December 11, 1937 SOCIALIST APPEAL Bankers Order Congress Futile Debates in Capitot To Place Crisis Burden Reveal Coming PartyRifts on Workers and Farmers Was By James Burnham The Special Session of Congress has now been going By James Casey on for nearly a month. To date, its score in work acFinance Capital has poised its forces to shackle the complished is exactly zero. remarkable fact when placa nation tailers with a mass of new legislative chains before rary slashing of wages by busi ed against the headlines which we read every day. There is, the end of the Winter.
ness, large and small.
evidently, no lack of problems that might be dealt with.
The Wall Street bourbons have this three fold purMoreover, with a rejection of the And yet the Congressmen have thirty pose: or even the thirty five spent by far the greater part offidently ready. Their alm our week, it is clear that private their time in debating points of once the progressive one of exFirst to place the entire burden of the current crisis. upon there such a cynical and ques: inherent nature, is concerned first Record these days isa rich labor society. This is no longer possible enterprise in accordance with its procedure. The Congressional panding the productive foreer of the shoulders of the workers tioning attitude on Capitol Hill, and foremost with the quick re atory book in the intricacies of for them. And now they seek and farmers.
Having said this, Tuoler proceeds turn to big dividends and is turn he rules of order.
Becond to cut wares, curb go to reveal how the members of ing a deaf ear to the pleas of only rationalizing formulas for partiment relief for the unem Congress have decided to perform. liberals for absorption of the Purpose of Special preserving their social power and bloyed, arrest the rising power their jobs for Big Business, while jobless as a means of stemming privilege, before going over to of the trade unions, stimulate turning their backs on the needs the recession.
Session the open brutality of fascism.
trany union organization, and of the increasing number of unFinally, the public utilities are Roosevelt called this Special Battle Behind The Scenes lower the living standard of the employed and their families. They will demand revision of anew and swell profits.
to be permitted to raise rates Session, early in the autumn, to Alperican masses.
enact a four point social pro It should not, however, be imaShird, to procure congressional all laws believed to dempende Compromise with Power sram Farm Aid, Housing, gined that nothing is happening Irislation for enterprise, chich is designed to end the Tucker writes They will sim Wuges and Hours, Reorganiza in Washington. Beneath the surTrusts tion of the Executive Branch of face debate in Congress, a real haineus recession and blast first at the modification of cor Of all the economic royalists the Government. No one will deny and far reaching battle is now the path for new and bigger di porate taxes, especially capital most violently denounced the that each of these matters is of going on, a battle which emerged dends.
grains and losses and the undis New Deal preachers, the public the utmost importance. bound up in an earlier stage last Spring tributed surplus levy. To revive utilities stand to gain most in with the interests and needs of during the fight over the Court View of Press the building industry they will view of the more subdued and large sections of the American Bill. The first bone of contention urge resumption of the home realistic attitude on Capitol Hill, people. No one should be so foolish trom the point Walter Lippman, David Law modernization campaign and seek says the Wall Street spokesman as to imagine that Roosevelt act group, is; how to slough oft rest view of each rence, Hugh Johnson and other better FHA terms for home build Declaring that the plan for seven ually intended that these quesponsibility for the new crisis month pieces of Reaction write ers. Drastic amendment of the additional TVAs may be ditched, tions should be genuinely solved which seems to impend?
with a cynical bluntness of these Wagner Act so as to make it less Tucker writes: plans of monopoly capitalists pro labor is almost a certainty.
by the Special Session. What was Roosevelt must seek to attriand of Roosevelt Even the President seems to needed was a gesture in each bute it to the sabotage of econ capitulaHor to the economic royalists. Proposed Legislation be weakening on that sector, and field sufficient to arouse the hopes nomic Tories and to a recalcit In three different publications, if he can negotiate a 50 50 com and illusions of the masses, to rant Congress. The economic but at the same time, the three It is seen from the foregoing promise with the power boys, he reinforce their faith in Roosevelt, Tories and their immediate mentioned writers say that the that Wall Street intends to have will gladly withdraw from this but at the same time so vague spokesmen, on the other hand, imperative need, If depression is the government meet its budget costly and controversial scheme, and limited as to guarantee no must try to make New Dealism The scheme is controversial breach in bourgeois economy and responsible in the public mind.
to be averted and a sound econo ary expenses by taxing those in my is to be induced. is a revision the lower income brackets and, because it proposes to lower light no real break with bourgeois tra Thus Roosevelt, by giving the New Deal policies aimed at in the course of procedure, slash and power rates for millions of dition. This is the perennial meth rope to Congress and making stimulating private credit and in relief and force the jobless to consumers throughout the country od of the New Deal policy and concesstons to business. thim vestment.
depend on local charities and the and cut into the profits of the New Deal demagogy.
self meanwhile having tooth They concede that monopoly employed workers. Tucker dis Morgan Rockefeller corporations, But when the Special Session aches and going fishing. jockey capitalists, thrown into confusion, closes, also, that Roosevelt who control more than 60 per was called, the business reces into a position where, if it seems by the depth of the last crisis, much touted housing phogram has cent of the utilities in America. sion was just beginning, and desirables bounde ine 1933 ota theostestaluable its origin and support in Wall Also, the scheme would provide there was still confidence that it again denounce the Tories. prove prop in Roosevelt New Deal Street and is calculated, primarily employment for thousands policies. This New Deal, however, to serve the big contractors and agencies not directly controlled weeks, to be quickly corrected. the cause of all evil, and re assert medicinioren has fewe sops to haber ein realtors, rather than give aid to be the bis interests. Therefore, During the intervening weeks, the New Dealism on a new and the form of government relief millions of slum dwellers and it is to be tabooed.
The enactment of even a part the prices on the Stock Exchange, index of production, along with higher plane.
projects and encouragement to prospective small home owners.
Then there is to be drastic of the program, as outlined by hurtled downward, at a rate twice far the most important point, One point, however, and by trade Now, after five years, the amendment of the Wagner Act Tucker would be deadly blow as rapid as that during the last Roosevelt, the various factions in country is again floundering and Tucker makes no effort to to the American workers. It would months of 1929. Wide scale lay Congress and the Tories have all, the conthrough an economic morass. Wall conceal its aims. The amendment erase many, if Streeters and their legislators is to be wholly in the interests cessions wrung from the corpora offs began. Whether or not a new completely in common namely, major has be the necessity for attributing the have found that the recurrence of the bosses, which means its tions in the last few years gun, no one any longer doubts new crisis to something, anything, of business depression cannot motive is to weaken and, it pos through strenuous trade union be prevented by any democratic sible, block the work of trade activity. It would set the labor the seriousness of the current other than its true cause which to out Hoover Hoover with their strikes, curtail picketing and becades. The American toilers must question thurust pitself heavily and ist system itself. At all costa, act at once to put a check on tant cloud, but as a heavy present the real importance of the preplans toward unprecedented reac nefit company unionism.
tion.
Nor is that all. Wall Street is Congress and the bosses.
shadow.
sent crisis is in providing the Discussing the united front of insistent that even the semblance (The next article on the crisis The real issues in the face of final proof (if one is needed)
Big Business interests and their of proposed pro labor legislation will deal with the mobilization of the nation workers and which the Session gathered were that reformism (represented by plans in Congress, Ray Tucker, must be revamped to the satish farmers. simple and direct: the downward the New Deal) is no more capable one of Finance Capital leading faction of the bosses. Read what swing of the business cycle, long than laisser faire of solving the pokesmen writes in the last is Tucker writes of such proposed OPEN FORUM before the optimistically antici the great social problems of our de of the Magazine of Wall legislation: Which Way For The Soviet pated upswing had been comp time.
Street. The wages and hours measure, Union?
leted according to the norms of As in the Court fight, so in the if passed at all, will be only a Attitude of Capitol Hill shadow of its first form. Whereas Abe Miller, Speaker the bourgeois statisticians; and Special Session, the most bitter the original White House the approach of the war.
This FRIDAY, Dec. 10, p.
aim exchanges take place not between The reasons for the changed was a 40 40 proposition with at 159 RIVINGTON ST.
And with these issues, so inti Republicans and Democrats, but mental status on Capitol Hill sliding, regional scales adminisAuspices mately affecting the lives of the between the different factions of are ironic, and yet natural. Five tered by Federal board, Con East Side Labor Center masses, in face of the lay offs, the Democratic Party. The diviyears ago the market collapse gress will probably provide for Questions and Discussions the lowering of wages, the whole sion between the Republican and and subsequent industrial de a 40 hour week and a 12 mini Admission Free gathering storm of economic Democratic Parties founded in the pression frightened the poli mum weekly wage to be adminiscrisis and the untold human issues focussed during the Civil ticos into blind subservienee to tered under hard and fast rules.
misery which it brings with it, War has reduced itself to a Roosevelt. He seemed to have It will not permit any Federa)
Friday. Dec. 17th Congress debates points of order. Tweedledum Tweedledee contest; bath the right answers and the agency to fix regional and indusat 8:45 The President has a toothache and the political framework it has night questions, and they amen trial differentials in accordance MAX SHACHTMAN (one always does well do be sus provided is no longer convincing him by enacting his proposals with its investigatorial whims.
Editor Socialist Appeal picious of the toothaches of poli enough to sustain the illusions Without knowing the titles of New International ticians) and goes fishing off of capitalist politics in this the bills. He was the one and Wages to Be Lowered will speak on Miami. Senator Connally makes country. The pressure of the only saviour. They expected The Russian Revolution wise cracks about Anti Labor Party movement, containmiracles.
Since employers always insist 20 Years After! Lynching Bill. No clearer symbol ing beneath its distorteil apd None has come. On the con that the minimum also be the Question and Discussion.
of the decay of capitalism could bureaucratic surface the incipient thers, business and industry have maximum, it is patent that Wall be found. Confronted with genu class movement of the masses, is one into another tailapin which, Street has struck upon this ruse Thomas Paine Society ine social problems, the bour being felt; and the need for conin some respecte, is sharper than as one of the quick ways to end 88 Seventh Avenue South geoisie itself, and its spokesmen, ing to terms with it in a way the original dive. In some in the new crisis. Thus, if the bankGreenwich Village, Y, are dismayed and floundering. that will guarantee its harmlous dantriell the decline in producers drive is not stopped, a 12 (7th Ave, Subway)
Their attitude betrays the fact development. If the Repnbliaan Hon has been more precipitate minimum wage would be estab Christopher Street)
that, consciously or unconsciously, and Democratic Parties are still than it ww in the early days Ilshed as the average standard Admission with this Adv.
they have lost confidence in their in the field in 1940, they will not the original depression. Never for the American worker. Neither Only 35 cents own answer, the answer which in be the same parties that have Jatore in Rooseveltian days was would there even be recourse to an earlier era they had so con been known since the Civil War.
of the