The National Poor Farm
THE NATIONAL POOR FARM THAT is the next stage of the New Deal ? It appears to be a national poor farm with the inmates living on a dole. Caring for poverty will become a national enterprise....
...WELL, the nation is safe now...
...At present he is resting at home, but he plans to spend a few weeks with friends in Western Massachusetts...
...The tanners go to the front with a protest that the government is adding two-thirds to the normal rate of producing hides and within three weeks the price has declined three cents...
...are reoueited ¦«J writ, on both slit, erf ha W*ff "T opt to use lent pencil or rea ¦»« MantMcrlpti mm eanttot N eaeas_wj» not be returned tmleM return poew la enclosed...
...Recently a godly man broadcasted his belief from the pulpit that the "buoyant humor" of President Roosevelt had been very helpful in keeping "up popular spirit...
...Cljj behind marched policemen wita# 'guns...
...But, according to the United Press, the ami-Nazi propaganda la reaching new high marks...
...The American flag flies in every lodge room in 1,400 principal cities and upon every altar rests a Bible...
...Ingerman's hands it was found that a serious operation was necessary...
...Not yet...
...Workers have been compelled to resort to the use of strike measures in order to force employers to concede the exercise of a right guaranteed by law...
...e>.«trto...
...auBScauPTioK bateSi m I Twir...
...reads the demand painted on Berlin sidewalks, smeared on the billboards, and crammed into tetter boxes everywhere...
...The parade revealed the extent to which law enforcement agenda are prepared for any "emergency...
...Well nourished with food, comfortable clothing and shelter, too many of them have pooh-poohed the "carnal things of this world" while enjoying these Socialists Fill Berlin With Propaganda "l/OTE YES...
...Everything is safe—except jobs for some 10,000,000 workers, incomes for starving farmers in the West and a few other trifles of this sort...
...This being true, why not a New Deal of workers, by workers and for workers...
...HEIL THE"MALTED ONE...
...We might indulge in soine "buoyant humor" when we read such advice were it not that we cannot smile in the presence of a hungry chHd or a mother who is unable to provide it milk...
...When, at last, he was persuaded to place himself in Dr...
...on a sidewalk he takes his life into his hands...
...Camels, etc...
...Had any person ten years ago suggested that one main function of the government would be {hat of keeping human lyings from starving to death, such a forecast would have seemed fantastic...
...So life under the NRA becomes one headache after another...
...Heil the Exalted Ruler...
...Just in Case the Workers Start Something U7INSTON-SALEM, N. C.-NW " because of any strike in prospect, buf just by way of gentle reminder to the populance of tail city which depends for its existence on the R. J. Reynolds To< bacco Co...
...The Grand ExaltetJ Ruler of the Elks has taken us into his confidence...
...New T.rk Cltf **>^SA ITeu to fereten...
...Yes, planning capitalism is a job that gives its agents the jitters...
...Righto...
...That would be a New Deal leading to the acquirement of power by the workers themselves...
...shrieks Gdbbels " over the radio to millions of Germans...
...Forward, American freemen to the poor farm...
...Every time a Socialist paints- the words "Vote No...
...Socialists arid other revolutionaries working underground are flooding the country with propaganda urging the people to murk the ballots NO...
...Every time a {Socialist slips a circular into a letter box, paints a huge X on the sample ballots posted On billboards, in 'the space, assigned for NO votes, he is committing what is in today's degenerate Germany a capital crime...
...SOME "HUMOR" JK you are out of a job, or if you have a job and unfortunates l>cg at your door, or if you are in any way penned in this hell of depression, try a little humor...
...This might well start with a resolution recommending to the national unions that they abandon the two old and too old parties and concentrate the voting strength of the working masses into a party of their own...
...the "law" advertised its annual baseball game between county sheriffs and city, police with a demonstration to impress the workers with what awaited those who may want tt cause trouble to the bosses...
...VOTE YES...
...Every available policeman tti deputy sheriff inarched in the parade through the main street...
...He's going to go after all the reds in the country and smite them hip and thigh...
...The officers carried riot guns, a* chine guns and tear gas guns,** well as the customary equipnent of revolvers and night sticksv^Jgf A squad of police lieutenant) 'and sergeants marched with tear gas guns and machine guns...
...Captain T. W. Aitdlrtja was ih charge of a iT™ttM|f posed of policemen in regalia and equipment A few group was composed of W?W feoiive division of tJhe poHe» * partment and Forsyth Ooaw deputies, armed with machine rf>> tear gas and riot guns...
...For generations our shepherds have served this sort of thing to serf and slave, bondman and wage worker...
...One front sags and it is propped up, but in so doing another one begins to crumble and a NRA force is rushed to the rescue...
...Fox some month* past Comrade Crosswaith has been unwell and has carried on his work against the advice of his friends...
...gfl things at the hands of other gentlemen with substantial stakes in the ruling social order...
...shrieks every member of the Nazi propaganda battery, urging a solid, 100 per cent endorsement of Hitler's latest moves in the fake election of next Sunday...
...If there is a tremendous NO vote (as there will probably be) and the votes are counted and reported, the Hitler regime will be shaken as never before...
...As soon as recovery is complete he will join the organizing forces of the International Ladles' Garment Workers' Union...
...NRA JITTERS ^LTlllLE the national poor farm gets under way with the slaughter of animals for food, the NRA gets a jolt because of the slaughter...
...The food' is being labeled for this purpose so that it will not be diverted to commercial purposes...
...But since Hitler's tools under GSbbela' direction will count and report the vote, it is hardly, likely that the public will learn the extent of the revolutionary movement...
...working ctaii...
...FRANK CROSSWAITH NOW CONVALESCING - Comrades and friends all over America will be glad to know that Frank Crosswaith, one of the Socialist Party's most inspiring speakers, is rapidly recovering from an operation on his throat The operation was performed August 9 at Beth David Hospital, New York City, by Dr...
...The ideal of the "founding fathers" is being realized in the food bag containing our fodder...
...VOTE NO...
...purse* Contributor...
...decline...
...This operation, however, was completely successful, and Comrade Crosswaith !• now on the way to complete recovery...
...The home, church, family, flag and government are in safe hands...
...With a six million dollar loss facing packers, tanners and leather merchants, these gentlemen fear a special depression in their respective fields...
...However, 12,000 cattle are being slaughtered each day by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in "the packing plants of twenty states, most of it intended for relief...
...Cod still reigns and the Exalted Ruler still rules...
...Signed ™"MblMfiZ/2 It wekamci * Tartetj ol W™": MMstatent with It...
...Sergius Ingerman...
...In the face of this array of power, the great "menace" wjll simply wither up and disappear...
...A LABOR NEW DEAL THE A. F. of L. has issued a call for the annual convention which will meet in San Francisco October 1. The call declares that "Experience has shown that, notwithstanding the plain provisions of Section 7A of the NRA, workers have been prevented from exercising thej right to organize and to engage in collective bargaining...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 33