A Socialist View of the Week

...If Hitler goes there will be chaos and much spilling of blood...

...But Blonde...

...It cannot go on as it was...

...Will codes keep us out...

...One correspondent writes from Berlin that Hitler's rule is menaced by all the seething cross-currents in Germany...

...And in Hhleria Rifts Begin to Appear IN the Hitler madhouse all is not well...

...to sovt tke Union— to save states rigkti . . . we stopped bullets at Gettyiburgl We followed the president ...we ekarged up San Juan Hill...

...Socialists want a city for the people regardless of cost to the real estate speculators or to the exploiters of labor...

...In other words, was the French party prepared to declare all non-Socialist govern* ments equally bad...

...WW followed tke preiident...

...Now Steel ssys trade unionism cannot come in...

...In the days of the sainted Gary United States Steel, leader and bell-wether of the whole industry, insisted that nothing could make them abandon the 84-hour week...

...And we have on our aide the lessons of the terrible years Just past—and the words of President Roosevelt who at least understands why R waa that the ayiiem he would restore broke down SO tragically...

...we have the forces af economics on our side...

...As we have insisted in past issues, this is the only possible method of meeting the challenge of the employers...

...made it...

...A. F. of L. Meets Challenge Of Steel Barons ENCOURAGING is the news from the labor front to the effect that the A. F. of L. has adopted a new policy with respect to the organization of the unorganized...

...Should the party continue to "tolerate" a non-Socialist ministry T' Should it oppose it and thus contribute to its downfall...

...The fight is now on to organize the steel men...

...It Is a fart that the President wants to see Capitalism live and continue to coin the labor of the miosis into huge fortunes...

...Real estate people want economy in city government...

...Speaking of the textile industry and the (alleged) liquidation of child labor the President ssys: "Child labor was an old evil...

...They therefore have taken a position of opposition to Hitlerism in order to preserve whatever can be preserved of their country and its beautiful capital, withholding active opposition to Dolfuss for the time being, pending the liquidation of the Nasi menace...

...We want an end to exploitation and economic uncertainty...

...in Haiti...

...from the further fact that recovery sdvsnces in precisely the degree that collectiviMf principles are put Into practice...

...Socialists differ from the old parties not only in degree but in kind...

...But how far can he go...

...The Storm Detachments are seething with discontent the maniac Goring is speaking more wildly every day...

...the barons have sworn they will not let unionism in...

...And that means a challenge to the workers to fight just to get back to scratch...

...The devil feels 1 quite well again, thank you...

...The special party congress at Paris revealed deep divisions on that issue...

...The New Deal wants to salvage as much of It as possible, but the New Deal recognises that it cannot go on in the way that Donald ttichberg called gold-plated anarchy...

...What next ? Will it be a Nazi triumph T Or will the Dolfuss Christian "Socialists" establish an anti-Semitic, antiworking class dictatorship...

...If that support la withdraw* it will fall and a reaction, ary —possibly a semi-Fascist — government will take its place...

...But businessmen look at the cash register, not at charts...

...This does not mean that it will be unable physically to maintain itself in power...

...That bar will now be removed...

...and the fervent hopes of tens of millions are that our Austrian comrades will likewise win out And in France There la Likewise a Dilemma IN France our comrades are likewise 1 faced with a dilemma...

...President'Green confirms reports that the Federation is preparing to organize industrial unions in the steel plants, each union to cover a whole industrial plant, each to secure a separate Federal charter...

...But the Socialists could not support Dolfuss without supporting a crowd fully aa reactionary as Hitler...

...Socialists Face Important Municipal Issues WITH the nomination of a strong ticket ™ and the adoption of a fine platform the Socialists of New York are in the field again, blasting the vain hopes of those who hsve been trying- to lura the Socialist party into a so-called fusion movement to defeat Tammany...

...But mere recovery is not enough...

...For, in a sense, Capitalism can be summed up in five words: Buy cheap and sell dear...

...ment as nearly radical as say French government eaa be without being frankly Socialist Tie) French party line-up being what it is, the Daladier government cannot exist without the votes of the Socialist members...

...It is that without codes—without public interference with business—without the aid of what business apoplectically damns as Socialism we are headed for a nose-dive right back into the mire...

...A great deal depends upon the answer to that question...

...But on the same day the Times carried an exactly contrary story, reporting that a basis of unity had been arrived at and that the Blum, the Renaudel and the Auriol sections were able to come to an agreement Whatever the rtsuts, it is a fact that in countries in which Socialism has grown to impressive proportions but where it does not yet control its problems are not quite as simple aa those of a party strictly devoted to propaganda...

...Should it become part of it...

...It does mean that Hitler cannot deliver, and German masses are beginning so to realise...

...For the first time the head of our nation expresses in words that all may understand thoughts that are in tens of millions of minds about the shabbiness of our economic system...

...The French Socialists, true to their principles, have declined to participate in the government although repeatedly urged to send representatives into the Ministry...

...We followed tke preiident at tke Mame, at Belleau Wood...

...rmay be that the attempt to reduce business and industrial practises to written form will fail and that long before the tentative two year period of the National Emergency hat passed we will be right back in the jungle of ferocious competition, each businessman and industrialist trying to grab off all the loot he can...

...The Socialists, powerful in Vienna, realised that to continue to oppose Dolfuss would mean a Hitler victory, and that would mean "coordination" into the Nasi asylum-state, with all the sadistic savageries that implies...

...That plan was the Nazis' great secret for putting people to work, which they refused to divulge for fear their enemies might try to steal it from them...

...following tke preiident...

...They have no interest in common with reformers...

...but it is impossible to aay at this time whether or not the regime is cracking...

...That is our starting point...

...Socialists cite the same facts and insist that those evils cannot be liquidated without the liquidation of Capitalism itself...

...It la significant that prices shot up lonf before wages, although what is needed to make the New Deal effective is a rise in wages proportionally far greater than any possible rise in prices...

...Ws have Justice on our side...

...Hitlerism is a flop...

...The peppery little Dolfuss succeeded in arousing national feeling against the Hitler brand of fascism, isolated the Nazi element from his own anti-Socialist bloc, and waged a stirring fight against Hitlerism...

...Bay goods cheap, buy labor cheap, and sell products dear...

...Bat the Socialist party wu never > the running as a partner in a fusion movement As Norman Thomas has said, cheap government is not good government...

...We want an end to Capitalism...

...It is a ticklish game, and one is reminded of Blonde] walking the tight-rope over the boiling waters of Niagara with a man on his back...

...A copyright story in the New York Sun points out that Hitler's "Immovable" plan for labor conscription, announced at the vast May First circus at Tempo!hof, has been abandoned...

...But no employer acting alone was able to wipe it oat If one employer tried It or if one State tried it the coats of operation rose so high that it was impossible to compete with employers or States which had failed to act...

...Socialists can take satisfaction from the knowledge that the terrible collapse that brought down everything with it is now officially recognised by those In the highest places as having been caused by precisely those evil elements in Capitalism that Socialists have slways pointed out...

...One guess is as good as another's: But there are no two opinions-on two points...

...The result was a compromise and unity has been maintained...

...we now kave nice little wkitt or ones aver us...

...Tke monster, Industry, laugkt in fbsndisk glee . . . tke old gag kai worked again...

...The rich," said Tolstoy, "will do anything for the poor except get off their backs...

...The President s Speech ASPEECH like that delivered by President Roosevelt Monday night would have been unthinkable before these exciting times...

...Pay as little as possible snd get as much as possible...

...Bat at least until the next elections the Socialists in France, like those in Austria, must be skilful tightrope walkers...

...But long ago it passed...

...Businessmen and industrialists were eager enough once to whoop 'er up for the New Deal, for planned production, for a'shorter work-week, for anything short of Socialism...

...We want an end to economic inequality...

...that is a question upon which any observer can have his own opinion...

...One tremendous fact, however, needs no further demonstration...

...The people are hungry and angry...

...And it is a terrible flop...

...We want no repetition of 1921-1929...

...Throughout the speech is recognition of the evils Inherent in Capitalism...

...Another writes a book saying Hitler will remain in power...

...And business was prepared to do anything, make any I sacrifice, except give up exploiting labor,I to be permitted to go on exploiting labor.1 But with signs of recovery—if any--J the blue funk is passing, the greenness about the gills is disappearing, and business is all set to fight...

...they want low taxes and resent expenditures for municipal enterprises Tammany wants high taxes to distribute as swag to hold the gang together...

...We again are following tke president...

...In Austria, for example...

...Other industries included in the new plan are rubber, automobiles and lumber...

...There is no doubt "that business is now trying to grab all that is possible in the shape of higher prices while dodging the whole issue of higher wages, shorter hours and widespread reemployment...

...Out of it may come freedom—or possibly an even madder dictatorship than today's under Goring and his depraved creatures...

...The New Deal wants s readjustment of the relations of the workers and their employers, so that . there may continue to be such relations, bat it la a fact of importance that cannot be exaggerated that the exponent of the New Deal realizes that In Its eld form, the form that existed until the Great Collapse, Capitalism has been a tragic, a ghaatly failure...

...but it is alee a fact that the President recognises that the day of nnreatrfctoJ and unrestrained Capitalism has passed, and that if it is to eontinne the workers who do its work must get wages above a mere subsistence level and not be worked to desth...

...Socialist Problems In Austria PROBLEMS that face Socialists in * America, however, are as nothing to the problems our European comrades must face...

...Steel will be defeated again, by the power of the organized workers, backed by the sympathy and support of the whole working class...

...tke ugly faced monster, Industry, witk fat kands and witk a ttomack that itickt out, U STANDING by tke preiident . . . prieei go iky kigk . . . tke toilers and jobless numb witk following president!, again fall in bine...

...That system lies in ruins...

...died of fever tn Luzon . . . felt tke tting of a bullet at Peiping . . . we are tkvse who died...

...The Socialists, the strongest single party in Austria, have no majority...

...Both want to get rid of corruption of the Tammany brand, but for reasons so divergent that if they were lo happen to share' a municipal government (a wholly fictitious supposition) there would be absolutely no common ground upon which to work together...

...the Nazis are becoming insaner and more depraved every day...

...The Devil's Health Becomes an Issue THE devil was sick, the devil a monk would be...

...They are the second strongest party in the Chamber...

...From the recovery that is the end and aim af the New Deal, we begin...

...and being unable to deliver anything remotely resembling what they promised, the Nasis are becoming more unpopular every day with the cruelly oppressed people...

...They must be able to buy hack what ttiey produce so that the profits may continue—if they are to continue...

...A great obstacle to labor unionism in the steel industry so far has been the craft form of organization...

...The devil got well...

...The devil a monk was he...

...and cheap government is all most of the funionists want Socialists are not interested in mere "good" government...

...There was a report in the New York Herald-Tribune that following the congress there was a definite split a large section of the party forming a National Socialist party...

...The New Deal proposes a partnership intended to mitigate them...

...Steel was licked on the issue of the working week...