Let the Nation Own the Trusts
Let the Nation Own the Trusts At the turn of the century, and for tome years before, America was greatly concerned over the "trust question." Before the days of billion-dollar corporations,...
...The Federal debt is 27 billions and the remainder is distributed between the states, cities, counties and lesser ' units...
...John should also .remember that many who ha "risen"1 htoe also fallen with a sickening thud...
...jL------------.....----._ ' Want % job or relief...
...today the number has increased to 199,000...
...On the other hand, the new "courts" he has set up are butcher shops where accused persons are doomed...
...It is easy for him to hop into a plane and follow his bloody gains to that country...
...New Deal will take care of you...
...Dutch Socialists Celebrate Wibaut't 75th Birthda The whole working class mow ment of the Netherlands, and to considerable extent of all i Europe, has recently celebrated t) 75th birthday of F. M. Will.au one of the rugged pioneers I Dutch Socialism...
...NAZI GERMANY UITLER calls his dummies to the Reichstag to ratify his assassinations, but Hitlerism approaches its end...
...Then let the competitive system go...
...If this be not slavery, then what may I aak, is slavery ? And it is slavery more inhumar and cruel than was the Negrc slavery of the South...
...Slavery is threatening us, and slavery of a peculiarly base and humiliating kind, slavery to a moneyed aristocracy...
...One high Federal job-holder in Colorado sent a notice to applicants for government positions to get a recommendation from the chairman of a county, state or central committee of the Democratic Party...
...We ourselves, worn with oui heavy toil, are old men at middle age...
...No, the facts I state are only too well known to all...
...Let us have the cooperative system...
...Th< are manj^who "wade then* pile" who are marchj in the" lock-step of the breadline...
...Hitler is said to have cleaned up a big fortune and that much of it has been transferred to Jtaly...
...He will appoint committees to study t| disease and the reports, may furnish the basis of platform...
...We want to keep the controversial material as small as possible so that the propaganda value of the paper will not be injured...
...Millions of votes were cast for Roosevelt capitalis by outcast workers to be translated into jobs for the but the Roosevelt politicians have the jobs, m shouldn't the outcasts cast out the jobholders wl cannot or will «ot transform votes into jobs...
...There is no reason for a single man in America to suffer from poverty, for remember that America Is...
...To hold out the ho of rising from destitution is like tying an ear of co a foot in front of a Mule's nose and urge him to $t forward and get it...
...THE DEBT PROBLEM /\NE gets the impression of the various units of government slowly giving way to mounting debt3 till finally there will be a Collapse and repudiation...
...A considerable anti-trust movement grew up, winning substantial "liberal" support...
...the richest nation on the globe and its wealth is at the disposal of you, its citizens, whenever you choose to demand it...
...Tile editor has edited down manuscripts' received from both Sides,-and the originals have been preserved as evidence of this fairness...
...Quite u number of writers aro now repeating what others have already said...
...Before the days of billion-dollar corporations, monopolies, finance capitalism and vertical trusts the comparatively simple trust in its earlier stages was considered by > millions the enemy of the masses...
...The New Deal has enormously expanded this booty politics...
...But what will become of our profitsT" There will be no more profits...
...The ratio between contributions for and against is now more equal, and it is hoped that the presentation- of the two views will be more equally represented...
...The wealth of our country has passed into the control of a few great capitalists...
...r| Prices will drop with a crash, factories and workshops will close their doors for lack of orders, hanks will snspend payment, our great cities will fall into the power of ravenous mobs howling for bread...
...Our freedom, of which we boast, is a1>out to be a dream of the past unless we bear well in mind that eternal vigilance' is its price...
...The total" debts of all government units in the United States today amount to 45 billion dollars...
...DON'T BE A MULE JOHN W. DAVIS, who carried the banner of the bi banks as the Democratic candidate for Preside...
...They have, and we suggest that they try agai Take up a collection from your friends and start steel nhlf or oil refinery...
...The civil service reformers have for a half-century been trying to check this vulgarizing of public office...
...The answer will still further infuriate' a long-suffering but highspirited people...
...The differing views of all these publications is perfectly consistent with party precedent and practice in this country...
...Put concentrated dollars | flight with your concentrated nickels and dimes...
...It will not be a distant day when the rich will no longer be able' to either dissipate their9 wealth in luxury—for they will be satiated— nor invest it for profit Then there will be the panic cry from all parts of the country of "overproduction...
...ft should be remembered that the Milwaukee Leader, The World Tomorrow and the American Guardian are editorially committed to the SUPPORT of the Declaration...
...Our national economic system, ba« upon individual initiative, responsibility and fredi* is being restricted and displaced, and may be tilt mately destroyed, by the power and control of an al directing State...
...one dare contradict me...
...When the starving appeal for work, the reply will be that there is no demand for labor...
...To the editor is reserved the right to cut out personalities and to confine the discussion" of issues along Socialist lines...
...The capitalist not only enslaves us but our families as well...
...A dead slave meant a heavy loss twice the loss of a dead horse...
...Already monopoly fixes the' hours we labor, the wages we get, anc the prices we pay for the necessities of life...
...But a dead working man meanc not one cent loss to the capitalist although he has the same "right tc the fruits of his labor that the slave-owner had to that of hit slave...
...Then will all the people fry, |«Ut the nation pwa the trusts.The New header And the Detroit Declaration TO those who have inquired about the policy of The New Leader regarding the Declaration of Principles now before the party, the Board of Management has the following to say: The New Leader during the period of the referendum discussion opposes editorially the Declaration of Principles, but consistent with this policy it will give fair opportunity to both sides to present their Views through contributed articles and letters...
...This article, written in 190«, can be read with profit today nearly three decades later and'under objective conditions vastly different from those of the comparatively simple days of the Theodore Roosevelt "Trust-Busting" era...
...Don't be a mule...
...The trouble is that the capitalist takes it all except the crumbs he throws as wages to the workers...
...So well known is this that the trusts refuse employment to men past 40...
...Comrade Wilbw was for many years one of tn Mayors of Amsterdam, and a lead ing Socialist member of the Bntcl Parliament...
...And what is he going to do about this terrfl| calamity...
...It cannot be done because under the competitive system the people cannot be paid any more than they get now...
...The shift now is to a military dictatorship with or without Hitler, more likely without...
...Do I speak the truth ? Does any...
...would be unfair," said John, "to overlook the fa that under capitalism nien.have risen from small h ginnings to great affairs...
...At last the people are commencing to realize that upon the solution of this problem hangs the life of the republic...
...By Gaylord WllsMrt jPOR many years I have been ¦¦ repeating that the trust problem would some day become the great and imperative problem for this nation to solve...
...Their deht9 have increased .one billion in the past two years...
...America produces enough and more than enough wealth for all...
...As long aS the depression continues these debts will increase and there is no end to the depression in sight...
...More than 2,000 cities and smaller units are now in default and the total debt of all government units averages $350 for every person in the United States...
...America mast starve because it produces too much food...
...It is one phase of th^ depression that is too" often overlooked...
...Be a good: Democrat...
...An American Socialist, of that period, Gaylord Wilshirs coined the slogan, "Let the Nation Own the Trusts," and carried on Socialist propaganda along those lines for many years on the platform and in various magazines he edited...
...The upper sections of German capitalism have been dissatisfied with Nazi policies although they financed Hitler's movement...
...Between the NKA and J G.O.Pi many workers may well.take to the wood...
...The Berlin financial correspondent of the New York Times cables a story that supports our forecast last Week...
...When Roosevelt became President in March, ,1933, «there were J10.QQO Federal employees, not under civil service...
...Overproduction...
...Owned as a chattel, it was but business policy for the southcrr master to care for his black slave even better than he did for hit horse...
...Finally, of the publications mentioned above, two have published material almost exclusively' Iq favor of the Declaration, one little on either side, while The New Leader has endeavored to give both sides representation...
...By the time they report many of us w be living on baled hay...
...WEEP WITH US QHAIRMAN FLETCHER of the national commit* of the Republican Party addressed the swj Guards of the party of banks, oil, railroads and othj corporations late last week...
...If complaint is made that The New Leader in the first several Issues give most space to contributions against the Declaration, the answer is .that no less than two-thirds of the contributions received have been opposed to the Declaration...
...THE NEW DEAL QAPITALIST politics in this country for over a century has been one of booty for the winners in addition to serving particular class interests...
...Capitalism is being devoured not only at its industrial base but m its governing structure...
...If you would save the people from starving, why Dot pay them enough to enable them to buy what they produce...
...in 1924, made a plea for capitalism this week...
...Nearly five years of an industrial hell ai the big shots will set lip committees to find out whai the matter...
...These shambles may dispose of many opponents before Hitlerism passes out of the picture...
...What mockery the word will he, to the hungry...
...Men, Americans, are you going to submit to this slavery...
...in such instances excerpts will be printed...
...Our readers may have weep with him...
...Before leaving, the scoundrel may shock the world by some horrible massacre of political prisoners...
Vol. 17 • July 1934 • No. 28
