THE NEWS OF THE WEEK

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...Tenor) Per Tm a little Menckeneee...
...Even the regular, army and many of its offi~cera are passive opponents of the armed bands f that keep Mussolini in.office...
...Not greatly changed...
...are running wild...
...a year which showed workers at the same wage level as fa) l&tft, This analysis is important for a number of reasons...
...SALUTE IL FASCIMO...
...I'll bury, you te similes...
...Tho basic character of fuel, the anarchy of the mining industry and tho chronic misery accompanying its maladministration cry...
...Following the void las by the Pang-aloe military dictatorship of the repent election of M. Patriklos as Mayor, on1 the..ground that he was a Communist, a now election was held, with the result of M. Patriklos being again elected by the combined forces of Labor regardless of political faiths...
...With the advanced capitalism of today it is the rural districts of the states that are over represented in the legislatures, while the industrial cities are waging a struggle for emancipation from rural control...
...This silent man who lived his Ufa alone ' They burled in the uncomplainlaa bUL . * ¦ -* . Be left hte word...
...The New Year should bring another reso*" Iution, a determination to put life and devoted service into the cause of human liberation...
...Far from controlling them, he is controlled by them, and they will go down in a common ,ruin, and, in all probability, will drag down ' the monarchy with them...
...THE BLOOD OF INDUSTRY , *W"*hROFITS are the heart of the industrial soW~ ciety in which we live...
...RURAL VS...
...out for nationalization of the mines...
...solo) • The Menckenlto, the Menckeneee . Are quite the choose...
...The way you write : ^ WouM be a fright - (According to the Menckeneso) - . And we are right— ¦ We're quite the cheese...
...whole- satisfied except in the mining and textile industries.' American capitalism is of such vast territorial extent that it is capable of producing these regional corftradJctJons, keeping the masses docile m one region while they are skinned in another...
...I His Bykor...
...Stephen S. Wise, which we originally intended, for* this column, but found it entirely too long tp allow space for contributions that have been crying aloud for weeks from the bottom of our Poetry Drawer for a place in the sun...
...Be pleads to look behind TOMORROWS door , Where an the atxtpld pawns ho chose to...
...He' contends that tariff schedules have been adjusted so that housewives Are contributing millions of dollars to the owners' of the 'business by the purchase of cooking utensils...
...And stlQ TODAT is" curioua...
...rise of- capitalism • .me.commercial towns enjoyed an excess of "political power in legislative bodies and farmers were constantly waging a struggle for more equal representation...
...approximately correct ia more than probable...
...Once there, they represent their particular economic groups and pay homage to "popular government'' which is an abstraction...
...He is the.prisoner of the murderous fanatics who...
...Why were machines idle...
...They know what they want and they have always got what they wanted because they know the value of having a government which they can use...
...The way you cook, or make your teas i And drain-ths tees...
...e*at)try tjbve ^cc^^^M^im^^ts, Now rcacttonjcomes home to plague the reactionaries ic*c< -the dead, rsfs Jfcev&viug through a- rural population.,, CAPITALIST TOUTKiS - A N- Arkansas Congressman complains tint • J\ the Department of justice has no* intenk *-.**T tkm of investigating the aluminum trust And that Secretary of the Treasury Mellon practically controls the business...
...For which act we publicly promise to lend him the column any day he wants to review a pet book or so beyond the limits of journalistic reasons...
...They tell the story of Increasing exploitation ot the working class, although the wage Income had increased...
...for Socialist organization...
...wV two of them national institutions, dosed * v their doors in Montana...
...Currency and bank credit, greater in volume than ever . before, waiting to be used...
...The first resolution, then, is to , try to know the world in which we live and to induce others to share our knowledge...
...Mussolini has a. huge majority* of Italians against him.' Fascism rests upon a seething , volcano...
...the head of the Ooaapsafot aateraaeteasa at a later aeastea, and' rasptnd htm Jftat tt was the duty ot at seed Ceaaaneatete to take their telllflSii when defeated...
...It is rotten ripe...
...amsdt, tbse -»¦¦¦¦¦«*¦¦ *. *>4 *^aae*£aa, She eSertsnt .-Beta*.- ejande M .mum...
...The history of all nations hi the matter of' government is a history of one interest or another contending for power...
...Much laughter Was provoked in Fsrte by the suggestion by a Borne Fascist paper "that France got...
...perhaps as a consolation prise for Zlnovlef, directs the Central Executive Committee to consolidate the Soviet Republic aa tho base for a* future world revolution...
...He pointed out that the production per factory worker in 1SZS had become St per cent...
...you would write - , Tou'd better oaaao ' x^aUam.ro^vysmaara Mssrehsusae...
...and dividends, with a large share of responsibility In aaanagament lodged with the'miners, will arms an end to the cruel folly of waste, want and misery In mining...
...deal, and7 many miners' families are IsegtaJUng to reel (he ptneb of hunger- All tble.to the haste tadmrtrr of the nation...
...Before manhood suffrage became general in this countrySJie statesmen and politicians talked in terms of interests, such as mercantile, the commercial, the landed or...
...THE extraordinary .statements recently made by Mussolini ^regarding the expansion of Italy into another 'Roman Empire and his cryptic hints of force to achieve this aim reveal something more than the drivel of this paranoic...
...First came the hot denunciation of Fascism and all its works by President Green of the American Federation af Labor, which Is reported to have hurt Mussolini's feelings greatly, especially as .he is said to have been surprised by: an attack from "an organisation that because of its nationalist and conservative spirit would be supposed to manifest sympathy with Fascism...
...earth A like design to soothe his straining- heart, Ba sought the hack trail tin he found the birth Of all his dreaming...
...Warehouses crowded with cotton, wool, leather, lumber, ' copper, chemicals — wealth beyond the . dreams of former generations...
...Now the Greek Government announces that' it will combat "Communism" by establishing compulsory voting- and...
...slay Are quareQIng tar a chance to be reborn...
...Cupidity TODAT is curious- Bte apes at dawn BoU eagerly with childish entsrpstea: Be couata his new recruits aad with a what Obeisance to his foe, project* a pawa Across the board of Life...
...It is the peculiarity of the capitalist system of industry that it condemns millions to the absurdity of being in want when plenty has been produced...
...The Teuton attack caused H Impero, a leading Fascist organ, to hurl a jingoist tirade at Germany and to report the organisaUon of a body caned the Brenner Guard (after the famous mountain pass now, marking Oka line foewsdr aassnterSi^aed...
...For at least two years in this country the whole labor movement, political and economic, has marked timeA It has not advanced...
...Word for word this* is the opinion of The Nation's Business,an exponent of the higher American Babbittry...
...Sew* wow...
...Jim Oneal, who as an Irishman is an avowed authority on Judean theology* has graciously afforded us this extra space...
...URBAN VOTERS ONE peculiar phase' of American history J* that prior to the...
...Italy has become a slave state ' resting on the bayonets of the Fascist militia...
...Since „ these constitutions, were adopted the drift of population has been to the cities* but it has not been accompanied with s change in these constitutions...
...For at least two years bank after bank has closed its doors ' in the Rocky Mountain region and little has appeared in theincwipftpers of the East regarding it The press^of this region is- filled t with advisements.of sheriff sales of farms which' farmers have had to surrender...
...Bnsemble) ''• • We ALL are litUe^etenckeneso...
...fears the fate that awaits him once' the volcano bursts...
...sold...
...Their words Is law la things like these) So-save your ssjji little wbeesoi ' ; (WsSslhiTile) Bow wow!' akftf...
...This blood did not flow hi 1921, it observes, and continues: • Consider the spectacle...
...the editorial crlajctoro directed to the coal situation ia beside the point- so tone: aa the mines' are loft ta the possession ot capitalist owners...
...Teach Me, God, the wharafore oAMy Win...
...Expectation of profits is "the...
...The ,*sa»» SSasSty "wretohoeV "* ""^ each year:- The mto«ra-ktaisfoM**a*a&Sed check-car system...
...Before He flings his last dragoon at' yesterday And compensates for whimsies of the saara...
...S. A. De Witt...
...It is useless to deny this...
...let us sey the start ' Of mockery and too Insistent mirth...
...not over" twenty hoes in depth...
...The State has 11,162,151 inhabitants, but New York Cky exceeds the rest of the State in population by 584.561...
...The most substantial gain made by the workers was a reduction in working hours, which have been Shortened about SO per...
...For m> a little Menckeneee • Bow wow...
...THE NEW YEAR IN THE matter of New Year resolutions the intelligent worker has much that he can resolve tp do in the coming year...
...It warns the world of "the growing power of the United States In ^international affairs, and...
...Because Socialist representatives.are frank in .their assertion of representing the claims of a suppressed class and thus tend to expose the whole mechanism of deception they are fought to the last ditch by all bourgeois politicians...
...Mellon is one of the wealthiest men in the United States and to assume that he and others like him -are not in polities for their class is sheer bunk...
...This is our prediction regarding this monstrous Caliban...
...this voracious bat, that-sucks the life blood of* Italy...
...And a hundred million of our own people eager to enjoy the multifarious things that these idle men, by the use of these idle machines, would gladly make and, in this age of scientific wizardry, could readily make out of these . surplus materials...
...We follow in the rear .of the movement in all other countries...
...Ob quite!— Far more so than my brother, i Base (an old wooao-bound...
...THE CHATTER BOX -:- -:0N another page of this issue, dear"1 readers, you will find our Open Letter to Dr...
...Fascism, we salute you, for you are about to die...
...This has occurred over and over again in the history of the system and it will occur again...
...Why were workers in want...
...Socialisation of the industry and elimination of profits...
...Even Seward, perceiving the approachb ing catastrophe over the question of slavery, wanted Lincoln to embark in a foreign* war in the hope of...
...A mtle apart from souls they .preyed for-sttn...
...We poke such fun among tho geese...
...An ignorant working class may b* ridden by a Mussolini, or directed by its emotions into abortive, movements and futile action...
...Absolutely nothlnf can be said in its taAf...
...The modern contradiction ^grows out of the hew state constitutions adopted in the 'first half of the nineteenth century, when the rural districts won their battle for more equitable representation...
...The- absurdity is especially glaring in .New York State and is brought out by the recent estimates of its population...
...The gain in" wages for aU' workers over a -thirty-five year period is TT par cenU but virtually all this gain ¦ bad been obtained since 1114...
...Bpw wow...
...This is all to the good, but it hi certain - that the great benefits of Industrial progress have gone to the capitalist class In the past thirty-five years...
...He is a coward, whq...
...The figures may not be accurate, but that they are...
...sustaining blood" and, whenever it flows' "in sufficient quantity" everything is all right...
...Bow wow...
...know our world and not to have the will to translate knowledge into action is like accumulating seed, for a«bed of roses and then not to sow it...
...We make no .-pretense of being expert in -forecasting* events, but we venture the prediction that the regime of Mussolini will not last much longer...
...What has changed is the form of political appeal and this was made necessary by the fact that the .representatives of railroads, banks, mine owners, and so on have to appeal to a ballotarmed working class to get into office...
...But it also instructs the Soviet Government, to pursue a peaceful foreign policy...
...It has remained passive...
...the slave interests...
...The capitalism of that section is going through profound changes and former ^independent farmers are »being driven Into the cities as bankrupts compelled to comnete with wage wprRers for jobs...
...One of the amazing defenses of capitalist politics is, that the elected and appointed representatives of the two major parties are in some way above the clash of conflicting interests and represent people in general...
...Intelligent voting is only possible when the voter understands this phase of capitalist politics...
...Factories and • machines, the most extensive, the most ef. ficient the world had ever' known...
...All of which simply means that it is an excellent thing to have a government around when you want- to accumulate some extra change...
...Simply that there was _a surplus on one hand and want on the other and profits, instead of being the "driving force" of capitalism, proved to be an obstruction to the operation of industry...
...Z—To give a One Hundred Dollar Poetry • Prize Contest tins early Spring—^- two Fifty Dollar Prizes—«s the March wipe...
...It applies to every movement and organization in the United States without a single exception...
...aad that aae^ekrtloaai betweoa AmoWcaa bankers aaS the municipality of Berne for a lean of tto/m&O bad been broken on...
...the productive bower of th> workers due to' inventions, cone en* tration ot industrial enterprises,' and improving methods of efficiency, yet during this period the real wage of the workers remained practically stationary...
...The workers would have purchased, the goods but could not...
...He offers data to support his con- . tention...
...Bo also acWaaed ' Stnovtef' and his oppositknr group of.waaUng to create two capitals, with T<aalhgrad oompeting with Moscow...
...The phtak ia the platform inserted by Bykaf, Stella...
...Nothing can be a substitute for sound knowledge...
...WaSal Lent* aa bead at' Sf BjMnaae GovernaiseA: fjrocoodrd a^rexskko...
...Evidently the- Greek authorities have taken a loaf out of the book of the reaction in Australia, where compulsory votlngr recently saved the Government from defeat by...
...It tells, us nothing...
...His murder bands have made deadly, enemies of trade unionists, Socialists, cooperators, peasants, Convnunists, Catholics, Free Masons,, nnd all anti-Fascist political parties...
...Despite this fact the relative voting strength of the city sad country will not be •the^i^^wecntera^his^ ao-ofhsn...
...Znevtef Rebuked in Communal Congress Not, e o n t e n t with having beaten tho Zinovief-Kaxeoaef minority la tho Suasion Communist, Canatrbse bp a vote of see te a* on aji|d*Qbsa of poSer...
...Millions of idle workers ready to do their part...
...Everything, else, is subordinate to it...
...Bukbarin, Kaliriln and.ether leaders of the majority ceusuroa the minority for nv«r esliiTiatinaf the danger from thu "Flats" (wealthy peasants) and for uhder -esttmatlng tho need of co-' operating wltlKthe middle class peasants...
...This .should be the aim and this must be .tpe achievement of the New Year...
...First and foremost he can resolve to dfcr his Utmost to awaken the indifferent of his class with the knowledge that all is illusion that is not based on education, information and ' the will to win...
...Sro, year aereenwat^ao increaao^iha arte* of eoal.-aod aa terras ee tm\oj^mmm~tt *Sa* pcrttst ln»cstiSatk»h ¦hhew that coal pronto testify it...
...af^^ dSvtne origin and (perfect - cnAyaj^t»r.*a*f 'Stele ¦ And Federal corwtitutkws^ that the np^ta|e...
...Be walked about it thinking be had grown • Even as lonely and aa weather seat red...
...irew...
...Jrtgher than in MM...
...although tho sleeping home Bad grown in weeds, a weary place and beared...
...Ths period of IStO-lf 14 witnessed ap enormous increase in...
...And TOO are test a pack of geeas...
...solo) t But rm a little Monckentte (The other With whom I very often- fight 'Stay brother-) I never bark, t always bHo : For you are wrong-, and I am right...
...If s clear aa black la never white, rm rigflt...
...Mussolini himself is'not the "strong man" that is portrayed by Ijis sycophants abroad...
...Fata, with a yawn -Snaps up the soul In futile aacrtflec...
...They graved upon bte etoae...
...Soprano (a Uttle yap-dog...
...Urban workers- are next due for s* akuuiing...
...What was the matter...
...But to...
...TorfU "never pfeaae...
...The veterans- of the struggle and the young idealists.must devote the* New Year to translating knowledge into action and inspiring the indifferent with the will to wis...
...Still more amazing is that some "reformers"* insist that such representatives or appointees should represent man in general,' something that has never happened, something that "is itrtpossible, something that ll utterly absurd...
...hfftathjps coal reeerrea, are rapidly ssSSsnahtas sstbaaattaa, enormous arteee are-Tieaw paid for...
...And just because we like H. L. Mencken as thoroughly as we dislike his mamby-pamby mob of mimickers—we are happy to present the following operetta—in one act—Words by E. P. V.,, of Dartmouth College, and music—by any old Saxyphone—.' Doggeral -The Canintntallectual Chorus ". Tenor: (solo) . I am a Uttle Mepekeneae Bowwow...
...aa Under Secretary ship of Stat| of Social Defense .-to "facilitate measures for dealing with Communist intrig urs...
...Are quite the cheese...
...Trie Nation's Business answers that the "driving force" of profits was absent, hence stagnation...
...A- happy and poetically prosperous New Yeer to us afl...
...On hunt aad saaa i . " We Meackenoso \kro noted for' our mode oxautaer - The subtle way to which we tease...
...rid of aB bar troubtes by forming part of a new Reman Empire,' "under the ariehty Sat of Muasottul.** ' Wagers in the United States Paul H, Duuatea of Chicago Hatveratty presented ah Interesting an-° alys|a of wages at the Hotel McAlpin on Monday...
...cent, since 1SS0...
...The outcome of the congress seems to show that there will be bo- reversal in the near future of the Communists' policy of compromteina- with economic facts ia order to'rotate control 'of Russia* Creek Government Celt a Bad Scare . While the number of ISO per cent- Communists in all Greece te probably not big enough to worry even the Civic Federation, the fact that the workers of Satonikl have refused to be dictated to as to whom they should choose" aa *Mayor of that big port has thrown'' the Greek authorities Into a panic...
...the Labor Party...
...the wish for a war is characteristic of statesme* in every period who feel that their tenure of power is endan- gered...
...S. Soft Cospolsy...
...Some sections of the labor army have even retreated...
...hkfcer oaaao tho report fbaC Iwdy^ asV varao trade balaaos fhr*Vto,Srst fan' aufBths of dtsa wan* ItSAeWASO, aaxdnottin.eSS.teS tor the mats parted St 1SS4...
...Bow wow...
...The workers wanted the goods and the capitalists wanted the profits but nejther got what they wanted...
...And one by one ha writes a swift demise '*' TJntS ht dusk the soldiers an ire gone...
...Very well put, but why were those goods not...
...I'd criticise the way you sub ess, • So haw— Tte you- thick Uiat you can ever please My Judgment with your recipes...
...Then came a violent sntl-Fascist outburst in Germany and Austria due to the high-handed repressions of Teutonlsm in tho annexed* territory In the Tyrol, culminating .with a Fascist ban oil Chrlstmae trees, which was quickly lifted, probably aa the result of worldwide Indignation and ridicule...
...Regional Capitalism sr^mTjTHJN one day this week four banks...
...And in keeping with the season, we have made . our New Year's resolves, but four in number: 1.-t-To print here poems of...
...No' matter what the settlement may bo tt wfll atmpty eonstltute a.f tsace.' Capitalism he the mining Industry la a enoet miserable failure...
...No Holiday Cheer For the Fascisti The holiday week waa far from being festive for the gang of blacksblrts now holding down Italy...
...Now...
...As the suffrage became general it became necessary to conceal the particular ^interests which a politician or statesman represented, Considering that "he never repre-" sented the working masses and with universal suffrage he had to appeal to these masses,- he ceased to speak in terms of particular interests and began to talk'of the "people" and about men in general...
...youll never please - Them with your written rectoes...
...The program aims at Industrializing Russia as fast aa possible la order to become independent of foreign nations, and it cans for the strengthening of tho Soviet's military forces...
...Capitalists could have given away the goods but this would not have brought profits...
...Others~have been content to merely hold positions gamed in i former struggles...
...the first place...
...Life, action, -movement, have been absent...
...Bow wowl~~ WeSra taken vow ,' - That aU* must cow Before the angry Mcnckrnaes...
...While this looting of rural workers goes on' in the West the workers in the East are on the...
...by creating...
...B. P. *. The Return Falling to find on all the roads ot...
...Not until the breaking out of tho World War in 1914 did ths workers begin to share la the in-» creased production, and even this in' crease amounted to rr per-cent, whileover the whole thirty-flvp year .period production inqrejued 52 per cent...
...dictates to us...
...uniting' the nation and thus thrust the' issue of slavery into the background...
...Entries to the contest eaq come in at once or no later than March 15,192& Further details wfll be announced' in a week nr two.3.—To make tins column more and more the - haven of the poet and writer whose work merits ^nr^yt**Tig>*;w>^TV>j * , 4,-r-To establish tJieDkrtatorsfaip of the Poet •over a money grubbmg universe...
...The old '^politics of Representing particular economic groups and classes has not changed...
...There-is reason for believing that all this indicates the approaching end of Fascism in Italy...
...A, M. Sulliuaa...
...But this is saying that the goods did not sell because they did not sell...
...Instead of being the blood of the system profits proved to be pus...
...Naturally, he turns teethe expedient of war and expansion, hoping that "patriotism" will divert attention from his crimes...

Vol. 2 • January 1926 • No. 53


 
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