A Socialist View of the Week (You Talk of War)
Urquhart, Schuyler C.
A Socialist View ot the Week YOU TALK OF WAR By Schuyler C. Urquhart, in The National Tribune An (x-douyhboy apeakt reprovingly to a young man who Kas expreKned the tvisk that there would be...
...Friedrich Adier, secretary of the L.S.I., expressed general Socialist opinion in a caustic article reviewing (his incident...
...THE NtW LKADER...
...Steel chiefs walk out of a meeting as William Green appeared and some mine barons continue fight for company unionism...
...Both complain but one hears no complaint from the distributing companies...
...The economic collapse works against the existing political regime in each nation whether it is despotic oi (iemo> eratic...
...In Austria confiscated Nazi documents have been published showing that Germany has subsidized Austrian Nazis and that the Vienna section had asked for a monthly subsidy of 10,000 marks...
...The Socialist historian of a future generation will paint this hideous thing for what it is...
...Strikes Continue and a Judge Accepts "Necessity" 'pHR strike moratorium does not materialize, jobs lag behind production gains, and Prof...
...Some large chain store corporations are charged with fraud in application of codes Mtid other concerns are under investigation...
...SiRnrd coulributloua do not imrn-Mrily rcpmrnt Ihe policy of The New I.eoder...
...The "common enemy" of (he farmers is a milk surplus...
...Ilanuncripli Ihiil cannot be mrd will not lie returned unleM ritorn postage It enclosed...
...1114, al Ika Peel Oflcf at Naw Tark...
...It is the old quarrel between the producer and the middleman...
...An ever-increasing number of commodities also show an increasing ad« vance in prices...
...Rnlared Second Clan Mailer...
...In one camp arc an estimated l.'>,000 fighters fighting the Milk Control Board of (heir own creation...
...Adolf, ynay defy the lightning but he cannot defy the decay of Gerinan capilulmn...
...If it so seems to the judge it also seems to us that "the law of necessity" justifies sweeping aside the whole capitalist system <md its incompetent ruling class...
...Whether scum or dregs, each is useless and the depression has transformed millions of rural and urban workers into useless human beings so far as industry is concerned...
...In New York City alone civilian workers have helped B7,793 needy persons, giving $1,332,647 in the last fiscal year and this does not include the contributions by teachers and others employed by the Board of Education...
...He complains that no adequate indexes of prices and purchasing power have been developed and that NRA fosters capitalist industrial coalitions...
...BUBfiCRIPTlUN HATES I 1 Tear In (he United BtalM...
...He declared that "All laws, including the Constitution, it seems to me, should be read in emergencies in the light of the law of necessity...
...Their officers are enjoying life and they want the farmers to observe "law 'n' order...
...This Baltic clique is led by Alfred Rosenberg which aims to restore these descendants "of the Teutonic' knights of the sword" who were lords of rich acres in the old Russia...
...Adolf's Nazi Paradise Isn't All Hunky-Dory HITLER'S German capitalism is like a peddler's fruit whi;h is decaying because he does not have enough ca(< tomers...
...niie the "National Socialist" as tht carrier of the traditions of altar and throne for landlords, capitalists, hnnkert and Junkers...
...In the upper rait« of the Tammany robber burg are also thousands of parasites drawing salaries for which they render no useful service, a fund that should be available for the jobless...
...The trend is not generally for Fascism but is also against it...
...This crowd would link up with Hitler...
...His regime had much of the elaments of Fascism and he is said to look forward to a home in Hitler's Germany...
...Dada," a faith healer...
...J'ever smell a thousand dead A'rottin' in the sun...
...The depression would have contributed to the destruction of a "democratic" regime rather than a despotic one...
...The Nazi "labor"-organ claims that Adolf has cut the number of jobless 358,000 but the wages of those who have returned to work are little higher than the doleH they had received...
...Jaa-¦ary It...
...An' ladies in refreshment stands, An' cake an' lemonade...
...Since August iHt thousandH of gallons of milk have been seized and destroyed...
...We urge workers to get all that they can out of the NBA in the way of organiiation but to u« the expectation of reemployment of any large number of the jobless by next winter is Utopian...
...Others varied the charge by sayinji that workers were the "dregs," the bottom of society...
...Sealey, known as "The Rev...
...Workers care for their tick, their }oblei$ and the dead, make no mistake about it...
...A census last spring nhowrd that the nuri'er of boy and girl wanderers far exceeds the reported figures...
...The farmers wanted a State Milk Control Board to stabilize (he industry and they got i...
...Since last April the board has twice raised (he price of milk to the consumer, the farmers received a small increase, WHILE THE DISTRIBUTING COMPANIES ARE PAYING NK^E DIVIDENDS AND IN SOME CASES HAVE INCREASED THE SALARIES OF OFFICERS...
...The German export surplus falU 12 percent in July after a 68 percent slump in June and this occurs when a seasonal rise was to be expected...
...A strike of 60,000 New York dressmakers and a strike upheaval in the California fruit industry are two of the notable instances of workers fighting for substantial gains...
...The Muddle of Milk "T'HE countryside from the Hudson River to Lake ^ Erie has been split into two hostile camps whose almost religious adherence to principles has left their common enemy—milk surplus— free to engulf them more...
...Out of the dispuie milk is spilled, farmers fight each other, and Governor Lehman warned that force may be used to keep the milk businens "stabilized...
...Adolf...
...So writes an upstate correnpondent of the New York Times...
...Dada vs...
...Don't talk of war to me...
...Then the pl'lfbt of the jobless does not improve and Adolf tries to satisfy the masses with statistics instead of jobs but a worker caiitiol eat a row of figures...
...I'resident Green of the A. P. of L. has urged state federations and city central bodies to report violations of the NKA and the company union fight is not ended...
...Ar(hur Henderson's candidacy for Parliament in England recalls criticism of him »by Socialists for shaking hands with Hitler as president of (he Disarmnmcnt Conference...
...We will pit Dada against NRA to start the wheels of industry going and to ward off the dreadful spectre of Socialism that now haunts our ruling classes...
...That the depression had much to do with the outcome is evident...
...An' soldiers on parade...
...That would be the beginning of Socialist organization of an important food induslry...
...In the other are 40,000 to 50,000 farmers who have clothed with a sort of patriotism (heir fight to run hlnckades and keep the city markets supplied...
...j'< vpr sleep A'slandin' in the rain...
...Even the labor exploiter who gives a hundred or iive hundred dollars may give less in proportion to his means than the worker who gives a dollar...
...A District of Columbia judge has upheld oil control under NRA...
...There may be (hone who think that surplus milk is the "enemy" but there are others who cannot forget (he middleman, the distriliuting companies, who have been conceded (wo increases in prices and who have been raising salaries of the big shots heading these companies...
...NRA In a Mortal Combat TPHE radio, newsreel, platform orator, * bus, auto and street speakers, and other heavy artillery, are being brought up to destroy Old Man Depression...
...y^OV talk of war...
...An' legs off at the kne«— You talk of war, you willie guys...
...They have shared their bread with relatives and friends, families have "doubled up"i) in scanty rooms, and outcasts knocking at the door have received aid...
...They recog...
...Armed German Naiis have been reported on the Bavarian border with the view of crotf ing the line if they can start a row in Austria...
...Now had Machado not set up an oppressive regime the depression would have given rise to a Fascist movement to set it up with the promise of solving economic problems...
...It is this brutal compound of oligarchy...
...Is surplus milk (he enemy...
...In other words, the troublep of Cuba would have been ascribeH to popular elections, «'ungre8«, etc., by some fascist leader and he would have gained a following...
...From Port of Spain in Trinidad comes a story of another bizarre attempt to restore industry and agriculture to life...
...1 Yaat ta Perelgn Caanlrlea...
...American eapitaliam it ripe for Socialist trantformation and our job is to inspire the working class with a will to power...
...Capitalism in distribudon is responsible...
...aadet sat af Haiek >. I...
...New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania are reported as considering similar plans...
...This probably forecasts higher judicial opinion of NRA...
...I Mawthi In the United Statei...
...Our own folly alone bars (he way to happiness...
...Meantime the White Russians, many of them including former German Czariit Barons, have revived their holy crusade against Russia...
...British Lnhorites should have mure regard for SucUUst •thiol...
...The honeymoon of the Roosevelt Administration is passing and next winter promises to be another grim battle with hungfer and cold for millions of workers...
...J'ever hike through mud knee-deep To hell an' back again...
...Three states, Delaware, Ohio and l^ouisiana are giving recognition to the human casuals cast up by the depression by .attempting to make some provision for them in their wanderings...
...Fascism and capitalism that has been stormed and its agents have been destroyed...
...n Smhillil Party publication, nupports the stnig-glet of lh« orf(anlz«(l worklnK clnM...
...A mysterious sect of white-robed women marched at midnight in a heavy rain to the beach, carrying dishes it choice food and chanting "Go bury your sorrows" as they cast the food into the sea...
...The farmer is skinned and (he ci(y uaers of milk are gouged...
...Farmers want more money from dealers...
...Next Monday Is the Day of Judgment...
...Ilaa the capiialist lyttem reached iti end hi the paternal arms of Unele Samt That appear.s to be the case...
...THE WHOLE DAIRY BUSINESS SHOULD BB A COOPERATIVE AFFAIR WITH THE MIDDLEMEN GOUGERS ELIMINATED...
...The necessity of Socialism awaits the opinion and power of the working masses...
...Reflections on the Cuban Revolution •THE passing of Machado in Cuba sug-* gests a few Socialist observations...
...DESTROY IT...
...Ogburn has resigned from the Consumers Advisory Board of NRA...
...JMI I Year ta Canada...
...VOU talk of war, an' think of bands...
...What's to be done about too much milk...
...We're Tired of SobSister Philanthrophy of the Rich A LL ballyhoo about the noble sacrifices ^* of the big shots in contributing to jobless relief in recent years is moonshine...
...Put these items together and you can form your own estimate of what is happening to Nazi capitalism...
...THAT'S EASY, WE ARE TOLD...
...What ia taken in salaries and dividends by gougers should go in increased incomes (o farmers and lower prices to those who use milk...
...A Socialist View ot the Week YOU TALK OF WAR By Schuyler C. Urquhart, in The National Tribune An (x-douyhboy apeakt reprovingly to a young man who Kas expreKned the tvisk that there would be another war...
...The Human Casuals Cast Up by a Decaying System II/E remember a former period of So-"cialist agitation when soap-boxers answered anti-Socialists who charged that workers were the "scum" of society by saying that the scum rose to the top and that the ruling classes represented thi.s phase of society...
...Nazi News in Three European Sectors Y^NE of the most delightful events ')t these depressing days was the expulsion of German Nazi delegates to the International Congress of School Teachers Associations meeting in Spain early this week...
...Coiilrllmlori are requnte<l not to write on l>olh ttdra of the paper and not lo a«e lead pencil or red Ink...
...However emjity the head of a Brown Shirt may be he will not relish that...
...The farmers receive too little and the masses in the cities pay too much money for milk...
...The greater weight of this great burden has fallen upon the masses themselves...
...THOSE WHO THINK THAT A SURPLUS OF MILK IS THE MAIN CAUSE OF THIS CHAOS ARE NOT BURDENED WITH A SURPLUS OF BRAINS...
...What's next...
...The upstat" milk strike ends and Governor Lehman gives the strikers what strikers often get—an incjuiry...
...THE full power of the Federal Government is directed to get all industries under codes by next Monday but meati-time disillusionment is mounting...
...On the otlirr tianil It wrl-comea a variety of opinloni coii.ilslrnt with Hi declared piirpoie...
...The vast productive power going to waste fiom this source is a huge indictment of capitalism...
...Oii the other hand, no matter what he chang* in the governing structure may be unless there ia a revolution in inJustry no basid problems are solved...
...Knowledge, organiza(ion and solidarKy of workers will give us power to end such ahsurdides...
...Extra...
...Our enemy is ignorance...
...Moreover, the income from the 10 percent wage tax on incomes above 100 marks is steadily declining...
...naluU the avenger, a Socialist workinii clastj for they will take care of you...
...Before you talk of war, me lad, You ouffhtta be in one...
...You never think of sightless eyes...
...The farmers divide into (wo groups, one insisting on (he right to sell and the other insisting that selling should be at a higher price which the middlemen should absorb...
...The leader of the band was recog-nfxed as a Mrs...
...Distribution should be made at cost of the service...
...They were excluded by a vote of 40 to 21 and as they filed out the remaining delegates whistled the Rogues' March...
Vol. 16 • August 1933 • No. 8
