Why Not Pull the Tooth Instead of Howling with Pain?
Why Not Pull the Tooth Instead of Howling with Pain? MANY years ago, when things were quite different in Great Britain than they have since become, Bernard Shaw (who also was different than he...
...Or are you going to get back of the RESULTS and find and flght the CAUSES...
...If the United States District ourt denies this writ, it will be ipealed to the United SUtes Cir-it Court of Appeals, and then the Kited States Supreme Court, if it be necessary...
...Wis...
...And because France is buying more guns and developing the war mind, Poland is malcing prepara-tions...
...No contribution can be too large or too small, Considering the task at hand of mass unemployment...
...cm, California...
...So what...
...Walsh of New York City, Ikn F. Finerty of Washington, George T. Davis of San g^^iaeo—flled my application for of habeas corpus in the 1^ States District Court for fftberB California at San'Fran-ico OB May 7, 1934, charging iolatii**' the "due process of iw" danaa of the Fourteenth jaea^nient to the Federal Con-titation on the grounds of my triog been acquitted May 24, tU, on one indictment which cov-jti the identical material of the tent on whioh I was con-February 8, 1917, and that conviction was the direct re-lilt of a premeditated and delib-I frame-up cone^piracy on the of the prosecuting and police by concealing and sup-evidence material to jus-and the defense, using vital that they knew to be srjury, coaching of states' wit-swes that amounted to subordi-ition of perjury, exhibiting the ifendants to prospective states' ibiMses instead of having them entifled in the regular manner, id generally inflaming the public iod of the community with highly rtjudicial statements issued by « district attorney and the police ipartment and published daily in t newspapers before, during and (ter the trials...
...and if Hitler were not ruling in Germany the world would have lese jitters even though all dangers would not be removed...
...France is preparing, too...
...They put oil of wintergreen on an aching tooth, and do not have the tooth pulled...
...Aggravate the irritation by building more ships and further militarizing the nation so as to make the collapse by that much more certain...
...They punish thievery and petty vice and crime, and do nothing to remove the conditions of poverty and malnutrition that lead to the effects they deplore...
...This whole program will be in eopaidy if we are unable to raise iiis indispensable sum...
...Wallop the kid for not doing better?' Use the cat-o'-nine-Uils...
...there is the imminent danger that it will relentlessly draw in the whole world...
...and because France and Poland and Italy and Czechoslovakia and the Baltic nations and the Balkan states are being sucked into a whirlpool, Japan is preparing to strike at a Russia that is having its attention distracted by a Nazi Germany and a Pilsudski Poland believed to be in a pact to gang up on the Soviets and take the Ukraine and absorb the Baltic states...
...Mooney Calls for Aid for His Appeal California State Prison, |i|t«r, The New Leader...
...The National Committee will meet, in November to decide on plans for renewed activity...
...And if there is such a world war, involving hundreds of millions of actual combatants fighting with the most fiendishly ingenious weapons the mind of man ever conceived, no human being will be exempt, and there is every possibility that civilization will be destroyed and what is left of the human race will be hurled back into the Dark Ages...
...Continental Congress Will Suspend Activities Till Fall THE National Committee of Correspondence and Action of tlie Continental Congress has voted to postpone the calling of another national convention and to suspend national activity through a national . office until after the fall Congress'ional elections...
...Looking back over a full year of the New Deal and of the activities of the Continental Congress, the National Committee confidently declares that the need for the permanent alliance of farmer and labor organizations of all types represented by the Congress haa increased instead of lessened since last year...
...and the European countries are uneasily arming because Hitler rules in Germany...
...MANY years ago, when things were quite different in Great Britain than they have since become, Bernard Shaw (who also was different than he has since become) answered a question put to him about literary censorship that very nearly blew off the lid...
...There is war danger l>ecau8e a newly inflamed Germany is led by maniacal madmen who noisily and belligerently claim what is "rightly ours...
...Are you going td feed the child properly ? And when the world stands where it stands today, what are you going to do...
...Address all communications ar|d n^ke all funds payable to the Tottv Moo*^ Moldera' Defense Cont "¦itUn P. 0. Box 1474...
...May I hope tor an early and favorable reply to |thi» very urgent appeal ? TOM MOONEY...
...Special attention is given to the mass singing of German marches and folk songs...
...Or are we going to rip the poisoned tooth out and end the agony...
...Your past generous support )' this cause gives me hope that ou will come to our immediate financial assistance...
...Shaw was asked...
...87 more unemploycil memberi of the Austrian Sciiutzbund have been promised visas and work the Soviet Union...
...San Vtik...
...We do not recognize any complaints about the food...
...We believe with the Nazis that his standard must be less than that of an unemployed German...
...Handley's statement at thd^con-ference was echoed by other labor leaders, who saw the movement as simply a personal party for the old LaFollette machine...
...Shaw's reply was swift and to the point...
...The National Committee, in considering whether or not to issue a call for a second national conven-this summer, felt that, just as the delegates to the first convention wished not merely to pass resolutions but to establish a permanent organization, so the delegates would justly feel that something new in addition to resolutions should come out of the second convention...
...Abolish the monarchy...
...Gloryfying in the iron methods of the new regime, the warden declared proudly that even the last remnants of the former liberal and humanitarian treatment of the prisoners have been done away with...
...How can we abolish the censorship...
...to Wisconsin Socialism...
...Smoking is no longer permitted," the official goes on to say, "nor js the prisoner allowed to greet his relatives on visitors'^y with a kiss and a handclasp...
...If • child cannot study and gets bad marlis, what are you going to do...
...You have no program...
...The New ''Strong" State of Hitleria Nazi Germany's new penal pro* cedure and Its treatment of prisoners are prominently featured in tiie Hugenberff coordinated press by a front-page interview of the chief warden oi[ Plostxensee Penitentiary near ^ Berlin...
...Labor will not go along with this moyenMnt...
...We want an organization and a card for members than can be taken away from them if they do not live up to th^ movement...
...Warren's Profession" .was among the banned works...
...Or are you going to go to an oculist and get the kid glasses...
...About two decades ago there was a stir over a number of sensational suppressions...
...and the Ukraine is in dangA because all the European countries are uneasily arming...
...Because Hitler and Goring, Gdbbels and Rust, Rohm and Streicher rule in Germany, the nation is being militarized and made ready...
...he said...
...The Continental Congress was created in Washington in May, 1933, before the Roosevelt administration came out with the reform measures of the New Deal...
...In spite of the New Deal, the mass of workers in cities and on farms are living in poverty and insecurity...
...And because of all that there is a real danger that jf war comes it will igvolve not only Latvia and Estonia, Manchukou and Korea, Colombia and Peru, Paraguay and Bolivia...
...Peopde rarely think a thing through to its proper conclusion...
...He served warning that labor would by no means be satistied with the plans of the progresaivs leadars, saying: "We had hoped that this movement would unite alll the libersl forces...
...because they look to the East for expansion (though the half-wits have not got around to thinking what is to become of those who already live in the lands they crave) a nation is being inflamed with warlike lusts...
...It will be absolutely necessary 'or me to take a Pauper's Oath if lemitted by the court to have the 'ederal courts pay the actual :oort costs of my petition for a vrit of habeas corpus...
...And because J.aP*n is preparing to strike, America is being inflamed with a war spirit and a vast armada is being paraded before the eyes of the entranced New Yorkers, and hundreds of millions are taken from a bankrupt people to build more ships, and a whole nation is being militarized...
...Seeking to carry out Phil's Judgment "that the great bulk of our people are not farmers first or la-l)orers first—we must appeal to them as Americans, and not on the basis of their occupations," the new progressive group»iwa_given a strong impetus...
...They fight an effect, and leave the causes untouched...
...Powder kegs stand open at countless points, and men toss lighted matches around with careless abandon...
...Walter Singler, leader of Wis-consin's farm strikes, refused to commit himself until the group wrote a platform...
...And because that nation is being so inflamed, other nations likewise begin to prepare to counter insanity with more insanity...
...There is . Lord Chamberlain or sometliing in that country who can in the name of the Crown decide what plays and books may be withheld from the gaze of the i^ublic...
...Football and other outdoor games are no longer played in our prison yards...
...All right then, what's the way to save the world...
...Regarding the prisoners' standard of living...
...The Continental Congress can indeed justly claim that its impressive convention of four thousand delegates and its subsequent activities have |jeen partly responsible for the reform enacted...
...There is war danger in the Far East and in the Balkans...
...Religious worship is compulsory^, . . The complaint system is arranged in such a way that nothing can leave the institution without having been seen and cheeked by the responsible official, . . . The new state is purposely trying to drive the lesson home that a confinement within prison walls is a punishment and nothing' else...
...We are given as a reason for making war preparations the fact that Japan is getting aggressive...
...You art keeping it a narrow movement...
...nui Friend: — My attorneys— L^p...
...Class Party Is Demanded by Labor Leader FOND DU LAC, WIk.—"Pro-gressive" lead«ri, following Phil LaFollette'i warning that "I think it is a fatal error, an irretrievable blunder to launch this as a class party," have set up a new •'progressive" party in Wisconsin as a mere tail to the Roosevelt kite...
...The initial expenses for this lal Work places a tremendous ¦den of raising $6,000 upon my dtnse committee for brieflng » great wealth of material in kii eighteen-year-old case, steno-npbic, typing and other clerical elf^ office rent, supplies,, printing nd binding of briefs, postage, rieframs, telephone and transpor-tition and traveling expenses for It least one of the attorneys, all i whom have volunteered their wviees without fee...
...I am disappointed in this progressive conference...
...Swiss Socialists "Adopt" 260 German Children 260 children of German So-j^alist refugees left Paris on May |5and went, in a special train, to Iwitierland, where they will live *• the permanent guests of local «omrades...
...They scold a child for being slow at school, and do not notice that the child is underfed or that his eyes need attention...
...Many of the delegates, as those to Washington, will have to make great personal sacrifice...
...Food expenses for each prisoner are ;t2 to .'(4 pfennig daily (approximately 13 cents...
...Won't you please help us overcome this most Btihappy situation...
...Discipline has been considerably improved...
...and Japan is getting aggressive beca,use her militarists believe they have a chance to settle score* with Russia while Russia is distracted over the fate of the Ukraine...
...According to the warden's statements the penitentiary holds more than 1,900 inmates, among them a considerable number of prominent political enemies of the Nazi regime...
...We are told, therefore, to get more powder kegs, NOT TO REMOVE ALL POWDER KEGS...
...The hundreds of Austrian chil-l^rro previously adopted by the °*lia Socialists were unaMe to in view of the lilliputian dic-wtor of Vienna...
...At the conference Chairman William T, Evjua ruled all demands for a program out of order...
...Today the world trembles on the brink of war...
...if memory serves aright, Shaw's own "Mrs...
...there is war danger in the Baltic region and in the Saar...
...And because the madmen claim what they say is theirs, youths and boys are goosestepping and munitions ^orks are booming...
...Are we going to continue putting wintergreen oil on the aching tooth...
...In the course of the debate, J. J. Handley, secretary-treasurer of the Wisconsin Federation of Labor, jumped to his feet to speak for labor...
...Months of preparation and thousands of dollars are necessary, and these resources of time and finances are not available to the National Committee at the present time...
...This emer-fency compels me to plead with fou for a donation to be used ex-;ln»ively fof expenses directly con-lected with this federal court ac-ion...
...The tremendous, enthusiastic gathering in Washington and the twenty State Congresses held since that time have shown that the workers and farmers of this country cannot be disregarded...
Vol. 17 • June 1934 • No. 22
