THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK Issues in the Garment Workers In it- fight with the Communists the International Ladies' Garment Workers made public some interesting letters of the Workers' party during...
...In the hands of administrators with a social vision and the idea of administration for human welfare public ownership would be an advance to social democracy and the welfare of the workers...
...However, the oftctBl WllMJtaiir is interesting...
...There can never be any improvement in our conditions until war is relegated to its place as something belonging to a barbaric age...
...Under the decree of amnesty signed by King Victor Emanuel on Aug...
...This is true of the employed and the part-time employed, but the workless know that their labor power is worthless and that their families must want in an age of plenty...
...In a ponderous resolution on "the liquidation of Loreiam" we.read that "Loreism must be liquidated organisationally...
...In this country Count Antonio Cippice, the Fascista Senator who is defending Mussolini at the Williamstown Institute of Politics, became highly indignant when it was suggested that a remedy for Italy's overpopulation might be found in limiting the annual output of some 600,000 surplus Italians...
...Well, you and I aren't hired to make the world a better place to live in," observes the editor, "or to fight and die for noble causes, or to tell the truth about this particular Main street...
...As the number1 of Chinese in the concessions increased it complicated the question of trying Chineee, and out of this situation grew tht system of mixed courts...
...How the strikers manage to hold out is a mystery but one Shanghai dispatch asserts thst they are getting aid from the Peking Government A correspondent1' st Shansi, writing of the strikers, says that "the energy and careful organization displayed are almost incredible to those who recall the apathy of former days in regard to politics...
...After these preliminsries, Dr...
...The** ungodly ones would make no exception of his enterprises...
...Build your own press...
...The spokesman of a deputation of British merchants then proceeded to present the reasons why In oris* wag at* I tptt etg tamper...
...Tea ate Iwr MaJetVtOm-sol...
...That the murder of Deputy Matteotti will over be avenged under the Fascista regime is not believed, even though some form of judicial investigation is being gone through...
...With one intolerant sweep we relegate them sll into the waate basket...
...Thomas F. Millard writes the Times an informing...
...The excellent doctor-eorresponder.t who misunderstood our words in his half-page article last Week must be set right first before we ean clearly continue on our rampage...
...There are honest journalists,' to be sure, and it is impossible to indict * he whole tribe...
...It is true that this also follows agreements between Germany and Poland, but the procedure In each case is calculated to widen the breach between the two nations and nationalities...
...Here, ef course, wo may ssy with Comrade Leonard D. Abbott, who has written us a sweeUjm-gratulatory note, that our indictment should be agpinst humanity and not merely tbt doctors...
...What does thst prove or disapprove, con or pro, about our arraignment of the modern medical profession...
...The view of the press appears to be that if the masses do not read of it they will not know of it...
...As the first refuge, instead of the usual fast, patriotism la indulged in to the extent of reminding as how valiantly the doctors of this country accepted the hazards of war, and hew splendidly our gassed, crippled snd maimed boys were refitted by medical assistance far ths industrisl carnage Of peace...
...They included the United Shoe Machinery Company, lead, zinc, smelting, and other corporate enterprises...
...But even public ownership might easily fail of its purpose in the hands of capitalist politicians with no wider vision than that based upon capitalist property interests...
...What we ssy here is comrobn knowledge, snd hsrory worth reiteration to sound any more convincing...
...The New Leader will never interfere in any union controversies except in...
...Coolidge led a host ia Msitsrhais-stg aad aow he...
...His effort to combat our effervescent foam with the bludgeons of hesvy general*, ties make our own attempts at humor sound tragical: "Ignorant, intolerant, bigoted, prejudiced, hateful, narrow-minded, unstudied, unread, imaginary, untrue on the surface," etc...
...landholders and speis^tse-in this...
...to say of any other union members who may wish a change of policy whether they be radical, conservative, moderate, Socialist or otherwise, in any unions, but we shall fight poison ss we would an armed lunatic running at large...
...the right-thinkers ALL right-thinking people—and people who think with the Sentinels of the Republic are right-thinking people—will be happy to know that some sort of memorial will be erected to the late Louis A. Cool-idge for his disinterested work as a founder of the Sentinels who are "minute men" guarding the sacred , Constitution from contamination...
...The Communists answer, Test It is this issue that we have stressed and no other...
...The New Leader, has carried a number of stories in the past few months to show, that there are millions out of work...
...Every right-thinker rushed to tag front and fought gallantly against the atnw IwttaWnnt aad the Constitution was awvegj...
...If the working clats is to avoid being fed this garbage It must sustain its own periodicals...
...The Chinese were to be admitted because of the opportunity of British capitalists to get 30 or 40 per cent out of them "with the least possible loss of time...
...Fascista law and order was 'Uustrated on Monday last who., three women and a man were killed and fifteer persons wounded when the police fired upon a mob storming, the municipal building of San Giovanni in Southern Italy as a protest against, administrative grafting and an increase in local taxes...
...For the International to oppose this is to incur the charge of "bureaucracy...
...Every such complaint has been an unwitting admission of its failure...
...If it were so proved we would not have had the numerous "bills of grievances" that have been issued nearly every two years by the A. F. of L. since the plan has been followed...
...I just read it for errors and see if we're handing out regularly what the boobs like for breakfast," i Those who have an acquaintance with capitalist journalism know that this, frank and cynical statement is by no...
...Moreover, the British workers stolidly followed the same plan into the twentieth century and then abandoned it, with the result that it has prestige and power...
...Under ihe atrocious regime that hae succeeded elaVery natives have been worked and starved to death...
...Polish and German Epllia The lunacy of the imperialist peace treaties left Europe s crssy patch of impossible frontiers and mixed and warring nationali...
...Rarely has the crusader for assuming "the white roan's burden" been so frank...
...In New Zealand there ia a movement among the labor elements against welcoming tha American fleet "aa n fleet...
...Pinchot offers this at the very ktime when the evidence is overwhelming that the regulation embodied in the Federal Trade Commission is a farce...
...Mussolini's followers tried to beat up ex-Premier Orlando, the leader of the Liberty Bloc, after he had ventured a few mild criticisms of the "black ehlrts...
...One sentence of the official instructions states that "tp capture official positions in the unions is good...
...SUPER-POWER GOVERNOR PINCHOT is fight-ing a super-monopoly of hydro-' electric power in the United States and to prevent it from "acquiring industrial, commercial, financial, and'the political control of" this nation...
...In view of the circumstances, the Palermo election may be regarded as a moral defeat for Mussolini...
...Forced Labor In Africa A hideous ulcer has been exposed in Portuguese Africa by Professor Edward Ross whose report on the treatment of the natives by the t Portuguese slave drivers shows to whst ' extremes "civilised" exploiters will go to extort wealth from workers...
...In answering Count Cippico, Professor Edward M. East of Harvard unfortunately mixed good logic with a general denounclation of the quality of men produced in Southern Italy' that sounded more like the ranting* of a 100 per cent Nordic than the argument of a scientist...
...On election day a horde of Fascist...
...is to have a shrine...
...These properties enabled him to be a right-thinker and a protector of the Constitution and gave him entrance to the Civic Federation, the Constitutional Liberty League, and other disinterested organizations.' One of the great achievements of this notable right-thinker before his death was to play an important part in preventing the ratification of the Child Labor Amendment...
...Dourmash-kin enters into a series of paean pealing on the pretty points of his profession that knocks spots out of any valedictory address ever delivered by a graduate of any medical academy in these here States...
...That'the system of "forced labor" is worse thsn the slavery once maintained is evident from the fact that the natives prefer to go back to slavery...
...We shall have nothing...
...How different is the procedure when a break occurs between two nations and the diplomatic officials of capitalism are given all the care possible to insure their comfort and safety while getting out of the country...
...One might as well urge thai Jones County has sufficient power to solve the transportation problem in a State as to assume that the latter can deal effectively with the hydro-electric problem in the nation...
...Wa assuro them we are heart and soul in every 'novo they make...
...It announces that it will give no "aid or comfort'" to "those who seek to launch third party movements...
...aad are bound to look at national and permanent interests...
...We still see pott* musicians, artists, editors, and lntelleettttt' WMfcare of all .sorts scraping and strug-gitng against the'great God Greed—holding deariKlr ideals, bitterly tontestlng toprebe found among the medical profession, ws cun onir sot to-day a groat body of men-r trained in a great srt-geing the suit foii earn 'fss^s^pg^BBj^Wn^P''' 'Aa'to^he rpeetsHst humbfggery, wtiwffl ad-sjitttat qttfe a hltttthtr of the more sert'ea|.;itiliMtt^ go aerost and bttwr themselves* tmeteActr'm «Mrf* [purpose of bettering their incomes...
...the non-partisan policy IN playing up the announcement of the Executive of the A. F. of L. that it would ha nothing to do Kith third partita, the daily press tvtpt tkt* »iw.if mrf* snwft) feermUty {*?$**+ frrtttm el the El Paso txsWWfllsk JgoBk wear...
...What is more, the great mass of union men pay little attention to the plan in campaigns as the pitiful reports of their small campaign contributions for years prove...
...There were ungodly people who-wanted to take children out of industrial enterprises, including those that Mr...
...But we will hold the complaining doctor to task for his placing the too.ooo medietas* men in the category of intellectual worker*, As workers in intellect, we must expect t fuller sense of devotion to ideals than many have, manifested lately...
...Their diplomats raise their eyes to heaven and solemnly assert that they come to establish "law and order" and to do God's will...
...THB Chatter-Box Feelere that our mail-box would bseosse sg-ffsfe.aa& tureopetha, cnireenetsft rjb tickler, ^e Iflimth yratiflttl at emery tint and see...
...Thousands ef them gave up homes and practices to indulge in their inspirational work...
...The Chinese Strike The Chinese strike has entered its tenth week and there is no indication of its being early abandoned...
...They "know the game" and the man who pretends otherwise is regarded as a "sissy...
...The men who went were brave, many of them conscientious, most of them too pitifully incompetent even to stem the Inroads of mumps and scsrlet fever among the Negro and poor white mountaineers who flocked into the Southern trsinlng camps...
...When this great agency for distributing goods throws this mass of workers on the scrap heap it is certain evidence that the production of commodities has slumped in many industries...
...We turn to The Worker of July 29 and find that the Workers' party is tryin„ to eliminate a group within it...
...As a slave the owner had a stake In preserving the health of the native...
...It is only the insistence of workers in our countries that can abolish war...
...Where, Oh where, is that budding young medico tht...
...He compared himself with a keeper of a park zoo feeding animals: he feeds the animals garbage,, why not those who read the newspapers...
...BM heaven alone can count those who prow I no more from their Europt sn tour thans^ visit to improvident relatives, and co*r bsck with a pronounced mandate to their clientele fhat the visiting fee hss been raieed on a speclalistic plea...
...Most of the unfortunates did not even receive any payment for...
...It may take years, but that the organized workers will eventually abandon a policy that has proved a failure in every country, including the United States, is certain...
...It is all a matter of education, and more sad experience will reinforce their education...
...If Labor is to be effective in politics it must have its own party, just as to be effective in industry it must have its own unions...
...v Unemployment UNEMPLOYMENT, the curse of the wage system, ia widespread although the newspapers are saying little about It...
...The regulators are themselves regulated by the capitalist interests of the nation...
...Our union treasuries are still at the mercy of the courts...
...Thus far there are no figures on the vote cast by the Communists and Maximalists...
...I don't, read my paper for instruction or even fun...
...The German exiles appear to suffer more than the Poles...
...Weill Now shall the International permit any organised group to exist in the union...
...He denounced advocates of birth control as "apostles of infanticide"—a deliberate misuse of language, as the Count knows English* very well...
...The millions who devour their stuff do not understand that they are regarded as animals who are fed garbage which the keepers "don't have to eat...
...imported from Naples snd other Mussolini strongholds invaded Palermo aad attacked the heaeV quarters of the Opposition psrties...
...If governmental ignorance snd red-tape vi^es were responsible, a greater blame lies at the door of that enlightened medical prt> fession the honorable doctor so eloquently defends, which did not prepare or advise or campaign for sanitary defenses before the millions of America's youth were compressed into vast military units...
...The Federal Bureau of Labor Sta-tistics, in a report for June, states that employment in manufacturing industries decreased 1.1 per cent in June aa compared with May, while the aggregate earnings of workers "decreased 8.1 per cent, and per capita earnings decreased 2.1 per cent...
...But thousands of them who try to -work against the commercial ethics: of the capitalist newspaper in time resign themselves to practices which they know to be dirty but which they have not the power to correct, just as the keeper of a zoo may feed tainted meat to the animals in his charge knowing that others have done it before him and others are ready to take his place if he complains...
...this it your business...
...Thi* Means that, no organized Lore) or' Poyntz group* will be permitted to, exist in the party...
...We don't have to eat it...
...cies...
...The documents sre conclusive evidence of an'out-aide organization guiding the act iocs st its members in the unions...
...Coolidge was interested ia...
...This is to substitute one folly for another...
...New South Wales Greets* America With the departure of tha Amor* ictn fleet from Australian waters, 'after a continous round of entertainments and' merry-making, the organized workers of the big Commonwealth, through the medium of X. T. Lang, tha new Labor Premier of Ntw South Wales, tent the following message to their American brothers: "It is my earnest wish" that the mingling of many thousands of Aattrfaaw'tdt^MBt With our people during tht visit bet* at tht United States fleet witt lead* a bwttor understanding bet*****tht Wc4*trl of t«M countries...
...We may add to this statement that the American Railway Express has discharged many thousands of its workers all over the country in the past few weeks...
...In the early days the few Chinese,who lived in the foreign concessions were turned over to Chinese officials for trial of offenses...
...This was not objected to at first because of general dissatisfaction with their own courts, but aa tha ChlntsWhsve grown In consciousness their humiliation and recentment have Increased...
...Lotus here tha* them all for their well-meant congratsS tions and voluminous propaganda tracts, About disease and its treatment in any term we are as conservative as a pillar ef granite in the building of the National City...
...angle was a distinct oblique from taolZ accepted and arsHsftelr proven field ef ss3, icine, surgery and materia medics as tke most eSViesrt means of preventing and ear ing the ills of the flesh...
...viction have takes) tt for granted that aa...
...Cmly...
...Of course, it should be remembered that this is a political as well as an economic struggle...
...But it is my business to make a fortune wits the least possible loos of time, by letting my land to Chinese and building for them at 80 or 40 per cent interest, if that ia the best thing I can do with my money...
...They, were not contemplated in the original treaties...
...The imperialist powers, however, never admit such carnal motives...
...means unusual among journalists...
...Your country calls you...
...Nothing...
...That this argument won and that the Chinese were admitted goes without saying and foreigners have been skinning the Chinese ever since...
...The Courts can no longer confiscate union treasuries or issue the infamous injunctions they do in this country...
...These are the most marked decreases shown in any one month since July, 1924, and are due chiefly to curtailment In the automobile, boot and shoe, cotton goods, and iron and steel industries...
...The ruling officials in both countries are responsible for the brutality that has been heaped upon the refugees, the mass of whom consist of workers...
...wmtif* mm ing by constitutional means, can we make the world better...
...Some fruits of this Work are now being gathered by the spectacle of thousands of Germans being evicted from Poland and 1 thowsaads of Poles being uprooted in Germany...
...So intimidated was the electorate that it is estimated that little more than one-third of the some 104,00 registered voters went to the polls...
...Pinchot is right in ridiculing this policy...
...It remains to be seen what will be done to relieve the natives of the "blessings" that civilization has brought them...
...We recognise only that ou/ modern capitslist society is the breeder of all ills, carnal or spiritual, and that while our troubles of the spirit must await a cure in an advanced Socialist system, our bodily aches and disorders can be quite adequately taken care of by a medical profession that places study, ethics, and intense analysis above dollars, motor, cars and X-Rsy adorned offices...
...Pay homage to the disinterested right-thinking corporate investor...
...He attacks Hoover's power policy because it considers the problem as a local matter to be dealt with by each State...
...article regarding the mixed courts that have caused so much irritation among the Chinese...
...a case where a dishonest code of conduct is openly and actively avowed and practiced...
...Certainly, "Christian" Portu-, gal waa won the palm of infamy in the long history of robbing the worker of the wealth he produces...
...The Portuguese Government is all aflutter over the report and the League of Nation's committee on slavery is nonplussed over this bomb east Into their midst...
...If the noble sacrifice did not pay 30 to 40 per cent they really would not care a brass farthing whether the Chinese committed hari-kari or whether they landed in hell...
...The question arose as to whether Chinese should beWmitted to the concessions, the British Consul opposing such admission...
...We in Australia look hopefully to American workers, from whom many peace proposals emanate...
...The letters show the executive of this party ordering its members in the union what to do...
...their services...
...He holds a brief for the hard-working medical student—the drilling snd experimenting don* through incessant hours,to prepare him for his task in life...
...garbage journalism RECENTLY, the Echo, a Catholic weekly of Buffalo, quoted Harper's Magazine, which, in turn quoted an editor, regarding the ethics of his* trade...
...When a majority of the members decide that they want a Labor party they will have it...
...Tke docto-'s in the main were as occupied before our entry into the war as they have been ever since the post-war Influenza epidemics with the horribly unethical problems of keeping themselves comfortable...
...The concentration camp in Prussia haoreceived at least 10,000 men, women anil children from Poland who are gathered in a space scarcely sufficient for one-third of the number, in sheds that once housed prisoners of war, with sanitary and food conditions such as to make their misery acute...
...A Setback for The Fascittt Despite a mobilisation of tha whole terrorist machinery of the Fascists Government during tht lajt dsys of the campaign, tht electior...
...Some Communists and Socialists will also be released under the decree...
...The impression thst the system of foreigners and foreign law in China haa.on the Chinese may bo imagined if a foreign power were to establish the same system in some Of the larger American cities...
...The-report Itself carries the facts because Professor Ross declined the services of Portuguese officials who desired to accompany him in hie investigations, He wont with his own interpreters...
...Wo regret that the Doctor wiU have this opportunity of reading ag«n...
...Public ownership is a step in the right direction as it involves the use of national power to deal with a national situation...
...In the coming years an increasing number of members of the union will dissent with both statements...
...WtitttrMtfl .f*t of the WagHih ^tlsWsi...
...Will ths doctor please refer us to one book, letter or resolution, from any individual or group of the medical men, that spoke up so thst Congress might hear of the necessary precautions to be taken before congestion and its attendant ills took their brutal toll...
...the white man's burden IN one of his informing articles to the Times from Shanghai Thomas F. Millard gives some interesting early history of the acquirement by the British of concessions in China...
...Coolidge had some wide interests...
...On the other hand, Pinchot makes it clear that he favors Federal regulation rather than public ownership...
...1, practically every Fascista who by chance happened (o be convicted of or indicted for crimes will be set at liberty, except in the case of actual murder, which leaves the Matteotti affair untouched...
...Nothing need he said of the thousands that died or became life-time invalids when influenza and pneumonia stslked through tent cities and laid bsttslions low...
...Italian Liberals condemn the wholesale amnesty and say it will make crimes of all kinds still more common...
...But all this is not "news...
...In Palsrmo, the leading city of Sicily, last Sunday reaulted in 16,816 votes for the Liberty Bloc (a temporary group including the Unltarisn Socialists, the Catholics and all other opposition parties except the Communists and Maximalist Socialists) against 26,458 for the Fascist...
...All of which might be praiseworthy in a sense if the result of all this would not be s young man with a diploma, a fierce determination to equip a swell-fronj office, a $20,000 prse-tise within two years somewhere on we* End avenue, and a $3,000 benzine-buggy* Again, we must place the blame upon tha capitalist society that makes money grubbers out of the professed saviours of a*-, inanity...
...Nicholas Murray Butter, aaetfetr right-thinker, will take care of the financial drive and all right-thinkers are expected to come across...
...The editor answers his own question...
...Moreover, the non-partisan policy in politics "has proved to be the best plan yet adopted for Labor to voice itself politically...
...stepped out of the academy in years aonj by wlti visions of saving a diseased wtrjW for "to own gbat srke...
...What wa hold, against those young intellectual workers is riot, so much tae* natural sqpcum|ing to the temptations# success, but thafr utter lack of initial fits* against commercialization...
...THE NEWS OF THE WEEK Issues in the Garment Workers In it- fight with the Communists the International Ladies' Garment Workers made public some interesting letters of the Workers' party during the past week...
...It has not proved the "best plan" in this country...
...Every right thinker immediately saw what this proposal would do with the sacred work of the "found-lag fathers...
...So here is your opportunity...
...We're hired to feed human animals the kind of mental garbage they want...
Vol. 2 • August 1925 • No. 32
