THE Chatter-Box
THE Chatter-Box A Scotch Hullabaloo Wonder why, tk—» days, Bvery time a Dago gomgotor Or alow gunman or mm Irish mum Oof bumpod of, %J Tk* witnee*** disappear— Nothing it MM* found Except an...
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...On Monday 1,000,-000 men snd women lined the twenty-five-mile route to pay their last respects to the murdered Socialist...
...Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, We may forget—we may forget I Fast shall our navies melt away...
...The Clerical Cabinet in New Shift Belgium formed by In Belgium Alois Van de Vyvere lived only eleven days...
...The receiver of the companies was awarded $200,000 damages and upon appeal this judgment wag reversed, but the Supreme Court held that an action against the United Mine Workers was maintainable and ordered a new trial...
...However, these leaders have not learned their lesson, as the revolt of De la Huerta last year demonstrated...
...In one case pompous manifestos ready for distribution were discovered and arms had been collected for the assault on the Government...
...when we arrived »t the parking spot our chariot had disappeared...
...Their enormous economic power extends over great areas and they rule over millions of human beings...
...The widespread tendency of such legislation in this country advertises the petty intellect of our squirearchy better than anything that could be devised...
...MEDIEVAL AMERICA SOME years ago George Bernard Shaw was asked his opinion of an American judge who told some striking girls that they were striking against God...
...THE POOR WORMS BE it known to all and Sundry that "The business worm has turned...
...Recently two more military pUits have been uncovered near the Mexican capital involving the remnants of De la Huerta bands...
...Glorified dollar, lust of gold, Lord of hate's far-flung battle Use-Dollar whoso awful hand can hold Dominion c/ver yours and mine...
...Pressure has been brought to bear upon Mexico to either change her Constitution or to interpret certain clauses so that they will be satisfactory to American investors...
...Therefore, let the game of unfit voters choosing unfit Congressmen continue, but let's have a body of "experts" tell the unfit representatives what to do...
...Socialism challenges this superstition, contending that the vast power of this class is dangerous and that the social character of these enterprises mark them for social ownership and operation for the welfare of all...
...They also declare that "The moral responsibility for this nameless and limitless degradation lies at the door of Bolshevist doctrine and I of its apostles in our midst who have had the criminal levity of conscience to advise, encourage and to give themselves up, in recent years, to justifying acts of such a character...
...Dollar for which our honor dies— Dollar that breaks the loving hearts-Brotherhood's bond we sacrifice, Mak* altars of our money marts...
...But the murder of Alderman Deopold Mueller by one of the organizations of reactionaries allows that the "spiritual uplift" that the late Woodrow Wilson desired to bring into the world and which is dispensed through a number of ruthless European dictatorships is likely to come to Vienna also...
...The acceptance of this orgs'1' ization as the-representative body of or' ganized workers of Italy instead of tW General Confederation of Labor has always met with protest...
...The economic benefits of a revolution to which science, Labor and progress in general have contributed are reaped by a handful of owners...
...The substance of the proposal is that the masses aren't fit to choose' representatives and the latter are not fit to serve intelligently...
...The new trial resulted in a directed judgment for the .'.nions and the case came back to the Supreme Court on a writ of error...
...His answer was, "Delightful medieval America...
...W. Howe, the "Prairie Philosopher...
...Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Let us forget—let us forget...
...His hundreds of thousands of workmen are free and proudly walk the streets of the beautiful steel cities, guarded from union contamination by mounted police and private spies...
...In the meantime the Belgians sre saving a lot of money in Cabinet Ministers' wages...
...This mingling with the lower claMes, morning and evening, gives us too concrete an example of how the other half H*** Shed a tear with us, dear readers—such suffering as we are enduring now yo» have never known...
...Then we will dispense with the enormous output of words and laws and the creaking machine of capitalism will work smoothly...
...Apparently the slight in the Social Democratic Party immediately before the municipal election did not hurt the party materially...
...Any administration at Washington that cared for human welfare would tell American investors to either comply with the laws or to get out of Mexico and not coerce another nation into doing what its own welfare teaches it should not do...
...The only safe and intelligent Course in this matter is complete tolerance of all religious faiths but uncompromising opposition to any legislation favoring any one of them...
...Their incomes gave them no social prestige or political power...
...We recall this in relation to the coming trial of John T. Scopes In Tennessee for teaching evolution in a public school...
...For the second time Budapest Slaps since the institution Horthy of the White Terror in Hungary in the Autumn of 1919, the voters of Budapest have emphatically registered their disapproval of the reactionary regime headed by Regent Nicholas Horthy, with Premier Stephen Bethlen as a more or less active figurehead...
...We listened to fifteen splendid after-dinnor speaker* if you get what we mean, paid the waiter a union scale tip, and then ambled out with our spouse for a> motor trip to an eating place...
...Unfortunately, this does not mean that the Democratic Bloc will control the new Board of Aldermen, as a joker in the election law provides for the naming of some seventy-, "five Aldermen by various church, business, literary and scientific societies, with the approval '.f Dictator Horthy...
...Why can't the open-shoppers take over the philosophy of the planter magnates of the last twenty years of their reign and demand that the country be divided into great estates with the worms as proprietors and the workers bound in perpetual service to them...
...For about three years A Slap for the International Labor Mussolini Office has had to consider the question of the Italian Fascisti unions whan the latter ashed for representation at international conferences...
...the States, a council "of the dignity of the Supreme Court," ifts members serving for life, and making specific recommendations to Congress in the matter of legislation...
...I'd know it'* a lie, But where there'* amok* Something'* lit up, Atk any rum-hound...
...If they are not satisfied with the laws there is nobody to compel them to invest...
...S. A. DE WITT...
...And which is against the Constitution ' To taste—unless you can pony up "'¦ ¦ "i' A buck for u pony...
...G. Harrison Riley...
...British and Fian» delegates called attention to the """Jt of Malleoli and it is reported thst the W hot delegates will "continue td exriua* the Italian from committee...
...Tsankoff came into pown ostensibly to establish "the idea of order and legality," but "his clique formed another ruthless dictatorship...
...Lo and behold...
...Why other statutes should not settle Einstein's theory, the composition of the atom, the parentage of Lincoln, and who struck Billy Patterson we do not know...
...Line forms on this aide...
...Probably John wants to make another "contribution" to Chicago University...
...The worm has turned...
...The Socialists express their horror of the bombing of the Cathedral but also refuse to encourage the Tsankoff terror or to give it*support in its bloody reprisals...
...Somebody'* protecting...
...Suit was originally' brought against District 21 of the mine workers of Arkansas under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act...
...Burgomaster Max of Brussels, a Liberal leader, introduced a motion of no-confidence in the Chamber on May 22 and it was adopted, ninety-eight to seventy-three, with nine Deputies not voting and seven absent...
...Minera are still atttracted to the impious organizers who attempt to bring the worm under hoof again...
...In the meantlsMi you may be prepared for another onslaught from our eloquent pen against the Subwsy, Hylan, the L, and taxi cabs...
...o- 1 The Standard Oil Company has decided to tax its loyal subjects and the price of gasoline has gone up three cents within a few weeks...
...One would think that the conclusion is that the masses should be disfranchised, but the author avoids this by an interesting expedient...
...AN OLD SUPERSTITION FROM the old water wheel to the mammoth electric power plant is a short period of time, but the contrast in power is enormous...
...A State statute requires the teaching of the Divine creation as the truth...
...In tho meantime, Moscow meddled in the troubled waters of Bulgaria, encouraging intrigue and violence and giving more excuses for repressive Government measures...
...The first slap for Horthy was administered in the national elections of 1922 when his party got only 97,000 votes In Budapest, against 122,000 for the Socialists and 92,000 for 'the Liberals...
...Then the closed shop, trade unions, Socialism and all such impious things will never again plague the godly men to whom a wise Providence has given the Benighted States...
...He believes that all this is due to the fact that legislators are responsible to the voters and try to interpret the wishes of their constituents and that "no better formula for the production of a final chaos in Government can be conceived than following the blind dictates of an-electorate which cannot by any stretch of the imagination have expert knowledge of Government...
...The worm does...
...We do not care a hoot whether our profiteers can exploit Mexicans under the laws or not...
...The conference now meeting in Geneva has had to consider tail matter again and Signor Rossini, delegate of the Confederation of Fascist Syndicate Organisations, has been seated for tht third time...
...That ha* just done Eight hour* of sidewalk butting, And tag to myself, "Th*r*'» another of them Whiskey millionaire...
...We thought that several thousands of workers had dome-thing to do with these projects, but it is well to have a "philosopher" set us right on such matters...
...These military leaders have learned nothing from the fate of Carranza, who tried to make himself dictator by destroying tho Labor organizations...
...This very issue has arisen between the United States and Mexico not only regarding the laws of Mexico but even regarding the Mexican Constitution...
...Their property, in alliance with other great forma of property, gives them great social prestige and governing power comes into their hands...
...funny how cold the etuet get, * Hearst uritpere "Hootch," Tht Tim** eight, "Illicit wkitkty...
...Scopes is charged with having taught a "certain theory and theories that deny the story of the Divine creation of man as taught in the Bible...
...This week the vote stood sixty-six for admission to thirty* one against, with forty-two abstention* The Fascist representative wss thereHg admitted by a minority vote of the ww" number of delegates...
...The Judge of all may spar* us yet, When we forget—when we forget...
...Contrary to Communist assertions, the Socialist members of Parliament opposed the decree of martial law and they were the only group that did oppose it...
...Of course, these Aldermen will be 100 per cent reactionary, especially as the Ministry of the Interior has ruled that in case any of the organizations entitled to recommend members of the Board fail to do so the Ministry may fill the vacancies...
...Thus the Commercial, enemy of trade unions, relentless opponent of Socialism, patron of Freddie Marvin and the expounder of God's will in the production of merchandise...
...It has been underhoof too long" and the open shop is the contribution to American "freedom" which our beloved magnates of industry offer...
...dented premium...
...This danger of military revolts tompels the Labor movement of Mexico to keep arms so that the organized workers may be able to make short shrift or the gangsters whose "principles" arc located in their pockets and nowhere else...
...They retell the story of the Stambolisky dictatorship of the Peasant party and of its overthrow by the Tsankoff revolution in June, 1923...
...But there is something more to this expansion, more important even than the enormous power of this plant...
...Possessed with pure cussedness these miners go astray...
...don't push, first come first served, ate...
...The decision looks bad for the miners of Arkansas and it again emphasizes the need of independent political power by the workers and its use to prevent corporations from raiding trade union treasuries...
...The bombing of the Sofia Cathedral and the bloody reprisals were the natural results of dictatorship on the one hand and conspiratory violence on the other...
...Considermg these conferences are the outgrowth of W Treaty of Versailles and are Governmer* inspired, '.he fact that the Fascist unlo» can only get a minority vote is a «eP I the face for Mussolini...
...Millions of human beings are dependent upon their will It is these great offshoots of the petty business of an earlier day that have brought a revolution in society, creating a dependent class'and a ruling class...
...Moreover, it shows that the Koo Koo morons who fear a secret raid upon us by Rome and the establishment of a State religion are themselves trying to do what they charge to others...
...Somebody'* paying— '"• Somebody'* getting boodled...
...Billy Sunday brings them tidings of great joy in the open shop and the missionary of coal and steel wastes his profound culture to no purpose...
...Diaz maintained himself in power longer than any other military dictator...
...The worm has also turned in West Virginia...
...He would have a Government Council of about 100 appointed by...
...t - AN UPLIFT PROPOSAL AN engineer in World's Work for May writes that in nineteen years Congress hap held 1,495 hearings of 56,000,000 words, passed 3,984 laws carrying 2,500,000 words and "preceded by an avalanche of verbosity in the Congressional Record of 260,000,000 words," which he estimates is six times the contents of the Encyclopedia Britannica...
...There is little doubt that the black organizations have ventured iijn murder in the hope of inducing the Socialists to give up their program of taxing those who waxed fat during the war end using the funds to relieve the frightful misery of workers and their families in Vienna...
...What they mean about their "rights" in other countries is to use the coercive power of the United States Government to force other nations to change their laws so as to suit the interests of American investors...
...As a class they were merged with ordinary mortals...
...these great enterprises are, and when the masses are emancipated from the sway of the old superstition they will be emancipated from the rule of the class that has also fostered it for its own ends...
...The members of the Commission are Emit Vandervelde of Belgium, Tom Shaw of England, and Friaderich Adler of For 300 years Mex-Mexican Plots ico has been afflicted Unearthed with military cliques , all striving to obtain control in order to enrich themselves by plundering public funds...
...o i Herewith we must tell a tale of prlte-tarian woe...
...There, too, God lives and open-shop mine corporations reign, but so many miners do not know what is good for them...
...always in the infinite confidence of the Almighty...
...Water wheels are not adapted for social ownership...
...Neither the tears of her, nor our more masculine demonstration of gr>« through curs-ng, brought tbe car back...
...His friends in Mexico ascribe to him the view "that Americans must be protected in every way in all parts of the world as they have a perfect right to engage in business in any country where diplomatic relations exist with the United States...
...Please mention that you saw this offer Is the Chatterbox...
...The Social Democrats have established defense organizations and it is reported that they will take the offensive against the Fascist hoodlums...
...There's boose aplenty— All you need is the do-re ms...
...Then Premier Van de Vyvere quit and the next day King Albert asked Max to try to form a Government of so-called business experts which might get through the summer on the tolerance of the Socialists or the Clericals, thus avoiding the necessity of new elections so soon after April S. As the Liberals are only twenty-two strong snd the Clericals have announced that they will not support Max, his only chance would seem to consist in steering his course far enough to the Left to obtain the backing of the seventy-nine Socialists in case the Clericals try to oust him...
...He and his kind lived in modest simplicity...
...THE Chatter-Box A Scotch Hullabaloo Wonder why, tk—» days, Bvery time a Dago gomgotor Or alow gunman or mm Irish mum Oof bumpod of, %J Tk* witnee*** disappear— Nothing it MM* found Except an empty gat And the '•stiff...
...Clashes have occurred between the Socialists and the black organizations, while the Austrian Government is attempting to demobilize both organizations...
...We have become the laughing stock of the intelligent people of the world...
...The Executive also is arranging, for a conference of the Socialist parties of the Balkans to meet in league with a Commission of three of the Executive, the Commission to make a report to the International Congress which meets next August...
...He is discouraged when contrasting the output of words with the enactment of intelligent legislation...
...And murderous guns shall cease to firtr" The greed and war of yesterday Be as with Nineveh ana Tyre...
...So does the Commercial...
...He built the tube under the Hudson River and the Pennsylvania terminal in New York City.—Ed...
...It is a Borry world...
...They may have a perfect right to engage in business in any other country, but the question is whether they agree to invest under the laws of any other country...
...He had succeeded in the temporary overthrow of the Labor administration of Yucatan, but when the whole Labcr movement of Mexico rose against him he was a doomed man...
...We rejoice that this challenge of ignorance to free and intelligent investigation has been made, but to those who have glorified the United States as the most advanced nation in the world it must come m a profound humiliation...
...The old mill by the dam-site that furnished*the theme for fiction and poetry conferred no great power upon the owner...
...The workers and former peons were the chief sufferers from the dominion of these adventurers and no military leader can again get into power by an armed revolt...
...Thet...
...Guided by their own material interests the investors have shaped a superstition, and enacted it into law, public opinion and common bejief, that the interests of all are better served by ownership of these great enterprises by a small class...
...And everybody whispers, • "Th, cop* are MrMv With the gyp...
...We tell joii all this that you may know we aW on our feet again, waiting for two months for the car to come back or the wsureop* company to settle up...
...A number of protest meetings were also held, while the workers in a number of factories also walked opt in protest...
...We submit that a better way would be to get rid of capitalism itself as a social order that has become unfit to survive...
...Despite wholesale attempts st intimidation by the authorities and a drastic censorship of its campaign literature, the Democratic Bloc, consisting of the Socialists, Democrats and Koasuthit.es, won a big victory in the municipal elections of May 21 and 22, capturing 128 seats, against ninety-one for the United Christian Communal party...
...The failure of De la Huerta should hi a warning to,these adventurers, but they appear to be too stupid to learn anything from history...
...even the Peasant deputies supported it...
...Members of a dele-Socialists of gatior...
...The steel industry, presided over by that godly man, Judge Gary, is no longer under hoof and God's will is carried out in the production of blow-hole armor-plate...
...THE NEWS OF THE WEEK Austria has been com-The "Uplift" paratively quiet and In Vienna this has been especially true of Vienna where the Socialists have had a majority and where they have carried out a remarkable program in the interests of workers and their families...
...oThere is a man in the East named Samuel Rae...
...INVESTORS IN MEXICO WHETHER the return of Ambassador Sheffield from Mexico City to the United States will mean a more aggressive policy against Mexico remains to be seen, but a dispatch from Mexico City states that in Washington "the situation in general of Americans and their properties in Mexico" will be considered...
...The present decision affirms that the United Mine Workers did not authorize the strike and cannot be held liable but that the tendency qf the evidence to show that District 21 officials had "organized and carried through two attacks" on the mines "is so clear that it does not need further discussion...
...it's O. K. There'*' the rub—get me, genttt -0 ' In order to help out the circulation m partment during- the coming slim dog-asy*, we hereby announce this most unprec...
...I wouldn't say a word, honest, ' Only here am I looking at so much Good hootch —that I can't afford...
...The announcement that the world's largest generating plant is to be built on the East River with a capacity of 700,000 kilowatts, or approximately 1,000,000 horse-power, and that it will supply sufficient power to light every building in New York State, gives some idea of the enormous expansion of the business unit since the days when the water wheel ground wheat into flour...
...The Supreme Court of The Supreme the United States has Court Speaks handed down another decision in the Coro-nado case...
...of the Bulgar-Balkans Speak ian Social Democratic party to the Executive of the Socialist and Labor International, which met in Paris May 9 and 10, gave the first official statement of events in Bulgaria that has come from Socialists...
...rd hate to walk by • flat-footed ee...
...We parked our car moat quietly in a side street, locked up its luxurious interior, gave a most delightful sigh at its spick and rpan splendor, atsi walked into the restaurant...
...Only last Wednesday night we motored to a dinner given In honor of Jim Maurerrs services to the labor movement...
...The Executive of the Socialist and Labor International adopted a resolution supporting the position of the Bulgarian Socialists and recorded itself against "interference from outside which tends to increase internal troubles and repression and to maintain in the Balkans a state of unBettlement dangerous to the peace and tranquility of Europe...
...Therefore, the case is remanded back for a new trial of the officials of District 21 to determine whether the "outrages, destruction and crimes committed were intentionally directed toward a restraint of interstate commerce...
...Not so with the owners of these gigantic plants...
...o We have our own Uncle Hiram (nee Riley) who opines: "After a calm an' observent experiences' this life, I've come to the conclusion they ain't no living' things what can really be contented 'cepting hogs an' fools" Without even the conventional apology to Kipling, we are glad to print below— Possessions...
...Each is entitled to its own private forum, but it has no business calling in the police to help it...
...The indictment reads like an old document of the Middle Ages or of colonial Massachusetts in the days of the Puritan oligarchy...
Vol. 2 • May 1925 • No. 22
