WASHINGTON DISCOVERS UNEMPLOYMENT
Washington Discovers Unemployment The Mines Investigation and Other Capitol Topics WASHDfOTON, D.O. rpHB great and wlae man whs fukt •* our destinies bare made ah amaana discovery. They are...
...The Prophet George QNE cannot avoid being impressed with the fact that with the increase of secular knowledge the Fathers of the Church are being replaced by the Fathers of the Republic...
...Catobra Wan...
...I am sufficiently ignorant of the medical profession to know, that unless the physical well being of the victim is undermined and weakened, bacteria does not take bold with any telling effect Give me a giant in a day...
...Perhaps, the Russian Revolution, and the Third International put in a few hefty wallops...
...Our ruling classes feel the need of providing us with saints and the aristocratic gentlemen who founded the government in the closing yearsp-of...
...The official gang who run this corporation are so utterly insolent that they compel a certain measure of admiration...
...Watch the date alongside of your name on the address label at the top of page one...
...a "man¦ 17 rwrvatt—") ¦ We say SSfts,fN yearly res* tar tha lS-aaOe mm...
...Think of the aftermath of the Civil War, its looting of the public domain, the rise of the Tweed bandits, Jim Fiske and his mistresses, Jay Gould and his plunder, the pollution of bench and bar, and the shocking theft of a few millions from emancipated Negroes who had been induced to place their pennies in the Freed men's Bank...
...Crete, 84, John, are ef esanaeeretol alas am Stale aaaa thrown hi by Parts BtoaL Isle ef Fines...
...Jarvts IsL S dec, 1SS dec...
...This Party of ours ought to be built into a time and tlde-dafylar tower, since we have with us the purity of purpose and ideal...
...The clouds parted in May, 1787, and God called Washington to the chair in the secret convention in Philadelphia...
...And that "something" had weakened the morale, sapped out the morale, and just played merry deuce with the stability of tha organizations, it has been known that labor otBetoto get to like their salaries and their Jobs more than their ideals...
...that the employers hi seeding a way out of their own financial problems would forsake the city and seek the country towns and villages for non-union shops...
...N„ 1(7 Sag...
...And suddenly, my hate-singing Comrade screeches out, "look' what they did to the unions, our unions...
...Shanghai HaytL (Bnggosteaa far research under this topic: (a) Haw benevolent la the proteettoaT (b) Hew many ether nations essth of as are socially BOmndored In Washington aa saeh "protectorates...
...The Odor of Capitalism 'J'HERE is no particular reason for getting excited over the latest disclosure in the oil scandal which appears to show that a substantial part of the oil loot was delivered to the Republican National Committee to help pay a deficit in the expense of floating Harding into the presidency...
...Having accomplished this, you insist that other nations keep their tariff walls so low that a child can leap them with little effort...
...And what if he Is driven ao hard at that Job (as he is being driven today) that he becomes a part of the very machine which he serves, and all "*""¦*«" happiness Is denied him...
...are merely an evidence that the governing classes distrust and suspect the future, and know that their real danger hi to be found not abroad but at home...
...these...
...Now we have no leas a convert to our cause than the Honorable Alfred Emanuel Smith, Governor of the Empire state of New York and potential candidate for President of these "prosperous" United States...
...the state of public opinion Is the cause...
...He is the chap who is likely to sell his country if he can get the price...
...They are announcing it ot the front paces of an the aswapanars They have suddenly found oat to that aetonUhment that In the most prosperous country hi the world, at a thne What Poolings economy and the budget system baa put us all on Easy Street, quite * large number of men and women, ablebodied and willing to work, have no work whatever to do...
...N, 163 dec W...
...MMway Islands...
...In a review of John Stuart Mill's little book on "Liberty" In 1SS9 this great Englishman said one thing that should be remembered In these days of imperialism and threatened war...
...Here is the first article of faith in the new state religion which has been unfolding ever since we made the world safe for democracy...
...Pity I always win have for their sloven ineptitudes, their outlandish aspect in thought and deed against the famllar background, their general Ignorance of even Communism itself...
...It is all a matter of business with him and he goes where he can get the best price...
...We simply have not built firmly enough...
...It weens sweats sar beat "bast asanas" to Sskomtr Jest whsr* kuaUaraVa rights Isavs aaT ant tenant's 2. How many such possessions has the U. S. in Caribbean waters...
...THE CHATTER BOX rpRUE, I have joked a great deal about them...
...Add to them the 1300,000 aged man and woman thrown on the Industrial dumpneap and dependent upon their children or charity for a meagre aatotonse...
...Russians are a rare people...
...However, all this does not bring me to my present thesis...
...but why waste time on impossibilities...
...Stone year lease la as peTpstoMy...
...Wake Island (IS sat.:, ICS de...
...I want to try and mitigate among my own Comrades that feeling of nasty hatred they show every time Communism, Communist or Russia enters Into conversation...
...And I am not charging you three dollars for this advice either...
...They got a taste in the days of Woodrow and gorged themselves in the days of Harding and Coolidge- The odor is unpleasant but it is no more offensive because it rises from the Republican rather than the Democratic pot...
...We go farther...
...Thus ends one phase of the swine history of this notorious corporation...
...During the war prosperity days, when army contracts kept the productive ability of the Americas worker at a fierce pitch, the unions and the officials and the business agents and the rest had a bey-day of power and self-congratulation...
...For some reason not explained the gentlemen did not understand that God had "conceived" the Constitution...
...Moreover, it is the most vulgar of its tribe that has been spawned anywhere in the world...
...Ma ana Islands (east sf Sanaa...
...B. "Wall Street" is not considered a foreign nation in the meaning of the Doctrine...
...But fevers are fevers, whether the Russian Communist or the Cholera gets you...
...There are certain things that are taken for granted among decent and normal people...
...We should remember that, we are living in a nation where the capitalist class , is more powerful than in any other nation...
...Governor Smith has sent a hurry caH to the head of bis State Labor Bureau to get all the figures that he could about unemployment In New York State...
...Reynolds...
...HOLLAND—Caracas, Bonaire, Arabs, Dutch Oainana...
...o a a At a time when labor should be bending its efforts towards a sane solution of the unemployment problem, it is tied up with the fight of its life against the Injunction evU...
...Marcus Island (M ear ttn 1M ass...
...Back-stairs Spokesman...
...Eventually they accepted the parchment God had transmitted to George, although it was somewhat mntihated when they got through with it...
...Here It Is: "The Immense armies which are maintained, and which some mention as a proof that the love of war is Increasing Instead of Wi'ng...
...Who else is more entitled to share in the thievery ? Of course, the* transaction stinks, but it has the virtue of showing to many how completely power at Washington is the power of a ruling class...
...They fear revolution far more than Invasion...
...Communists...
...Britain...
...Just that, maybe, perhaps, and it could really happen: the unions were so fearfully wracked and wrecked by the Communist microbial invasion, because something had been the matter with...
...I do however firmly believe that the Socialist Democratic Party of America is to IBS making...
...The patriotic bladder appears to have flattened out and Smith is in the hoosegow for lack of enough money to bail him out...
...Saa Pentose...
...His ''History of Civilisation In England" la still regarded as a masterpiece...
...This phase of the application was a bald request that the contempt held by Quackenbush and Hedley <for Lavin be given judicial support- As well might Lavin ask that the courts ratify his contempt for Quackenbush and Hedley...
...Olasega, Tan, Aanaa...
...A BRIEF COURSE In NEW-WORLD IMPERILISM By Raymond Fuller X. Mow many "foreign possessions" (exclusive of those operating under The WaO Street P tectorate) has {he United States on the continent...
...No, since their domination antedates 1820...
...I know the war had a great deal to do with its rise and decline as a numerical entity...
...Meantime you have the faithful subjects of steel, pig iron, sugar and other merchandise penned in a vast stockade behind our tariff walls...
...and a* hteher rental...
...We win be told a number of interesting things, but In the meantime the tragic fact remains that four million Americans, one-tenth of the walking population of the country are walking the streets of our cities with dark despair gnawing at then* hearts...
...Cuba...
...Three of tha Vsrgte Manas: St, Taeaeee, St...
...At any rate Smith had figured on a very large business as he expected to pay a total of $100,000 for underwriting the business...
...This vicious drive, headed >y the various manufacturers' assocladona, and such hard-boiled corporations is the Interborough Rapid Transit of lew York, is everywhere aided and abutted by the politicians of both old parlea...
...It has never had a feudal aristocracy to face in a contest for power, a class that ! petite for accumulating, lucre as the nrml'abn^of man...
...You see the French have never been able to understand the "best minds" that have been in Washington since 1921 and they have the audacity to think that if we have a Chinese wall they are also entitled to one if they want it...
...If the skinned begin to wince, call out the police and see to it that the editorial fraternity writes a few pieces about "law and order...
...Baker and Hswtond Islands (title disputed with Ot...
...3, Does the Monroe Doctrine ignore these...
...Together with rotten service and packing us in their cattle cars, maintaining a "union" which Quackenbush and Hedley carry in their pocket with their toothpickspaying themselves extra "velvet" for breaking strikes of their serfs, loading the lines with thugs and other shady characters when the serfs rebel, they are now engaged in a desperate attempt to make us fork up an extra two cents every time their guards pack us into their boxes...
...JJ^ How many in the Pacific...
...It is also important to remember that the itching palms of our glorified thieves made their first plunge into the money vats when the Wilson Administration had us locked up during the World War, There were the cost-plus contracts and enormous transactions in munitions, weapons, supplies and even the graft in "caring" for wounded soldiers- The capitalist class have found it as easy to use one party as the other...
...Today the once powerful unions are recuperating Into slowly growing strength And again I must say, that If an insignificant microbial pest like American Communism could play sock destruction with our old labor unions all alone, thai, really, there never had been any use for them any mora...
...equally *¦ true, I have swung high and low against their sweet chariots in my own way of hate hymns and spirituals...
...Now skin them to a frazzle and while the masters of industry are counting their huge dividends occasionally broadcast the happy news of "prosperity...
...Perhaps they were just rotten rips for change, aad anything from Christian Science down to Smoking Oat Golds might have gripped the dear old things and just strangled them lightly to a merciful end...
...Too many of us are content with tht comfort of the day...
...The professional "patriot" who continually shouts his virtues is by the same token a faker...
...We haw the facts about this wretchedly run industry, and the facts are that to coal, ss in many another American industry, private ownership has utterly collapsed, rhe only way to end the recurrent was In the coal fields Is for the public to take over the mines, and run them for the public benefit, on the principle ot production for service rather than profit...
...Top many of us cynical of hops...
...And not much contempt either...
...If the other nations are not reasonable about this, strike a moral pose and get your ministers abroad on the job to offer objections to increasing the height of foreign walls...
...It is all so simple...
...Smith is not as fortunate as Fred Marvin of the Key Men of America who seems to be raking in lots of cash by marketing the same stuff...
...Not one person in a thousand has the time to consult what these saints* themselves believed and how they lived so it is easy to provide them with wings...
...rkiaaaaaa Iatend (> sec...
...He called the merchants, lawyers, land speculators and slave owners to order and then God transmitted to George the sacred Constitution...
...JN THE INTERESTS OF ECONOMY no receipts will be seat by The New Leader and The Leader-Appeal for subscription renewal remittances, except when specifically requested...
...The state of foreign affairs h their pretense for arming...
...Nearly ninety years ago...
...Crooked Patriots QNE vender of patriotic bunk is in jail and facing a suit for recovery of funds he is said to have obtained by fraud...
...but when they are stupid, they go In for universal and Immediate revolution...
...Well, my dear Genoaaen, I am not so sure that the bacteria of a disease is the cause of its infliction on the patient...
...He declared that we have "the greatest Government on Cod's green earth, conceived by ottr Maker and transmitted to George Washington...
...We will be tout try the Democrats that tins Is due to the Republican administration, and by tht Republicans that It Is the fear of a DemicraUc victory at the polls next fan which | s causing unemployment...
...Just as one gets a kick out of the magnificent insolence of pirate leaders two hundred years ago, so the amazing arrogance of the Captain Kidds of the Interboro compels a certain admiration even while we boil with anger over being robbed...
...If you still have purpose and life* left in your being you will survive for a wiser and more useful existence once the illness has run its course and gone •out of the system...
...He was a wise bird who once said that God watches over children, idiots and the United States...
...But what If he has no Job to lose...
...ft Does the original Monroe Doctrine assert any right for the U. S. to interfere in the domestic politics of other American nations...
...If chickens come to roost on the conservative union perch, the conservative leaders will have themselves to blame...
...These conditions obtain today...
...It seems that William Gregory Smith had organized the Pan-Aryan League "to encourage and foster and preserve patriotic ideals and doctrines and combat Bolshevistic and other subversive and un-American tendencies" The complaint asserts that Smith was advanced $25,000 which was not repaid...
...Buckle's Opinion of War Henry Thomas Buckle was one of the greatest minds of all time...
...S. A. de The Wasservogel Decision y^E are glad that by a decision of Supreme Court Justice Isidor Wasservogel the application of the Interborough Transit Company for an injunction to prohibit the American Federation of Labor from organizing its serfs has been denied...
...Perhaps, wa never had anything built up anyway...
...He would sell hair tonic as well as patriotism...
...And right glad they are to find a decent pretext for protecting themselves from that punishment which many of them richly deserve...
...Palmyra Island (S das...
...It needs a new philosophy, not of phrato but of deed, and above all leaders imbued with <sJt> for to-morrow...
...I like to mix my allusions and metaphors when speaking about Communists in general...
...I assure you right wtog inefficiency had prepared the unions for Commnrrtat bacteria Ions before the Russian Revolution...
...Mpney, time and energy, ao needful to the homelandywere just wasted through sheer headstrong stupidity...
...On the other hand it is no credit to the organized workers of this country that, after more than a hundred years of struggle, the mere right to organize the employes of the lines is determined by ,a judge...
...And the fact is that all this ComminitSt hullabaloo in the unions was brought about by a real economic decline in the industry itself throwing then sands of union workers out into the unemployed ranks...
...And still there are old-line labor men rho hope to find among these politicians hose friendly to labor...
...It has also been found that lame ducks In the shop beconu eagles in the business office of a union...
...I, for one, have forgotten that there ever was a Socialist Party of any signuVcance in this country...
...No," aays the worker, "I wm not vote the Socialist ticket because It aught upset things and lose me my job...
...And how he can sere* both friends with equal diligence k teyond the ken of the normal man...
...Heaver, of course, who will apparently be say next president, la in the camp of fchj business, horse, foot and artillery, very little attention will be paid to labors announced plans for a nation-wide snsinj unction drive, or labor's demand far public works to stop unemployment, or labor's drive for old-age pensions, (If sack a drive Is ever started,) or anything ant on labor's program, ao long aa later trots around after the old-line '"•"'"¦•ami see A congressional investigation of tht mine strike is now promised us, but we have seen many such investigations to...
...The truth of the matter is that we ought to be grateful to the whole Union Square Proletariat for having cleansed our old stables, and given us the strength of ten...
...She now proposes to increase her duties on foodstuffs and manufactures, in some cases fourfold, in spite of all the reason, logic and morality which Coolidge and Kellogg have offered to the stubborn French...
...We Socialists congratulate Governor Smith on seeing the light, although It took him quite a while to get around to It...
...Swain's Island (annexed 19Z5...
...Consider the case at police and gangster grafting so much bruited ajhsat although never really proven...
...In fact, the estimate of the Labor Bureau of New York, a group of able economists, Is to the effect that at the present time there are four million Americans looking for a Job...
...In the meantime watch France...
...them long before tha toft wingers came upon the scene...
...Hawaiian Island, S. In Baaaaan Group, Bve Islands (Tatatta, Ota...
...It shows that the way to salvation is narrow yet it brings home the bacon...
...And let me UU you dear friends, that I know of no more avid conversationalist and debater than a clothing worker out of work...
...When some months ago, we Socialists caused a little rift In the prosperity kite by stating on every oecaaton that for the great mass of workers this prosperity talk was sheer bunkum, we were accused of being sourbellied pessimists...
...We immediately suspect a man who continually insists that he never robbed anybody...
...Bsaa Atoll (yet aainhabitted...
...I think it just downright pueruity to go about hating, a lot of dumbeus for having torn dowa a building which (I am becoming more and mora convinced) has never existed...
...I cannot for the life of my flivver determine the real cause for the state of affairs in our own party...
...What a picnic the Third International had for a tune with that sick crowd...
...Whan they are smart, they are very, very smart...
...We would be happy to share a Socialist platform with O'Brien in debate- We draw the line only at children and idiots, which excludes the Bolshy boys and all their kind...
...Perhaps the business is not sufficiently brisk to keep two firms going and this is probably the reason why Smith is in hot water...
...In the clothing industry for example, not one of the leaders of labor bad the foresight to see that this artificial prosperity would some day reduce the need for men and women...
...Onan Island d)\# How many "benevolent protectorates" have we...
...Step heavy on the "spiritual" pedal just to make it all the more impressive...
...And quite too many with hearts and minds so fist of old hatreds, that there is little room toft la thaw for anything new, either of love or hate...
...Moreover, it is when its spokesmen talk moat in florid eloquence of its "ideals" that it has always come close to the level of swine...
...You force other nations to take your goods but you will take none yourself in exchange although all international balances , must finally be made in goods...
...Pierre...
...It has aim happened that the sins of one administration are vto ited even upon the usurpers...
...That contract labor would be used to evade the regular union shop...
...that the employers would again turn against the unions once competition became keen and profits wen threatened...
...Greenland...
...of lowered bodily resistance and I can kill him with a microscopic bug...
...DENMAKK: Iceland...
...These labor leadrs tell you that it Is Impossible to do mything along the lines of independent political action far labor at tins tiki' The question might arise how It M pca...
...Niearacaa...
...Tap Island...
...but actually and croes-my-heartedly, I have never held any deep rooted hate for the American Communists...
...These observations are provoked by a statement of that pompous warrior, Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett...
...neat interests which dominate the easa> tryo • o . -. * Old-line labor's hero for the present b Al Smith, but Smith's campaign ~ianei era are very busy assuring everyone that Al is friendly both to Wall street and to Main Street...
...Here the left-wing bug took hold...
...Fortunately, the doors were locked and the "rabble" outside did not know that the disciples were making faces at each other...
...The figures will indicate the month and year, respectively, of the expiration of your subscription...
...The stupidity of the Third International Is seen the clearer when one has fully acquainted himself with the intellect and ability of the American Communist leaders...
...and add again the farmers fast sinking to the peasant level, and you have a picture of the Meaamgs which the capitalist system bestows upon Its loyal followers...
...Moreover, no one knows what will happen in the higher courts as the transit masters announce that they will appeal the decision...
...The fault Use not in our betrayers, but la curservea...
...slble to find either in the Demoerattaat Republican Party any considerable grass not definitely lined up with the big baa...
...Prom now on we "may expect a deluge of bright Ideas from the leaders of both old parties as to the reasons for, and the solution of the unemployment, problem, which in many respects is the worst that has faced this country since the panic rear of industry, which makes it possible tor fewer men at machines to produce greater quantities of goods than have ever Men produced before...
...What do I mean by all this bysplel...
...And when an industry is slowly dispersing itself into villages, and distant cities in order' to escape union conditions, you have left a hundred thousand workers ready to be driven Into any kind of feverish error...
...the eighteenth century are sufficiently remote from us to be endowed with sainthood...
...Pafllsplncs 7,ea> Manes (teetadtog Sato Arehlawllaw aaa Osteaatoaaa Grans...
...And there you are...
...Why shouldn't, a part of the oil plunder go into the coffers of the Republican National Committee...
...These words and my next week's stint on "This Socialist's View ef Russia," wiB constitute all the speech!rig I intend to make aa a delegate at large to our National Convention...
...Smith expected to enroll suckers at $25 per year and the business was to be underwritten by a Wall Street syndicate...
...Count the American debacle of Communist effort on a par with the Chinese collapse...
...I say perhaps, because If such a group of Ignoramuses and petit larceny agitators as the left wingers could find enough of their own kind in what was Our Socialist Party and lead them out of our ranks, then we ought to thank them for having rid us of our weaknesses On the other hand, should I be mistaken, and these American Trotskys and Zlnovievs really prove to be giants of efficiency and intelligence for a social revolution, then...
...To again have to face this issue eightyeight years after this first emancipation is a striking evidence of weakness...
...This business on its face is crooked...
...Wise Minds Govern "^HEN the G. O. P. brought the "best minds" to Washington in succession to the Woodrovian squads they brought a tariff faith which the great thinker, Cal Coolidge, has expounded with profound affection for steel, pig iron, sugar and other merchandise...
...No decision has yet been banded down in the case of the injunction sought by the I. R. T. against the three million members of the American federation of Labor, forbidding the orranlaatlon of the sweated subway Workers, but this attempt to cripple the entire labor movement is symbolic of the joncerted drive that Is now being made to ower wages and take away from the rorker such unproved conditions as they nave won...
...They make up such a motley mishmash of all things immature and mentally indigestible, in their own manner of Ufa* and thinking...
...Vieques Island...
...To take merely one example, we wonder what the pious would think if they read Hamilton's own admissions regarding his affair with Mrs...
...The substance of the creed is that "you build a tariff wall so high against foreign imports that an aeroplane will find it difficult to scale it...
...No more investigations, except those Into the crude notations of the civil Uberttles of the miners, are needed at this time...
...The Bolshy organ takes a fall out of us because Station WEVD permitted J. R. O'Brien to use it and because The New Leader declared that the station is "living up to its claim that all opinions can be expressed through it...
...after thirty years of prosecutions and jail sentences, the trade unions were emancipated from the common law doctrine of conspiracy which came down from the colonial period...
...Otherwise the honest person may have to walk home for lack of a nickel to ,pay car fare...
...France: Martinique, French Oatoa, Guadeloupe, Mian alow Grosp, St...
...That decision carries with it a denial of the application to hold Edward P. Lavin, leader of the strike in 1926, in contempt and punish him accordingly...
...fore, notably the investigation Into coal made by the United States Coal Commission in 1023—an Investigation which cost the tax-payers $000,000, and was very neatly pigeon-noted by the Republican Administration...
...BesnbUc at Panasav Colombia...
...To have subsidised such supermen as they, and entrusted them with the task of setting up a Dictatorship of the Proletariat here in America, is to my mind one of the great crimes committed by fanatic Russian Bolsheviks against their own Revolution...
...GJ# What colonies have European Powers now in the New World ?''.-¦¦ GREAT aajTASW- Canada' (at least ap to wtator IMS), New Foandhtnd, Bahamas, Carman Islands, British Bandana, British Oaten, Windward Inlands, Barbadees, Bermudas, Jamaica, Trinidad aad Tobago, Famtond Islands, Kttto, Nevis, Pushilea and the rest sf the Leeward and Virgin Island, except two ar three...
...In fact, whenever that feeling pops up at meetings and the like, I question the use of it all for Socialism...
...In fact I question even the balance of intelligence in a Socialist who meaningly holds out intense bias toward what he considers the Cain of bis Cause...
...It's a great life if you haven't any brains, for you may become a Rear Admiral and a pastor of the holy state faith founded by the Prophet George...
...Honest men and women of all beliefs will shun these charlatans, at the same time keeping their hands in their pockets if they meet one of these fakers...
...But somehow I suspect that those who still hate the pitiable left wingers as being the sole cause of our present day Party and Union troubles are dignifying the race* with the importance of a mountain...
...They wrangled for four months and a number of times it appeared that the gathering would break up in a row...
...I do not think it Is a sane trait for one brother under the skin to deliberately detest another...
Vol. 7 • February 1928 • No. 9
