Misery Midst Plenty
Modestus, Mr.
Misery Midst Plenty By Mr. Modestus JJOORAY for America! We have 7 per cent of .the world's population— But more purchasing power than the whole of Europe—' H'< created and own mofV-thus...
...Modestus JJOORAY for America...
...The athletic events will isd** a feature soccer gam* b<*2 Local 22 of the Irierwe* Ladies' Garment Workers' wP and the Young Circle League "¦»¦ ^The boat leaves the J*f^ pier of the Hudson Ri«r D*WJ at 9:30 a. m. Tickets (ft |Ms vance, $1.25 at the boat) ame*a» able at the Young Cirels l**w office, 175 East Broadway...
...On the other ?2 quite a number of the publish** houses employ parlor BchhafS who turn thumbs down or...
...In the former period the average number built per year was 700,000, but today the average number built is 300,000, less than one-half...
...The survey shows that the number of relief cases has increased no less than 57 per cent in the nine months from July 31, 1935, to May 1 of this year...
...Debs Radio Station Fighting , for Full Time •efore the Radio Commission in Washington this week appeared Alexander Kahn and Louis G. Caldwell ,as lawyers for the Debs radio station, WEVD, asking for full time...
...Nf gestions and conclusion of * author or not, the reader wig fa 'grateful to him for having-aav pleted a laborious task of djaev ing so much material and aakfcf it available for those who are Interested ia the subject...
...Schuschnigg has the support of the army and the police bureaucracy, who, as in Germany, were willing to use irregular armed formations to break the j power of political movements they disliked, bu...
...A survey by the Emergency' Relef Bureau of New York City reveals an alarming situation...
...One Senate bloc, led by Senator Hayden of Arizona, wants PWA given $700,000,000, so that states and cities can build needed, enduring works under a loan-grant system...
...J. 0. Young Circle League Boat Ride Suni' The Young Crrice League...
...Behind the Scenes in Washington A STA-GGERIXG body Blow was dealt Prof...
...ys# section of the Workman's Ch* has hired the "Alexander la** ton" (capacity 3,200) for '* annua] boat ride to Indian *aw» Sunday...
...Another Federal Relief Makeshift Federal relief again has run into a tangle of dispute and indecision in Washington...
...New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Co., N. Y. $2.50...
...The shortage this year is the greatest in our history, while building is at a rate much lower than in 1921-1929...
...Dictatorship by a party is only a transition phase to arbitrary rule by one man, and no matter in what guise it is presented it means the working masses in chains...
...An excuse was found...
...They could not reconcile actual life in Russia and activities in the Communist Party of Kmgf with the official propaganda of* Communists of the world...
...The social evils Dr...
...be would rejeiet | the old czarist regime re^sjaji and for that reason disiilanaa^ Communists should avoid thiudk low reactionary...
...In answer to questions why the "draggers" should drag it so long, some say it's because the station is really entitled to the full time on account of its long history of service in the -fiehf of education...
...The Washington Do u b t i ng Thomases doubt if the Radio Commission will hold the hearing even in September...
...Much that apaZl in the book is known to taoatafl have followed the writings ef JE cialist exiles, writings ' widen, .4 turn are based upon contacts wm Socialists still in Russia sod am...
...May 24...
...Laidler carefully considers, against their historical background, such outstanding phases of contemporary social life as child labor, social insurance, electricity, banking, railroads, natural resources, agriculture, public works, housing, taxation, civil liberties, labor legislation and international affairs...
...Charles Solomon...
...It end...
...Soviet Government pubiicsjfi and the Russian CommunistaE The book is a vivid Sirst-haaeM count of conditions ay a e&8 who had spent sixteen years i&tn* Communist movement...
...Ream is one of the blackest and aaa dangerous force in Americas...
...It piles up an utterly damning indictment of capitalism and a no less persuasive argument for the Socialist program—immediate and ultimate...
...resented perpetuation of the armed groups as a State within a State...
...New York: E. P. Dutton & Co...
...wants a blank check which he and Mr...
...What Now, Little Man...
...TafOJ will be given somethias»*f whether too little or W W nobody wfil know...
...He is now confident 'that he has the mine workers' vote ;he has as much of the farm vote as he can get, so there is little or nothing to be gained in votes by pressing such an issue...
...GREETINGS DELEGATES of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers are meeting in their industrial parliament in Cleveland to legislate for their members, and the executive of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union is meeting at Los Angeles, California...
...baeht en Russia that do not conform | their views...
...ap| bibliography of 'some of :ne soar important books and official ion-ments that relate to this studj and includes the complete text oi the Security Act...
...TTHIS volume is well character-„*- ised by the author as a handbook of political and economic facts...
...Whether one agrees with tat various criticisms, analysis...
...WEVD is entitled to full time by its record of accomplishments, and the best way to keep that Debs Memorial Radio from betting full time is by unduly postponing the day of judgment...
...THE LAW OF DICTATORSHIP CLERICAL fascism in Austria presents the fourth example of the law that dictatorship by a party or a. clique continues to narrow its base until all power is possessed by one man...
...There are two types of Communist visitors to Russia, one who goes there for the- party and one who goes there for a tour...
...RECOVERY AND RELIEF STILL more official figures show that despite continuing improvement in business conditions, the number of those requiring relief is on the increase...
...capitalist .system and the programs he presents are offered with the warning that the complete and final elimination of the evils to which they are addressed is impossible unless and until capitalism is supplanted with a social order organized for the exploitation and utilization of our natural resources and economic equipment for social service rather than private profit...
...There are so many conflicting interpretations of this unexpected ruling that even the so-called authorities were thrown into utter confusion...
...hang him...
...Having SJW set idea bow many jobless ¦Jf1 there are, Congress oil be sure its appropriation fsPJ through the year...
...A Vienna correspondent of the New York Times writes that "Dr...
...DISILLUSIONED COMMUNISTS < _ "I Was A Soviet Worker...
...Instead of an ordeal** tine that should have been through these three years #»w eral relief we have confuuitu *** confounded...
...in the line of service to the labor movement...
...Another significant fact is brought out by a comparison of the number of new built homes each year in 1921-1929 with the number of new built homes s^i-mated for 1936...
...Oast agPT will plunge into the sail stow** to feel- ear way through t» thing or other...
...In New Jersey emergency relief is being reduced to a .subsistence dole over wide areas Of the state, the jobless receiving little more than fo^od...
...fe He is against the Soviet fsatoa not because he is a soldier of W, man freedom...
...presents various aspects of S| economic, social and political m of the masses under the diaaj3 ship, incidentally revtalhwjE evolution of their diaiUumoa 2 final abandonment of their am munist views...
...Ickes and Mr...
...This time until September...
...May their decisions contribute to a more extensive solidarity of Ae working masses and inspire other sections of the labor movement to march ahead in the struggle for the economic interests of the moment, to end the depression era, and" to realize the ultimate aims of the morrow...
...Bitter disillusionment has come to the fascist dupes in Austria, as it came to the Storm Troops in Germany after Hitler's bloody "purge...
...U. As 'the subtitle of this sat states, this is an analysis aafip-praisal of the Federal See* Act...
...There is a particularly interesting and pertinent chapter on social planning from which the following vivid and comprehensive paragraph is quoted: "Thus, with the developments of trusts and combines, the speeing up of technological changes, the growth of mass production, the disproportionate extension ef property income, and of capital equipment, the production of an increasing proportion of durable goods, the building up of an enormous debt structure, the contraction of population growth and the shrinkage of unsettled land and of foreign markets, our unplanned capitalist order is forcing us, as the years go on, into increasingly insecure and chaotic - conditions...
...Laidler presents his latest work as "a program for modern America" one (seeks in vain between its covers for an exposition of a certain program adopted recently in Detroit for which our author has made himself an apologist...
...Neir I'ert...
...In view of all recent court decisions it would seem that either President Roosevelt must give up efforts to improve economic conditions through legislation, or come, out openly for a constitutional amendment...
...But—this is campaign year' Mr...
...We understand, however, loathe chapters first appeared ia tk» Hearst press and this will nm Ms the circulation of the book...
...Rexfbrd Guy Tugwell's Resettlement Administration by a decision of'the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, holding invalid the njodel housing plans of the New Deal...
...An appendix is devoted to the cooperative movement...
...If society cannot at least provide decent housing for human beings, it stands in the dock a criminal failure...
...It is all of that...
...Between Ream jam...
...We have 7 per cent of .the world's population— But more purchasing power than the whole of Europe—' H'< created and own mofV-thus half the world's wealth— We cultivate 6 per cent of the world's acreage— Harvesting more than half the world's foodstuffs— Extracting over half the world's minerals— Half the communication facilities ere ours— Nearly half the railway and electrical energy— Wc produce 92 per cent of the automobiles on'OnrtJt-Operating them over 600,000 miles of puvrd roads— What's the matter with America...
...The book is rich in footnotes and contains a full bibliography and index...
...QUR standard of living is the highest in the world— We use half of all the coffee grouS^--Also half of the rubber, the tin, a fourth of the sugar— Three-fourths of the silk, a third of the coal— Two-thuds of the crude petroleum— Wc ate so much wheat that we got tired of it— And went to eating lettuce and greens instead— Just because ice liked them better...
...Roosevelt Will vigorously pursue such an issue...
...the hearing is postponed just the same...
...There is the picture of "homes" in the seventh year of the Depression Epoch...
...Chanceflter Schuschnigg has ousted Prince Starherriberg as last October he disposed of Major Fey...
...THE NATION'S "HOMES" IT is estimated that the shortage of homes in the United States is the greatest in our history and that 2,000,000 new homes are needed...
...Another bloc of eight senators wants to give the Resettlement Administration some $200,-000,000 to carry on the rural relief program...
...What will happen doubtlas»«* be another makeshift of taS-g we have had from the beiliPC Congress will dispute then probably will turn over thing to the President gfj home...
...The world depression began in 1929 arid there was a marked decline in building, so that by 1936 the shortage reached the all-high peak of 2.000.000...
...Hopkins, I ekes and Tug-well, the $1,425,000,000 relief appropriation for the fiscal year 1937 is being pulled,and mauled about as though relief were something new for the government...
...Roosevelt must think in the terms of votes and it is unlikely he will press any' constitutional amendment issue in this campaign, even though some of his satellites may bint that that is his long-range objective...
...They predicted that some excuse would be found for postponing the hearing...
...Indeed, the Republicans fervently pray that Mr...
...Industrial recovery evidently does not mean human recovery of jobs, of self-respect and even a pet animal standard of living...
...Hopkins weoJd^aUocate, to the PWA and RA and WPA as they sO> at tj* unwept Quoddy tide-trappiaf toj Florida ship canal projects, 90 Congress thought it had awsg buried .are walking agei"' H administration leaders urging*W they now be investigated >M presidential committee , of mW eers...
...Daoeing, f» l«tks and novelty eeraeetSa" have been arranged for...
...It begins to look, they say, as if for some reason or another the Commission may drag it out until after the Presidential elections...
...pay $620 milium just for electric juice for our homes— Our women paying more iha.t that for their cosmetics-It is even less than our cigarette money— We run most of our business without real money— Handling vast sums-back and forth just on written slips of paper—checks— Just because we have so much confidence in each other's honesty— And, it is not healthy to be giving tut "rubber" checks— * * • J'/fi' are wonderful co-operators— // somebody furnishes the necessary discipline— Our mass-production processes' take the lead over all nations— More product per man-hour comes out of our factories—- _ Greatest degree of man-accommodation to complications of machines— Highest adaptation of huihan energies to increasing RJ>.M...
...The writer has heard of no less than a dozen Communists who in the past ten years went to Russia to stay there and who came back disillusioned...
...By Andrew Smith...
...The Chancellor has also read the death knell of Starhemberg's private army, the Heimwehr, by introducing concsription, and it was only a month ago that Starhemberg's troops shouted in the streets of Vienna: "Down with Schuschnigg...
...This time it's something about somebody breaking a leg...
...of plants-Elimination of unnecessary human attendants on automatic apparatus— Transcending ancient /customs in uses of material— H'e make silk out of wood, and explosive from finest cotton fibres— Substitutes for everything from former byproducts— Chemical combinations for anything from food to foot-weor— * • • fHE greatest remaining problem is what to do with the people— Too many college graduates, for whom there is no occupation— Too many coal miners, since automatic machines came in— Too mauy children, especially since interference with child labor—¦¦ Too many farmers—and mules—because tractors take up the slack— Possibly too many bankers and lawyers, now listed among white collars— Especially too many folks 65 years old and upwards— But the genius of America has always found uses for byproducts— Solution of the problems of waste is among the triumphs of chemists— It constitutes a problem of real magnitude— To dispose of one-fourth of the human beings now counted as surplus— But the genius of America can be counted on to turn this to account— And make of Unemployment, Poverty, Homelessness and Hunger— A positive asset to the Greatest Nation on Earth...
...The book is highly factual, abounding in illuminating statistical information and striking quotations from significant sources...
...But the hearing was not held...
...Some seem to think that the ruling affects only the model community at Bound Bound Brook, N. J., while others are cock-sure that it was a sweeping decision, which carried the entire resettlement .administration toward the limbo of the large pile of defunct New Deal welfare laws...
...What difference does it make if the excuse is so flimsy that it has no leg to stand on...
...At the same time it is estimated that to offset the building slump it will be necessary to build new dwellings at the rate of 760,000 a year, that is, 60,000 more per year than in 1921-1929...
...its interest in public work and general civic life of New York...
...In 1921 -1929 this shortage was materially reduced by the building of an average Cjf" 700,000...
...such an amendment as was drawn by Morris HillquiU which would make possible social legislation...
...The author of tins book has had the experience of both...
...On complaint of th> WEVD statipn a hearing was set for Tast Monday...
...Ad i mat* of social security will fad it • very useful volume to hove at hsnd...
...McGraw-Hill Book Co, Inc...
...Both organizations face important problems of vital interest to their members...
...With the aid of his wife, Sagg...
...It is the old fight over time which was previously divided half and half between an old private radio station and that of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle...
...new homes each year...
...J. 0. . ,*e' SOCIAL SECURITY FOR AMERICA SociaJ Security in the United Stetta By Paul H. Dough...
...We send fraternal greetings to both...
...The author is not contest* trace the origin of the Act # of the fearful econoadd riecessitj brought by the depression but else considers other proposals sueh as the Townsend Plan and tt« Las-deer...
...nalism and these perjer sine Guards, the honest author sat much difficulty in making a chow*, but in any event the choice saeaK never be Hearst...
...Schuschnigg is now supreme dictator, as Mussolini Italy, Hitler in Germany, and Stalin in Russia...
...Just haw far this court decision goes is hard to ascertain at this time...
...This is a catastrophic trend and emphasizes our repeated conclusion that a drastic reduction of hours of labor is essential to give the work-teas employment and to reduce the number of unfortunates on relief...
...Isn't it about time to stress** our social security, to ¦sfj'ftfl old age pensions and the ployment insurance so good M general that it wiH take tlfjM of that stab-in-tbe-darh-relieTT WORKERS' BOOK SHEL1 A PROGRAM FOR MODERN AMERICA By Harry W. Laidler...
...On the other hand, much can be lost...
...While Dr...
...They remained about three years, becoming more and more dissatisfied, eventually leaving Russia after interesting and exciting experiences and giving up their Communist beliefs...
...1 The author of this book went to Russia first as a tourist and he was so impressed that he and his •wife contributed their funds to the American Communist Party, retaining enough to enable them to •go to Russia to stay...
...This procrastinating method of the Radio Commission gives special poignant meaning to the old adage: "Procrastination is the thief of time...
...People who every once in a while peep behind the scenes did not expect the hearing to take place as scheduled, even though a good many spent time and money to come from near and far...
...The State Emergency Relief Administration is being scrapped and the problem is being passed over to the municipalities and the^Overseers of the Poor, the latter carrying with it the stigma of pauper relief, which is hateful to masses accustomed to earning their own bread...
...Between the President and Senate groups and Messrs...
...Senator Vandonoerg and other Republicans demand that Federal relief administration be turned back to the states, while administration leaders point to the sad mess some of the states made of relief before Roosevelt and again during FER A. The President...
...Although a recent law of the state permits cities to borrow for relief purposes in excess of their statutory debt limitations, many are not in a financial condition to borrow...
...Laidler discusses are traced to their source in the profit motivated and dominant...
...Bill, subjecting both to ay telligent criticism and appraisal, < The legislative history <** tfc Security Act is presented ia S> more important details a- well f the changing character of thaw as it was worked out by n|s> sional committees...
Vol. 19 • May 1936 • No. 21
