Beggars and Outcasts in the Very Temple the Workers Have Built!
Beggars and Outcasts in the Very Temple the Workers Have Built! Four Centuries of Labor and Invention Have Yielded Semi-Starvation for Millions of Toilers While Socialism Points Out the Road to...
...The emphatic support of the Labor Party as the agency for uniting the workers for Socialism «* "gainst the I.L.P...
...3,508 Wal Ilannlnston, Comm...
...Third, a broad plan for nation-wide unemployment and old-age insurance, to which the President has committed himself...
...The circulation of the present illegal edition of the paper has nearly reached that of the old Arbeiter-Zeitung when it was legally published in Vienna...
...The reciprocal tariff law, under which Congress surrenders to the President power to raise or lower tariff rates...
...Where will this lead to?—that's the question that bothers most politicians, but no one as yet has answered it satisfactorily...
...Creation of a Communication Commission to regulate telephone and telegraph companies along with the radio...
...They would be delighted to live as well as a Negro mangy coon dog lived a few years ago," declares the Macon Telegraph...
...It happened something like this: Floor Leader Robinson brought it from the White House, looking around corners as he went, so no one would see him...
...The New Deal planners have no notion of stopping...
...The Merthyr Tydfil parliamentary seat, held for fifteen years by J. Keir Hardie and for twelve years by the late Richard C. Wallhead, was won at the recent by-electon by the Labor Party...
...Rrnest K. Ltndley, indent New Dealer and close to the President, whose biographer he is, de. dares that the "frame-work of the New Deal is far from complete...
...It was won by Hardie in 1900, und held by him until his death in 1915...
...The next he heard, copies were all over the press galery and had been published in one paper...
...Four hundred years of labor and invention on this continent, of clearing the wilderness, building cities, spanning the continent with railways, probing the secrets of nature, harnessing steam and electricity, creating Pittsburgh^ and Detroits, and building enormous productive powers have only enslaved and beggared the toilers of our day...
...You are not even granted permission to use the things that you and your fathers built...
...Our homes are going or gone...
...Control over the commodity market exchanges...
...This was due in part to the huge Democratic , majorities in each body, 24 in the Senate and 190 in the House, exclusive of insurgent Republicans and Farmer-Labor members...
...Representatives of sixteen standard railway labor unions, together with William Green and others of the A. F. of L., expressed bitter resentment at the lack of administrative support for the Wagner bill...
...The temple we built must be owned by us...
...Arbeiter - Zeitung" Most Widely Read Political Paper in Austria According to information received from Vienna, the ArbeiterZeitung, prohibited by the Dollfuss government and published In Brno, is being distributed wholesale In Vienna and the rest of Austria...
...Much land that for decades became fertile with our labor has passed into the hands of those who despoil us...
...Quite a rumpus was caused when it leaked out...
...Starvation is at hand for many thousands," declares one relief worker...
...It is interesting to note as the session closes, so far from considering the power acquired enough the Administration plans to ask for a good deal more in the next session...
...The Communists also carried on intensive propaganda The vote was as follows: I. O. Darin, Labor...
...Through the press and schools, the radio and other agencies of information, our enemies have recorded on our minds what they want us to believe...
...Not only did this Congress appiove appropriations totaling close to $6,000,000,000 for the relief of distress and unemployment but it also pledged the Treasury to a contingent liability for a sum almost equally as great through "guaranteeing" farm and home mortgages...
...Behind the Scenes in Washington The Dying Hours of the Historic 73rd Congress .................By Benjamin Mslmoa Special Correipondene* DASSING the Administration's billion dollar housing bill, the railway labor, farm debt adjustment and the giant deficiency appropriation measures, the 73rd Congress adjourned sine die, thus ending the most eventful and important peace-time legislative session in our history...
...As was once said by a poet addressing the robber barons: "We have yielded our best to give you rest and you lie on a crimson wool...
...Fifth, more banking legislation, looking to a single, unified system under federal control...
...The adjournment came four hours after a one-man 'filibuster against the railway labor bill, actually directed at preventing passage of an unemployment census bill, collapsed in the Senate...
...Beggars and outcasts in the very temple your labor has created...
...A labor conference on Sunday, the day before adjournment, threatened election reprisals against individual Congressmen and a general political revolt against the Roosevelt Administration...
...Workingmen and women...
...And with what results...
...The Merthyr Tydfil constituency has long been overwhelmingly Labor...
...Now we are ruined...
...The next Congress, he says, will have to consider proposals "comparable in importance and complexity to those on which the last one acted...
...You are kept out by a small minority who have shaped your opinion to accord with theirs...
...Workers, awake I Socialists have for many years warned of disaster and pleaded for action...
...Rut of equal importance in the President's successful relationship with Congress has been his popularity with the country...
...The first step for abandonment of the country's protective tariff system was taken in the reciprocal tariff bargaining act and the first effort at regimentation was seen in the iwssage of the Bankhead cotton act...
...OT ART IN (J on March 9th last year, the Seventy-third Congress was one of the most unusual in our history...
...We have heeded the politiral faker and given him our votes...
...Four Centuries of Labor and Invention Have Yielded Semi-Starvation for Millions of Toilers While Socialism Points Out the Road to Power and Emancipation THE gigantic pressure of the depression has in some sections reduced the masses to a living standard almost as low as that of cats and dogs...
...We want life and labor, joy and security...
...Whereas a quiet but all the more effective boycott has set in in Austria against all papers which dare not say anything openly and do not even publish information on what Is going on In the country, the circulation of the prohibited Arbeiter-Zeitung is constantly increasing...
...Several Senators slipped copies to newsmen and in a few minutes the bill was all over the place...
...At least, that is the word spread among Democrats in Congress, and it explains why the measure was enacted so suddenly...
...In Bibb County, Georgia, with a population of 77,000, the blacks and whites on relief rolls number one-fourth of the population or nearly 20,000...
...and rejoined the Labor Party last year...
...There is a strong possibility, even a probability, that the railway labor bill would ' have been thrown out of the window if the labor unions had not shown their teeth...
...Your enemies are in the seats of power...
...We have listened for years and years to those who have lived on our labor...
...Many of us have pawned family trinkets to avert starvation and then have starved...
...Fouth, a national plan for land and water conservation, on which work is being done...
...Sixth, a general tax revision by which the state and federal systems will be coordinated...
...All these things, and more, are in mind...
...Many are down to the level of a "mangy coon dog...
...Disaster is here and action is yet to come, action in organization, education, discipline and knowledge of the road to travel out of this terrible nightmare of Want and starvation...
...The labor leaders who gathered in Washington June 17 felt pretty blue over the failure of the Administration to use vigor in support of labor's measures...
...From the passage of the emergency banking act on March 9, 1933, until the adoption of the conference report on the housing bill Inst Monday night, this Congress broke from all precedents, policies and traditions of its predecessors...
...ps Labor Party marches on...
...What had happened was this: When McNary got his copy, he had several copies made so Republican Senators could look it over and decide whether they were going to support it...
...You have the power if you will use it to end this...
...Throughout the Congress President Roosevelt enjoyed a command over House and Senate experienced by few Presidents in recent years...
...They made us believe that if we abolish this capitalist system we will be ruined...
...There are worker* trying to live on fifty cents a day and NRA codes fixing minimum wages are openly violated...
...The illegal Arbeiter-Zeitung is the most widely read political paper in Austria—and that notwithstanding the fascist terror, air which any person distributing the ArbeiUrZeitung is liable to Imprisonment for several months, and any reader found with a copy of it in his possession is liable to Imprisonment for several weeks...
...Robinson warned the newsmen that if they published the bill they would violate his wishes and perhaps the federal law against publication of secret government documents...
...We have dragged our women and children with us down into this pit of misery...
...The rnilway labor bill, which seemed to be on the road to political oblivion on Saturday, turned the corner on Monday, to be finally enacted into law in the last few minutes of the Congress' life...
...There is a little "behind the scenes" story in connection with the Administration's revamped and reknitted compromised labor bill...
...Let us organize to take what we and our fathers have built...
...The new housing plan, under whic hthe government enters the real estate finance business in a big way, with the idea of reviving the construction industry...
...10,1145 ¦villi, Liberal...
...Since the I.LP...
...This seemed to do the trick...
...During the last fifteen months, with a rapidity that at times left even the members unable to keep up with what they were doing, this Congress enacted measures which made sweeping changes in the economic structure of the country...
...The reason the White House and Senator Robinson were so angry was that the bill had to be materially altered later...
...He slipped a copy secretly to Republican Leader McNary...
...Control of the Stock Exchanges, which largely extends his power over corporations...
...He lists six separate items on the next New Deal program, already in preparation...
...Socialism carries the message of deliverance...
...and the Com•""ists is even more significant...
...10.S76 Campbell Stephen, I.L.P...
...withdrew from the Labor Party, that organization considered the constituency its own, even though Wallhead withdrew from the I.L.P...
...In addition to the ArbeiterZeitung (at present published as a weekly), hundreds of thousands of leaflets are distributed every week...
...Federal regulation was extended further over business, finance and agriculture in the fifteen months than in the previous fifteen years...
...The new silver act, under which the President can remodel the whole monetary system...
...Good God, we have paid it in full...
...Der Kampf, the monthly organ of the Austrian Social Democratic Party, is also now being published again, and Is penetrating Austria in hundreds of copies...
...5,409 It is significant' that the government did not dare put up a candidate for fear of the humiliating defeat he would be certain to ¦"if!., The total anti-capitaliat rote was 25,562 as against 10,876...
...This broke the legislative log-jam which prevented adjournment Saturday night...
...These include: First, the AAA amendments, which will be promptly presented next January...
...Labor Party Holds Hardies Old Seat LONDON.—The Labor Party has trumphantly come through one of its most difficult tests in recent months...
...Our minds have been wax phonograph plates...
...A southern correspondent of the New York Times records whole groups living in a state of semi-starvation...
...Enactment of the railroad pen(Continetd aa Pace Two) Behind the Scenes in Washington (Continued from Page One) moii bill is supposed to have been part of a deal made by the Administration with the rail workers several months ago to avoid a strike...
...In 1922 "Dick" Wallhead won it, and he held it until he died a few weeks ago...
...They were not at all satis fled with that "stop-gap" substitute adopted by Congress last Saturday, creating a Presidential labor board to handle industrial disputes...
...Newsmen said that was too bad, and, anyway, the bill was not a government document...
...Had it not been for the latter, many of the conservative Democrats would have broken away from the President on such measures as...
...But if blood be the price of your accursed wealth...
...Second, permanent regulation to replace the present NRA Act, which automatically expires in June, 1935...
Vol. 17 • June 1934 • No. 25
