BOOKS IN BRIEF
Oneal, James
BOOKS IN BRIEF A Valuable Manual By James Oneal A MANUAL FOR SOC1AL1S1 SPEAKERS AND PROPA (JANDA MEETINGS. B\ August Claeeten*. Rand Sekoo Book Store. 25 cents. •TPHIS is one of...
...The Young Workers' League, an ofTslmot of the union, runs a baseball team and holds weekly classes ] in gymnastics suitable to dealing with passible Khaki Shirt inter- , ruptions...
...paying only 16 cents an hour...
...The Conversational Method...
...When the union was first formed on the initiative of the 4 "h m< it-pi Socialist local several month...
...We \ doubt if there is anything in Bert's . life that offers him more of a . thrill...
...I know, however, that three i times as many comrades attended i the classes and got the benefit of ! the lessons...
...Can I Become a Good Speaker...
...IN these turgid and tempestuous lal 1 days it is balm to the soul to ^" discover peace, perfect peace...
...In the Victor plant, for instance, at least a dozen crafts would be involved...
...You - wouldn't do anything to sour so ¦ amiable a soul, would you...
...We had more than four 1 hundred students officially regis, tered...
...Progress in Argumentation, and Cli' maxes, Gestures, Fine Points in, 1 Delivery, Pause and Emphasis, Personality, Chairman, the Technique of Out-Door Meetings, Advertising, Answering Questions, I Literature and Book Sales, and How to Organize and Conduct a Class in Public Speaking...
...It ran as a serial in The New Leader, and as each installment appeared more and more requests came in for its publication in pamphlet form...
...Now we have the one booklet that will be helpful to workers who want to .earn the art of working class agitation...
...The topics treated are: Outlines...
...ago, its members cleared) trees to get firewood, but such "self-help" was soon dropped and the union, under the leadership of1 Frank Manning, William Kennedy and Clarence Moulette, has come >to be a power in the town, exercising continual pressure on the relief authorities...
...BAugust Claeeten...
...At noon-hour meetings outside^ the plant, which is topped by a huge trade mark of the cute white dog cocking an ear for "his master's voice," the Unemployed Union exposed this thin disguise of company unionism...
...The Camden Unemployed Union is particularly interested in assisting industrial unions to meet the urgent needs of the hour...
...i George H. Goebel, campaign * manager of the drive, was especial- A ly pleased with the subscription ]{ lists sent ir by the Newark, Pater- h son and Passaic S. P. branches, a They indicated, he said, a genuine - effort on behalf of party branches > to enlist general support for the 1 Rand School drive...
...BOOKS IN BRIEF A Valuable Manual By James Oneal A MANUAL FOR SOC1AL1S1 SPEAKERS AND PROPA (JANDA MEETINGS...
...Types of Public Speak , ling...
...The Unemployed Union has a membership of 5,000 in Camden, with 2,000 more in outlying branches...
...Labor and Socialist agi' till ion is a lifTerent art to which j the rules of professional oratory . do not apply...
...You hsve read about our « drive to raise $17,000.00...
...Thirty years ago the writer of this notice purchased a professional manual, but found it useless, and this is generally true of all such manuals...
...Comrade Claessens joined the party a quartercentury ago and is generally recognized as the peer of open-air party speakers...
...There are meetings almost every night, some with an audience of 400...
...It gave its employees two days to pick their "union" representatives, obligingly detailed the floors and shops on which representation would be based, and offered to check the counting of the ballots...
...Forgetjting Part of One's Speech...
...Unemployed Union leaders pulled the men off the job and succeeded in getting wages raised to 40 cents an hour and the strikers reinstated...
...Don't bring up these reflections . at a moment when Uncle John is i enjoying so idyllic a holiday...
...Almost daily the local papers carry stories and editorials dealing with | the activities of the union...
...A PICTURE OF BUSS TO BREAK YOUR HEART...
...Far Bt" from the cares of state, remote *" from the clangor and clamor of "¦ placement seeking—for a fee—to serve their country, shielded from 18> the worries of government we disn" cover Uncle John at rest d" "Herbert J. McCooey, son of ".' National Committeeman John H. I McCooey," we read in the New * York Democrat, "has a beautiful . summer home in Westhampton, Long Island...
...We heartily commend this pamphlet...
...We suggest , to you that you collect something from your friends...
...The fees paid for print. ing and postage, but for nothing r more...
...The reason for this is | that they generally have in mind 'the cultivation of refined platform : oratory...
...this week to all members of the correspondence ? courses of the school, revealing the school's plight, telling them: f "The Rand School and the People's Bouse are in serious financial difficulty...
...Another important activity of the Unemployed Union is the aid given to the trade unions in the town by way of mass picketing of jobs paying starvation wages...
...The Victor company, which used to lire employees wHfl^talked unionism, ha« now suddenly seen the light of the Industrial Recovery Act...
...William Bohn, educational {-j director of the Rand School, sent _ out an S.O.S...
...0 Ab, what peace I With the bari¦t tone voice of Everett McCooey rumbling in the choir and Sister Margaret McCooey enjoying her 0 unselfish labors on the Board of ,, Superintendents...
...Gathering of Data...
...By Mark Starr UnemployedUnionThwarts Victor's Company Union QAMDEN, N. J.—If "His Master's Voice" is not stamped on the new "union" at tlie Victor radio plant, it will be because the Camden Unemployed Union was on the alert...
...It overlooks the ocean ?' and is ideally located...
...Don't hesitate i to take small sums...
...Among those who answered the , i call were an International Union t I president, the teachers of Abraham ti Lincoln High School, Brooklyn, the C Neue Volksteitung, the New York ? Socialist journal, the South Side t branch, Socialist Party, of Newark, " N. J., the Passaic branch, S. P., R the loyal little Socialist local of * Universal, Ind., and the Lincoln, _ S P. branch of Spokane, Wash...
...X His manual covers every phase of this art which many men and women find difficult to acquire...
...We are living on the - sacrifices of the workers...
...It will serve not only the beginner but speakers of years of experience will find it very helpful in improving the force of their appeal...
...with pictures of Brothers-in-law James J. Byrne - and George C. Tilyou hanging on the wall no wonder Uncle John is at peace with the world...
...Alongside the demands for relief there is insistence that the workers will never get satisfaction until they have set up their Workers' Republic...
...We presume that it can also bi obtained at a cheaper rate when ordered in quantities...
...And can he help it if there are [ such things as lucrative bonding businesses that just happen to fall into the hands of his sons where II men who get contracts by virtue C of friendship with him just happen r t" find It possible to do business...
...But i we cannot do anything unless we , can keep our building...
...Unless the A. F. of L. is prepared to grant federal chi.rters to such plant unions, pending the development of Industrial unions, then company unions will be recognized by the Labor Advisory Board if for no other reason than that craft unionism is too cumbersome to deal with...
...It will be difficult, however, to link such plant unions up with the American Federation of Labor jnless the craft unions will waive their jurisdictional rights...
...Herbert and his brother, ? Supreme Court Justice John H. ' McCooey, Jr., take up the collection . at mass on Sundays...
...Pointing out that representatives could not function properly if they were subject to dismissal at the will of the company, they urged the Victor workers to elect militant representatives and insist on the right of the plant union to make Immediate connection with the central labor union and the organized labor movement...
...We cite the topical headings to show how complete this booklet is...
...BOOST THE NEW LEADER...
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...We are planning to i extend this work next fall...
...A huge Fourth of July parade deihandcd not only jobs, Ineail and paace, but the sixhour dsy and a living wage...
...r | There can be no mistaking the revolutionary tono of the union...
...5 And can he help it that his sons, t sisters, brothers-in-law and other . kin just happen to find their feet j right in the public trough...
...Members who come to a meeting at union headquarters in the So- I ciallst hall to protest against a stopped food order, remain to demand a new social order...
...I ALL RANKS RALLY TO AID RAND SCHOOL r '---- j J OOCIALIST Party branches and ' members, Workmen's Circle branches, high school teachers and ' ' ethers interested in the preserva- j 1 tion of the Rand School of Social 1 Science as a Socialist educational ! 1 center and a rallying-ground for ( academic freedom responded this ] ' week to the school's desperate ap- f 1 peal for $17*00 to avert fore- Jj I closure...
...The extension department of Brookwood Labor College recently sent Mark Starr and Josephine Colby to conduct nn institute on unemployment for the union, and the students' applied their public speaking Instructions at mass meetings...
...Recently a wrecking company was found to be...
...His parents ? visit him over the week end...
...The workers' hotels they used to occupy in former years have been occupied by the Nazis...
...M Dr...
...Nervousness...
...Moreover, few speakers know better the technique of speaking, how to handle an audience, and how to get the most out of a meeting...
...The Campbell Soup plant and the New York Ship Building Company here will undoubtedly try to put over a company union as did the Victor plant, but the Unemployed Union will be on the job...
...Money o is coming all too slowly—coming r from comrades all over the country, e The other day an unemployed comf rade in Missouri sent us literally 0 his last cent We have no rich J » friends...
...With his l" grandchildren around him the Democratic Chief of Kings County J forgets the cares of politics...
...guides they were accustomed to employ in art galleries, etc., are under arrest The Danish workers in their hundreds will instead go to the other northern countries and to Great Britain...
...Our Cor-, respondence Classes have been run [ at a loss...
...TPHIS is one of the most useful * publications that has beer ¦ published in many years and carries an introduction by Norman Thomas...
...For every dollar that you turn in we will promise to give more than a dollar's worth of service to...
...the Socialist movement'* Danish Workers' Travel Avoids Germany The secretary of the Copenhagen section of the Workers' Educational Association, lb Kolbjorn, states in an interview in SocialDemokraten that the rammer holiday journeys organised for Danish workers this year for the first time will not include Germany...
...or hasn't 1 the world been good to him and > his...
Vol. 16 • July 1933 • No. 3
