Utility Probe Is Forced by Socialists
Utility Probe Is Forced by SocialistsEOLLOWING the protest of | t the Socialist Party, expressed m a letter of Staje Chairman Louis VValdman to Governor Kerl>ert A. Lehman, against (lie j i t...
...The party is going ahead with its fight, before legislative committees and the public, for public ownership and operation of all utilities in the interest of the public...
...Senator Thayer, one of the hidekHind Republican reactionaries, always to be counted upon to vote in the interest of vested capitalism and against social welfare, was liscovered to be on the payroll of the power interests...
...DRUM...
...Wall Street is the nation's real menace...
...Comes the call to war again...
...slap and slap and slay...
...That is our real danger...
...TRAMP...
...We are going to get mora radical legislation Instead of less," said Foulkes...
...Wirt is consciously or unconsciously serving the cause of HlUerism in America, Foulkes > continued: "Let me also repeat my charge that Nazi propagandists, informers ' and organizers a r e swarming ' throughout the country and seek' ing to poison people's minds preparatory to an attempt to set • up a dictatorship not of the proletariat and the plain people hut of the plutocracy...
...The God of war is rampant in guise of soulless men, Who must be damned forever by every voice and pen...
...TOO long we fought our brothers at the warlords' command, As they sought for golden profits in a far-off alien land...
...VJHAT to them is murder, as women weep and pray, As lover, sons and brothers are driven to the fray...
...DRUM...
...Can we rest inert, contented, as thtty plan this hellish deed, Or shall we rise in protest regardless of our creed...
...Foulkes declared that Wirt'a procedure is just the kind calcuV lated to help the forces of gree The war Lrums By John C. Chase TRAMP...
...J This is time for action, not when bands begin to play, And propaganda holds us in its benumbing sway QERVE notice to the warlords that we shall never fight Except for human freedom and a cause we know is right...
...William Wirt, the demon "red" "hunter of Gary, but only a few lines for the signficant words^of the Michigan Representative...
...As chairman of the Public Service Committee fce was in a strategic position to serve the utilities...
...There's a Real Menace, but Not a 'Red' One By Observer Our Washington Correspondent DEVOLUTION s t a l k s the Roosevelt recovery program and will overtake it if far more/ drastic steps are not takerTTo prevent hunger "and suffering, Representative George Foulkei of Michigan warned the other day...
...The fight on that which was exposed in connection with (Thayer ia only a skirmish in a much bigger fight...
...All this la ' part and parcel of a vicious conspiracy...
...The legislative committee was appointed with instructions to follow precisely the line indicated in paldman's letter...
...The world is facing chaos as despots call for war, To eradicate the freedom and justice they abhor...
...Var lords in the saddle, toilers in the ranks, Qodder for the bullets, prey of crushing tanks, Lowly ones the victims, masters holding sway, Jrging on to battle, to slap and slap and slay VJHAT to them is murder, as women weep and pray, As lover, sons and brothers are driven to the fray...
...TRAMP...
...The s t o r y aa printed in that paper was taken up and reprinted for wide circulation by the Hitler regime, Details are given on the last page of thin issue...
...It Is a reactionary r revolution, not a labor or social revolt, that big business wants...
...On Flanders' field and at the Marne we saw our comrades slain, To wage a war to end all war, and give their lives in vain...
...Comes the sound of the marching men, DRUM...
...Reiterating his assertion, made a few days previously, that Dr...
...Workers, stand united against this awful crime, Refuse to enter warfare m any foreign clime...
...That is the menace that confronts us — n o t the much-talked-of 'red' menace, "Great aggregations of wealth, alarmed at the moderately liberal changes put into effect by the Roosevelt administration, would welcome a dictatorship after the Nazi or fascist type, and they have spread propaganda in every nook I and corner of the United States glorifying the dictator of the Mussolini and Hitler type...
...Foulkes' sensational words received very l i t l l e newspaper space...
...THE lowly ones, they suffer under despotism's * keel, "As despots plot their battles against the commonweal...
...The God of war is rampant in guise of soulless men, Who must be damned forever by every voice and pen...
...Waldman demanded a threefold investigation: into the ramifications of methods of the utility lobby in controlling legislative committees, to recommend legislation to outlaw the improper functioning of that lobby, and to propose measures of relief to the consumers...
...Immediately upon the publication of letters proving Thayer's connection with the utilities, Louis Waldman, acting for the Socialist party's State Committee, wrote the Governor in protest and demanding a thoroughgoing ' investigation of the situation...
...After several day's delay the Governor made the recommendation to the legislature and the legislature acted...
...There were many columns for the clamor aroused by the laughable charges of Dr...
...Democracy is menaced, freedom taking flight, When masters call for battle and urge us on to fight...
...Utility Probe Is Forced by SocialistsEOLLOWING the protest of | t the Socialist Party, expressed m a letter of Staje Chairman Louis VValdman to Governor Kerl>ert A. Lehman, against (lie j i t i m a t e connection between Senator Warren T. Thayer, Chairman of the Public Service Committee of the New York Senate, and the big utilities of the state, the New York legiskote has taken action looking M a thoroughgoing investigaJMn of the activities of the utilities, and especially their work in lobbying at Albany...
...Now we warn, we will not fight in wars for despots' greed, ( We'll only fight when forced to fight to satisfy onr need Severing Story Proved a Clumsy Forgery TPIIJ': atory, printed in a num* ber of capitalist newspapers and gleefully reprinted In the Communist press, that Carl Severing, leading German So* rial Democrat and former Prussian Minister of the Interior, had become an ardent convert to Hitler, has been proved a clumsy fake, emanatingfrom a Communist paper published in Saarbriicken...
...The world is facing chaos as despots call for war, To eradicate the freedom and justice they abhor...
...The Socialist Party, however, will not be satisfied with the exposure of Senator Thayer and the •tilities...
Vol. 17 • April 1934 • No. 14
