November 20, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL Congress Convenes to Worker. Wants Pass Relief Slashes Relief; Sent to Lunatic Asylum And Help Bosses gram?
re liance.
of military truseke Paula Aragon, Young Socialist Leader And Labor Organizer, Sentenced To Jail By Neil Harrison Commit him to Belleview for observation Harry Roffman has been conRoffman is still in Belleview.
fined to Belleview Prison Ward The Stalinist leaders of the (Continued from page 1) made the slogan, Aid Business, can buy whatever industry for mental observation for the workers Alliance had refused to the theme of his legislative pro produces. Each time that capi last sixteen days because he is lift a finger in his behalf. Be ratic, are essentially the same.
tal spends money in private in unemployed and asked for relief. fore election day they advised Their purpose is identical, nameRoosevelt understands that dustry produce goods, it in About five days before election, caution so as not to embarrass ly to save capitalism.
capitalism is a system based on troduces labor saving machinery Roffman, a member of the Work La Guardia. With La Guardia well Many workers have wondered private property of the means of which continues to throw more ers Alliance, went to the Single taken care of by these misleadwhy Wall Street has insisted that production from which profit is men out of work permanently, Roosevelt balance the budget. made through the exploitation of men relief bureau to inquire ers of the unemployed, they have The home market can absorb why he had been cut off relief. still refused to do a thing for a Does not the meaning become labor.
the goods produced: the foreign Being cut off meant for Roffman rank and file member of the Alclear today? Balance the budget markets are tied up by other either to starve or steal.
means to cut down relief pro What Prosperity capitalist nations and a crisis fused to do either. He demanded grams so the taxes can be eliminMeans ated which hurt the pocket books develops, as it has periodically to be put back on relief. He was Progressives Rally Aid for many decades.
ordered out of the buerau. In of the rich. Prosperity under capitalism When the crisis ain be solved desperation, on being shoved out Our tax revenues come large, can only mean that private in by political measures, by allow of the door, he threw a copy of It was only the Progressive ly from individual earnings and dustry is making enough profit ing millions of working people Wells Outline of History through Group of the Workers Alliance; business profits. We do not to maintain production schedules to starve during what is called a the glass pane of the door. There organized to protect the real wish to impose levies which tend which give the workers the means depression: when the workers upon he was arrested and taken real interests of the rank and to dry up the sources of revenue, of subsistence.
begin to rebel against the damn to the Tombs. He was there five file in the Alliance, that went to.
Morgenthau point out. So in The basic need today is to able injustices of this vicious days and then brought before bat for Roffman. After getting ernment decides to starve the driving force of private capital. have two answers.
stead of taxing the rich, the gowo foster the full application of the capitalist system, the capitalists Magistrate Ford. At this point the facts from him, they immediHis Mightiness, Magistrate Ford, lately got in touch with a lawyer poor.
Either they plunge America into asked him: We want to see capital go into from the More than that, Workers Defense Roosevelt productive channels of private another world war to obtain League, Attorney Fleischman.
wishes, to encourage the ex industry. We want to see pri bigger and more lucrative forpansion of business through revi vate business expanded. We Roffman Crimes Fleischman is handling the legal eign markets for the goods they aspects of the case. The Prosing taxes found to be inequi lieve that much of the remaining produce (which the exploited Do you believe that the gov gressive Group is carrying on a table.
But business considers unemployment will disappear as workers at home can buy) or ernment should feed the unem campaign mass pressure all taxes they pay as inequi: private capital funds are increas they crush the workers through ployed and give them jobs. To through publicity, leaflets and That why Wall Street ingly employed in productive en fascist forces.
which Roffman replied: Yes. mass picket lines before the maintains powerful lobbies in terprises. Morgenthau explain Organized Labor can and Thereupon, Justice Ford said: Single Men bureau.
Washington to fight against ed the basic motives of the won stand for the betrayal of taxes Roosevelt policy. What does it the working people by Ropsevelt policies. Business Opposition mean? Is it possible?
Certainly the guarantee that against them must come.
Disappears taxes will be reduced is an in Then, it will be necessary to centive to big business to use prepare to keep America out of Is it any wonder the business capital for private industry. More the next imperialist war, which opposition to the special session important, however, is the basic shall be declared under the guise of Congress has disappeared. consideration that profit can of Fighting for Peace and De Paula Aragon, National Ex severely condemned the defendant.
The financiers and industrialists only be made by exploiting labor, mocracy.
ecutive Committee member of for her, trade union activity and worried that perhaps Roosevelt by having long hours, low wages The workers answer to impe the Young Peoples Socialist sentenced her to 90 days in the might do something which would and poor working conditions: rialist war and fascism must be League, serving now as a Los county jail, 45 days suspended hurt them.
By not paying labor its full due. the revolutionary overthrow of Angeles organizer of the Inter and a year probation.
Instead, his message and his The Roosevelt program of capitalism, the system of unem national Ladies Garment Work The case was appealed because program as outlined by Morgen ignoring the 30 hour week deployment, misery, starvation, as ers Union, is to begin serving a of alleged improper instruction thau, told them, in advance, that mand, of passing up a wage and so strikingly revealed today.
sentence in the Los Angeles given to the jury and because of the special session would be for hour bill, assures the capitalists In its struggle against the be County jail this week.
the refusal of the Judge to perthe capitalists benefit and against of little opposition from the pol trayal policies of Roosevelt, the Arrested several months ago mit the defendant attorney, the interests of the working itical direction to their attempts workers will develop the class charges of battery and dis James Carter, question the people.
to lower wages etc.
consciousness, the power, and the turbing the peace, Paula Aragon jurors in an effort to elicit their Talk of legislation for a 80 The Roosevelt policy of reduc self confidence which shall pre was placed on trial. After a vi bias and prejudice against trade hour week died completely many ing relief has the effect of mak pare them for the task of over cious patriotic tirade by the pro unions. The court of Appeals remonths before this session of ing labor cheaper too. The bar throwing the capitalist system. secuter she was found guilty by cently upheld the decision of the Congress began. The 40 hour gaining power of the workers is In the vanguard of this strug a jury who listened with open lower court and without much week, too, is considered imprac less when millions are unem gle, will be found the revolu mouths to the statement of the chance of securing a new hearing tical by the Roosevelt adminis ployed. It is harder to fight the tionary socialists around whose city attorney that Miss Aragon Paula Aragon must begin serving tration! Even a modified wage bosses through strikes to main program and banner the fight probably never saluted the Ame her term.
wage and hour bill received but tain or increase wages when mil against capitalism can succeed, rican Flag.
In all charges of battery and vague support in the Roosevelt lions of unemployed want jobs. as it did 20 years ago in Russia. The witnesses of the prosecutor disturbance of the peace the message!
Potential scabs are too plentiful.
attempted to prove that the de usual sentence is a fine of 25 or The industrial rulers of Amerup a scab working in the Darling severe sentence against the union approval of their campaign to leagthen the hours of work in the In other words, Roosevelt All Workers Dress shop during a strike. In organizer is an effort to handia of the testimony of the cap the organization work of factories. Every economic gain program can do only one thing: state own witnesses, who testi the which has been that the organized Labor move attempt to save capitalism at the fied that the union organizer had successful in the past several pment won by determined strug expense of the working people been held by a police officer while months in securing contracts with gle in the past two years has and the masses of unemployed.
the scab had struck the militant several factories in Los Angeles been placed in acute jeopardy That his encouragement to Big trade tby the Roosevelt policies.
union organizer several whose employees were never orBusiness (Continued from Page 5)
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