MATTEOTTI MURDERER A DEPUTY
Matteotti Murderer A Deputy Mussolini Also Rewards Judge Who Shielded Him From Share of Guilt (By a New Leader Correspond) OARI6.—One of those responsible for the iM-einln-Hrm of Qfaeomo...
...And no one will pretend that the 40 representatives of the ex-service men, the 82 professionals and artists, (20% of the total), the 4 Catholics, the 17 university or academical representatives, or even the half a ouen public employees, etc., have been chosen because of their corporate qualities...
...Xow this policy runs through all our history...
...then it follows that a OSH with a million pounds sitting sjoaa*/ his counting house is the equal of sM starved workman asking for eaajMai at the factory gate...
...The upper magnates of capitalism still reap vast gains while millions of workers fear the future...
...22 transport employers against 20 "representatives" of the transport workers, and 10 bankers against 6 bank employees...
...whom I brought to New York City on the 23rd July, 1897, and from itew York they travelled with others to Germany, Potter County, Pa...
...Mrs...
...I met comrade Popp also there...
...Commissioner, NewYork Department of Labor and Industry, Rev...
...Every intelligent persons knows this but some labor men who assume to be wise insist that "paternalistic'1 legislation is utterly alien to America...
...Finally we gathered in one set day before the court house in every city and demanded our rights...
...In the early 90s I accompanied comrade Adelheid in a coach from Wamsdorf to Ober Georgenthal...
...Farm leaders are disappointed...
...The guilt of the "honorable" Martinelli was established by the sentence of the Court in Rome which dealt with the accusations (October—Nvomber, 1825) and which closed the investigation of the Matteotti affair...
...The dead cats in New York cemeteries who have voted the Tammany ticket approve...
...The Court had for its President an old incorruptible judge, who had shown by the manner in which he had conducted the investigation that he could be expected to judge according to truth and justice and not according to the interests of the regime...
...actually increased 7.8 per cent, in this state from 1925 to 1927 against a decline of 8 per cent, in Pennsylvania and 3 ]»er cent, for the nation as a whole...
...Helen Tufts Bailie, expelled from the Daughters of the American Revolution, is trying to get back into the organization...
...In March 1897, I helped in the Reichstagwahlen in the city of Gablonz an der Neisse in Boehmen...
...The chain stores are slowly crowding merchants to the wall...
...At the present rate of the displacement of workers by machines within twenty years our ruling classes may be urging all superfluous workers to submit to painless extinction so that the jobless will not disturb the happiness of the owners...
...But that is not all...
...This institute will provide lecture.-, on economic, political, educational and other problems related to the life of the city...
...They do not think that it restricts their freedom or initiative...
...John A. Ryan, Catholic University, Washington, D. C. and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, New York...
...For tmm a bill of rights says all men an mm equal...
...Fascist...
...This is merely a class representation, against which only the most tractable of functionaries will have to defend the interests of the workers—but they will take good care to do nothing of the kind...
...Yet much of the old tattle* baggage survives, he declare* ait, adds: ,!„ "Capitalism and technology ml a sword into the old web of notices at the world, mankind, and pofitka I necessity they were at first eanaMWt terms of inherited phraseology and W they had to be geared up to the tata) morals, creeds, laws, sayings, saM and guesses already afloat, no BSWri irrelevant they might be...
...Enjoying Paternalism 'J'HE State-Wide liconornic Congress meeting in Xew York City and representative of various business interests throws some light on the dogma that legislation in this country does not assume a fatherly attitude towards economic interests...
...Capitalism is his enemy as it is the enemy of the city workers and both require collective ownership of the powers of production and distribution...
...They want laws that will be of some service to invested capital...
...When the investigation of the anair was drawing to its conclusion, a Decree (the right Decree at the right moment) granted an amnesty for all political crimes except murder...
...C. C. DUL United States Senator, Washington, Rabbi Edward L. Israel, Baltimore, Thomas Kennedy, Secretary-Treasurer, United Mine Workers of America, Murray W. Lattimer, Industrial Research Counselors, New York, Hon...
...He died soon after the arrival of his wife Katharine and son Hetnrich...
...A great Socialist movement is possible within the next ten years for there are many who will give attention to an intelligent interpretation of this economic revolution...
...These returns show that it is a costly luxury for farmers to vote for the parties of capitalism...
...The Court which dealt with the accusation convinced itself that Marinelli had merely ordered the kidnapping of Matteotti, furnishing all the money required to bring the undertaking to a successful issue, including the accommodation of tbe whole gang of assassins in a good hotel in the centre of Rome...
...Bohman twho was once editor of the Milwaukee Vorwarts and also wrote a play, Seine Betti) was then also with us...
...Is it not astonishing that some of these labor men even join with manufacturers in demanding state aid through higher tariffs and are either indifferent or opposed to old age pensions by legislative action for the workers who are exploited by the manufacturers...
...I have distributed leaflets, pamphlets, "Appeal to Reason" and Bishop Brown's "bad book" by thousands and thousands...
...I at once wrote an article in behalf of myself, and also advertised Karl Liebknecht's book, "Militarism," which Huebsch in New York City published...
...Cal...
...It was the first year in which non-taxpayers had a right to vote, although we petitioned, wrote and spoke for this right during many years...
...Some big capitalist enterprises are appearing in agriculture, possibly a trend forecasting capitalism in this field...
...I never could discover the originator of these injurious words...
...Will they oppose "paternalism'' in theory...
...Those who provide his machinery levy a heavy toll...
...We elected in 189" 16 Social Democrats for the Reichstag...
...And in effect it can clearly be seen that except for employers and landowners, the "representatives" of the various categories have been chosen on tbe purely political criterion of devotion to Fascism apart from every corporate consideration...
...In both cases, I lodged in Hotel Danemark (Strauss, propr...
...Anti-Injunction Bill Killed by Bosses SACRAMENTO, CAL.—(FP)—Labor's chief bill in tbe 1938 California legislature, the anti-Injunction measure, has been defeated by a lobby from the Industrial Assn...
...The route to his markets is lined with the troops of his transportation enemies...
...Perfect Class Bole Naturally, for the gallery, the list seems to include 206 Deputies out of 400 from different Trade Union organizations properly so caued...
...President Hoover calls attention to the increasing specialization in farm production, price depression, congested markets, climatic surpluses, competition in the world market, and increased railway rates...
...P tialities brought Into the world hr*" and the machine Our job * * * house and open the windows tS dav...
...There came the Vienna comrades lecturing, and slept where I slept, i.e...
...He sacrificed everything...
...I suffer much...
...Its motto was: Die Menschen sollen nicht Herren und Knechte sein, denn alle sind sur Freihelt geboren...
...and the Merchants and Manufacturers' Assn., the chief capitalistic combines of San Francisco and Los Angeles...
...And it should not be forgotten, that, apart from a dozen or twenty, the functionaries—real functionaries and nothing else—who represent the working-class, are quite unknown, while the industrialists and the agriculturists have easily imposed, as representatives of their class all those who are best known, most influential and most active In their ranks...
...I am now 69 years of age...
...The New Chamber Analyzed Although Mussolini himself has acknowledged that Italian Syndicalism is not yet sufficiently "ripe" to serve as the basis for a real corporate constitution of the Chamber and of the State, the Fascist press delights In saying from time to time that the new chamber will merit the description "corporative...
...In 1917 (the last part of June) I forgot all about the espionage law being in force, I explained in front of court house to those standing round why wars are made, and that ours with Germany "Is solely a Wall Street affair," etc...
...Strangely enough, it is pndadr* contradictions which Marx and a* stressed and yet Beard includes SMI among the political views that ***t the agricultural age and, by taattal should be more or less scraapea • may admit that modification ada]M a changing order is necessary, a* * sidering that the Socialist eottt «*j state the contradictions and !¦** of capitalism this would at iMtt that his philosophy on the whafc,** reliable...
...The middle class business man complains that he eannst afford the best locations which cost higher rent...
...After two days two secret service men held inquiries about me in the factory in which I now and then worked as a glass decorator, and soon the following was circulating: "Joe said, if he had more money he would go to Germany and help the Kaiser fight America...
...They do not think that they are "enslaved" by it...
...blacklisted, but I will never give up...
...Congress meets to frame legislation which is more likely to frame the farmer...
...And in his stead a certain Antonio Albertini—an amenable judge—was appointed...
...Harrison was elected the 6th of November and I landed tbe 10th of November, 1888...
...You see, I was always...
...Workers are tossed upon the scrap heap...
...Questions and discussions will follow...
...Mussolini has thus made deputies of Marinelli, his accomplice in the Matteotti affair, and Judge Albertini who established the responsibility of Marinelli . . . to cover that of the Duce...
...I have in Vienna many good friends who are, I am sorry for them, almost as poor as I am...
...He cannot afford the more attractive display of goods maintained by the chains while the price-cutting is often deadly...
...His supplies are controlled by urban capitalism...
...He has it...
...I wonder what has become of comrade H. Bartei...
...Years must pass before we understand what has happened...
...The more expert knowledge we employ in our work the more progress will we make in- taking city governments out of the hands of political agents of capitalist interests...
...One Iowa leader declares the message meaningless although it will give farmers "a big liea'Hy laugh...
...In short, the workers of the cities, the small merchants and bankers, and the farmers are complaining...
...They complain that industry is moving from the state and that legislation must be enacted to enable them to stay...
...Certainly...
...Columbia Unirerslty this w#a*'JL^LX to Louis Stanley, contributing «gj The NEW LEADER, and ttaW^_H the Rand School of 6odal edm^M rade Stanley was awarded i**3 Fellowship in Political EconoStf academic year 1926-30 duriraJ*BJ will work on writing a nnaBd*w» of tbe trade union movement...
...Various phases of the old age pension movement in this country and abroad will be discussed...
...where she went to speak on Socialism I wtll write to her asking her if she can recollect that incident...
...The new head of the Workers Education Bureau is opposed to education for a new social order...
...At this gathering the representatives are discussing legislative measures that will be of advantage to their class...
...What an un-American idea...
...I did it at night with rubber shoes on...
...Tickets for the dinner at the Town Hall Club i$2 per person) may be procured by writing to the American Association for Old Age Security, 104 Fifth avenue...
...This is a brief outline of what is happening...
...Here is a puzzle...
...in a nutshell Cheer up...
...In any cise the decision is as grave as it can be against the new Deputy...
...He was displaced...
...Those phases of his industry that pay arc controlled by those who exploit him...
...Frtedrich v. Schiller...
...Is it surprising, therefore, that the "election" was about 100 per cent...
...A voter could "vote only for or against the whole list of candidates...
...My life is very colorful...
...There is no doubt whatever that a very large percentage of the vote was furnished by the rural districts, in which the influence of the Church is strongest...
...And now Mussolini has made him a Deputy...
...The* polling places swarmed with Mussolini's armed bandits and voters were hunted out and driven to the polls like cattle...
...We refer our readers to the complete program in this issue and emphasize the importance of speakers and ]iarty workers attending each session...
...the future Deputy in the most definite manner...
...To be more exact, there are 46 agricultural landowners against 27 functionaries of the "workers' organizations" in agriculture...
...Solve it if you can...
...He is dead...
...All that is left to him is the unpaying dregs ojf agriculture...
...One day after the publication of the message wheat dedined four cents...
...Election Returns *^ELL, fellow farmers, Hoover received your votes and you now have his message...
...So the election returns are coming in, returns that are more important than the figures of the vote reported the day after the election...
...The waiter there was an avowed Socialist...
...It is difficult to say...
...My residence was not searched but watched...
...I met then, the comrades of the Hamburger "Echo" who brought us to a "Gasthaus" where the lodging and board were very reasonable...
...At the top of the industrial pyramid are the great corporation masters with their powerful banking allies reaping the cream of all useful labor...
...When be had signed the document which closed the investigation —in the manner already noted—he immediately obtained a position, quiet and well paid—the Directorate-General of Prisons...
...He is at the mercy of the political agentswho brought him disaster and he hopes against hope...
...I met Josef Seliger, editor of the "Solidaritat" in Gablone an der Neisse and in Teplltz...
...They rule...
...Opposed *» • the "fixed order of nature" Whk* a* a good weapon in the hands of tat A" philosophers in their fight ap"*1 nobility and clergy...
...JOSEPH MRAS...
...ABRAHAM EPSTEIN...
...He contributes to a fund to advertise "home industry" but local patriotism proves a poor weapon against the better armed chains...
...Socialists in other largo cities will also do well tn organize similar institutes...
...The article: "Socialists Make Vienna a City of Beautiful Homes" has delighted me...
...When I could not find work where I lived with my family i went from village to village, from town to town, from city to city and peddled notions...
...They know that they have thrived upon it...
...The farmers have it, and they will continue to have it and receive what they have been getting for years, a good skinning...
...The speakers will include Dr...
...But among these there are 125 for the employers and landowners and 89 for the workers...
...Many of our oil anti super-power magnates should affiliate with this international...
...and emphasis* tin a that they have their origins in thtaj cultural age which has been lucissoal the age of capitalism, the "new M than...
...In September, 1901, I visited his wife and son, and went to his grave, retrospecting...
...Jimmie Higgins...
...A Rome corresdent of the Brooklyn Eagle wrote: "No excuse was accepted for staying away from the election...
...Capitalism has produced some queer offshoots, but this product of a world "made safe for democracy" is in a class by itself...
...Stein too, became Reichstag Abgeordneter after he had moved from Pilsen to Prague...
...Accordingly the responsibility of Marinelli and the other principals was reduced to that of complicity in the crime of kidnapping, punishable by not more than 15 years hard labor...
...31 industrialists against 26 organizers of "workers in industry," 18 merchants against 10 representatives of their workers...
...They are satisfied with the two leading parties...
...And they will no doubt get what thev want...
...The Economic Revolution JT isn't easy to comprehend the complete significance of marked economic changes at the time they occur...
...but that it could not be considered that the assassins had received the order to assassinate...
...on Greenwich street...
...They are not talking for sheer pleasure...
...Did the Court wish to give some slight catisfaetion to public opinion...
...Individualism, HeadMl Socialism, etc...
...There I met comrade Adelheid Dvorak now Popp...
...From The New Leader Mail Bag THE OLD AGE CONFERENCE The Editor, The New Leader: Your readers will probably be interested in the Second National Conference on Old Age Security which is to be held under the auspices of the American Association for Old Age Security in New York City on Friday, April 26th...
...Manufacturing capitalists have always enjoyed this aid at Washington and at the state capitals...
...I met the Vienna comrades in Warnsdorf (Lopman) with Comrade Anton Preibisch where I had a place to sleep, and board when I peddled in the vicinity of said city...
...Figures are at hand which easily prove that it is nothing of the kind...
...You need not send the whole papers, only the front pages...
...And on the 23rd day of July, 1897, I landed in the Castle Garden, at the same old place where I landed once before indeed in 1888...
...The "progressives" in Congress act "safe" and get their political pap...
...Out of 400 Deputies only two are represented as earning their living as workers, one shepherd and one mechanic...
...I accompanied his mother-in-law and his young brother-in-law in . 1897 to America...
...Did it wish, by denouncing as principals in the crime those who had only been intermediaries between Mussolini and Dumini, to set up a judicial decision which would absolve the real principal, Benito Mussolini...
...What they want becomes law...
...We refer to Jean KartneTM, "Corporal of Honor*' in the Militia, Administrative Secretary (Treasurer) of tbe Fascist Party at tbe time of the assassination, who, Immediately after leaving prison, where he remained 18 months, was reinstated to bis position and promoted...
...I have known the late comrade Victor Adler, editor of the "Wiener Arbelter Zeitung" since 1893...
...He would have the tariff readjusted, improve waterway transport, and have a farm board created "to assist in creating and sustaining farmer-owner and farmer-controlled agencies for a variety of purposes," including help in marketing, warehousing, and "adequate working capital to be advanced against commodities lodged for storage.'' This program may help a little but not as much as the farmers have helped the Hoover wing of the two parties of capitalism...
...And when I came the second time, McKlnley was President of United States...
...right after the election of Harrison as President...
...Comrade Stein was editor of the Czechish (party) paper...
...They declare that it is "foreign,"' that it prevails abroad but not in the United States...
...Morgantown, W. Va...
...Admission to the morning and afternoon sessions to be held at the Community Chuch is free...
...New York City 5 RECOLLECTIONS OF A GERMANSOCIALIST Editor, The New Leader: Please send me if possible, three copies of The New Leader of March 2, 1929, (no others...
...in comrade Preiblsch's residence...
...Without incurring the reproach of setting on its feet an exaggerated and antiquated syndicalism, we may only take into consideration as real syndicalist representatives the 214 Deputies coming from organizations of employers and landowners and from the workers' organizations...
...The distribution of "The Price We Pay" (during the war) was very dangerous...
...Is this "paternalism" and "state aid...
...By this way I came in contact with many German and Czechish speaking comrades...
...And, as if by accident, in each category the real representatives of Capitalism are always more numerous than the functionaries who play the role of representatives of labor...
...The so-called "farm bloc'' in Congress) is split...
...We were then together in Reichenberg...
...J*j avoid a big installment of coBa**" the second essay it will sara«**j| Louis Stanlev Awarded Fellowship by Among the fellowships anaa...
...Increasing values are sweated out of their labur...
...New York City, or by telephoning Watkins 3891...
...Many a man was taken from a sick bed to the ballot box...
...I am not able to subscribe for anything, because I am out of work...
...It is a brilliant essay but *fflP should follow it with another mm gesting what .should replao* ^fundamental stock of ideas...
...At present he is Administrative Inspector General of tbe Fascist Party...
...An international school where elementary and advanced courses in the technique of hold-ups, burglaries and other forms of taking other people's wealHi has been discovered in Paris...
...They want fatherly aid through favorable taxation and they intend to get it...
...W. had more than 60 factories...
...Comrade Seliger was a very lively Genoese...
...Matteotti Murderer A Deputy Mussolini Also Rewards Judge Who Shielded Him From Share of Guilt (By a New Leader Correspond) OARI6.—One of those responsible for the iM-einln-Hrm of Qfaeomo Matteotti has become a Deputy In tbe Italian Parliament...
...He *b*"f ers the history of capitalism la SjP to these various ideas and t*J P endi with the following cooelB*W "If the . . . analysis Is sounft, ¦* grand conclusion that emerges *¦* that the fundamental stock of laW political institutions inherttes' ¥, twentieth century was create...
...This allowed for the liberation of Martinelli without further ado in accordance wit^ the amnesty granted some weeks before...
...They are happy, gloriously happy...
...I approached the mailboxes noiselessly and slipped the leaflets into them...
...Was then hi any relevance at all for giant eajM in a system of rights designed it H feudal lords and clergy down to flat of merchants and fanners...
...That makes no difference to Xew York's manufacturing capitalists...
...They will find men and women outside the party who are specialists in their fields and who will be willing to place their knowledge before any organization that desires to make city government something better than a collection of soft berths for illiterate and too often grafting politicians...
...The Fascist ticket differed from the anti-Fascist ticket so conspicuously that a voter invited violence if he used the latter...
...The little bankers complain that funds flowing to the chain stores go to the chieftains of the chain enterprises in the larger cities...
...The employing class has always accepted "paternal'' legislation and always will...
...The "representatives" of the workers are all functionaries, who, with the exception of half a dozen, do not come from the working-class and have no firsthand knowledge of its ideas or of its needs...
...She seems to think the patriotic ladies should be in favor of free discussion...
...Hoover wants the "rugged individualism" of capitalist enterprise...
...The bill was passed during tbe incumbency of Gov...
...In many cities throughout the country small business men and bankers are alarmed...
...Taking it on the whole, every 104)00 belonging to the possessing class will have a Deputy, but a single Deputy will nave to suffice for every 100,000 workers...
...Each speaker has been >elccted because of his special knowledge of the problem which he will discuss...
...Both ajawai« succeeded by a "philosophy w***' ceived of the world as eivflaW tm and this he considers in laWeS Hegel, Marx, and the classical a*a< political economists and Its *¦ phases as formulated by men of*' of Carlyle and Ruskin...
...Farmers drift to the cities and swell the labor market...
...Comrade Schiller was like our immortal e. V. Debs...
...I am in our movement since 1880...
...They will, but they will accept it in practice for themselves while rip]xising it for farmers and workers...
...But, as we have already noted, this number includes the 82 professional men and artists (28rc of the whole "trade union" delegation) who^are only professional politicians so to spejak...
...The information thev will receive will be invaluable and enhance the value of their work in the coming campaign...
...A Socialist Institute •SOCIALISTS in Xew York City have arranged for a Municipal Affairs Institute which will be in session two days, Saturday ajid Sunday, April 27-28, which should be attended by every speaker and active party worker...
...Seabury C. Mastick, State Senator, New York, William H. Matthews, Director, Association for the Improvement of tbe Conditions of the Poor, Bishop Francis J. McConnell, President, Federal Council of Churches of Christ, Royal Meeker, former Commissioner, U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Frances Perkins...
...The Italian "Elections'' JN FORMATION now seeping out cf Italy regarding the recent ''elections'' shows what a political comedy tbe whole affair was...
...Big finance has its pickets posted to pick his pockets...
...Stephens, but vetoed by him, although be was elected on a labor and liberal ticket...
...h: Professor Beard observes bioaaTf *j systems of thought at the opentmal nineteenth century, "the toe* «*' God" which belonged to the ¦B* period which was popular to leees' Catholic countries...
...They showered both parties generously with funds last year...
...Mayor Walker at a Tammany dinner of district leaders praised their "works of charity" which were performed without a thought of profiting politically...
...Business "generally maintains fast pace.'' reads a headline...
...Vc are now "lacing a rapidly changing industrial system...
...The stop watch is held over those who remain at work...
...Professor Beard's Advice QNE of the most thoagM swell articles to be found in the an magazines is contributed by CbaaV Beard to the Spring number ot (ail Review, Writing of "The Political Bs age of the 20th Century," Mai Beard considers the whole rang* at j itical ideas of our time, Libenuna, 0j servatism...
...image of handicrafts and •*T'~2 petty production and marginal* tence—and has little if any I**"*'' the fact patterns and imBBfSB...
...F. M. Burns, Columbia University, formerly, London School of Economics, ..Hon...
...In Pilsen I made my home in Joseph Stein's residence...
...The working farmer is surrounded...
...Well, the capitalist class is not so prejudiced as it is bringing about a new social order with new machines and methods at the expense of the working class...
...Moreover, they will try to get paternal consideration for their interests at the hands of the legislature...
...One of our best comrades was Josef Schiller, editor of the first Socialist paper in Northern Bohemia, "Der Frelgelst...
...The criticisms which we have always made tt the so-called Fascist Syndicalism thus receive the most decisive and the most irrefutable1 confirmation...
...Agriculture is more and more becoming a losing industry...
...It can be nothing but a trick to mask the clearest and most exclusive class domination...
...Ralph Easley and the National Civic Federation have some free drugs for all workingmen and women who are disturbed by new inventions and unemployment...
...A representative of the State I^abor Department quoted figures from the Federal census of manufactures to show that manufacturing Had...
...The Catholic clergy, high and low, took a very active part in the election and in many cases the parish priest headed the procession to the polls...
...Capitalism is going through a wonderful transformation...
...I will now try to sell all my books in order to keep the wolf away somehow...
...Judge Also "Elected" The Court went closely into the role played by Marinelli in the whole affair and threw the burden or...
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