Roosevelt Yields Again Young Miners Give Him Blank Check
Lee, Algernon
Roosevelt Yields Again Young Miners Give Him Blank check By Algernon Lee D O p » couple of months after his * toaa«or»ti«» in 1983, Pr*«ident Roosevelt seemed to be interested in the idea...
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...New York Socialists have for three decades maintained fraternal relations with the Wisconsin movement and they have no desire to disturb them now, ffi& ita executive has shown an indifference to the nationai movement that ia appalling...
...It is not likely the miners would have gone off the deep end for Roosevelt if they had thought they stood a good chance of gaining anything by the election of an anti New Deal administration...
...Joeeph Slavit, old-time Socialist and propagandist for socialized medicine, and among the contributors are distinguished members of the profession in all parts of the country...
...Illinois, 43.1...
...one who has earned nothing new and forgoten nothing old...
...Instead, he gave us the National Industrial Recovery Act—a strange mixture, from the workers' point of view, of good features and bad.' When KIR A reached the Supreme Court, it proved to be as thoroughly unconstitutional as a Thirty-Hour Law could posMbly be...
...4^The...
...And since then rffj >een through a long and draggBjH ickness which at one stage seeeapf o suggest that my share in taiagl...
...Scy of flaming a state and of suspending a state charfer without a hearing rr a trial...
...not tolerate in its own state...
...The statesmanship that could not foresee these terrible results of a change in relief policy faces the accusing fingers of hundreds of thousands of victims...
...It is announced, too, that very soon will be inaugurated a "Books of the Week" broadcast over Bta* < tion WE YD...
...Friajfip who have visited the Peeklm" House during the last few ' M f have been struck by the hustle Btt...
...From time jts time patrons of the store wHJ he-, given opportunity to meet nee authors at receptions and lectures JOB POLICY INDICTED ANATIONAL purvey of the relief situation by the American Association of Social Workers reveals horrible conditions in some regions...
...SOVIET AID TO FASCISM ' T H E united front which the Moscow proprietors of the * Communist movement ordered with the Nazis in sevWmjGfeajnaan diets before Hitler came to power has its sequel in Soviet aid to Italian fascism in its war against Ethiopia...
...The folly of air raids and air de, fense...
...Thirty-three vivic" illustrations and eleven maps illuminate the text, which is simply and clearly written...
...Most Of the miners reside in Republican districts...
...Well founder is the publisher's claim that the author "analyzes the rivalries, tensions and economic worries of » trouble-ridden continent from world war days to the current headline in the daily press...
...I have been out of things for s long time," write* Comrade Beaierson, "but I must send r*J,s note of joy at the news...
...The treatment is dynamic and th< content factual, objective and informative...
...ftm leading and Bridgeport...
...New Manager Recrgnnigip the Rand School Book Sujaj The Rand Book Store, which tap years ago was called "the greajB radical book store In the workHjJ a well known British Labortta»i being thoroughly reorganiseoB its new manager, Eleanore...
...Ayj^^^jjtlB House were ready ^k^^BBl give the w o r d . ^^S^^^^P Re hesitated for A i — m ^ so me time and * ™" . then came news that he had "lost interest" in the proposal...
...Instead of that, he thought the thing over for a while and then—wrote the Howard letter, promising the capitalists a "breathing spell...
...Men talk ia hushed tones sad eagerly scan the news...
...Bu H. M. Tomlinson...
...cations at the lowest east a cireslating library will soon be opened...
...There is a law of com- i •ewaation...
...The beginnings of ilmesi dak' •n me before I left for hoaw||J ny visit to America, and stMsBJ ] tie from any" real activity during oy last few days in New York 'hen I was in the doctor's hsnB|r,| i e continues...
...It may turn out that ; President Lewis has discredited land weakened the movement for industrial unionism by the detail ate method to which he nea« And that would be a <nsaM second only to the altsraatks aster of a general schism j | 9 ranks of Organised Labor...
...His face red with the strain of pleading, his voice cracking with emotion, President William Green of the A.F.ofL...
...new or old, economics or fictjSE can be obtained at a reductiotjT|i this way...
...North Dakota...
...It is only when he contemplates the statesmen, generals, admirals, journalists and patrioteers that his weapon flashes...
...In tewa alone the number of tenants increased more than 8 pet cent in the last five years and nearly 50 per cent of Iowa's 222,000 farms are now operated by tenants...
...Well-known .snffcts ind critics will discuss the msst j recent publications...
...The book is well in dexed...
...Decided action on one sid> begets decided action on the other...
...Moreover, we know that the Wisconsin party^ members have been kept uninformed of New 3GBfM«s struggle for democracy and decency in die party but as the truth filters in they will not approve in New Yo*avw|at they have esclwW in Wisconsin...
...THE WISCONSIN PARTY *X7lSCONSlN is the only important state organization W$> .pf Socialist Party whose executive has approved the frame-up of New York State by the National Executive Committee...
...convention, it looks as if President Lewis was following the example of our own Lost Leader—if you can't get what you want when you want it and just the way you want, engineer a belt...
...Just call it a fight between wolves and sheep...
...Tib® 3M®w L@adl®r 3B@®Ik C®riB©r The Horrors of War By James Oneal "Mars His Idiot...
...Wiaconain executive has approved in New York *pa...
...One authorizes the United Mine Workers* Executive Board to continue organizing industrial unions even if that action leads to a definite break with the A . F. of L...
...It is reported that four tankers will be employed to ship 400,000 barrels of oil from Batoum, Russia, to Italy...
...The President did not call for such an amendment of the Constitution as would assure to Congress the power to protect the workers from the code which capitalism brings upon them...
...It is a good antidote to the wares marketed by our own patrioteers ; while the masses who serve as can. non fodder for the imperialists will s be impressed with the folly of con> senting to die for some beautiful i abstraction...
...This follows the transfer of employables from direct relief to W P A rolla because Federal grants for relief were reduced faster than workers were transferred to W P A jobs...
...Where are the party orators With their tributes to the "Yeomen of the Republic...
...Mars Hie Idiot soon stalks the cities, villages and the countryside and hell begins to pop...
...The book has an imt portant place in anti-war literature ' even though it does not stress the ; fact that hideous as modern phys. kai conflict is there may be oc, casicn for the working class not i to shrink from it rf such a strugI gle is the alternative to she itn. position of e galling dictatorship > >«f- an anu-iociai clique...
...The result is that thousands of adults are subjected to alow starvation and the health of children is being undermined...
...It supports a dangerous ff|flWB»Ptam, displays a reckless indifference to what |iahaMipm in the movement outside its own state, and it is officially recorded aa an accomplice of Communist intrigues in the New York party...
...Oxford Bool* Companv, New York...
...Wiaconain executive has also approved the N.E.C...
...The press this week carried stories of Mussom& having contracted for enormous oil supplies from Russia...
...his purpose "to provide the readei with sufficient background for tht tremendously complicated eventt and movements in contemporary modern history...
...TT probably is not at all surprising * that the miners, in their officia' resolution unanimously adoptee last Saturday, abandoned thei: traditional non-partisan policy of holding aloof from political parties and making the Republicans and Democrats bid against each othe: for their support...
...Workers in the South and Southwest are most heavily stricken and in these sections the suffering is revolting...
...Moreover, the new program makes no provision whatever for workers whose resources were exhausted after November 1 as they could not apply for relief after that date and become eligible for W P A jobs...
...When he comes to the great tasses his rapier is sheathed...
...Its executive, however, has ap- jftjP*pj^e^ for New York State...
...iff Rand Book Club I A hundred of the most Ma|, friends of the Book- Store areaKj ing asked to Join the Rand BM| Club by making a deposit aganp which books, may be purchased V a discoust...
...And now a personal note:—4tam est to goodness...
...I*tj9| son, co-author with Louis P. Qa& berg of "Lawless Judge...
...And if it is a bad check—if the resolution passed dcee not really comjgtH the miners' votes next fall— Weil, that also is poor policy...
...The action of the United Mine Workers' convention in giving the President a blank check just at this time is a striking illustration etf the political immaturity of even the o r g a n i 1 ed portions of the American working class...
...To avoid complications do not call it "class struggle...
...Roosevelt Yields Again Young Miners Give Him Blank check By Algernon Lee D O p » couple of months after his * toaa«or»ti«» in 1983, Pr*«ident Roosevelt seemed to be interested in the idea of legal limitation of working hours in industry as a method of combatting unemployment...
...T H I S is a book of unusual power, * It is an indictment of war, a terrible indictment, the impact of which lingers long after the last page is read...
...At the end of a speech lasting an hour and 45 minutes, Green sat down, his legs trembling with exhaustion after his vigorous demand that the mine workers cease agitating for industrial unionism...
...The human tide passes into the nightmare of conflict, it is caught like cattle driven into chutes that lead to the slaughter pits...
...Two resolutions officially tell the story...
...the editor is Dr...
...A thrust of his keen weapon and he passes on...
...Wisconsin leaver tolerated any interference in its affairs by the National Executive Committee, never tolerated the faintest fpv^Offimuiuat trends...
...So the author spares his rapier, mingles with these humble folk and tries to interpret their thought and behavior while the tragedy unfolds...
...At )ong last lowever, I have pulled through *> o what seems likely to be a geei ecovery...
...They know that when NRA was kicked out President Roosevelt pressed for passage of the Guffey coal law, through which the miners hope to achieve perma...
...aaiMefSS«SS5 tion came into power the coal industry was prostrate...
...ti.se...
...I did not ajjH any such nonsense lest wee^S that Al Smith was "cx>llajSH with the A m e r i c a n Li he 3 L e a g u e." The word I wrote I B "colloguing...
...The civilian population roes about its humdrum work nostly unaware of the hell's stew hat is being brewed by eminent gentlemen in the seats of power...
...The human tide of humble fork, farmers, laborers, clerks, students and wastrels, goes its way until The Day comes...
...They declare that about 43 per cent of the farms in 38 states are now operandi by tenants, compared with 25 per cent in 1890...
...He is simply a iighly-cultured human being who has seen war, who is a keen observer of the post-war period and who appears to write casually and with little effort of the phastly ruin of human hopes and portray the ruling idiocies that are still more or less general today...
...of military "science" which ends in piles of skulls and decay, ing entrails, of the Treaty of Versailles which drove millions of [ Germans into colored ehirtg and 5 filled their heads with the folk cul. ture of primitive peoples...
...Tenantry is more widespread in the Southern States than in any other section...
...Abraham Lincoln, speaking at the Sanitary Fair at Baltimore in 1864, said something which seems apropos of this conflict of opinion: "The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as I his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty...
...The "mone...
...Perhaps the threat of schism and general ruin will bring the whole movement, to its knees and the bolters will triumph...
...Sew York: Harpers...
...Scenes were enacted worthy of the beet dramatic productions, William Green snd John L. Lewis participating, with Lewis really rising to Olympian heights as a great actor...
...Nothing so full of potentialities has happened for a long time on both the labor and political scenes...
...Mississippi leads with 72.2 per cent and six other Southern States show 60 per cent or more of farm tenants...
...Any kind of bsM...
...For the t^orkers' Fatherland" thus to aid Mussolini is to reveal Communism in its usual role of first-aid to reaction in all countries...
...He does not rage, i He is as cool as a surgeon performing an operation...
...Kansas, 42.4...
...It happened last Monday...
...Kentucky, 35.9...
...the stupf idity of men fighting machines that i spray a leaden hail of death, the i asinine attempt to balance abso, lute sovereignty with peace, and . the official drivel that justifies all i this make this book a work of fine j literary craftsmanship...
...The American Journal of Socialized Medicine The Medical League for Socialized Medicine, which has been for several years carrying on quiet propaganda for the socialization of the healing profession, begins with January, 1986, the publication of a monthly Journal which promisee to be of interest not only to the physician but also to the intelligent layman...
...that sounds I "socialistic...
...vlbaly lacks oil and raw materials in general and this is a fatal source of weakness in Italian fascism...
...pleaded, cajoled and threatened over 1,700 delegates to the miners' convention to stay with the parent organization, and he heard himself and his plea booed and shouted down in dramatic defeat...
...one who talks of 'national honor" and the jargon i f military "science" but who in he butchery of twenty years ago vas tossed about like a feather >y the gigantic forces he and his 'ind had released...
...The author presents i o economic, social, political or historical interpretation of the forces that bring war...
...They know that, unlike previous administrations which professed that the plight of coal was utterly hopeless, the Roosveelt Administration tried to do something...
...Deposits may r*jK from $5 to $2f>, and the diseodjK will vary from 6* to 26% aeeflE ing to the amount and, charsSfi of the purchase...
...Here is a smug statesnan drooling old platitudes...
...Both NRA and the coal law were denounced by Roosevelt opponents as destructive of liberties...
...bustle, the cleaning and reaxrsS ing, and, especially, by the r e f f ll ing and setting up of semjBl tables...
...Behind the Scenes in Washington Our Washington Correspondent T H E center of the Washington stage is.easily held by the United Mine Workers...
...rjy It ia one of the peculiar contradictions of capitalism that the class that produces the foodstuffs needed by the whole population ia pressed further and further down into economic degradation...
...Employers again started cutting wages and stretching out hours and Organized Labor has had to resist as best it can, without aid from federal legislation...
...But apparently they have decided this i U to be no ordinary RepublicanDemocratic battle...
...What it sows for others it will eventually reap for itself...
...These figures are based upon the 1930 census and as the deflation of agriculture ia general it ia certain that the percentage in each of these states has increased in five years...
...But perhaps not...
...It seems highly impossible that either the International Typographical Union or any one of the three great unions of the needle trades will join in the efforts to coerce the American Federation of Labcr by threatening to destroy it...
...35.1, and Indiana, 30.1...
...There is fright...
...In fact, wc are brought right down to and in eluding the Italo-Ethiopien conflict...
...vas closing down...
...The workers understood me.-Mt ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ understood — and I ^ ••hey were against M JtOtm ical on both sides...
...They know that through NRA it established a measure of stability which put many thousands back on the payroll and protected their rights to organise and bargain collectively, by which they have raised their standards...
...Farm tenancy is also on the increase and this fpnpa is likely to continue aa long as the depression continues Iowa land economists report that tenantry is increasing Ifor a wide area of the Corn Belt...
...changers" have done it before them...
...If I e v e r caajB h o m i c i d « , the victim will ham proofreader—and I shall pltJH justification...
...The story is also full of drama, of real human tragedy...
...The President was sorry, of course, but that did not help...
...Members of the (tip will have certain privileges m esov nection with literary lectures e*s receptions which are being plirmjoj ' Stock Clearance Sale I In order to move old stock *M •fcui-* new capital a large nunfi of books wiU be sold at pnv ranging from 10c to 35 a vobtZi In addition to standard worujif Economics, History and BoemSE ihe list includes fiction by aQk aell-known authors as Theoftn Dreiser, Edward ArBngton RoSb=on, Thomas Beer, Q. B. Stirs, Evelyn Scott and W. L. George...
...If the check is good, neither he nor his tarty will have to da anything to earn the mine workers' support aerweer...
...For Manager LeveMopjS' all sorts of plans to lure c us teams and expand the market...
...A slash and this popinjay oozes sawdust, re'esling the manikin that he is...
...Jlere he reminds one of Sheridan's ne, " I must sorrow for, not hate hee...
...1457 Union St., Brooklyn...
...That wa» a sotmd and sensible idea...
...and the other endorses Roosevelt and calls for contributions of funds from the national treasury and an appeal to the locals for Roosevelt eampaign contributions...
...Circnlotiaa Library For the accommodation of then) who wish to read the latest publi...
...Families of five and six members are required to exist on relief allowances of $2.25 for a two-week period in one southern city," the report says, "while all able-bodied applicants for relief ineligible for W P A assignment are being refused any relief in Texas cities...
...now and Novemher...
...it does...
...Here is a general smeared with the muck and blood if human carnage...
...But ap parently the miners, along witi others of the working class, have come to despair of fair treatment from those who have captured control of the Roosevelt opposition President John L. Lewis is a lifetime Republican and a conservative in labor ranks...
...One gets the impression of a nan walking through the wreck» ; or a civilization with rapier in hand...
...Iowa leads the Corn Belt States in the percentage of farm tenants and other states in this region show the following: South Dakota, 44.6...
...YEOMEN OF THE REPUBLIC TfARMING was once an aristocratic occupation but with a^ 'tfeeaae of industrial and banking capitalists to power agriculture has been degraded to a low place in the social OMB...
...Decidedly a useful little book The author succeeds admirably ir...
...And speaking of the U.M.W...
...A Useful Book By Charles Solomon EUROPE AT THE CROSSROADS By Philip Dorf...
...His sardonic judgments sear like a hot iron and . rutting epigrams litter the book...
...214 pp...
...The principal contents of the first issue are con-, tained in a statement of terms and definitions by the editor, and the statement of .principles and urogram of the organization publishtbuktt eraaaagayaSSat8 Fred Henderson RecoYen, Writes New Book Fred Henderson of the British Labor Party, who has often hp* ured in the United States and b he author of a number of noun* Socialist books, writes The ' New Leader that his latest bosk, 'Capitalism and the Consumer,"* i o * being published by George Vllen A Uhwin, Ltd., London...
...and news like this nap leading and Bridgeport is tkal rery best of ton...
...nent gains...
...Here there are no braggarts, no intriguers, no designing men playing at a hazardous gamble, with nations and millions of human lives as stakes in the game...
...The Italian dictator is said to have placed large orders with Russia in anticipation of League of Nations Oil sanctions against Italy...
Vol. 19 • February 1936 • No. 6
