of Bolshevist phrases...
...in the U. S. A. the first intelligent attempt of car-itallam to establisn ftself wheih has taken place since w« war...
...Without the mainspring of private ini tiative, the whole system will crumble...
...Fox is loaded with vast properties and the other gentlemen close in on him...
...The party lacks a working majority in the parliament, or Storting...
...The Socialist torch is carried by advance couriers of human liberation, but there are still many, too many, who do not see the light...
...There are ways of slugging and slitting a throat without imitating the gangster who slinks in the shadows for a victim...
...The telegram follows: Franklin D. Roosevelt, President, Warm Springs, Ga...
...THE editor of The New Leader * has asked me to send a word flt greeting to our American comrades...
...The Communist vote, on the other hand, went from 40,075 in 1927 to 23.301 in 1983, . loss of 42 per cent In six years I Victory Not Complete Forty per cent of the electorate —44 in the eity district* and 88 in the rural—voted Socialist...
...Norman Thomas, Louis Waldman, "Every attempt made so far to secure the enactment of antilynching legialation in Congress has been defeated," a statement by Comrade Thomas reads...
...They were and still are gentlemen who know their onions...
...Fox himself did not create what he lost...
...According to the October report of the A. F. of L. there are 10,076,000 jobless workers, an increase of 11,000 since the previous report...
...Then comes the Left Liberal (Government) Party with 27...
...Ho wants to hold on to them...
...This fnVbtened the bourgeois groups which voted the Labor Party out...
...Had Fox and his enemies lived a thousand years, they could not have produced the enormous values that exchanged hands in that titanic struggle...
...There arc gathered the masters of capital and finance...
...The non-Socialists "are not a unit They belong to four pa...
...Not out of the azure blue...
...Thia is not always possible, as was shown by the experience in 1928, when the Norwegian Labor Party was in office for twelve days—not i day longer than it took to put forward a program involving a draetie redistribution of wealth...
...They would have received wages to produce those values and those wages would not have equalled the value of this plunder...
...We preached continually the doctrine of a nation conducting it* economic life for the equal opportunity of alL And the arguments of our opponents always centered on the impossibility of a planned nation...
...SMASH LYNCHING TERROR, SOCIALIST PARTY DEMANDS ?SOCIALISTS of the nation will **' make a determined effort to obtain the passage of a stringent and effective Federal anti-lynching measure in the next session of Congress, Norman Thomas said today, following the sending of an urgent telegram signed by him and by Louis Waldman, as co-chairman of the party's Public Affairs Committee, calling upon President Roosevelt, to take a firm stand against this "epidemic of sadistic terror" sweeping the country...
...The prf-rent Liberal government will have to vacate office not later than January...
...Is the first objective to be the equal right of every human being to their share in the national wealth, or the preservation of privilege and profit of wealth and poverty...
...Governor Rolph's shocking eulogy of lynching has evidently accelerated a wave of lynchings which disgraces America...
...Men and women, boys and girls, live the life of gypsies...
...Communities in which lynchings occur will forfeit to the Federal Government Vhe sum of 110,000 for each lynching...
...Fox got into a jam...
...we are witnessing...
...He was blackjacked, control was wrested from him, and the gentlemen got away with the loot...
...At the bottom of our so-called social "system" are the unemployed millions and the wretched farmers...
...uud the interesting thing pr us Socialists to note, is that they have adopted half tbe Socialist theory and are endeavoring to unite with this half the capitalist doctrine...
...Were the big-wigs bandits...
...There is a struggle between well-dressed ml well-fed gentlemen...
...So many of us-have become homeless wanderers because the silk hats have no place for us in their industries that hundreds of thousands are tramping aimlessly about the country...
...There is William Fox, a former movie magnate...
...I do so with a full heart: •nvying them, if I may so say, their opportunities and conscious Ca wish—if I were only young ough—to become «n American •Hisen and emoll myself in their (ranks...
...In the first cables of the news agencies the last two were given as one Communist, one Fascist...
...Mies Lawrence is high in the council* of the British Labor Party and has been Labor member of Faliament...
...Is it to be the interests of the people...
...A titanic struggle follows...
...Next January he will become Premier...
...It is now drifting more and more toward the L. and S. I. Th p l e a e n t parliamentary leader A the party is Johan Nygaardsvold, an unskilled worker...
...our fight it to end their power to take it However much they make take from each other, what we make will remain in the facial pit to live a life of uncertainty and privation...
...Within a short time after that struggle the gentlemen cleared a net $4,000,000 and Fox declares that $15,000,000 had disappeared from his corporation since he was squeezed out by these banker footpads I Are we sorry over this transaction...
...President Roosevelt was urged to take measures to stem the lynching wave...
...When one is stripped of his valuables, he runs whimpering for sympathy...
...One thing stands out...
...Minority Labor Government in Norway Likely By Mark Khinoy 1*1115 official tabulation of the * general October election in Norway credits the Labor Party with 499,421 votes and the Com* munist Party with 28,301...
...He believes that the silk hats closing in on him are engaged in a conspiracy to rob him...
...The .Socialists will make a determined effort to secure the passage of a Federal anti-lynching law in the next Congress...
...But the real leader of the party is and will remain Martin Tranmael, editor of Arbeiterbladet, t.ic official n-fan...
...It is very pretty," they said, "but it cannot work...
...Now*they have completely shifted their ground...
...be subjecting themselves to fines and imprisonment...
...It is denied and he affirms it...
...will be more stringent, and have teeth "Jt will provide for the transfer of those accused of the crime of lynchings to other jurisdictions, where they are more likely to get a fair hearing and their just deserts than they ire in their own communities...
...Fox no longer controls what he once controlled...
...This triumph was In no way due to a sudden awing of popular opinion . It was simply another step forward In steady progress sine* the reuniting in 1927 of the ranks split seven years earlier by the) Communist International...
...The Labor Party won not only an increase of 22 in Its parliamentary representation, but also a gain of 126,000 votes since the election in 1980...
...They want his film and theatre holdings...
...The question is no longer "Can the nation control industry...
...The bill, which embodies some of the principles of the Dyer Antl-I lynching Bill of some years ago...
...For so much depends on the party in America...
...The bankers had it and they would not extend the credits that were necessary to him...
...Fox becomes frightened...
...Banker Wiggin is there ,with other big-wigs of the capitalist world...
...While the silk hat rulers of our life quarrel and fight, the government tosses us ration* to keep Us alive...
...The usual constitutional objections will be urged against the measure, but it is not likely that the decent elements of the nation will believe that a measure making the guarantees contained in the Constitution effective ia for that reason In violation of the Constitution...
...When it is over, the silk hats have control over much that Fox had controlled...
...It it without doubt a singular achievement...
...It numbers, in a land of three million people, a dues paying membership over 80,000 and a press that includes 27 dailies...
...And against ai> the contradictions and inaccuracies of such an at* tempt the essential simplicity and reasonableness of the Socialist theory stand cut as never before...
...and the new theory is to combine private profit and national control...
...A Graphic Picture of Contrasts and Struggles Mi.VER in our history has there been such social contrasts between regal power and rags, between wealth and poverty, as today...
...Socialism is the hope of the dispossessed, the liberation of mankind...
...the Farmers with 23, and the Radical Peoples Party with one...
...Mobs that appeat nnable to control their won feehngs will find a strong temptation to restrain their fury when they know that the pleasure they get out of seeing people burn and hang will have to be paid for in additional taxation...
...The oligarchs devour each other...
...While the Republican national platform definitely promised the enactment of suitable legislation, the effort made to carry out this campaign pledge was very perfunctory and feeble, and was easily thwarted by the Democrats, who still maintan that the right to lynch people is of the essence of the states' rights principles for which they contend...
...The Labor Party will then be called to take over the government It will in all probability be a minority Socialist gt eminent—like the others in (be two other Scandinavian states— Sweden and Denmark...
...In the upper range of capitalism, where that struggle took place, the law of the jungle still rule...
...lie wants to be restored to the place in the jungle which he once occupied...
...Neither of the dictatorial parties polled enough vates to be entitled to even a single representative...
...He needed money...
...The strongest is the Conservative Party with 31 seats...
...Whether one of the gentry is slugged and tossed to a lower level in the robber burg oi capitalism is no concern of ours...
...Moreover, most of the trade unions are organized along industrial lines and are part and parcel of the Labor Party...
...The immediate demands for which the Socialists campaigned include an elaborate program of public works as a first step toward the systematic development of the country's national resources, the six-hour day, a 3% maximum bank Interest rate, reduction of farm indebtedness to he pre-deflation level, restoration of the unions' right to boycott employers, national disarmament and defense of democracy against ''-"''sm...
...Public officers who fail to resist mobs, or do so in a halfhearted manner, wii...
...The Labor Party is a real party of workers...
...But both the sluggers and the slugged live off the labor of the millions down there in the social pit...
...Socialism will end this unearned wealth at the top and this unmerited poverty be;ow...
...Two bourgeois deputies profess to be non-partisan...
...A demand was also made upon him that he recommend to Congress the enactment of Federal anti-lynching legislation...
...He rose out «f the pit over the backs of the workers and became an exploiter of labor...
...Where did the immense stake which Fox lost and the bankers won come from...
...The silk hats have it...
...ties...
...Our Egyptian n.jht continues into the fifth year...
...There is no demand for it...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 23
