SAVE YOUR HOMES!
SAVE YOUR HOMES! •THE Federal government is carrying on a vigorous propaganda campaign for what it calls a Better Housing Program. The Federal Housing Administration is sending out well...
...Hm, Canada should indemnify American capitalists for stealing their stuff...
...It lies rather in the colossal opposition that was registered, and even more in the nature of the opposition...
...Of the 45,473,635 German men and women on the) voting lists a total of 1,943,925 resisted the massed . Nari pressure and the terror of domiciliary visits by Nasi hoodlums and remained away from the polls despite orders backed by dire threats tfcat it would be "treason - not to vote...
...It is hardly to be wondered, then, that many persons seek to acquire the means of life with an eye not to the usefulness of their labors but rather to the ease of acquisition and the magnitude of the return...
...and then the fat will be in the fire...
...But there is a distinct danger in what Huey is doing, and especial danger that other men of his stripe in other states may imitate him...
...The economics of abundance is seen in the bit...
...For example: during the recent San Francisco strike and the current anti-Red hysteria, as well ss on the Tom Moons* case, the usually talkative Sinclair has bean as "tactful" and silent as Calvin Coolidge...
...We live in a competitive capitalist world in which the measure of success is the amount of money one acquires rather than the means by which it is acquired...
...Delaware has a law requiring truck drivers to sleep si least eight hows sot of twenty-four...
...all of which will probably lie very much to the point, except that it will probably miss one vital consideration...
...and 4,295,654 more bravely and courageously cast negative ballots, a total of 7,111,875 open votes against Hitler...
...And now, with the primary election almost upon him, in which he will win or lose all, he is becoming so cagey and "statesmanlike" that he is coming closely to resemble any old-party politician...
...It is not explained that it is private landlordism and the real estate and building material racket that is the sole cause of the housing^ situation...
...For example, there is a "box" In his paper reading: "Farley Feels No Fear About EPIC...
...crop of promises made by NRA officials...
...The booklet tells that "The quickest way to get reemployment is through making property repairs and improvements," ami "suggests that every city wishing to derive the greatest benefit from the Act organize a local campaign of modernizing and improvement...
...The economics of scarcity, in the results obtained...
...One more "victory" like that and he—and all his vile works—are undone...
...But the most significant fact of all is that the massed opposition came from cities like Hamburg and Berlin, working class and Socialist strongholds, and not from the landed estates and rural districts...
...class...
...Not that Huey is a Hitler—yet, nor yet was Hitler ever as devilishly clever as Huey is...
...1 Tsar to r«r.l...
...Get rid of capitalism...
...Now He Wants Business Men ACCORDING to a big headline in Upton Sinclair's Epic News, "Los Angeles Business Heads Forced Toward EPIC...
...And that is just the way fascist leadtrs are made...
...Cssntrlss .Iff* I Tsar to Canada ......»••" Bator** as Sseead Clsas Matter...
...The brass plaque for the most ingenuous remark of the week goes to 'Sir Henri Deterding, one of the world's richest oil magnates...
...There are not lacking halfbaked radicals and near-Socialists who are supporting Sinclair in the belief that he can win the Democratic nomination, then carry the stats In the teeth of the opposition of the powerfully entrenched business interests, and then carry out his EPIC plan...
...it is nowhere suggested that the only permanent solution of the problem is the SOCIALIZATION OF LAND AND OF RENTED HOMES, and the end of the profit system...
...a * To Make the World Safe for...
...Hitler hailed the "election" as a great "victory...
...There is no other way...
...Socialists do not have to assert that*the objective of the Roosevelt New Deal is to restore a measure (if stability to the profit system...
...a .mm lailsl »*> UcatJon...
...As his son said to him when h» announced his apostacy: "Dw read your own books...
...and that the opposition is mainly an opposing faction jealous of the power and preference at Huey's disposal...
...the Government says so itself, and says so in the face of the hideous collapse of the system that they are so pathetically trying to bolster up...
...There is but one way to stop that sort of thing...
...In a New York interview he said: "1 never mix in politics...
...872,296 more had the courage to «jnarch to the polls and cast blank and "defective" ballots— that is, ballots upon which they wrote antiNazi sentiments...
...The Federal Housing Administration is sending out well printed and prettily illustrated booklets telling "How your city can get the greatest benefit frdm the National Housing Act...
...And that being so, it is easy to understand why depraved and anti-socially minded creatures" stage theatrical hold-ups for huge stakes rather than seeking to do some of the honest work that is so hard to secure, so hard to perform and so ill-rewarded...
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...THE HOLD-UP A WELL-PLANNED .robbery...
...and dose to half a million dollars in cold cash are stolen...
...This from the Hire man who dared all when he wrote "Boston...
...Nothing, however, is said about the basic cause of the evils that led to the housing crisis and to the fact that there had been a drop of about 90 per cent in construction...
...in which there is bitter struggle for the very means of sustaining life...
...WELL, anyway,if the unemployed are disfranchised they wont lose the right to have their blocks ehot off in the next war...
...Quick, Watson...
...1-------------------:What brand of beer do you drink?<------------------------What brand of bread do you buy...
...IN ftUEY'S REICH IT is easy to laugh at Huey P. Long and his antics in Louisiana, but it is not very amusing to the people of that state to be placed under the virtual dictatorship of a vulgar, self-seeking clown...
...And now for a barrage of moralizing about lawlessnevs and the breakdown of order...
...Huey is a vulgar and not very amusing clown, but he is a great deal more thah that...
...Upton, after a lifetime as a novelist and propagandist for what are poetically called "lost causes," has decided to be "practical" for once in his life, and for a year he has been pursuing the nomination of the party of Franklin D. Roosevelt, William G. McAdoo, John F. Curry, J. Thomas Heflin and Huey P. Long...
...Many others are receiving local relief...
...This from the eelleague and old-time friend of Jsck London...
...Economic laws are operating to keep the workers awake so that It will be harder for them to Indulge In their habitual election day snooze...
...THE NtW I.KAOKH...
...This from the gallant author of "The Jungle...
...Jay...
...Indeed, the booklet states specifically that "one of the purposes" of the Act "is to restore to useful PRIVATE enterprise the largest group of workers -till unemployed...
...No one becomes excited when women and children art held at hostages until tuck time as their breadwinners ate forced to accept a etamation wage...
...to express an opinion might have lost him votes...
...the story of what is going on in the Pelican State has not yet bean told in full, but enough is known to indicate that Long is absolute dictator of the political life of the state...
...The Disinfectant...
...7,111,375 AGAINSt HITLER TPHE significance of the "election" in Germany last Sunday does not lie in the 38,362,760 men and women who responded to the hysteria and terrorism of the Gobbels propaganda machine and voted J A on ratifying Hitler's latest antics...
...nothing is said to explain why "onethird of the workers whose families now are on the relief rolls are normally employed in the building industry...
...What brand of milk do you buy?-------------------------What make of car do you own?____________________________ Have you a telephone?___________________________________ ,Do you own your home?____________________________*----Are you in business?________----------------------------What business are you in?________________________________ Will you cooperate with us by . , buying and featuring product advised in your paper—The New Leader?________________ Name j:z-----......----.....-......-----.....---Address .----------------.....-----------------L. Plan— mall or leave) at The New Leader Office...
...No Dole for the U. S. Five million families, about twenty million people, are receiving relief from the Federal Government...
...And the time to start is NOW...
...But apparently Upton is not one of them, for in his campaign and in his paper he has been veering steadily to tho right and is rapidly becoming indistinguishable from any other Democratic party politician seeking to preserve th'e present order...
...eupnprts the Socialist nit •nd thr ilriigglm of thr urganlsed working...
...And wi further read that "utility leaders'' favor his plan, that "Outstanding representatives of the Los Angelei Chamber of Commerce favor a elan closely paralleling the EPIC program...
...The Canadian minister of trade and commerce charges "That unscrupulous financial and business men have exploited Canada's consuming public, starved her producers and sweated her workers, leaving the country a choice of reform, revolution or dictatorship...
...Screamlines in the daily press play up the kidnapping of a wealthy person...
...e*J» 1 Tsar Natlsnsi SdltJea ......fj...
...Two and a half days of strenuous effort were required to land a giant tuna fish...
...that he employs bribery (with public funds) and violence (protected by his venal courts) to entrench and extend the dictatorship...
...These are the figures given out by the Nazis' own department of popular "Enlightenment...
...establish a cooperative system of Socialism, and such crimes will become as obsolete as the raids of mediaeval robber barons...
...how much larger they really were no one can tell as yet...
...In less time politicians using promises for bait, find it easy to land thousands of poor fish on election day...
...William R. Hearst and Ernst F. S. ("Putzy") Hanfstaeugl recently had a conference in Germany...
...To make clear these cryptic words, we hasten to explain that EPIC is Upton Sinclair's curious "Plan" to End Poverty in California, on the basis of which he is seeking the Democratic nomination for Governor...
...he is a highly effective mob leader, kidding masses of citizens that everything he does is for their benefit...
...New Tark Cits Mltlea...
...the masses must use the civil and political rights they still possess seriously and in their own interest...
...If we would protect ourselves from such crimes it would be better to destroy the conditions that are an incentive to them rather than content oursclva with punishment after the damage is done...
...Signed i-mitri tuitions do not necessarily represent fhr poUey at rhe New Leader On lot other haS* It, welcomes a rsrleti ol opinions 0° nail lent with Its declared purpose...
...Now That We're on the Subject...
...The twentieth anniversary of the beginning of the world war finds 854,000,000 in Europe living under dictatorships, with democracy banished from four-fifths of the continent...
Vol. 17 • August 1934 • No. 34
