LABOR RULE AHEAD
SHARTS, JOSEPH W.
LABOR RULE AHEAD Workers Will Govern Where Others Have Failed By JOSEPH W. SHARTS rTH>M the surface the situBgA0B of American Labor EL evoke chortles of joy a anyone who looks forB to an...
...17 that there were last year on deposit in the various banks snd ssvings associations of Ohio upwards of 13,600,000,000...
...he meant that the bonded debts of our various Governmental agenciet total that sum for the average American family...
...Work for the party...
...Neither has Hylan...
...Detsih of the classes and lectures are given in the Lsbor Student...
...Four pages are devoted to j some important books...
...Both are too busy telling what they know about each other...
...but this only pilet the load on the rett of the property...
...Although only forty five men we e directly affected in this atrike, the leaders of the Iron Workers' Union pointed out that in the event that the employers in this instance were successful in violeting their agreement with {he Union, the employers in the iron workers' trade vou' 1 seize upo.i the success of the North Amerkan Iron Works as a battering ram to destroy th ' e- standards of wages and working crenji tions established by the Union in hte entire trade...
...In all thsse and other matters the City government cars do • lot *or the workers...
...Immediately upon the announcement of Judge Carswell's decision,' there was great rejoicing among the's'trikers and pickets were again rosted in front of the factory of the North American Iron Works...
...It is amusing to find our Democratic friends giving away the game by their well-justified suspicions of each other...
...at the Primaries...
...Capitalism Near Ad Impasse Upon the surface, I say, American Capitalism looks more firmly entrenched than ever...
...Tell your friends snd neighbors what we stsnd for...
...It is a tempting program that is presented...
...Now it so happens that 190,000,000 ia just about one thirteenth of the ' total amount of property ia Ohio confessed to on the tea returns...
...Let me take my own city, Dayton, and State, Ohio, for illustration of tile interesting situation...
...0M did American Capitalism I1 mora entrenched in both inEu] and political power, more Eutueus of the rights and de¦ sf Labor, more supremely Emt as it drives onward in the Eeonquest, While it pours in¦kwits and loans across the aeas EiMthwird into Latin-America ¦'ejedern'forces of invasion and ZsgaUon), it leaves behind st ¦Klik* Alexander, a people jHatd, cowed, apathetic...
...We Socialists for a long time have known that counting votes was a put-up job in scores of election districts...
...In addition to the lecture by Arthur Henderson there will be popular lectures delivered by Henry E. Crampton, Samuel C. Schmucker, Clement Wood, Dr...
...Organized American Capital is stiperately, and r doubt with some tttiporary success, struggling tb tontrol these insatiably expanding monsters, production and exchange...
...Production, Parliamentary Law, The Psychology of Personality, Elements of Social Psychology, Elements of Journalism, Public Speak-ing, English, Composition and Lit! erary Criticism...
...Suppose a taxpayer, in a thoughtless burst ef honesty, were to admit upon his tax retars all his property he would be paying at the rate of thirteen cents for every dollar he owned, according to the above figures, he would be ruining himself in order to meet the Government burdens which the rest of us are dodging...
...Our capitalists are gobbling these bonds because they are tfx-free...
...Of special interest is the elaborate courses of instruction and lecl tures planned for the coming term, j We note that Arthur Henderson of ; the British1 Labor Party will lec» J ture at the school on November, 8. j The courses include the History of \ Civilization, Modern World History, ! American Social History, A Critical Approach to Sociology, The World We Live In.^pescriptive Economics, Theoretical Economics, Fundamentals of Socialism, Fractical Trade Union Organization and Management, Radical Trade Union Policies and Tactics, Managing Industry for...
...Instead of overloading the domestic market with new enterprises or larger plsnts, our American capitalists are pouring their surplus into foreign loans, foreign investments, and — particulsrly — Government bonds...
...Thit brings me to the point I want to emphatize, and where I think I see a rapidly approaching critis...
...W# are having some fine open-air meetings "and conferences...
...LABOR RULE AHEAD Workers Will Govern Where Others Have Failed By JOSEPH W. SHARTS rTH>M the surface the situBgA0B of American Labor EL evoke chortles of joy a anyone who looks forB to an ending of this reB« private capital and the mm af a new day of indus^ democracy...
...The other 98 per : cent of the tax money goes for city, j nounty, schools, and other local sx-, penses...
...j Easy to Turn Pessimist j When to this we sdd the prospect thread, the apparent wane of political democracy—that weapon by wtuch Labor was, according to Marx, t* achieve industrial democracy...
...hsa we behold machine-gun dictatorships—with or without revolutionary phrases—set up in Russia, Italy, Spain, Greece, Bulgariaftemssrscy brushed aside, almost without iwistance, by certain organized groups, and the people contemptuously informed they, do not want freedom, it is easy to turn pessimist...
...Recently a State Senator, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, declared the State Government on the verge of bankruptcy...
...Our watchword should be: "Get ready...
...Care is being taken not to "overload the market...
...it it liable to sudden attacks of indigestion...
...Labor Administrations By Default But while the State burden thus appears formidable, it is only on* 1 'per cent of the amount collected in I say eity as taxes...
...A number of j correspondents from various seci tions of the country give an, inter| esting survey of the effect of the ; Scopes trial and the Fundnmentalist | wave upon the people in their rei glnns...
...ITHE RAND SCHOOL PROGRAM j 'T^HE August number of the Labor Student, published by the Rand School of Social Science, i carries the announcement of the school's courses for 1925-26 and j other items that make it a very in| teresting number...
...Resders of The New Leader who sre interested should send for a copy of this number of The Lsbor Student...
...Our county auditor recently published hit report to the Stste auditor shewing the gross indebtedness of Dayton, a city of 172,000 inhabitants, to be nearly $18,000,000...
...hflhd came the Bolshevik counterrttsktion disguised under ultraItaBtionary phrases, and the final Mhe of that mighty upheaval is already pretty clearly indicated— what Kautsky predicted it would be when tan Bolsheviks gave the peasante -practically private ownership of the land—simply the last of the bourgeois revolutions...
...Governor Donahey denied this, but alluded to the fact that the State budget this year called for $90,000,000...
...A recent word, more and more frequently bobbing up in business literature, is "saturation...
...Cities Are Deeply in Debt Every kind of Government bond issue, Federsl, State, county, municipal, is gobbled up with an avidity almost ravenous...
...In his brief Karlin set forth the sweeping chraacter of Judge Dyke's injunction which denied the strikrs the right to peaceful picketing...
...Witn* every struggle, with every shift of administration, regardless of their "reform" waves, their Changing from the Federal plan to the commission plsn of government, they only sink more deeply in...
...If Watery is'say criterion, Labor administrations will take charge of American cities simost by default Ameriesn Lsbor is on the eve of a mighty revive) of political action...
...Karlin's brief made the detailed showing of how the plaintiff failed to establish a clear legal right to an injunction: that not a single act of violence was proven against the strikers who were striking to compel the^ employer to live up to its agreement that forty-four Hours constitute a week's work and against 'he imposition by the firm that its employees work forty-eight hours per week for the same pay...
...Vot...
...Talks With Thomas A Weekly Letter from the Socialist Candidate for Mayor of N.Y...
...What he expects to win he doesn't know...
...There are j some bargains in books offered thnt | should prove tempting to many readers...
...Mp| organized Labor movement, jittered by the "Open-Shop Drive," Mi asunder by the destroying acid jKfMfious hatreds and race hatreds jjjected by the , Ku Klux Klsn, jMOsd in the bsck by treacherous '.Bjjaaanist tactics, has faced a deSpag wage-scale as the accompaniment of receding markets...
...The firm obtained a efrastic injunction without a hearing from Justice Neman S. Dike on August 7. The hearing, however, upon the same did not take place until August 24, since which time Judge Carewell had reserved decision upon the affidavits presented by the strikers and »he brief submitted by William Karljn, the attorney for the iron ¦Vorkers' Uy'on, in opposition to the injunction...
...Psck our big rally in...
...The class conscious elements of American Labor Irre awakened from their intoxication of joy with aching head and a hrk-brown taste...
...We can begin to choke the waste and graft" out of marketing...
...monweatth in this municipal campaign, but we ca.i get hatter schorls, better houses, better transit, out of it...
...15 and vote for our nominees...
...The difference, of course, is made up by borrowings, bond issues...
...The above are the course subjects...
...The strikers' affidavits pojnted out thut the firm came into court with unclean hands in that the firm demanded that its pmployees work longer hours than was required by stne working agreement between the Union and the Brooklyn Iron Trade* Association, of which the firm affected by the strike is a member...
...Up-to-date financial and industrial leadership is carefully limiting production...
...Both are getting ready to try Fraud in counting the Primary vote...
...Wt ire getting some publicity on- our local Issues: Transit,1 housing, markets, schools snd cosl...
...they ere finding a temporary escape by investing in tax-free bonds...
...A Set of Tax-Dodgers And Perjurers The secretary of the State Building Association Lesgue snnounced on Aug...
...Senator Capper of Kansas had an article in a recent issue of the official organ of the United States Chamber of Commerce pointing out that every American family ia already 11,500 in debt...
...The market, it seams, hss become a very delicate thing...
...it must be delicately and carefully fed...
...that of the county (lest than 900,000 inhabitants) near gS2,000,000...
...So far as the Primary is concerned, we shall not need to worry about the count, provided we go to the polls on Sept...
...City THE colored elevator boy who Brings me up to my office is sporting a "Win With Walker" button...
...With the fall of the Czar and the declaration •ft Russian republic dominated by wttkers and farmers they antic!S! a world-wave towards both cal and industrial democracy...
...Personally, I -bleieve the present general apathy of American workers is mainly due Jo disillusionment upon tat Russian revolution...
...And yet, as citiet snd rountiss run in Ohio, this is net bad...
...it has begun already...
...He'll just "Win With Walker...
...Lewis E. Pierton had an article in the tame magazine showing that the poor landlord has to pay two months of his rents for City Government alone...
...There are signs •¦at American Capitalism is rapidly tad helplessly approaching an impasse, y ' We are, of course, familiar with Marx's analogy of the predicament ef capitalist society, having conjured «p such gigantic means of production and exchange, to a sorcerer \ "who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells...
...Ratently the United Statet Bureau of the Census completed a survey of 248 citiet, which showed that they were spending on the average ,$6 per capita more, each year, than their income...
...A LEGAL VICTORY FOR LABOR THE iron workers ofVNew York Rave won a sweeping victory through the decision of Justice William B. Carswell denying an injunction to the North American Iron Works this week...
...Morris H. Kahn, August Claessens, Norman Thomas, Morris Hillquit, Algernon Lee, V. F. Calverton ar.d Leo E. Saidla...
...In thort, American municipal machinery, identified at it it with American Capitalism, unable to retort to public ownership for relief without a revolutionary reversal of all the pest and the propaganda of our ctfptrttiit Special interests, rspidly spproaches the point where it mutt cease to function, What then...
...I'm wrong...
...Never JEt have the exploited masses of SbEm seemed so satisfied with Serial serfdom, so dead to every SEtog spark...
...Walker, in between calling Hylan names, hasn't had time to tell him...
...At the same time the people of Ohio under oath confessed to property holdings, on their tsx returns, of only s little over 11,100,000,000: this included everything, reel estate, atockt, bonds, ¦pies,'machinery, equipment, household goods—eveything down to the old tin Elizabeth of 1915...
...Copper Union, Sept...
...Judge Carswell, in his derision, !ie!d in effect that, the lack of onvincin„ detail in plaintiff's affidavits, the obscurity in which the plaintiff has placed its connection in relation with the Employers' Association which is under contract with the defendants, the failure to seek legal redress through the jolice authorities upon the occasion of alleged misconduct of strikers when police officers were available, enveloped the plaintiff's claim in an etnosphere which warrants mistrust...
...HB wonder if the cause of AmenSftaebr has appeared to be adrift seen an ebb tide...
...Our American municipalitiet are floundering in a steadily deepening quickland of bond issues...
...The significant feature of it all, to my notion, is thst American municipalities are sinking swiftly Into bankruptcy...
...We can't win the Cooperative Cj.-.l...
...tsnki are slresdy unbearably high Tour capitalists art forced to lie in order to svold ss much st possible the losd of government...
...221 Build up you.- branches...
...You will notice that .Valker hasn't had time to tell any of us much about real issues...
...These things we can do, but only as we make a strong party our tool...
...Then our campaign will begin in earnest...
...In short, the great Christisn Stats of Ohio, with its 260,000 churches snd 200,000 ministers of the gospel, were a set of unconscionsble tax-dodgers snd perjurers thst would make old* Ananias burst with shame snd csuss Diogenes to smash his lsntern in despair...
...We can force the City to take charge of the diatribution of coal ano ssve u* from the wholesalers and retailers who grew rich out of the needs of ..urselves and our children for a little warmth ..s winter approaches...
Vol. 2 • September 1925 • No. 37
