A Labor Program to Beat Machinery, Unemployment
A Labor Program to Beat Machinery, Unemployment UNLIMITED OPPORTUNITY FOR EVERY AMERICAN MUST BE PROVIDED. ALL NECESSITIES FOR HUMAN COMFORT AND HAPPINESS CAN BE HAD IF THE PRESENT ECONOMIC...
...Thompson is on vacation," or "was called out of , town," or "gone for the day" when i Quinlan telephoned for information | or for an appointment...
...He is now a n**S»W of the A.L.P...
...COLD AND HUNGRY G\Rl SEEKS JAIL SEN1UB WASHINGTON, D. C— fBBM hi* part in the heated delists fj the reorganization bill in th* BfjH Representative John A. mexttrw Colorado digressed to say: "Th* war for economic as**** racy seems to be already lost — "A little girl only 10 yearsjP here in the city of Wajlilsg*" committed a petty offense ts'Jg m jail...
...Several of late do all kinds of chores for the party and indeed carry on much of its activity while drawing pay from the project...
...And add to that a chorus on the former bind of Tsars...
...The world needs to be reminded of the horrent of war—there are laboratory samples in China and Spain for'thsfM...
...Remember the old adage: God will think twice before condemning, a gentleman I Letters to the Editor: Please include full name and address...
...Perhaps I can return to the subject soon...
...Where the safety of French and British colonial inter**** y are concerned, where spheres of economic influence are at stahvj democratic-capitalist and totalitarian-capitalist notions win fejgjl no difficulty finding common grounds and striking power barsmmt,-"^ Whichever side America is drawn into, it will be to pull someone's j imperialist chestnuts out of the fire, no matter hew begeumg|tN the chestnuts may be wrapped in democratic cellophane...
...Never again...
...get out of Spain pnly at the end of the civil war...
...Chamberlain has purchased the "cooperation" of Mussolini by sacrificing Spain to clerical fascism and' by throwing the Ethiopians to the dogs...
...By trade he is a printing pressman and has been a member of the union for more than forty years...
...Each has an empire to preserve, and this was a primary thought in the negotiations...
...Someone could perform a- service for tiie country by digging ay the words of our radicals and liberal* and progressive* after tie < last World War—those contrite words which said, in effect...
...It is worthy of careful study by our readers...
...HERE IS A PROPOSAL WHICH HAS GAINED GREAT FAVOR IN FARMERLABOR RANKS IN MINNESOTA...
...Both came to an agreement by sacrificing third parties, the Ethiopians and the Spanish Loyalists...
...Never again would they be maneuvered into collecting • bankers' debts by killing and being killed...
...Premier Negrin is right in saving that "Had other countries respected their treaties, this war would have ended in our favor long ago...
...It destroys the hope and the morale of its victims and tends to undermine the stability and progress of the nation...
...Besides his record in the labor movement as an organizer, strike leader, speaker and all-round handyman in the labor movement, he is also a writer of ability...
...I join with the loudest of the collective security advocate* Jg™ my detestation of Hitlerism...
...He was told he must go on relief, get a card from a relief unit...
...Paul...
...They asked every person holding clerical or stenographic jobs, "What are your political affiliations...
...He repeated the question he asked of Orrick Johjis: "Have these men (pointing to a large group making a pretense at newswriting) ever worked on a paper...
...Many of them have been so terrorized that they fear loss of their jobs, but like establishing a union in an industry dominated by corporation agents and spies, the task requires some risks and sacrifices, and we are confident that, with courage and perseverance, this totalitarian insolence will eventually be wiped out...
...Mussolini sabotaged this policy from its beginning, although mildly approving it "in principle^" moving on to employment of submarines against British shipping and later boasting of sending troops and munitions to Franco...
...In a measure, said Quinlan, one can say that the Communist organization through the Writers, the Theatrical...
...On with the fight for a big housing program I THE W.P.A...
...It correlates with demands made by the independent Labor and Farmer-Labor parties, the trade unions, both the A. F. of L. • nd C.I.O., and other organization* of the working class...
...WPA projects and through some relief .units is being financed or subsidized by public funds...
...The agreement regarding Spain might just as well have contained a clause openly recognizing Franco, for it has definitely ranged Britain as an ally of...
...William Mahoney belongs to the generation of Eugene V. Debs whom he intimately knew...
...One man lasted there a good spell, he said, and was drawing big pay while also employed on the Daily Worker...
...The Northern Route Administration, tee, stands accused of anti-Stalin plotting...
...The next war for democracy may he fought, by the seats logic, with Mussolini, perhaps also Rumania, Poland and ettsr' democratic nations (not to mention the democratic Krendtst among the allies...
...Economic power, terror through loss of jobs, calculated and persistent abuse of all who do not enroll in their ranks are their- methods in . the WPA, the Writers and the Theatrical Projects...
...All that is now changed...
...These are "ripe" views despite the fact that the lady has reached a green old age...
...Whatever else tie j Anglo-Italian agreement may achieve, it should at least daajS * the ardor of those who cry for collective security...
...OUR FIGHT AGAINST NAZISM ATTENTION of our readers is called to the story on the first page of this issue regarding the armed Nazis who beat up citizen* at a Nazi meeting in New York City Wednesday night...
...P. Racket Editor of The New Leader: The editor of The New Leader some years ago said Communism in the United States is a racket...
...FOR A BIG HOUSING PROGRAM I^NE thing about the national drive for a huge program of hottsing and slum clearance throughout the nation, which has been launched by the Social Democratic Federation, is that it corresponds with the program of the whole Labor Movement regardless of any minor or major differences that exist...
...Those masses need to foe reminded that such crusades ia the past have been fakes...
...It i...
...repeated experience of recurring depressions, with the opportunity to observe their operation and effects, and with all the factors constantly before us for examination and consideration, a correct understanding and an effective and permanent solution of the problem of unemployment should be a matter of practical ease...
...He has edited labor papers and has also been Farmer-Labor Mayor of St...
...Modern unemployment connotes privation, suffering, and desperation...
...Sometime after that when a person more or less friendly to Thompson called on the telephone about Quinlan she had the receiver slammed with a loud "No...
...The Anglo-Italian agreement is clear intervention...
...The dreaded experiences of the past eight years have not taught our leaders anything...
...It is not even aware that » Kresssa edict, delivered at the Seventh Congress of the Comintern, a*, c la red a moratorium on the class struggle, hut proceeds serenely ' along Marxist economic-de terminist lines to protect its market* and its investments...
...A second blunder or crime was Quinlan's writing to Washington, to Congressmen, to Administrator Hopkins, and to Mrs...
...Spain is not mentioned in the protocols, but that is what is in the cards...
...Stalinites have adopted the methods of the Sicilian secret societies...
...On the pther hand, we have been approached several times by agents of the offenders with the view of reaching a "better understanding...
...We will withhold both if requested...
...He says h* mm never identified with the OoMg nists though for more than ttySPS he was identified with the 'BmVmB movement...
...They can enter one door and leave by another after signing in...
...Hitler has proven to be the more clever of the two fascist bullies, and we shall not be surprised if the Rome-Berlin axis survive* any pledge made by Mussolini to Chamberlain, thus revealing that the "pledge" is a rope of sand...
...Later the office girls assisting Don Thompson made it a practice to say, "Mr...
...It is of no avail to the millions of unemployed, hungry, ragged, and shelterless workers that modern learning has been able to determine the composition and character of the materials of nature and the distance to other planets when the right to an opportunity to work and earn a livelihood is denied them...
...In almost every instance Quinlan says he got t around the Stalinite subterfuge by abruptly turning up while the office moguls were interviewing other applicants...
...As that sounded raw he paid several visits to the office...
...Already there are indications of industrial recession and increasing unemployment with every prospect of another far-reaching economic collapse...
...The insolence and brutality of Hitler's agents in the United States went a little too far that night...
...The New Leader will aid in this work while the national office of the S.D.F...
...I I TPHE epidemic of sabotage under the hammer-and-aicki* m*V*4jSj|f * English versifier, one Lucio, to rhymed wonderment...
...By WILUAM MAHONEY *T"HE problem of unemployment is the economic * riddle which must be solved if modern civilization is to survive...
...namely, "How shall we provide an unlimited opportunity for every citizen and member of society to exercise his or her skill and energy to produce an adequate amount and variety of things necessary for human comfort and happiness...
...Now* ttjfei "wreckers of astronomy" had been discovered by the Soviet paJke and duly liquidated plucked the following stanza*—published m-ttoK Manchester Guardian—from Lucio's lyre: Sing a song of sabotage, that new and blessed weed...
...Somewhe^had left the Communist compounaNvere threatened with removal or transfer...
...you must get a card...
...He had much difficulty securing a card and so told Orrick Johns, Travis Hoke and Don Thompson of the Writers Project office...
...Russia, despite its eagerness to let revolutionary h] |i*ms * be bygones, is being isolated...
...In a nation of boundless raw material, of unlimited mechanical devices and improved methods, and of skilled and industrious workers, there is no excuse or explanation for human want and woe other than that of ignorance, selfishness, and cowardice...
...Italy in crushing the Spanish Loyalists...
...At the depth of the recent depression, more than 15,000,000 wage workers were unemployed...
...At the same time we have been reproved for our "redbaiting," although the same gentlemen have for years enjoyed the luxury of "red-baiting" Trotskyists, Lovestoneites and Socialists...
...When (Mg to "red baiting" and persssaMI men and woman for their opsti*f» the Stalinite* can teach hssooffj* the worst or best men on Hearst* heresy-hunting brigade, oroJyB staff of the Liberty League I**** of death to progressive...
...certainties will be the millions of workers arrayed against otter '* millions, mountains of corpses, devastated cities, military dictatorship everywhere, and economic disaster for victors and vtij^'f quished alike...
...To be continued next week...
...He applied for a job on the Writers Project early in 1937...
...Quinlan is not a MM ber of any of the Socialist or Oif* munist groups...
...DEFERENCE TO "OUR SUPERIORS" ¦J?VEN Sing Sing cannot remove the deferential respect and homage due a "gentleman" who has piled up a mountain Of dollar...
...Our critics are brave in attacking others, but show a yellow streajc when their offenses against human decency are exposed...
...mWWP Columbia Height*, BTtlyn...
...It seem* all right «J Communists te crucify Quialaa em men like him but all wrong* Anyone to question the etalOJ SI Gerson ha holding dasra a J^hJf der the Republican Befogs EBjkw dent of Manhattan...
...I have interviewed several vie-, tims of Communist tyranny...
...for the failure to supply these basic material requirements brings the most exalted human being down to brutish levels...
...But, Boy, of all the saboteurs whose aim is low or high, Give me the bloke who sets to work to dislocate the sky...
...But I know that if we are rnaneuvetsjH into a war, the defeat of Hitlerism will he the least *f the ?^ jectives, and the least certain of the consequence...
...Atop the world, for all to hear, on every polar crag, They shout the boastful Soviet slogan...
...Sabotage follows the ftsgt...
...I asked Quinlan, the man who did two years in prison for his Paterson strike activities, "If there were Communist* working for the U. S. Stalin compound, misnamed party, on til* Writers Project...
...ALL NECESSITIES FOR HUMAN COMFORT AND HAPPINESS CAN BE HAD IF THE PRESENT ECONOMIC CHAOS IS WIPED OUT...
...will serve as the central dynamo in organizing the campaign...
...His answer was, nearly all of them were...
...Quinlan's runaround climaxed when Henry A Is berg was given the correspondence by Administrator Hopkins and the latter sent it on to New York...
...We urge the utmost cooperation of sympathetic organizations as plans unfold for the utter rout of these Hider bootlickers who would transform the United States into a concentration camp if they had the opportunity...
...I venture, therefore, t* add a couple of verses to Lucio's song by way of keeping tat record up-to-date: Now saboteurs have gone so far—have reached titsir utmost goal Stalin's caught them red-handed a-whittling the North Pole...
...Britain is to urge members of the League of Nations to recognize Italian domination of Ethiopia, and Mussolini is to...
...RIPE AND GREEN REACHING the age of 81, Agnes Repplier, American j essayist, gave her ripe views of how to cure a sick world...
...Some muck up agriculture through the tractor's loosened sen**, Some sabotage in politics (* mighty risky game), - And some to industry apply that pestilential aim...
...Perhaps Quintan's worst crime was the persistent and repeated charge, openly in the office and on the floor of the Writers Project, that if he had been a Communist he'd have got the job long ago...
...All this is common knowledge in the Workers Alliance, that is in the branches not controlled by the Stalinites...
...Former crimes fade out compared with new crimes Bona sortie Pulled off by foes on private floes who sabotage tiie Arctic They agitate magnetic fields with sabotaging malice And add a deep-dyed Trotsky tint to Aurora Boreal is...
...Since that paean of praise was sung and published, the dastardly deeds of counter-revolutionary darings have been traced *• the farthest North...
...25,000,000,000 for Relief More than $25,000,000,000 in addition to the outlay by private agencies, have been expended by the Federal, State, and local governments to overcome economic depression and stagnation since the industrial and financial collapse of 1929 in order to provide jobs for the millions of unemployed citizen.-?, with the result that no permanent and effective remedy has been fonnd, and a great mass of our citizens still remain unemployed and dependent on some form of public relief...
...The conferences proposed for many large cities should focus attention on this old sore of American capitalism and stimulate activity in getting housing under way...
...ts*jj offing...
...Ignorance, Selfishness and Cowardice Block Way With the...
...However did we manage when the term was yet unheard...
...When asked why she waajp to get ]n jail, she said: 'It is tgMh and they eat there.' In th* ewfjg Washington, capital of the ikwj nation in the world, a little f** break* into Jail because ttlSWH and they eat there And that *P girl is only one of million* boys end girls ha this country <P are victims of an iiuaisstis...
...Once a war f*f > democracy was fought—with the Romanoff despotism among tie ' allies...
...As Hitler is that "power," the pledge is apparently directed against him, Puff the reliability of any pledge by Mussolini has already been demonstrated by the role this fascist bully has played in Spain...
...Never again would they be fooled by sktgeaavf about making the world safe for democracy and fighting the war to end war...
...This writer could cite many names of victims...
...It is interested chiefly, if not only, in the ' defense of the British empire...
...After five years of extraordinary effort by the Federal, State and local governments to ereate employment opportunities through public works, and to promote the revival of private industry, there are now approximately 10,000,000 unemployed in the United States, or about two-thirds of the number at the depth of the depression...
...Unemployment is the besetting evil of every modern nation where machinery and improved methods are used in the production of wealth...
...I shall cite only one sample...
...MJ tarn which has produced dessseBP of millionaires and uinTW>,J| WHERE THE NEWS ENDS By EUGENE LYONS WAR-MONGERING on tee left has been dealt a bad bloweWjf Neville Chamberlain and Benito Mussolini...
...THE author of the following article, the first of three to appear in The New Leader, is Liquor Control Commissioner of Minnesota and one of the founders of the Farmer-Labor Party in that State...
...A Four-Power Past, s maybe even * FivePower Pact by the inclusion of Poland, is in...
...Chamberlain wants to end Mussolini's meddling in Britain's colonial area*, and Mussolini wants recognition of his conquest of Ethiopia...
...It corresponds with a tremendous need, for slum conditions survive in all our large and moderate-sized cities...
...That security " in the final analysis must rest upon Great Britain, which see** . interested neither in tiie defense of democracy nor in the extsr- I mination of Fascism...
...They at least had one virtue in those days: they were open in their attacks...
...THE ANGLO-ITALIAN ACCORD THE agreement reached between Prime Minister Chamberlain and Dictator MuaaoKni ia simple...
...in many instances they were understated...
...A few timid ones scarce- j ly knew what to say as loss of their jobs meant starvation to them...
...A Victim of the WPA-C...
...It also will provide jobs for several millions of idle workers, not only bringing relief'to them but also combating the depression which shows a new low in April...
...Roosevelt, the latter through a mutual friend of theirs...
...What is most appalling is the cynical and brutal conduct of these stooges...
...This will require intelligent initiative and devoted action in all cities by those who ere aware of the big opportunity this program presents for genuine service to the workers of the nation...
...In these j articles he outlines a program for a Leber Party, a program adapted to the conditions \ that face the American people in the **» ' depression...
...WRITERS' PROJECT C|INCE The New Leader began its exposures of the intimidation and terror by Communists of workers on the W.P.A writer*' project, there have been two interesting developments...
...Chamberlain may have driven a wedge between Hitler and Mussolini in the pledge of the two powers to guard the Eastern Mediterranean against penetration of a third Power...
...There is the prince of mnckers-up, obstructionist supreme— Astronomer gone gaga who attacked the solar scheme, Who victimized fair Venus and made war on distant Mars, Who curdled all the Milky Way and sabotaged the stars...
...The Stalinite supervisors hinted their control and what could be done...
...We wish that more of the victims would 'summon up courage to, tell their stories of the injustice which they have suffered at'the hands of this totalitarian regime...
...Unemployment recurs periodically with increasing intensity and expanding scope, in spite of the efforts of industry and government to find a solution for it...
...Some bust the signal system up, or disarrange the maim...
...Convicts doffed their caps to the late president of the New York Stock Exchange, and a prison barker, shouting to*' recently arrived convicts, cried out: "All men who came in Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Monday or Tuesday and Mr, Whitney please step out of their cells...
...Some comrades sabotage a train, some sabotage tiie rails...
...Within the past few weeks they went through certain WPA projects where white -collar workers are [employed...
...Usually, Quinlan would insist on seeing Thompson and invariably he got the answer: "No job for you...
...The venerable lady declared things would be hunky-dory here if the President "would let business alone," while in Europe peace depends upon an early conquest by the Bomber of Barcelona...
...Eventually Quinlan got on relief and so notified the Communist bosses only to be told there were no jobs...
...All other matters are of minor importance compared to a correct and complete answer to the question of material subsistence, to the question of how to obtain food, clothing, and shelter...
...Let us turn to the Writers Project...
...The **w...
...whose memory of the World War ha* faded—ami the empdamj1** of "democratic" slogans...
...and is a growing menace to the security and prosperity of every country in which it prevails...
...I would like to ask: What becomes of their indignation over I IGersen...
...A prompt and thorough solution is imperatively demanded...
...These, with their dependents, comprised more than a third of the people of the Unfted States...
...Patrick L. Quintan is ease number one...
...Each said: "Nothing doing...
...At that time the committee were fleecing but a small section of the labor movement and a still smaller section of the public...
...Fat fare of Scientific Research In an age of scientific research and boasted intelligence when every mystery and secret of nature is subjected to analysis and explanation, we have failed to find a solution and an answer for the most vital of all problems of civilization...
...Yet the new slogans are so close to the eld ones that left-assy ' posters and speeches can be used in the new war...
...15,000,000 Unemployed Workers During times of so-called prosperity and industrial activity, there are always a large number of unemployed workers, but when an industrial collapse occurs, millions more are cast out to starve or subsist on public charity...
...And believe it or not the supervisors were able to transfer some...
...They have aroused the democratic masses to the need of a disciplined and unremitting fight until these Nazi gangsters are dispersed...
...Thi* means the complete collapse of the hypocritical farce of non-intervention in Spain...
...We have been assured by some victims that the terror has been, somewhat relaxed and to some extent life has become mere bearable for non-Communist workers...
...A last word to **ve unneee—g speculation...
...Moved by honest hatred for and' fear of Fascism, intellect**]*'* of the Left-today are doing the basic job of preparing the massM to accept the next war as another crusade for righteousness...
...Some sabotage the people's bread and some tiie people's bees...
...If in the ultimate reshuffling Rasa* • does find allies, it will be for economic and not for kiee***j*m)y reasons...
...A few bravely fought back and told the Gay Pay U section bosses or Supervisors that they were not helpless and would fight if-jfehey were deprived of their jobs...
...This is typical of their conduct everywhere...
...And France seems minded to follow suit...
...Where everything is sabotaged from stations unto stars...
...Their stories when checked up were in all cases substantially correct...
Vol. 21 • April 1938 • No. 17
