THE PEOPLE'S FORUM
THE PEOPLE'S FORUM WASN'T THE NAVAL TREATY A STEP TOWARD UNIVERSAL PEACE.' [Pomona, Calif., July 26;—There .is one question that I would like to have answered: you say. that your paper has fought...
...Then we had "Coolidge or chaos" and " a chicken in every pot.' But evidently they counted their chickens before they were hatched and it turned out that there wasn't enough to go around...
...We have the Milwaukee Journal...
...Besides this...
...I would judge that it was about the size of 30 copies of The Progressive...
...cannons and other modern warfare equipment is the press...
...I can't help but believe, if conditions were reversed and we were having good times with no unemployment problem, that many of these same editors and writers would be telling us it was because we had a great engineer in the White House...
...If they take the credit for good times, why shouldn't, they be blamed for hard times...
...I was clearly convinced of that this morning when a young gentleman came to my house and asked permission to enter, saying fliat he had something very interesting to tell me...
...I want to say that, since I have become acquainted with The Progressive with its four small pages of reading, I found in those pages more true concentrated information of interest to me than I have ever found in the Milwaukee Journal, Sentinel or Wisconsin News put together...
...SOLVING THE WHEAT PROBLEM (River Falls, Wis...
...J. Dillree...
...our Progressive...
...Then if it takes but 600 hours a year to produce what one wants to consume ot the work of others, one will have to work for others but 600 hours a year...
...The "full dinner pail" was another bait to catch votes I remember when we were told to vote for Harding and "get back to normalcy...
...Now, to you readers of The Progressive, what are we going to do to prevent this tremendously powerful poisonous weed from killing the true little s;ed...
...and I think long enough to pass my opinion cn the quality of material which the paper is loaded with...
...There is onl„.-one thing I can see and that Is to employ the snow ball system...
...But the reactionaries seemed to be able to prevent the fulfilment of there policies...
...American rubber men lost out at the rate of $400,000,000 a year for several years...
...8—1 note Prof...
...A study of t.he British Prof Heeling Acts of 1919 and 1920 and of 5" reports issued would give you a patriotic idea ol what American trusts are up against...
...The almighty weapon stronger than guns, poison gas...
...J. R. Common's remark, "Wage-earners cannot prevent unemployment, because they do not own and control the industry...
...If the wheat in the hands of the Farm Board that is now costing a million dollar-, a month for carrying charges, were exchanged for flour on the basis of reasonable profits to millers and the flour distributed to the needy, it would embody the principle we used in Belgium when they were in need...
...This means that workers cannot get others to work for them as many hours a:> they work lor others—that is...
...I believe both the old parties are owned by selfish interests and never again as in Wilson's time can the Democratic party save the situation, and so we must look to a third party.—H...
...The young man's paper was the same Tribune which is the McCormick family paper, which some years ago fought Big Bill Thompson in the senatorial race against one of the McCormick sons...
...When I asked him to be seated he hauled out of his pocket a great big newspaper...
...and that the president and the political party in power have nothing to do with the condition of the country...
...People will work as individuals and croups at what they like doing, and sell their embodied work to the consumers Hence workers will be self-employed.—Vaughn Bachman Brokaw...
...is of untold value...
...But I don't think there is much danger of any working man or woman running into that kind of fish because they usually stay in the South in the winter time and the summers they spend in Europe or wherever it dors not get too hot for them...
...All this was caused by the destruction of American rubber plantations by Communists during the receflt revolutions...
...Of course, I am not so much interested in the advertisements of big chain and department stores, or rows of figures concerning the chain bank...
...Regarding the Teapot Dome affair and your bitter and long continlucd opposition to the leases, I consider that the gross negligence of Congress in not building up to what was allowed in the Washington Naval Conference was of far more importance than drawing attention to illegal leases...
...blazed is followed and widened and obstacles, tall to the right and left for these righteous blows of intelligence...
...Nor am I greatly interested in who will win the game...
...the Parcel Post, act, the Adamson eight-hour law, the Oil Land leasing act, and other measures designed to help the common people were passed during the Wilson administration...
...President Hoover made a much better showing when he was giving away what the government furnished than he is making as an administrator of public affalrs for general welfare...
...Enclosed find check for $150 for another year's subscription...
...My question is...
...Charles Stephens, Democratic senate candidate, proposed that the government distribute the surplus production to the unemployed is not a bad idea...
...W. Ramer...
...I would rather loose all my property than give up the right to have our country protected, and perhaps invaded...
...The trail tha...
...To say that I was disappointed In finding young La Follette's name in that list can hardly express my feeling...
...James F. Pearson...
...The same Tribune which later approved of an alliance between Big Bill and Ruth H. McCormick against Senator Den?<n...
...Why put the Tribune in competition with its brothers...
...the workers will become the owners of the adult human work involved in industry and the controllers of the natural resources needed therein, so that they will be able to fix their own working hours, and will EXCHANGE with each other—through personal and group checks on equitist mutual banks—their work in the form of products and services with each other...
...I always figured that we were intelligent and independent enough to run our own affairs without assistance of a country whose people think so little of us...
...I remember when we were told to vote for MeKinley and 'restore confidence...
...To me that means what laws and regulations our governments (city, county, state or federal] are going to make, because I know that I as an individual will have to comply with those laws, rules or regulations regardless- of whether they are to my benefit or of my approval...
...For dsires will then easily be turned into effective demand for the Ihing de-slrrd...
...It would save the carrying charges on the wheat and dispose of the surplus by the natural process of consumption which has been destroyed by creating extortionate profits for the special privilege group in this country.—P...
...I know also that laws, rules, and regulations are always made and enforced by those in power against the weaker...
...What do they want with this Tribune in the city of Milwaukee, in the state of Wisconsin...
...Bird...
...Of course, that is lo say if he Is no: one of the 45.000 who has an income of $1,000,000 or more each year...
...But, still if you should .meet one of them approach him just the same, because sooner or later everyone will have to stand face to face with the truth and that is just what you will always find in The Progressive.—Marie R. Steinke...
...Robert Jr...
...Brewers or Senators...
...In consequence, America now has to make the best of it and accept the new London treaty...
...And they are wage-earners and do not...
...Mrs...
...Sentinel and the Wisconsin News...
...Upon a closer examination I found that the paper was no other than the Chicago Daily Tribune...
...I have taken the La Follette's Magazine for many, many years, and there is no one I have admired more than the late Robert M. La Follette Sr...
...Having been a subscriber for over 20 years...
...I regret that I cannot any longer remain a subscriber...
...High tariff and trusts, for instance, the latter having the admiration and envy of the Germans as the last word in standardization and rationalization, are necessary to prevent foreign trusts from making havoc with home markets as the British trusts have made havoc with the Irish home markets...
...A CLEAN SERVICE [Mason, Wis...
...If the party in power is not to be held to account for its stewardship, how do the newspaper editors and captains of industry expect us to take enough interest in politics to go to the polls to vote...
...If the idea was to curtail taxation...
...THE TRUTH IN THE PROGRESSIVE [Milwaukee, Wis.!—I have read The Progressive since I subscribed to it two months~ago...
...But this Tribune has not said anything about the empty lunch box nl!>d with the nothingness of the Grur dy tariff bill and the report of the conference of the big kings of industries who were going to abolish' unemployment and make prosperity unlimited for those who are producing the wealth of the country—the workers...
...and I had no complaint to make unlil I read in the paper that his name was mentioned on the list who ratified the London naval treaty...
...And ar all will be able to offer to work for what they wis many hours as it takes to produce thing desired, it will be easy, compara-i lively, to determine ihe demand for different things, hence the supply ne?ded...
...In an answer to your letter...
...It may be only a coincidence, but it should be remembered that the Farm Loan act...
...Small wonder that those who are making the press are using all sorts of inducements to get a big circulation of it...
...All these laws, or many of them, were promised in the Republican Old Guard platforms for years before Wilson gained the presidency...
...THE EQUITIST PLAN FOR WORKERS [Del Rasa...
...Robm Marian La Follette Sr...
...Hoover swinging the (till dinner pail for the vorkers...
...News, and Tribune combined for one week...
...Of course, a/iy human who has sense will always listen to something interesting...
...The young man can-vassng for the Tribune told me that that paper han a staff of 25 lully paid workers in this city for the purpose of pressing the Tribune on the ignorant people who do not know the soilless editorials of the great monster...
...The late Senator La Follette was a grand and courageous man in many ways, but he made this mistake.—Thomas Kelly...
...I have watched carefully our different administrations in my life, and I can truthfully say this one is the rottenest of all...
...He also told me that this paper was a Milwaukee paper and to subscribe to it would not cost me anything as the money I should pay for the subscription would be credited on an insurance policy on my baby...
...NEED FOR A THIRD PARTY [Los Angeles...
...It has always been my belief that a good rule should work both ways...
...explain himscll...
...We certainly do not need it...
...2'—The very unusual and clean service in the newspaper world which The Progressive render...
...I for one can't see it that way...
...And so long as prices are so fixed the incomes of the workers cannot equal the prices charged for what they produce plus the price of uncombined natural resources' on which a price must be also paid...
...I would not support any political party that wants to hog all the praise and at the same time share none of the blame...
...When the people learn to adopt the Equitist way...
...If one wishes to consunv i-00 hours a year of the work of others, they (he or she) will work 1200 hours-a year for others...
...For the last year or so I have come to the conclusion that The Progressive is too one sided, suppressing everything that is in favor of what it opposes...
...And if true, how does Robert Jr...
...New York...
...It is just this: Everyone who is a subscriber to the paper must get a new subscriber during the week and get the new subscriber to understand that the value of one copy of The Progressive is greater than everything contained in the Journal, Sentinel...
...Above allt I am interested In the very fundamental principals of our civilization...
...control industry because prices are fixed on the result-unit basis, which automatically puts a price on what is not human work, thus forcing workers to work for other folk to pay that price...
...was that, report true...
...IS THE PROGRESSIVE ONE-SIDE...
...they cannot EXCHANGE their work but must hand some of it over as tribute...
...is a splendid young man...
...that your paper has fought to retain this government for the people...
...He told me that was the greatest newspaper in the world...
...I would like that attitude explained...
...The same Tribune that supported Herbert...
...I feel the same as the nine senators who fought as they did against ratification...
...3;—Many newspaper editors and writers have been telling us lately that periods of hard times and unemployment run in cycle...
...or who will win the prize fight...
...As a remarkable instance of news suppression, you never said a word about the monopoly in rubber going oxer to the British trust that raised the price all over the world and made such fabulous profits that it was boasted that they would equal all England's expenses during the War...
Vol. 1 • August 1930 • No. 37
