THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
The News of the Week Cuiukusing the Philippiass iswJnes to .a-ATx*.. to^ns^ fatssap ta aaa Jmmt Jmtgm for tnatr beaten an It asjffiss. nJ-ojal having -moots eeilinS, Wa have elf ready eoneS...
...Respectable gamblers used them as a poker fiend would chips at a gambling table...
...O, painter ef the fruits and flowers...
...its origin...
...It was not the unions, but the Government, which endeavored to convert tbe industrial struggle'Into a political.conflict," he added...
...Spam Again Stirs Herself Although the revolt of artillery officers ' against Prlmo -de Rivera, which'censored dispatches from Madrid assort has been quelled, with the loss of only two lives...
...In this respect their mental level is that of the gentlemen who still market the tariff bottle in electoral campaigns...
...JSt/it . ~ SB...
...The separation will be completed, although there will be obstruction 'and protest for some time to come...
...Think what the peoples from the first year of the Christian era to the year 1787 missed in not having a copy of the Constitution to study along with their Bible...
...A broken promise ta marry and the ecandaliaifftTineidents thereto roused the ire of twenty millions Galahada, end twisted the noeee ef thirty million secretly envious spinsters...
...The program oommlttee's suggestions apply not only to the program itself, bat atoo to the parts'' name...
...It hss become on snnusl outing with this deportment, to sprinkle salts of calloused realism upon the sunburned bodies snd souls of our returning Isds snd lasses...
...Unless' our candidates are nominated in the primaries' there Will be none...
...And thanks that from oar daily need The Joy of simple faith is born...
...Ah, love that is born in summer, However sincere...
...The National Republic, organ of the Republican - party, stops long enough in Ke aeptomber editorialising to mention among ether things that The New ¦ Leader is the moot intelligently edited Socialist papsr in America...
...May lest through the sun-scented season, But never the year...
...worker...
...We must not let them go hungry and thirsty while we are eating and drinking...
...Or pen wich VlHage affords the...
...Church ism* Dying in Mexico All indications are that the struggle between Church and State la Mexico win bo settled in accord With modern tendencies...
...And we oven refrain from making moot, intelligent comment...
...Remembering this, one gets genuine inspiration upon reading the following from a Chinese.-speaker at the Canton mass meeting: "Comrades, let us eat a bowl of rice less and drink a cup of tea less, so that we may helg out British brethren...
...What a magnificent spirit of sacrifice...
...We are inclined to think that many of them reason that our ruling classes have no respect for their own forms of legality and that law is...
...It lsp« cue oemperioops, wham 'are 1»q^ are easy' to' ooncetve^-^asm nslal%|| parade...
...A half Greek, half Alexandrine frsnknsss is entering our existence, and ell summer entanglements are reviewed with . habitual nonchalance, unless, of course, a murder or e suicide mildly ripple the placidity...
...Miners' Federation for a release from its pledge not to open local negotiations tor a settlement, while it is reported that 80,000 miners In the Midlands have returned to'the pits...
...generations been taking the cream...
...How many of our readers who are able to , give a dollar or more for the same cause have neglected to.do so...
...Really, what the antisuffrsgjsts eaid thirty years ago is coming to prophetic fruition, Our civilization is doomed...
...the poll* you might well induce some friends to atxompsirr yosL THE CHATTER BOX Autumn Comphtifit - Love io a song in summer ' Close-to mine ear...
...the candidates mfofmally .agreed ttpdtt by the party, j We - the^eSore/ urge our friends to not neglect to Vote-fa the primary, sad while you are on the way to...
...this to followed by a osooel snmuod "Wgaassnalil Claims," wmol to a fornwuAllon ot the steps towarJ SiiiaStom The final portion Of sj procrem treats of the lmmadlaU tadb et the- Belgian, working eatrnvaS* the foOov/Iap sub-has Is: FWttbn TSsee ef a sac Hen of the former I*> gram, whioh dealt wtib tbe kuf> workers end rentsirwd no ssamjjm nfaer^ji iisnjds ta...
...y- ¦' - ¦ c eeSor Bbotsold bj doe nsr^a^o^afereslce stexicas^ tntsrnsttUsI Saw/ ewS recognised diplomatic emtmn.~ BUas answered wtth a witlrerint reJulnfier showing that TaSey ta aa lab orb at of the ataman, immeas he to of International law and dipkwnaUc HIsSi...
...to help overthrow British imperialism...
...As the franchise was being won • by the workers several: decades later, the orators no longer stressed the original argument...
...was to have foreign competition, but not the capitalist The worker did hot compete with foreign goods .and the capitalist did not compete with, immigrant labor...
...The ambition to become a pit* Is the first symptom of iadlvMual tossy a woman exhibits...
...That he who smites the summer's weed i May true* Thee far: tbe autumn com...
...on the least ef their cohorts—His Exosllsnay the President...
...but since that question passed out of politics the orators still hawk the tariff bottle and they actually get away with" it I That millions of voters can still be swayed by this argument simply means that they have not learned to think...
...RAILROAD SLAUGHTER FOR marty years railroads- have contributed a state within a state...
...Your kissss wore warmed with your promise To meet with me here...
...J . 3. A. ds Wfti Who Adds Beauty to the Earth...
...All this praise, however, la given ue beeauae wo refer quite strongly on the Bolshevik tyranny in Russia nt present with especial i afsrones ' to the dozens of Social Democrats still in prison for political expression...
...while is 1825 worker* em turnpike* rtmirtd TErom^5rtb7TceiWs'd»y...
...The Nottinghamshire Miners' Council asked the National Executive of the...
...PIETY AND SECURITIES IF YOU are out of work and cannot pay the . rent...
...It appeared first in a report by Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury, who argued that it would place the labor of women and children at the disposal of capitalists...
...old order, Socialists do not engage in personal r contests to obtain nominations, and fox that ; reason the Socialist primary vote .is -always much smaller than-the number of enrolled Socialists...
...Leaxue at Nations becomes mere ridiculous than over aad It la no wonder that she suffered rebuffs 'at 'Geneva...
...to vote tot in November...
...Likewise Is tbe novel, ft rseay belongs back ht the days of The Pattore ef Dorian Bray aad The •reap Carnation...
...Its organization and selling agents differ little from the ordinary distribution of commodities through various jobbers, agents, wholesalers and retailers...
...He io left stone he f.oe irMeew>lneble neaM • wait feToVm* Summer le dying, dearest...
...The Outcome of this psychology would be the organization of crime as a business...
...anendurtijr...
...The decleratlan d pyinriptos., taken unaltered from Q> fosmtor pgpstom, etffl forms the ark sseSton...
...THE TARIFF BOTTLE ERE long Republican^ orators, will again expound the blessings of the tariffespecially for the workingman...
...A' "Pound to a yestsrday's orchid in the Bloomsbury button - boss...
...Slapstick end v"'rrtifc the bawdy twine of She amdorsrSMH rary bordello...
...ttj society- The anmiaSlss prsssjsssBBJ the party's name shall be "Bebrjat Socialist 'Labor Party" (Parti Craven...
...r-.r...
...Arthur Pugh,- President, devoted e considerable section bf his 'report to tbe general strike, ' referring te It as a "spontaneous demonstration-of-erorklng class solidarity...
...But the infants became giants and they are still feeding at the tariff bottle...
...Of Miss Leighton's work we are assured that "It is her object to have placed in every American home, along with the Bible, a copy of the Constitution of the United States, and when it it is there to have it read and studied...
...And really the harvest of broken hearts snd shame-stricken spirits is becoming skimpier ss these generations .rush by...
...What is left to the worker is a standard of living even lower than what the European peasant gets...
...in the voting booth to formally ratify...
...Soctoltotb Betoo...
...Time was when a summer romance was wheedled over and oozingly strummed out upon a Hawaiian stringed public A broken heart or some such antiquity oqueezed freshets of tears from every American household...
...And often- will end wtth September...
...ft...
...if your income does hot enable you to take a vacation, or if you are forced to dodge the grocer on the street, cheer up...
...Tbrrrbnf-npen um'ebtSS|| trevasent, Tes SeBghta ar* erUneS and Be s^hf...
...And these ere becoming rarer aa the days go...
...Reason ta the candle around which tools go bttnfl...
...The sanctity ef the home, .the chastity of womanhood, the established order bf matrimony, are being slowly undermined with the emancipation of womanhood from political and edtnomic dependence upon the masculine...
...Major General R. L. Bullard (heavy on the bull) President of the N. S. L., sends us a statement and asks us to co-operate in the holy work carried on by national securities...
...With Just a decade more of e return to netursl canity, Hell murder scandals and Harry K. Thaw filth etna of romance wUI disappear from public print and Interest...
...CRIME AS A BUSINESS ONE of the most conspicuous aspects.of American fife is tbe organization of crime on a large scale, with many of the features of big business itself...
...Mystlctom - to e tireless ^ rhetoric which the vocabulary seeks to substitute for the word "Nothing.'" "Sandburg to a moonstruck bricklayer, who has fallen off a ladder aad hurt bis heed...
...end hinted that the principle of the general strike wee by no mesne abandoned...
...It repeats the old atory of the delay in equipping cars with automatic couplers...
...Unlike tbe .parties of...
...Today whatever hsppens, happens...
...On Tuesday a Philippine editor, la a speech welcoming Thompson, was so impolite as to quote the Declaration of Independence which appeared to shock his guestMoreover, the speaker compared Governor General Wood to George III, much to the discredit of the former gentleman...
...A SPLENDID GIFT THERE is something inspiring- in the cable, from China, which reports 150,000 Chinese workers meeting in Canton- to support the strike of the British miners...
...The plunder is then finally disposed of to a consumer...
...In the aBBbesaJaanej et the...
...Well, we have done our "patriotic duty" by calling attention to the matter and we hope * that national securities will give us a hundred per cent, rating in their gallery of loyal saints...
...Our heartfelt thanks go out to ¦ national securities for calling attention to this fatal omission...
...Jbp now In • torce...
...Well, meseuline civilisation never wao much good anyway...
...Former Premier MacDonald said he behoved that the mine strike would soon bo settled, while Parliament recently: extended the Strike Emergency Act...
...Then here geoe the following: t We believe that the Republican party ia' compoeed mainly of men and women who mrs part ot.or- ester fewningly to the moneyed parasites and financial earldoms of America...
...By the time that American capitalism completes its job in the Philippine* the native wlU be fortunate wbo baa a shirt left in his wardrobe...
...a French Oathable Athletic Society, returns from Rome to Paris quoting the Pope ss describing mattors in Italy as- very grave and emphasising- the complete aloofness'of the Vatican from Fascism...
...The Bishops themselves confirm this by issuing a long statement to the fStlbful urging resistance to tbe laws, one paragraph of which confesses fear that the faithful may tire of opposition 'and exhorting them to new efforts...
...And when we gaze upon the ruddy .feope and the swinging, smickered forms of the women and girls coming keck from the playgrounds of the country, we einsj w)th>bH«m the song of their liberation...
...Row In a world such SS owe, wSb social backgrounds am) art tjiiblapj mellowed with age and rich wtth inspiration, ap author can so dawdle Wa» the' trivial as Sea Hecht In Count Bruga to easy to understand only Whoa we appreciate the clownish urge ef oar literati and the clownish world of as if in whfch they live...
...Your line were oe ready in August And always oe near...
...Like "legitimate" business, organized crime goes in for efficiency and reaches out into commercial, social and political life...
...the indescribably confused compUoatioa af episode,' are aa Inevitable reflection Sat the ehaoe of Bodonhotm's versa, bat' even that contention is Insupportable...
...Whether American coal had contributed to thie tendency we do not know, but thousands] of cars hjve been rushed to Atlantic seaports for shipment abroad...
...The modern senobK So celled..toa tarsi ofaVnJM W*.* orrn'.ojstjt the whorehouse ef emotion...
...intended for little thieves who have no prestige or influence...
...wtth Maxwell BoAsaeuft to sufficient to endow its subssaasaj with, reality.' An expresatoaistte iitjajj of course, -might urge that the aopev loss bewilderment ot attaatJon...
...Of Spain are apparently lying -low- aad waiting for' an opportune time te make their weight felt on the aide of democracy...
...c We have just a sneaking idea that we have really sold a great deal...
...Control of the Commission has been captured by the railroads and the price we pay for private ownership is killed and crippled passengers...
...The Bishops have made public a long petition which demands important alterations In the fundamental laws...
...Ignoring their - panctured -balloons, the owners of industry and their political poodles took, up the dogma of--protection, of "infant industry...
...In 1825 worfccrs'ia "nj^M *™**r**r9rieris**^^ s motrth...
...Well, Brother National Republic, whafe sauce for the goose is pis for the propaganda...
...The discussion then turned on the* contention that American workers received a high wage and tot American manufacturers to thrive a tariff way necessary to enable them to pay this wa|el|^conlp>tr wtth cheaper labor «&*e** But wsgesw-jre onl/iigh in comparison with the mrfrcrkbje wages fcajd abroad...
...As has been noted before, the labor forces...
...The ma*hter that the 'dk4fi creates is eeeOy nvohsd and eaaQy^K^ gotben...
...However, the skinning is stiTl good and Socialism remains an "impractical dream...
...That a large part .of these shipments are intended for England there can be no doubt and American transport unions that aid in this commerce will have to bear a share of responsibility for the British defeat if that minors lose...
...It Is an old story...
...background, for his teaming affections and sajnlnlties...
...nJ-ojal having -moots eeilinS, Wa have elf ready eoneS attention to tab robber sr—peats te> he roafmd'ksi ntaa sbbse...
...The noma now proposed Is S link with thie protest the aatonmrnja taat la this party the whole workfal populaUon is amenrtlsd for...
...Kate Herman...
...That thie aame party ia ontrenched to perpetuate the inhuman system of wage ' elsvery upon the underfed and overworked.millions...
...This history is recafled by an article in the current number of the North American Review...
...the total safs...
...It would seem as If Baa Boobt, had a set of epigrams east' wlitli taapi to relieve his fretted hrain ef, aedr oo contrived a novel tor their papreoojen...
...Before this stage of the argument was reached the question became complicated with the slavery issue...
...The ' Chinese workman has little to give his broth-i ers abroad^ • China's productive powers have hardly been touched and alien masters have for several...
...Wow, how we just awoil up under such adulation, if only at tko thought that thie here column is sppesring In swsh an intelligently, aba, etoe kind of journals...
...The plunder taken in burglaries and hold-ups passes through many hands, each agent taking his "rake-off" until the goods reach a retailer, who usually does not know...
...Such a situation only Jem pfaasisos the folly of American unions remaining unaffiliated with the Amsterdam International...
...owned/ by Aa Government end ha promptly defjdei that tbay are good pickings for oar oapibigota He'declared that they should peas into pMvata wiejablp and ooatroL Be weht on to inanaot engay, 'cement end railroad enterprises owned by the Governmest and dee hied that all these, except the Manila line, sheafs go into private hands aa they aVw "discoerage" American capital- We may be sure that Thompson win not overtook anything lying around loose that io capable of being swiped for our magnates sad overlords/ A few laws by Congress and the signature of the President will legalise the burglary aad a military expedition will convince aay rebels of the "reasonableness" of the lob...
...Then it is notorious that a "goat" is often: sacrificed in the case of big business .crimes to satisfy the cry for "justice...
...See she is whits snd still...
...But who wanta to remember...
...Another analogy is the fact that the "mas' ter criminals" are rarely known and generally escape the coils of the law...
...The survival of this issue is one of the queerest freaks of American politics...
...His . (Waamar-s) saaato to...
...I.;' Wbo sows a Said or trains a flower, \Or plants a tree is more then all...
...Here/e to the years of clean!ineee and open troth be romance Siet are to coma...
...Knowing...
...Sonnet ¦ . • & " - Why am I left to bee*, my naked note -. . Upon the sombre feased doors ef night...
...the-wag*' workers- had...
...been organizing sod...
...General Wood and the bill now goes to CooUdge...
...What he will do to It is a plenty...
...That the Spanish dictator, who has managed to hold his Job for three years thus far, feels his up hie tattering regime for awhile...
...tike wee calculated to save the economic situation, M. Thibaudeau, secretary bf...
...in vsjsnf official declarations they "punctured - the Jfifig bal balloons of the politicians: They pointed' opt that the •manufacturing capitalists and ah** politicians agreed on one policy, free importation of labor from abroad, but j*o free...
...Sex is bis ohsoaslon...
...But now is the hour of September , . . And yea do not remember...
...FofegtliUg One bowl of rice is a,real hardship for the Chinese worker, yet we do not doubt that many in' that audience will make the sacrifice...
...The plot to but an embroidery (or the epigram.' Count Bruga himself to bet a swollen epigram, detumesclng Into soft shadow with each witty ejaculation...
...We refer the problem to Judge Gary of the steel trust, a godly man who hopes that the eye of the needle will be enlarged sufficiently to permit him to enter heaven...
...I have boon singing and singing And dreamed you would hear...
...Since you do not remember...
...Summer Is dying, loved ana, ^ Her body bruised with sears( How can the moon reign golden, There in her realm ef eteref Summer io dying, deer one, Sly heart within her own, . Yet none shall hear us utter _ Even a single moan...
...Or drag my weighted boey theoueh her mists, - Denied what fittte I hsn% need for lightt * Why am I left to grope my way akmg The eoM wet boards wtth dripping clawing fingers Tear my heart, and eilence then the eons That stilled the hearts ef many other- eingersT Pained m he who seeks b- batter Say, ,a ' Or dares te take net w»a* to^him ia glvem* > t. BsJp.ai he spaa drives Me needs ewey '. To,free himself oe thst he.ceb/t be driven...
...This follows the history of "legitimate'' business...
...Bore are a few of Bruga'e reaseUona: -Jg "Love to a delicate mist upon whioh fools trace their dreams...
...The writer estimates that this ha*, become a billion dollar business, so that it ranks with some of the largest business corporations in the United States...
...A dollar means.much less to us than, his bowl of Vice does to him...
...Rarely, has a more appealing'demonstration of human sympathy and solidarity been made than in these words of the Canton orator...
...At Geneva, the seventh assembly of the League of Nations Is in session with the admission of Germany to membership and a place on the Permanent "Council as about the only thing...
...Spanish Socialist and union leaders are net inclined io be used by army officers merely for the purpose ot replacing one kind of oppression by another.' While Rivera's fellow • dictator in Italy is issuing all aorta of...
...obscurantist terms for which the clergy are noted, hut all reports agree that the Government stands firm and will not waste time In a long discussion over the petition...
...These "uncivilised" people have much to learn about us but they are learning...
...But this should' be no reason for oar voters ' neglecting to take a few minutes...
...tore A hysterical female In a rumpled -night "Virtue and morality are a species ef insanity which enable* weak minds to live by repudiating the evidence of their senses and outlawing all the inhospitable data of Nature...
...Most of them had their origin in graft- and corruption, with Congress sharing in the shame...
...To help the British strikers is...
...It is fTrtereoting te know that we have a -fourteenth eaatury mind Interpreting twentieth century law on the bench In Now ijorky British Labor In Conference .' The deny press is rather sparteg" of newa regarding the annual gathering of the British Trade Union Congress at Bournemouth...
...Had the peoples prior to-1787 known that in that year there would gather a group of land speculators, slave owners, commercial and moneyed men to frame the Constitution, how different would have been the history of the world...
...Still more illuminating is his showing that the Interstate Commerce Commission has "aided and abetted the railroads to that end, and to a larger extent even than the railroads that body .is responsible for present conditions?' A Federal court by its decision contributed to this-endangering of human life...
...If our intelligence is commendable in the superlatives you use, on one subject, does it not logically follow that- oar comments on other subjects, particularly political and economic, are equally intelligent...
...A recent article by Edward H. Smith in a Sunday issue of the New York Times is a remarkable presentation of the development and organization of the business...
...It was to prr^rve saoh ^hig4» wa#^ that many tariff orators waned-hot ia the days .*bV <*3ay -and WetnrtePv ^Me*i*rm...
...The quizzical cynicism of thirty-five years pricking the bubbles of youth...
...that this party with its foster brother, the Democratic party, will continue to use tomorrow ae it has yea* tordsy, every low villainy and every ugly nhioanory upon the child-like mentality of the serfs and vessels to win elections, and to pebble up administration* in their own predatory interests...
...C"' Critical Cruisings By V. F. Calverton Burlesque and Bruga ^rrsrxi5B|v^-^ fjert...
...Give it, and give it NOW...
...Send your gift to the National Office, Socialist Party, 2653 Washington Blvd., Chicago, 111...
...Trainmen ipaid for the delay with nheir lives...
...Although the sun a some merry Over the distant WH...
...oapoclsHy In the eyes ot foreigners...
...noasensioeT, keJjisW slble - Bet even the IdenHficaeafc-ep' its hero, Jules Game alias Count BBv polyt Brnga...
...It would be interesting-to probe the psychology of those engaged in organizing crime on a business basis...
...It is reported that many priests have informed their .superiors that there are signs of a growing, lack of interest in tbe struggle on the part of Catholics, and It Is even reported that this decline ot Interest is one reason for Is, -nr...
...Wffh eooemmx so shaky at home, the attempts ef Spain ta play a big yarn...
...They are not asked to make as great a sacrifice as the Chinese workmatt...
...Jr...
...the Philippine House and Senate have passed aft independence bill over the veto of Governor...
...Read the Constitution and everything will be rosy...
...The first important industry nursed by the tariff was textile, and this industry thrived on the labor of women, and children...
...Murder on the rails," says the author, "will continue until Congress awakens to the fact that-it has abdicated to the Interstate Commerce-Commission a large part of its functions in the protection of the lives of passengers...
...The Constitution and the Bible...
...It'-is couched in the...
...1 " ^ ' - - ' Give fools their geld, and knaves their power: Let fortune's bubbles rise anfl fall...
...of-importance connected with the meeting...
...The confusion and absurdity ot Count Braga ers relieved by nothing more than cynical wit aad twisted matspbor...
...There you have it again...
...the fate in store for the little brown, men...
...BELGIAN SOCIALISTS WEIGH NEW PLATFORM When the special national uuti mi tton of the Belgian lamer PsrW, Hkaly to be held in October because ot a demand made for such a oeaveatap by the party officials of Brussels absat three weeks sen., meets tt wifl {gobably take up the matter of tiiaBf the' party's platform, as well as- Sst problems ceased by the pertietosnvS Of Socialist ministers In the bourfxen) government which to making assjaTtB efforts to balance the nation's badgot aad "save the franc.'' The need of revising the party's program has been recognised for semi time and a decision on a. now platform waa due at the regular natkmal convention last June Technical reasons prevented its consideration, however...
...The city io cold in September...
...is Trance, ferom $?> to *6^0ne yes/ before Hejnry Qsy estimated the wage at . nble-t>cictieVl worjtsr* et|>0« to 1»a waontb...
...importation • of goods...
...1 Tbe-ptogram piermsad is radloxft ^hTeren't in saruetnre from...
...Is apparently limited to certain dissatisfied military groups, the general situation in Spain Is so disturbing to Ring Alfonso and his clique that martial law has been proclaimed and all reports emanating from that country are subject to serious suspicion...
...By promoting their attorneys to the bench many judicial decisions enabled the gamblers to work within the law...
...We thank Thee tar Thy wise design t Whereby these human kemos of ours 1 In Nature's garden work with Thine...
...A number of newspapers have been complaining for months that the gentlemen connected with the oil grabbing more .than two yeai£ ago have thus far escaped...
...Count Bruga to a count et no account...
...The slightest intimation That death io lurking nlejh Will be lost Jn laughter And a light good-by...
...Wo» could aay a let more snd make our remarks ooesid like a Communist campaign leaflet against the Socialist party...
...She will even teach you what it means...
...If you do not have a reprint of the holy parchment Miss Etta V. Leighton of the National Security League will provide you with one...
...r: - . . *? y* - —- T * ' Per he who Means meat ia bleat: -And Gad and, man shall awn hss worth . Who tens to leave as his gins set: * jsfSjk Ax- added beauty to the earth...
...At the time the Belgian PartJ was founded Its UUe of Labor Part: Was meant aa a demonstration SeTanSJ the political monopoly of the aristocratic, monies . lilsssss aad chord Circles...
...PRIMARY DAY JUST as important as the election itself for Socialists-is :the necessity of voting in the primaries on Tuesday, September 14...
...Its hero ia Porta Iry unconscious...
...For the first time since the strike, began there appears to bo a tendency in some areas for the miners to go-beck to work...
...Count Bruea la a burleedjue lbov% It to extravagant...
...in-which the writer shows that many railroads have successfully fought the installation of an automatic train control system while they install "automatic train stop systems which permit the engineer entirely to nullify operation of the device and run into a collision at full speed...
Vol. 3 • September 1926 • No. 35
