Big-Wigspire Workers andGovernment Feeds Them Till Masters Want Them
Big-Wigspire Workers andGovernment Feeds Them Till Masters Want Them Spinal Cord of Industry Is Snapped by Depression WHEN a- powerful athlete exhibits his strength, "e are, willed. If his...
...The request is reasonable...
...The three Republicans and one Democratic holdover voted for Auth as a matter of fairness, in deference to the will of the people expressed at the election by a huge majority...
...But a government run by parties and politicians of the big-wigs will not do thin...
...The first meeting of the new Board was held In the auditorium of the Central High School, because the regular Aldermanic chamber was too small to accommodate the crowds that came to see the beginning of Socialist rule of the city...
...Its spinal cord -"Industry—snapped and it became a paralytic...
...The working class must look forward to doing it...
...By A New Correspondent) QUINCY, Mass.—A sensational increase was scored by the Socialist Party In the local election here Tuesday...
...That is, the big-wig owners of industry toss the workers into the hands of Uncle Sam and say: "We have no use for them...
...It cannot keep its wage slaves at work...
...The vote was 1,387 for Comrade Doble to 1,422 for the sitting Councilman...
...This merger capitalism is what we have today...
...There are 11,000,000 workers without work and the C.W.A...
...Socialism, you say...
...Would it not be better to take idle industries out of the hands of the big-wigs, who cannot or will not operate them...
...It became a giant with vast power...
...They must have power to do it...
...About 135,000 on public roads...
...The big-wigs have closed many of their industries and others are o|>eratcd only part time...
...A handful of big-wigs own it and rule it...
...For weeks the prosecution has fought the...
...also tries to emphy some of the industrial castaways of the big-wigs...
...Not intending to forget Socialism, now that it has gained political power, Local Bridgeport is expected to prepare a program of intensive educational training in the principles and philosophy of Socialism Immediately after the general membership meeting of the party, Wednesday night, December 20, at the Workmen's Circle Hall...
...When Auth was named by his fellow Socialist Alderman John F. Sheerin, deafening applause greeted the nomination...
...During the campaign the Socialist local increased its membership by 200 per cent...
...I In Judge Kadien's order, on Nov...
...Enrollment for these classes will be held Friday night, December 8, and Sunday morning, December 10, at the Sixth District Socialist Club, 708 Madison Ave...
...get out...
...Comrade Enoch Hall Doblc, candidate for Councilman in the Second Ward, a working class district near the shipyards, came within 36 votes of election...
...At the end of the year the holdovers will drop out, and the Board will consist of 12 Socialists and 4 Democrats...
...When we want them we will let you know...
...That will leave 7,000,000 still without jobs...
...Defense counsel is seeking speedy trial or dismissal of the charge...
...Now let's sum up...
...That's it...
...It will all lie earmarked within two week...
...That is what has happened to our industrial system...
...Then the government sets up the Civil Works Administration and the Public Works Administration...
...Keep them alive till we want them again...
...A' recount is being demanded, and it Is expected that if it is granted Doble will win the seat...
...The vote, remarkable as it is, is the result of long and hard Socialist propaganda in this working class town...
...The government is in the hands of the politicians and parties of the big-bigs and adopts the suggestion...
...It will eventually paralyze government itself...
...Terzani Trial Is Called Again For Monday FAILURE of District Attorney r Charles S. Coition of Queens County to obey a court order to surrender to the defense photographs of all finger-prints on the gun in the Terzani-Khaki Shirts murder case caused - attorneys for Athos Terzani to serve notice on Colden that they will ask Judge Thomas Kadien to preclude the prosecution from introducing any linger-print evidence against Terzani...
...equals a million—a generous estimate...
...But production of goods does not stand alone...
...defense demand for those photographs, on the ground that this was an attempt to compel it to divulge evidence in advance of trial...
...Socialists Poll Heavy Increase in Quincy, Mass...
...The laboring masses are hurled out of the industries where they should work and the government tries to provide work while these industries are idle...
...Assume that the total employed on all projects of the P.W.A...
...Once ¦tmwous and pouring out great values, the system is /Julf paralyzed...
...Try to get along on an animal standard of living till the bigwigs send for you...
...Only ISO million dollars of the little more than three billions approTake Idle Plants from Idle Owners and Run Them priated for the l'.W.A...
...Certainly...
...Very well...
...Tremendous cheering greeted the announcement of the tellers that Auth had won the presidency from Edward P. Dempsey, the Democratic nominee...
...Colden got a two Weeks' postponement Nov.'27, in frder to bring Smith.into court "by Whatever means possible...
...The P.W.A...
...You cannot operate the industries...
...expects to employ and 6,000,000 outcasts of industry will still 1* idle...
...How many of the castaways have been employed by the l'.W.A...
...cannot carry on the production that is essential to keep millions of human beings alive...
...They have tossed human commodities upon private charity and the government...
...The vote was 16 to 12...
...We shall order the workers through their unions and cooperatives to cooperate with their government in taking over the industries and run them for the purpose they should be run," Instead of following that course, a government oi the big-wigs buys food, shoes and clothing to distribute among the destitute millions and says: "Your masters have no use for you at present...
...It does not work and millions of workers are deprived of work...
...L, Terzani is to go on trial in Long bland City next Monday...
...AUTH, SOCIALIST, HEADS BRIDGEPORT ALDERMEN By Abraham Knepler DRIDGKPORT—Andrew K. Auth, *"* Socialist Alderman from District 12-B, was elected President of the Board of Aldermen at the first meeting of the city's legislative body since the sensational election of last month...
...Despite "the dubious evidence on which Terzani is held," the Post-Dispatch points out, "District Attorney Colden has refused to order a thorough Investigation of the killing...
...Now that these great industries cannot provide work, a peculiar thing happens...
...Despite the fact that party labels are not allowed In the city elections, the campaign was waged as a strictly Socialist fight, and votes were won for the candidate on the Socialist platform...
...Then industry and finance consolidated into big corporations, still bigger corporations, mergers of corporations and even mergers of mergers...
...Industries should be used to produce goods for human beings...
...It Is no edifying spectacle to see this case prolonged to make capital for the collapsed Khaki Shirt cause, or to see an accused man threatened with imprisonment on such flimsy evidence...
...This gigantic system grew up under the protection of the government controlled by two parties owned .iy the big-wigs...
...Auth, a mechanical engineer, is regarded as the foremost student of parliamentary law in the Bridgeport Local...
...If it will not frM you, why do the big-wigs oppose it, and if it will, why do you...
...A lecture series and classes in Socialism will probably be under way soon after the New Year...
...22, Colden was directed to surrender the finger-print photographs Within two days...
...Land grants, charters, tariffs, subsidies, bounties and other legislation nursed the system from infancy to the bloated thing it now is...
...After the Civil War it largely represented railroads, manufacturing enterprises and the tanks...
...arc left and this will be spent by next February...
...The Sixth District Socialist Club is already undertaking the formation of classes in Socialism, revolutionary literature, and public speaking...
...With his selection the Socialist administration is relieved of a possible source of embarrassment, for the Aldermanio'President serves as Acting Mayor when the Mayor is absent from the city...
...proposes to employ 4,000,000 by taking them from the charity rolls of the cities and states...
...The government tries to prevent this human material from perishing, as the big-wigs will need it to rob again if their paralyzed industries ever revive...
...Millions of arorkers and farmers are ruled by its owners...
...You refuse to employ the workers...
...Add this to the 4,000,000 the C.W.A...
...Big-Wigspire Workers andGovernment Feeds Them Till Masters Want Them Spinal Cord of Industry Is Snapped by Depression WHEN a- powerful athlete exhibits his strength, "e are, willed...
...L Large political and social Implications are »een in the Terzani P* bjMtl*rrSt...
...Although the Socialists elected 12 Aldermen to 4 Democrats last month, there are 3 Republican and 10 Democratic holdovers who will serve another year...
...If his spine snaps tinder the strain and ht becomes paralyzed, that is a tragedy...
...The District Attorney has not indicated whether he has been able to induce his main witness, Commander Art Smith of the Khaki Shirts, to tome and testify...
...If it were a government of the workers, that government would say to the big-wigs: "Get out...
...The cost of keeping the outcasts is charged to the government and h-r$ is a limit to this jnounting cost...
...Louis PostDispatch, which in an editorial cites the possibility of its taking a place with the Dreyfus affair, the Sacco-Vanzetti case, and -the Reichstag: fire trial—"unless the authorities concerned awaken to their responsibilities...
...When they want you we'll let you know...
...We will try to keep you alive till they can use you...
...Our government once protected property in slaves...
...There is government with its laws and officials, (iovern-iients protect property and represent the most powerful property owners...
...In 1082 Normal Thomas polled 078 rotes In all sis wards of the city...
...You provide them with food, shoes, clothing and coal...
...Think it over while you have time or the big-wigs will make it illegal for you to think at all...
...You put them to work...
Vol. 16 • December 1933 • No. 24
