MAKE THE UNITED STATES ASYLUM OF THE PERSECUTED
MAKE THE UNITED STATES ASYLUM OF THE PERSECUTED LASAL WOLF, a young German-Jewish woman, vainly tried to have her visa extended so that aha would not have to return to Nazi-Germany. Her...
...The press carried the story of this tragedy on Wednesday and on the same day reported that forty Jewish refugees from Germany had been admitted to France pending an investigation of their papers...
...f No doubt, government relief has quieted down social unrest which would have been inevitable had the 20 to 30 million citizens remained without any support for a long period...
...Mussolini then scowls at France and demands that the Pyrenees be closed to the Loyalists and that no military aid he extended to the latter...
...On the stairway a podgy man elm* florid face balanced himself unsteadily, held up a highball asdSM in a liquory falsetto: "Arise, ye prisoners of starvation, ante ft wretched of the earth...
...The tall girl in silver mesh tuptnkej the bets and told the story simultaneously...
...Taxes are too high, nobody knows how far the government' may still engage in business...
...The table was mmtB, and amateur croupiers raked* in the chips, taking long sqw hea highball glasses and manipulating cigarettes at the tame tmThe upper floors were given over to noisy card playing...
...The gratitude, therefore, should be on the part of private business, whose risks are protected by means of the nation...
...Big business is violently opposed to it, claiming that this program prevents the natural progress towards recovery and that it is destined only to get votes...
...Can we not be as humane as France...
...Relief was not the only achievement of this administration...
...Vodka, you fatfcttf atfer a while, is her favorite poodle...
...Who can expect an army of 20 to 30 million Americans to accept with docility slave market conditions in a country of abundance ? But the average citizen is ambitious enough not to consider relief as any kind of a constructive and genuine solution...
...The banker presented a long and detailed attempt to refute this theory, but a few questions will put the critics to rout...
...The first question asked whether the respondent had received money from the#government during the last four years for relief, crop control, soldiers' bonus or in the form of home or land loans, while the second and final question asked which candidate did 'the respondent vote in the 1936 presidential election...
...with an immediate strike eaa...
...This interpretation is confirmed by the majority of 57% given by the group of people who received no government money at all...
...OLD PARTY PARASITISM ^j^E have often contended in this column that capitalist party politics is largely a business of dealing in offices just as a steel plant produces commodities...
...Towering mountain high out of this contemptible compound of blackmail, treachery, cowardice and hypocrisy is the Czech Republic, which last week answered the Black International and saved the skins of the Tory statesmen who quaked in Downing Street last Sunday while Europe moved to a bloody abyss...
...Those who are the defenders of the existing social and economic order ban to prove now that they can keep occupied the manpower of the country to give them and their families a living...
...The light had gone out for her in Germany and the darkness enveloped her here as well...
...United front of an and the Social Register...
...He was criticising the President and added that it was also the theory of Karl Marx, which, he declared, is rejected by economists today...
...Taxes in the...
...Inside the place smelled of perfumes and alcohol...
...United front for Cktas...
...Gees, the FernaW brat's stewed mhrnkj...
...Discipline...
...Are the hands of high immigration authorities IB by law...
...The performance was typical of the man whose main idea of meeting depression problems while President was to toss Federal funds to big bankers and capitalists and then broadcast radio advice to the working masses urging them not to surrender their "individualism" by seeking government relief...
...As though they knew something the ethos couldn't possibly knew...
...We most intensify the boycott of the Nasi retJbmJt Every purchase made by as of foreign goods said be carefully inspected...
...Gay party, all right," you told * neighbor at the roulette talks just to make conversation...
...And reading the study and the interpretations again the idea suggests itself: the gratitude of the forgotten men seems to be readily and easily granted-—but had not the other group more cause for gratitude...
...Not all Americans are ready to go to what Miss Dorothy Height of the PWCA in Harlem has called, speaking before the Youth Welfare Committee of the City Council, "the Slave Market...
...One could as well draw the conclusion that the majority of the country is progressive-minded, and that the lower income groups are most liberal...
...United front of revolution and flp Society...
...C.I.O...
...IjLUFF and international blackmail is the policy of the fascist powers...
...More private cars and taxis rolled up to the Ceimtt doorway, delivering more ermine wraps and silk hats, aakef lM§> and diamond necklaces, acres of white shirtfrents...
...If the industries constantly operated, there would be no depression, would there...
...Which means that Britain consents to Italian aid to defeat the Loyalists...
...All credit to the Czechs who prepared to face the Nazi gunmen and to sell their lives to check the advance of Hitler s gangsters...
...And the result of this survey seems to support the theory of the government's opponents...
...AH honor to this little democratic republic in a world where honor is at a discount 1 RAILROAD MAGNATES CHALLENGED •THE unions o'f^jrailroad workers united in the Railway Labor Executives Association have served notice that there will be a nation-wide strike on the railroads if the managements insist on a 15 per cent wage reduction, while a movement has developed in Congress "to withhold emergency financial aid to the railroads if the managements persist in their course...
...MARX AND DEPRESSIONS ^INTHROP W. ALD'RICH, chairman of the Chase National Bank, recently criticised the theory "that the failure of aggregate consumer purchasing power to keep pace with aggregate production causes crises and depressions...
...Don't people have any more sense mtMM ness, you know what I mean...
...It is remarkable that this view of Marx is held today by millions who are not democratic Socialists...
...k The answers showed that 80% of the reliefers voted for Roosevelt, 73% of the recipients of land or home loans, 68% of the recipients of crop control payments, 62% of the recipients of the soldiers' bonus—and only 57% of persons who received no money at all, gave their vote to the present administration...
...He turned out to be a big pooh-bah from the Friend* ef m Soviet Union...
...Junior League girls offered exposed bosoms anAtflE...
...On the main floor, a bald-headed young man presided over.Ua miniature roulette table...
...Spanish civil war ends...
...Lookater...
...And since when is private capital afraid of competition ? Nobody and nothing prevents an enterprising\ spirit from daring new business actirity—excepV^Hs^own fear, fear of insufficient profit...
...No one seemed to knew them, box Cmy were the Power behind the Throne...
...Twenty million consumers left entirely without purchasing power would not fail to have a severe repercussion on the nation's markets...
...loaded with champagne glasses...
...Organization...
...and, moreover, seems to show that the greater the need of the people concerned the higher the percentage of voters for the administration...
...Those who were saved from social disturbances, those who are interested in the maintenance of the present order...
...Dawn Patrol, flying aj*** 800, has been swelling to» fj** line during the early morrto**-^ The case is already hejum*^ NLRB, as Guild strikers reinstatement of those worktw** have been fired and a flf^J^i that there will be no disadm** a result of signing a coB»*nct...
...Try this one, Herbert: "It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright...
...German cancellation stamps, placed on all letters and packages mailed in the Reich, now include a map of Africa with the former German territories marked in black...
...Have a drink, pal ? For Ckke...
...Perhaps Mrs...
...HITLER STAMPS SPREAD "EMPIRE" PROPAGANDA LONDON.—While Hitler menacingly calls for the building of a new German empire in Africa, his postal office is being used to constantly remind Nazi subjects of the loss of colonies sustained by Germany in the World War...
...And it is just twenty years since the Allies and their American "Associate" waged wpr "to make the world safe for democracy...
...A NOTE ON SERVILITY jJJEFORE Hitler's conquest of Austria, Austrian school children greeted their teachers with the old Austrian "Kiss your hand...
...h \ •. - ------ —- _ LOOKING AT THE WORLD By TONY SENDER Former Socialist Deputy in Reichstag Americans Must Abolish Their Slave Markets Business Should Appreciate Federal Spending THE administration's new spending program has provoked severe comment...
...Herbert Hoover ignored the tremendous economic changes that have since occurred when he recently spoke at the Franklin Institute celebration in Philadelphia and quoted many statements of the old philosopher...
...Half a dmak, younger people, all of them feeling high, and a rouged old warn*" with too-blonde hair, were doing the Big Apple...
...Miss Height referred to those spots in the Bronx, and Brooklyn, in the more fashionable neighborhoods between Jerome Avenue and the Grand Concourse, and near Prospect Park, where girls wait and bargain for work with housewives who drive there in automobiles...
...How 'bout yon, big boy...
...Gees, ?mfp the Jackson bitch, stuffed with dough...
...They should ha grateful...
...BLACKMAIL IS CZECHED...
...I tell you everybody and hit grandmother's joining toe Cams," "Yes," yon said, "mangled bodies and parts ef bodies among tie ruins...
...Last week Mayor LaGuardia pointed out that while the Park Commissioner receives $10,000 annually and the Police Commissioner $12,000 with 18,000 men under him, a clerk' of a court with 38 persons under him receives $15,000...
...CHARLES L. HULSWIT of Suffern who is leading the "woman's rebellion against spending" apparently has not yet considered this side of the question...
...WOMEN "REBELS" SHOULD SEE SLAVES MRS...
...Whom did relief help...
...They are desperate and will work for pitifully low wages...
...But who hinders the employers from increasing the capacity of their plant, from investing capital and enlarging factories...
...The broken body of Lasal Wolf on the pavement accuses us...
...BUSINESS GIVEN FULL CHANCE FOR EXPANSION - •yHE government's opponents objecting to * pump-priming point to the alternative of private economy...
...From the same morning's mail...
...Tt fa there you stepped carefully over ladies with fallen shouldentfspi and gentlemen far on the liquid side, seated on the stairs...
...It seems to indicate that p e r s ons who . have received benefit payments from the government are to a larger extent pro-Roosevelt than those who have not...
...To be sure, Czech heroism has not put an end to the intolerable provocations of the Nazi despotism nor does it necessarily insure that the blackmailer will not yet hurl Europe and the world into war, but the Czechs have brought fresh air into the stifling*and poisonous'policies of the democratic nations...
...Eight hundred more wait on the frontier for admission...
...It must have been such discussion which caused the American I n s t i t ute of Public Opinion to investigate the p o 1 i t ical sent iment pi those persons who have received government money in different forms and to compare it with that of other people who have not...
...Quarantine it until it tm of malnutrition at home...
...Attaboy, the more the merrier...
...The nice looking woman seamed sympathetic, so yon hesjfeiir and said confidentially, "The revolution here tonight reek* ef and money and hypocrisy...
...If we consumed the goods constantly being produced, industries would constantly operate, wouldn't they...
...n This parasitism runs into hundreds of millions of dollars in city, county, state and national governments, and if it were cut out the savings would help to provide for the jobless...
...Why not a moratorium on these bonds rather than slashing of wages...
...Cannot our immigration authorities ease the rod tape a little to give temporary asylum to the helpless men and women whose return to Germany would mean human abasement and torture by Hitler's hairy apes...
...WAS RELIEF ONLY BASIS OF SUPPORT...
...You'd think the war in Chme«?f Spam is just an excuse for drinking and high life, wouldn't MP W hy, there are any number of people here who could have fefkd over the few hundred bucks the party will make without gsflf through this macabre comedy...
...Seventy-five cents...
...Twenty million American are not ready to go on the slave market—so the state is covering the employer's insurance premium against the risks involved in an enforced idleness, and pays it out in the different forms of loans and relief...
...If it bears a German brtomr avoid it as one would a pestilence...
...Better an end to terror than a terror without end" was the maxim of the Czechs...
...LABOR GROUP TO APPEAL ON AIR FOR CHINESE AID 300 radio stations will shortly carry appeals by Labor's Committee for Civilian Relief in China...
...Cordially iqpJH to attend a Gala Party and Dance for Aid to China at da) home of Mrs...
...BRITISH TORY POLICY ?S we understand British Tory policy the Tory Government is willing to toss Ethiopians, Czechs, and Spaniards to fascist dogs to be eaten if the dogs will promise to curb their appetite and not ask for any more...
...If millions of workers have no funds they cannot buy goods, can they...
...How does the answer show that it was only the relief policy that made these voters support Roosevelt ? It is much more likely that the vote was given to the candidate who showed more understanding for the underprivileged, not only during his campaign, but while in office...
...And tater—you've only been there two heart tamtam introduced you to the nice looking lady, and yea discovered that its your hostess, and you fled, sobered and sere at the eSsf...
...If so, Congress should change that law so mum) will not play the role of accomplice of Hitler, * • • • •I'HE Nazi terror has ended for Lasal Wolf bat OMp * work hasn't ended with her death...
...You let off steam to that nice kakkf middle-aged woman near the bar...
...The tkfi, affected voices of spoiled grownup children cut through the gtum) hubbub...
...Heil Hitler" is required by all inhabitants just as in our old South in the days of slavery every Negro was required to bow to a white man, doff his hat and say "Massa...
...it is to be hoped that this proposed financial aid will be withheld if the railroads attempt to impose the wage reduction: otherwise the government itself will become an accomplice af these magnates in their wage policy...
...A couple of comrades in mufti, conspicuous among the eve ning gowns and white ties, moved in embarrassment from mar to floor, from room to room...
...Down all the stretch of history from the period of our barbaric ancestors there has bean no comparison with this mass cruelty, > • Why most the Lasal Wolfs commit suicide...
...Roulette, black-jack, poker, and «f» amusements . . . Formal...
...A number of simple questions like the foregoing shed more light on the issue than all of the learned jargon of the bankers and their kept economists whose material interests lead them to conceal the fatal disease that has stricken capitalism all over the world...
...United States are lower than in Great Britain and certainly incomparably lower than in the fascist countries...
...The question was not asked and not answered why this vote was given...
...Hulswit of Suffern should make an investigation of this slave market condition before she goes on with her study of conditions in Rockland County, from where a rumor had been brought to her that an oversupply of the government's surplus-purchasing foodstuffs had been furnished to the unemployed—causing her to hasten to Rockland County only to be told quietly by the relief director that the unemployed did want work...
...HOOVER AND FRANKLIN DEN FRANKLIN was a wise man for his day, but his political and economic ideas were adapted to an individualist age in which hand tools, ox carts, the sailing vessel, household and small-shop production were general...
...We were about to comment on these white women but retired to the blue room to express our feelings...
...Four fifteen-minute recordings will be broadcast urging the American people to back the United Council for Civilian Relief in China porting the national BmAm™ Ball on Joan...
...This for China, by God, I'm big-hearted," he said, throwing 4 few colored disks to the table monitor, every time he* won...
...STARS PICKET TO MB J7" NEWSPAPER GUILD STB0 Robert Montgomery, Baft* gan, Director Frank TatmVg...
...It reminds one of the "patriot" who was willing to sacrifice all his relatives on the altar of his country...
...Liveried chauffeurs waited, gossipping, aparskem the new arrivals...
...Her last appeal being denied, told that she must leave the country Friday of this week, Lasal Wolf committed suicide by jumping from the fifth floor of a Jewish home for girls...
...IT seems to this writer that this rash conclusion * is as wrong as the basis of the study is uncertain...
...Mussolini supplies Franco with soldiers and munitions and gets a bargain with Britain that Italian aid to Franco will be withdrawn only when the...
...A long and complicated story of the cuteness of Vodka emanated the black-jack table...
...What he wants is security and a useful life...
...Make your beta, comrades, and bsj China...
...ll^h^gcod'tt ^"Sttil"**!* it...
...APARIS correspondent of the Now York Times recently returned from Austria also relates a harrowing story of revolting persecutions of Jews and others by Nasi brutes, of sadism by pathological creatures turned loose upon a helpless population by Hitler...
...Wonderfsl W* the best people are co-operating far the Cause, tore is wondaftl...
...In the adjoining room an old fellow with the face of a root aid ' cigar ash on his starched bosom was pie-eyed and garrulous, hrt winning nearly every stud poker pot...
...The railway workers are now grossly underpaid, to assure regular payment of interest to bondholders...
...A large upstairs room with two fireplaces and ancestors on tfr wall was given over to dancing...
...No sort of "ism" would have been required to make starving people think and finally act...
...Then the talk switched fe horse racing...
...Having swallowed a few of the seventy-five cents drinks mu> self, you grew reckless...
...American "neutrality" becomes hypocrisy in support of Britain while Amercian munitions go to Franco by way of Germany and so we become accomplices in the destruction of the Spanish Republic...
...R.S.VJ*.** HANDSOME cars were parked on both sides of the tlwjjg Tudor City...
...If they had funds they would consume the goods produced, wouldn't they...
...Scenarist Phillip Dunn ¦"¦Ji along with 20 editorial we***' the Hollywood Citizen-Jmwi *J week whoa the Newspafjrjj met dismissal of three f*J*5E...
...Actors from "Golden Boy," a couple of Hollywood personality Broadway figures, a New Masses cartoonist...
...Only productive work can satisfy this desire...
...Oh for Chinks," he roared drunkenly, sure he'd coined Sa epigmK "and Chinks for chips...
...the head of a child, yards away from its body . . . tw town's in flames and . . ." "What's that...
...Bat they earrkd superior expressions, with the suggestion ef a sneer just nam* the surface...
...when seasonal jobs are available, he added, relief rolls are cut in half...
...your new friend inquired...
...Twenty million people would not starve so patiently as the seventy-six-year-old . women in Cleveland that fainted some days ago in front of a closed relief station, because she had not eaten a decent meal in five days...
...This seems so convincing that even the serious press of the country concluded without question: the reliefers were the most loyal supporters of the government because they profited most by its policy...
...They've all been to the Kentucky Derby, apparently...
...Now the American Federation of Labor estimates the number at 11 million...
...These people together with their families amount to more than 20 million...
...Are bonds more sacred than the living conditions of workers who operate the lines...
...The radio blared...
...Boycott the Nazi leper...
...IWHERE THE NEWS ENDS By EUGENE LYONS FROM the morning papers: . . Mangled bodiesfl§ r parts of bodies could be seen among the freah^Bf where Japanese bombers had dropped their loads of IS and destruction . . . The head of a child, yards away Mfc, its body . . . The town was in flames, and thouaejjflB Chinese refugees, staggering under their household and bundles, jammed the roads . . . Army spokesmen pJmV the dead at ten thousand...
...A Nazi decree has abolished this as detested "servility," but...
...Sure is gay," he agreed warmly...
...No...
...6ed to her "IjMlt and horse-racing and poodles all mixed up with proletarian cam* It's all cockeyed, lady...
...They ware so obviously oat of place that you felt a little sorry for them...
...About midnight the arty bohemiaa contingents began to txrm...
...You bought a tfmt of chips and elbowed politely through the mob...
...Remember the broken body on the pavement, jfiSg victims Crashed under the swastika, and the rtaefckar in Austria and Germany...
...Of the many quotations Hoover cited from Franklin he overlooked One which the ex-President should learn by heart...
...The government!—they will answer...
...Then Swing, k tray-girl called Patsy was doing a brisk business with her timmtf five cent drinks...
...The refugees report that others in Nasi camps have attempted suicide by slashing their wrists or by drowning in the MohaHe River...
...The lower income brackets being the more numerous, it is evident that these groups -were the President's supporters in the last election...
...After the excitement mm all ever and the drunks would be staffed into their hmeaabm these comrades weald check ap ea the "take" and resort % their nucleus...
...Servility is the basis of Hitlerism as it was of Negro bondage...
...MODERN SLAVE MARKETS ^EVERAL "slave markets" were revealed in several sections of New Yprk City last week where Negro women gather and await white women who drive there in cars and engage these Negro women for one dollar a day or I 5 cents an hour...
...Nothing, nothing, just thinking aloud," and you walked seer without waiting for the end of the roulette spin...
...Only the recipients of the different forms of benefits ? This country had at one time nearly 15 million unemployed...
Vol. 21 • May 1938 • No. 22
