THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK The German election The German shows that seventy per Election cent of the total vote was polled, with the' monarchist reaction and communism suffering marked losses....
...When a court ratifies this police usurpation judicial sanction is given to such autocracy...
...This control is sufficient to lead to attempts to dominate even the churches and schools, either by direct subsidy or through tbe fact that the mill owner is the principal taxpayer in the village...
...dertaker for all progressive organization!.* Why patronize the conservative undertsi...
...Peru may well earn the reputation of the scab who deserts to the enemy or who plays the enemy's game if she insists on calling in the police power of American capitalism...
...Independent Labo...
...To the extent that the workers themselves are content to leave the care of the aged to the mercy of two political parties of reaction these workers share responsibility for this tragedy...
...Thus Japan repeats the evolution' of the modern industrial countries...
...If we cannot learn from the experience of our fellows in other countries we will have to let the courts teach us what is effective political action...
...Another failure...
...Labor and Socialist parties organized and failed...
...Socialists may make mistakes in judging the changing world in which we live, but their philosophy and program are sincerely based upon an attempt to comprehend the many institutions and forces in modern society...
...We would very much like to expose in our own classic and inimitable manner all the bacteria that feed upon the body economic and politic, and Heaven knows—It has not been done at all...
...putside the mining and steel areas of the North a "benevolent" tvpe of this feudalism ia developing It <*»siets of "philanthropic" extension of the factory regime, selling shares to employes, organizing company unions, and in every way possible tying workers by many bonds of illusive interest to the modern industrial lords...
...They organized again and failed, yet again, and again, until they acquired stability...
...Therefore our answer is, abolish capitalism and produce fgr use, not for sale and the enrichment of the sellers...
...oConsolidation of giant forms Some Big of capital either through Mergers amalgamation, "benevolent assimilation," or purchase proceeds with the logic of natural law...
...This measure increases the number o.r voters from 3,000,000 to 14,000,000, giving the vote to every male of 80 or mm-e, evcepting those who are dependent upon public or private charity...
...It will "stand all the time for working class freedom," he writes, "freedom from wage slavery and the degradation which comes from the domination of landlordism and capitalism...
...In aw event the Lsbor Weokly is certsln to ren«er valuable service to the Labor movement" Great Britain as a forceful educstios** Journal FREE ASSEMBLY IN PATERSON WHEN members of trade unions cannot meet in a hall to discuss their claims upon employing masters, when the police department disperses such a meeting, it is plain I hat the department has become a bureau of the employing class...
...I THE TACNA-AR1CA REWARD UPON what appears to be semiofficial information, Peru is dissatisfied with the arbitral award in the Tacna Arica boundary dispute between Peru and Chile, and the former is making, or is to make, a demand upon President Coolidge for "drastic action" and the immediate sending of American forces into the disputed area...
...This is all the more amaiing, considering the experience of LatinAmerican nations with American imperialism...
...Our trade union funds are still at the mercy of the er.emy...
...This bloc represents many moderate monarchists and big industrialists but it undoubtedly received many anti-monarchist votes because its candidate expressed his opposition to any attempt to establish a monarchy at this time...
...tints...
...To do so would be to surrender this sector of New Jersey to an insolent dictatorship exercised by textile corporations...
...They support their own parties...
...In 1921 the Tory party printed thousands of exemption forms but only eighteen miners had signed them...
...Tho World ia yetting real radical, no there...
...8:30.—A business man camo in sod found that the pen would not serve...
...Consldeiing that Lanfrbury is considered a forceful leader him<f"' we are at a loss to understand just wnf1 situation in Ehgland prompted him to writ* this...
...Now that our Macfadden article has made such a furious sensation, arid our mail box just flooded with requests for a whole series on the various other Princes of Bunkdom, we have decided to continue writing More Sonnets to a Dark Lady, and other lyrical puffings of a tired business man...
...Of course, if you cannot afford mora than the charity physician or the dispensary, whatever we mean does riot matterNothing matters to a dead man...
...If a social system cannot guarantee a comfortable existence to the veterans of Labor in their last days snd in pleasant surroundings that system requires a complete reorganization...
...Greenall of the Lancashire and Cheshire Miners' Federation, with a membership between 80,000 and 100,000, said that ih thirteen years, despite Tory appeals to miners to sign exemption papers, only thirty-three had signed...
...Clement W'kxL -o——— One of our readers, who signs himttlf "Subscriber," has the devastating idea that Small Talk can oe best defined— as an s*t and a flea discussing Cal...
...It is notorious that Paterson, N. J., has for years been a barony ruled by its textile owners...
...It seems that the Federal Trade Commission discovered that a large business firm supplying Catholic institutions with candles for use at Mass used only eleven per cent bees' wax instead of fifty per cent as advertised...
...Moreover, as changes occur in society, one or more factors may become more important or less important, but no factor can be ignored at any time if we are to get a fair approximation te the truth and formulate a program that is adapted to desirable ends...
...The Labor movement cf the'world will be more powerful whsn ths "desertions" leave Zinoviev nothing but his fsilures to contemplate...
...Now he ascends the oil throne with the greater Babbitts of American capitalism...
...The dead line of employment, once Jifty-flve, then fifty, is "in many industries approaching fofty-five...
...Utility is a minor consideration, while profits are of most importance in capitalist production...
...They can concede the;, importance of one factor—the struggle between classes, for instance— without denying that many others must be considered before rational ideas can be formed...
...Thers il always that great fear following all writers whose souls shout protest and whoM tongues dare not sound .anything but prateAs for ourself, we hope the day nevff dawns when we shall be pressed to tbe bawdy houses of American journaldom ifr a livelihood...
...We submit the importance ofthese considerations .to those who' sincerely think that we cart interpret human progress in terms of a single factor and ignore all the rest...
...They were organized again and failed, yet again and failed...
...o——The New York World is shocked over the immorality of directors of a number of oil companies who are abroad to cscape testifying in the oil scandal and it commands the remaining officials to clcan up...
...Rather the snrdidness of tools, steel, bills payable and receivible, bills of lading, shipments, customers, ssle«men, warehouses, and the like for tweN hours a day, so that we can spend four hours a week telling the world what W really think about it...
...They want no invasion by what they call "the Prussians of the North," as they have observed with resentment what American interference has meant for them and for American imperialists...
...It is probable that the Socialists, the Centrists and the Democrats may agree ^pft Marx as the candidate and whoever is chosen by these parties will be tfie next President of Germany...
...In other words, political expediency and nothing else induced Baldwin to intervene...
...What We Stand for" is a leading article by Lsnsbury in which he outlines the purpose of his weekly...
...T* spacious Athens.—An Editorial ) ' k Bottom and Quince, Bottom and Qvint^ W**vtr I" kin>< » Tier prtMa/ (Ckrut woo a carpenter hot long And tko Fates keep weaving tkoir hLl...
...The one-factor idea is in conflict with the actual composition of capitalistic society...
...Moreover, it is doubtful whether the decision would be sustained by a higher court...
...Nothing matters aside from thia one factor...
...Truth is, theswrt of them cannot afford to antagonize an trth fakir who happens to be an influential component of half a dozen newspapers iri publishing concerns...
...Eventually the southern type will be shaped after the northern model as s strong trade union movement develops in the South...
...desk...
...Organise, gentlemen...
...Pott Office Pens 8 a.m.—A porter at the post office placed a new, shining steel pen in the holder...
...The "principle" of the Tory Party appears to be to prevent trade unions supporting their own party while Tories and Liberals may accept any sums from capitalists and the aristocracy...
...AGED VETERANS OF LABOR f. • ,-WRITING in the American Labor Legislation Review on the need of old age pensions in the United States, Dr...
...AS TO POLITICAL ACTION ATYPICAL misunderstanding of the Labor history of this country is contributed to the American Photo-Engraver by its editor...
...8:10.—A sweefe young lady took tfie pen, put all the emotion of her heart into it and wrote a flaming, impassioned letter to her great, wonderful shipping clerk...
...This recalls the fact that manyyears ago "Christian" firms in this country were known to provide certain peoples of Asia with idols, the trade bringing in satisfactory profits...
...A series of articles in Labor of Washington which surveys this reversion to type in the southern States show that, given the opportunity, fnodern greed will fatten on children, break up the home, destroy family life and exploit human beings as work animals...
...Zinoviev himself may claim a good share of the credit for the grad.al liquidation «f the Communist movement A bumptious meddler who ooaes egotism from every POM, ha and his immediate clique have, imagined that t^Hey could drive wo'kers like cattle into tha Communist pen...
...Edward L. Doheny, one of the vulgar new rich oil magnates and crony of Albert B. Fall of Teapot Dome fame, becomes one of tjie lesser fry in thj empire of oil...
...A small group in this country urges the magic powers residing in collective control of credit as a solution...
...The Civil Liberties Union will appeal the case...
...Should this information be confirmed, the Peruvian proposal will be resented by other tatin-American nations...
...Even flogging of workers occasionally occurred...
...Haldeman-JuH,, Co., the C. P. P. A., and Boni and Liveright Inc., are respectfully advised that Connfc Engels advertises in the columns of thb here weekly, that he is the "recognised as...
...The following paragraph might easily have been quoted from a document relating to the factory feudalism of Massachusetts in 1820: The sutocratic control over employes, found in all non-union industries, pernicious as it is, is increased In these southern cotton mills by the fact that the employer is also landlord, sometimes storekeeper as well and, usually, hi complete domination, politically and socially, of the mill community...
...HumaYi society is not a simple one-cell organization...
...There is talk of declaring April 28 a national holiday to celebrate the event...
...Apply this logic to trade unions...
...S. A. DE WITT...
...Woll...
...A. moment later, a bricklayer came in, and, laying a big, grimy hand upon the peni pressed heavily upon it, and laboriously wrote a post card to Sicily...
...There may be even another, but eventually the organized masses will have their own party and will repeat the history of all other modern countries...
...in Japan This will come as a surprise to many who have watched the evolution of Japan...
...oThe fight for general manhood Suffrage suffrage in Japan has been won...
...it is a complex of many factors and influences having deep roots in history...
...Courts have sometimes restrained the blind greed of ruling classes whose appetite for power induce "them to action that endangers their own dominion...
...Therefore, they must always fail, writes Mr...
...It amounts to saying that trade unions are illegal, for if they cannot peacefully meet to carry on a strike they are useless to their members...
...The conviction of Roger Baldwin, of the Civil Liberties Union, and six others in a Paterson court for attempting to address striking silk workers last year cannot be accepted as final...
...CANDLES AND CAPITALISM A RATHER interesting invasion into the religious field by the profit motive is disclosed by the Department of Social Action of the National Catholic Welfare Conference...
...There is little to boast of in following the old policy...
...Which reminds us that we are preparing now a brochure on American Doctofdom, Specialists, Surgeons, Internes, Family Physicians, Prescription Druggists, the rest of that newly arrived tribe of Bunk and Parasitia who came with the influenra epidemic—and who remain—* worse plague than the one that brotifM them...
...No national election will be held until 1928 unless the Diet is dissolved in the meantime...
...The burden of his satire falls upon the lost hopes of r Labor party in the Chicago conference last February...
...Even Mexico inaugurates a Labor President while we inaugurate a strike-breaker...
...Hiding it down the whole length of the put office, he shouted: "Damn this cursed Public OwnersttiV (loodj...
...JBritish Labor through its own party relieved its unions of seizure of trade union funds by employers nuwv than twenty years ago...
...Woll may now travel anywhere in the modern nations and he will be confronted with trade union mbvements 'that once expressed his view but do not now...
...When the nations shifted to a capitalistic basis universal suffrage became a matte, of gradual installments, not the huge concession made by the Japanese Diet...
...If so, and a party representing the workers appears in the field, tbe first electfcn will be df unusual interest to the Labor movement in all countries...
...oThe London Daily The Tory Party'8 Herald carries imPrinciple portant sections of the debate on the Tory bill that proposed to deprive the Labor party of financial contributions from the trade unions...
...Recently Zinoviev himself wrote in Pravda that "the present position of the Communist International Is' extremaly difficult We are witnessing the recession of the revolutionary wave and lack of faith and desertions to the enemy...
...Geography, climate, traditions, economic changes, taboos, Government, psychology, politics and other factors, fo say nothing of divergent economic and group interests, render the consideration of any one factor absurd...
...The'Socialists again appear as the strongest party in Germany, and Vorwarts, the Central party organ, is reported as saying that the Socialists will likely agree "to support a strong candidate who favors the republic...
...Doheny evolved^ frqm a laborer to an industrial ndventuNr, and Babbitt, reached for this, heights, and now is consigned to a smaller niche in the hierarchy of capitalism...
...John A. Lapp emEbasizes the fact that in our increasIgly mechanical age "the aged worker lb not wanted...
...What should the Federal Trade Commission do...
...u_ oavy war* as If Bottom and Quioee kJ usurped tha throne ef Duke Th...
...We have no faith In those who tsaah tha workers that Isadora will or can save them...
...The New Leader has published accounts of the decline and the numerous "splits" that have afflicted the brethren during the past six months...
...The Ludendorff Fascists received a pitiful 284,000 votes...
...Thaelmann, the Communist candidate, received 1,876,000 votes as against 3,700,000 last May in the Reichstag election and 2,700,000 in the election of last December...
...for all of the hosts of trenchant and vitriolic talents tint crowd our Grub Streets...
...What is there in this for us to boast of...
...We believe in the justice of this bill," he said, "but we are going to withdraw our hand, as we are not going to push our political advantage home at a moment like this...
...Our methods of attaining this end are, first, education...
...The same brutal regime is rising in the South where northern and southern capital unite in merciless exploitation of illiterate whites...
...8:20.—A woman came in, wrote an (rst« letter to her ex-husband to come acro« with last week's alimony, then left her baby to play with the pen while she went te throw her letter down the chute...
...Apply the logic to Europe...
...CkrUt was a carpenter not Umg tines And the Fate* keep weaving their bull, tints...
...It remains to be seen whether the electoral laws will permit an independent political movement of the working class...
...In the case of the candles we are assured that the burning of the bogus tapers is in violation of the symbolism Catholics are expected to observe in the candies burned upon the altar...
...This monstrous offshoot has also appeared in mining regions in the past quarter century, especially in West Virginia where governors, mayors, sheriffs and judges are often its servants...
...ye Columnist...
...Well, things are produced to sell and not because they are to be used...
...ONE-IDEA REFORMERS IT is an interesting fact that some human beings can become obsessed with one idea as a solution of the ills of human society...
...The New Leader has already carried the story that under the present law members of ' trade.unions may be*exempt from contributions if they desire, but since 1913 only sixty-six gehuine applications for exemption had been made out of the millions of trade union members...
...In this respect we are the most backward of any movement in the world...
...Time after time this was repeated, even down to the middle nineties when the trade unions finally began to assume stability...
...The unmerited fate of these byproducts of our profit-making industrial system is a heavy indictment of it...
...1 ---The Nation, the Dial...
...Our remedy for these evils is Socialism —a society based on mutual service and within which there will be neither masters nor serfs...
...ing trusts...
...oThe heavy decline in the Decline of Communist vote in GerCommunism many merely emphasises the general declintflbf the Communist movement in all countries...
...This modern corporate offshoot of the industrial order offers an interesting study in adroit management to keep the masses content with a subordinate role in society...
...The Communist International must not close its eyas to the real state of affairs...
...Qod wiil rot Blot 'om to nothing, Quince and BottLSurely tho devil mubogot 'em I Lynch 'em, garrote 'em, Bottom and...
...There are limits beyond which even courts cannot afford to go, however much judges may be prejudiced by education, training, tradition and associations to accept the conservative views of property...
...Only a few years ago' Sinclair was an obscure druggist of tha Babbitt type of the interior provinces...
...It is the duty of organized workers to support this fight for free discussion and assembly and thus prevent the further spread of this menace...
...A c^fnbination of Sinclair, Standard Oil an(T British interests has acquired control of Doheny's Latin-American field...
...The cheaper substitute brought larger profits to the firm...
...On the other hand, Jarres, representing the Right bloc—Nationalist and People's party—received 10,388,000...
...Sale of the Dodge Brothers Automobile Company to Dillon, Read & Co., is reported, with the Goodyear Rubbei intereste chief, movers in the deal...
...Try and get sick with something men than indigestion—have a specialist call cn you...
...Who can tell but that a week or a month later tho erstwhile »tirist may be seeking a job at the hands of the man he had just lampooned...
...This is a knockout for the extreme Junker clique...
...Bottom and Quince, Bottom and Laugk at tko ati-koad, sneer at tke Why, it is oaerilog...
...With this increase in the numbers of those not wapted the writer presents a strikifaf contrast, of the way in which aged workers are treated: ®ld veterans of Labor, exhausted by many years of ill-requited toil, snd people of better birth and breeding reduced ¦to poverty and old age by some disaster, ought not to be left to associate in the almshouse with the "worn-out veterans of dissipation," the feeble minded, the chronically skk, tha doddering and demented human* and the dngt of social life...
...8:15.—'A boy loped in, tortured the pen in sddressing a heavily wrapped packap, then left it sticking on end in the woods...
...At we have already taken out of almshouses tbe children, the insane, the acutely sick, and other spwial classes, so wt should now take out the one remaining class of Worthy people who dcaerva a better fat* than to end wiythy lives in such surroundings...
...The factory of New England became the center of a capitalist dominion over the social, educational, family and religious life of the wage workers...
...The contents of the flrst issue indicst* that the editor and his associates deiir* a mora aggressive policy by the Labor pvv and In this they probably represent tn« views of a large section of the party...
...Our experience of all leaders Is they know just as little »» other people and nearly always lead in tM wrong direction...
...let him send you his bill for services —if you can afford being billed—and yo« will understand what we mean...
...parties have been formed and failed in this country...
...That the organized workers do not support their own party now merely means that there is much education yet to do...
...What is happening Is not "desertions to the enemy" but desertion of a sinking ship...
...In the flrst two decades of the nineteenth century they were organized and failed...
...THE Chatter-Box Bottom and Quince (Lenin and Trotsky orer imperii...
...The debate shows that Premier Baldwin, who intervened against the bill because it was too important for a private member to introduce, favored the bill in principle...
...it cannot be reconciled with the evolution of society...
...The bloc is a compromise of conflicting elements and is not likely to continue as a party...
...On the other hand, the people of this country have every reason to see that no such errand is undertaken, for the very good"reason'that, once in, American power would not be eager to get outi FEUDAL CAPITALISM A' SAD phase of the industrial revolution in England and the United States was the rise of corporation feudalism...
...The next election, to be held on April 26, will be Watched with intense interest all over the world...
...Some day we will have the sense to take your enterprises over and use them for human welfare...
...May we, in turn, foist this one as bait describing Great News-Mount Evewa and the Woolworth Building sriruimr nZ...
...o The first number of Lansbury't George Lansbury's LaLabor Weekly bor Weekly to hand • from London proves to be a very attractive and forceful publication of twenty pages...
...is asked by the organisation that Bends this story to the press...
Vol. 2 • April 1925 • No. 14
