A Socialist View of the Week
A Socialist View of the Week SONGS By William Allen Ward rW'HE choir in the church tang "In the Sweet Bye and Bye," The preacher talked about going To Heaven after death. . . , On a eide...
...SUBSCRIPTION SATES I 1 Tear In the United Statu...
...It's warm there," the prostitute said as she contemplated suicide...
...Surveying the Depression Factors Facing the NRA AS the New York Times puts it, the Roosevelt Administration perceives "that the first flush of national excitement is fading out" and preparations are being made for "a prolonged campaign...
...Contributor...
...IN many states the price of milk and ita by1 products has been a stake in struggles waged by dairy farmers...
...Vast Supply of World Wheat Threatens Bread Shortage...
...We mentioned this problem in this column last week...
...John W. Davis, counsel for J. P. Morgan Co., ia s member...
...The silk hat electric kings have accumulated a sur« plus amounting to more than $H>7,000...
...The commercial bankers hesitate to advance funds because of fear that loans may be bad risks...
...The shadow of overproduction hung over the conference today like a pall," wrote a New York Times correspondent on Tuesday...
...It must be sold, you say...
...Jaa¦ary If, 1M4, at the Peel Oia<e •« New T.rk, .nder .et of March I...
...I Tear to Canada...
...A Terrible Problem Face* Us Which Readers May Solve...
...Socialists must learn what is happening in this dying capitalist civilization and how to cope vith the problems that will face the workers...
...young Rockefeller, Al Smith and other orators will be mobilized...
...After weeka /of physical conflict in up-state New York, spilling of milk, threats of militia interference and general rancor the Legislature has pasaed a bill appropriating $25,000 to investigate the spread in price between what the farmer receives and what the user pays...
...It is estimated that there are 5,000,000 hogs which farmers are unable to feed...
...preparations for the collapse and overthrow of Hitler's regime are under way, we may be sure of thai TPHE business office of The New Leader will be open every Saturday after* noon until 5 p. m. from now on...
...A Georgia Congressman in the glorious twenties attended Congress in overalls and others followed his example as a protest against the high cost of living...
...High cost of living, cost of high living, living at any cost and at no cost...
...How will we spend our leisure...
...Forced loans may be resorted to' in a desperate effort to stabilize Nasi capitalism and to increase employment...
...The New York Call ran a remarkable editorial article in 1914 predicting that the capitalist order waa committing suicide...
...Isn't that encouraging...
...Now many of us would be glad to have a new pair in the lowest level of living known to millions of American "freemen...
...The Department of Agriculture decided to slaughter them and feed the meat to the, unemployed...
...Hell ain't such a bad place...
...Probing the NRA OUTSIDE of Socialist ranks few people anticipated that the World War would be a mortal blow to the capitalist system...
...If the workers of the country flood the mass production industries with their own organizations they can kill the remainder of these corporation vermis...
...This is becoming unbearable I But hold I Suppose we distribute the wheat where bread is needed everywhere...
...So $25,000 will he spent to find out who gets that dollar 1 We wonder if the wise men of the Milk Board will ever solve that mystery and, if solved, whether the answer will be worth $25,000...
...stage and screen stars will broadcast appeals for the NRA and the movies will move their heavy artillery to the front...
...The end of the war was followed by revolutions...
...Decay of Nazi Capitalism Leads to Social Revolution A HEADLINE to a news story by the ** New York Times' Berlin correspond* ¦ent reads: "Reich Fails to Gain Under Nazis' Rule...
...Underground revolution...
...Russia and Hungary, Germany and Austria and other nations exploded...
...ANOTHER calamity faces humankind ** and representatives of 31 nations are meeting in London to combat it...
...Company Union Organs Blighted by Depression f\NE effect of the depression has bees "to blight company union publications...
...On the other band It welcomes a variety of opinions consistent with Its declared purpose...
...A nervous anxiety develops as we approach another winter...
...Not an electric shock, mind you, but a moral one...
...Capitalism is topsy-turvy...
...whispered things to men...
...JJ 1 Tear to Portlca CeaatrlM...
...So it's price and not surplus that's at fault Very well...
...Millions Mobilized to Fight Depression Jitters ALL industries were to be coded fry Monday of this week but on that day the NRA announced the greatest drive since the World War to begin-next Monday...
...Over an area extending from Iowa to Maine and from Wisconsin to Tennessee this vital food product has been a bone of contention between dairy farmers and those who sweat them in the distribution of the product...
...ra requested not to write on both sides of the paper and not to use lead pencil or red Ink...
...This period of transition calls for sound and sober thinking on the part of Socialists...
...Cortelyou is "shocked...
...Our readers should advertise this series...
...The Industrial Relations Section of Princeton University has published a survey of these corporation organs which shows that of 415 published in 1925 over half, 208, have withered and died by the end of the year 1932.,The railroad company unions held funeral services over 1$ of an original 44 papers but the power, light and traction utility companies have done better...
...Of 92 company union magazines in 1929, 34 are still published, the survivals in the utility group being higher than'the deatha in the department store group...
...The strongest capitalist nation in the world proved to be no more enduring than weaker states in other parts of the world...
...The United States appeared to be a sound structure, but it also crashed nearly four years ago...
...What it going on underground in Germany we do not know but some reliable sources, we cannot disclose indicate that all Ge» man workers are not bearing the N%tf lash without a murmur...
...It is said that there is a spread of a dollar between the farmer and the dealer...
...It is another case of too much food...
...Don't torture ust Present indications are that the total world surplus will be about 100,000,000 bushels...
...In the sweet now end now," h^s whispered .. . "Hell...
...Italy, Bulgaria, Spain and Yugoslavia passed through convulsions...
...That's the problem, don't ch' know, and a "Committee on Use of Leisure Time" has been formed to solve it...
...Low as the price of pork is it is too high for the jobless but it ia too low for the farmers...
...Too much pork in the United States and too much wheat throughout the world which threatens too much bread 1 Great men in London agree that it is a "desperate" situation...
...No NRA code for capitalism will ever iron them out...
...000 at the end of 1932 and a big ulice ojj that would go a long way toward providing meals to starving men, woneH and children...
...Part/, workers may come to secure bundles of The New Leader for week-end meetings...
...There are millions of vulgah persons—low persons without any refinement, don's know—who will work shorter hours under NRA codes...
...He has filed about 500 complaints and declares that he does not know of one mill that is observing the code I • Even a government project in the South .is under fire...
...The ruling classes of the world once let it drift...
...How will theae persons spend their time when not working...
...Like a frost that nips a flower in the bud these house organs have decreased in number and the survivors arc- not enjoying very good health...
...The NRA is an interesting variant in the plans for making capitalism a going concern, and for this reason The New Leader this week begins a series of articles regarding it that should help to clarify views...
...Pegging Price of Pigs To Feed the Jobless i"|NCE it was the high cost of living " that disturbed many folks and now it is the problem of living at all that confronts millions of workers...
...The NRA needs constant watching by workers despite Administrator Johnson's assurance that the Blue Eagle is a "potent talisman for good...
...The Great Milk Mystery...
...A southern representative of the American Federation of Labor charges that all ->f the southern textile mill owners are violating the textile code...
...THE NEW LEADER, a Socialist Party publication, supports the itruggles of the organised working clan...
...They will be shocked, all right, and will be pulled down front their high eminence...
...Well, we're groggy over these absurdities of capitalism...
...On a eide street an outcast woman . . . A street walker . .. cold and hungry ,. . Driven to sell her body by the whiplash Of want...
...Gawd protect us/ Europe, excluding Russia, has the largest crop in the Continent's history...
...George B. Cortelyou, high mogul of the Consolidated Gas Company, an* nounces that the electric chiefs will fight the order...
...and for other purposes...
...At any rate, the members of the Milk Board will be able <<» enjoy a dollar spread of their own whether they solve this puzzle or not...
...So it's another case of pegging price oy we don't eat...
...f HE NRA has brought a problem that has really disturbed our "beat people," don't ch' know...
...Violations of NRA Codes In the Southern States QTHER phases of the NRA indicate that it Is sailing a rough sea...
...Under the direction of Hoover and his aides American capitalism continued to sink till last March when its financial structure collapsed...
...Industry is not recovering^ the budget is not balanced and the tourist boycott also injures the Hitler heaven...
...Secretary of Labor Perkins declares that employment is back to the October, 1931, level with the return of 1,100,000 workers in four months...
...In the Sweet Bye and Bye" . . . the Choir in the Cathedral sang...
...With rising prices In part nullifying increased payrolls, at least 10,000,000 workers still jobless and $10,000,000,000 in purchasing power to be recovered, our readers have,, some idea of the staggering problems facing the worried politicians...
...The discrimination against Negro workers in the South under codes has also become a shocking scandal and the dispute over company unionism is not yet settled...
...America has a surplus of 52,000,000 bushels...
...On the other hand food prices in general are steadily rising, the figures for 51 cities showing an average increase of about H':i percent between June 15 and July 15 this year and a little less than 4 percent over July, 1932...
...Of such ia the kingdom of capitalism...
...I Months In the United Statee...
...Is it sunset for American capitalism...
...that cannot be used will not be returned unlrsi return postage is enclosed...
...All this is a far cry from coding all industries this week and getting the jobless back to work before winter...
...now they resort to every plan possible to revive it and thus far without any great hopes of realizing their aims...
...Lei's get rid of the price system—capitalism—bake bread and eat it, No...
...A starving man shivered as he passed...
...Let's hear from you without delay...
...We in the cities want this food, farmers are willing to produce it, bat between producer and user enter the factors of price and sale with middlemen gougers taking a heavy toll of profits...
...Economic Plight Grows Worse as Rulers Concentrate All Efforts on Tightening Grip" runs the] same story...
...Johnson points out that savings of the masses are about wiped out, the financial resources of states and cities are nearly exhausted, and provision for some 40,000,000 distressed human beings is too great even for the Federal Government...
...Slgned contribution*, do not ncrnsnrlly represent the poller of 1'»• New Leader...
...The story itself confirms what has been said in theae columns regarding Hitler's Germany since Adolf ascended to power...
...Of course, gangster rule is able to stifle all open expression of dissent but it cannot halt economic decay...
...They charge the contractors with violating the NRA code provisions...
...Germany staggered under the weight of Allied serfdom and finally passed into a Fascist mania...
...Meantime Administrator Johnson complains that the bankers are not rallying to the recovery campaign and he may seek federal aid to finance NRA industries...
...Entered as Second Claia Matter...
...A number of other countries were rushing delegates to London to grapple with the terrible disaster...
...She also estimates that payrolls in July were about $29,000,000 above the weekly wages in March and that 400,000 factory workers returned to work in July...
...Cities, villages and the countryside will be covered...
...Manuscript...
...If ever the masses go on the march they will not overlook these exploiters who fill their money baps out of human misery...
...The program of the NRA emerged out of the decay and is now regarded by many people as their only hope...
...In answer to an enthusiast who wanted to know what his first duty waa, Marx answered: "Learn, learn...
...Letters must not exceed 100 words...
...We are shocked considering that the cut was not more drastic...
...Prominent men and women will lead an army of 1,500,000 volunteers to put a blue eagle in every shop and home and over 100.000,000 pieces of literature will be distributed...
...The slaughter of the swine is also ordered in the hope of jacking up the price of pork and over 35 million dollars will be spent to peg the price of piggie...
...All evidence indicates that world capitalism as we have known it has entered a new phase...
...Carpenters, marble workers and laborers on the new postoffice building and Federal office building in Chattanooga went on strike...
...Electric Barons Get A Six Percent Shock TTHE Public Service Commission has * ordered a reduction of 6 percent ia electric bills beginning September 1 after voting down a proposed cut of 10 percent...
...We invite our readers to contribute to the solution of this problem...
Vol. 16 • August 1933 • No. 9
