A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES
A PAGE OF EXCLUSIVE FEATURES THE CLASS STRUGGLE jgEORY—WHAT OF IT HALAPROP once said that it was Caesar's Pttf. who was "all things to all men." The words, **roggle" seem to evoke a somewhat...
...But to me it seems to portray more graphically Just'what can be done with a slow-motion labor movement, which unfortunately is all we have got, than the frenzied pace which the more romantic directors are setting for their proletarian scenes...
...The author has set forth with illuminating clarity two radical and Important propositions...
...Naturally with this religious response to the economic needs of the mill owners the latter "have had little nesd for exercising a control ready to their hand...
...Revenge may be sweet but it sours the character...
...While it is being bound (until March 11) the pre-publication offer of $2 a volume holds...
...This and "is the most widespread and most common outside activity carried on by the mills in .North Carolina...
...Yea, even the prof seal anol guardian of unadulterated drama, the Theatre Guild, gave it up with astonishing impatience, aa a dull failure...
...There is such a thing as killing one's self with SUCCESS...
...But they "are few...
...In such a position, they must realise that^ their reaponsujtlity Is MTbe^repert shows ^ how through all those years the Socialist and labor men in Bsxtkanent fought for Bqual Political Rights for Men aad Women...
...Luncheon of the Women's Section The first luncheon to be given by the New York Women's Section of the Socialist Party wm be held at...
...not to forget Sophocles, Aristophanes, and the ether ancients...
...Problems of Peace and War...
...The price per plate is $1*5...
...There t. tor example, the struggle of the farmer against his ¦dsat exploiters, the banks^hTnUddlemen, and, most ^*snt of all, the organized city laborer, on whose ¦fa he" looks with an envious eye...
...The tragedy ddvea even further, since we Americans have bufit Eugene O'Neal into a dramatic diety...
...Young as the organisation is, it shows great possibilities of vigor, as it wm fortunate to re-assemble the devoted, but scattered comrades who were longing for Socialist activity...
...They Just tear up a village and community, keep folks at the meetings till all hours of the night so that they are not fit for work the next day...
...What of the Liberal Party...
...Esssetkin The fortnightly meeting of the W. S. S. P. Branch, Jamaica, met at HoUis, L. I., at the home of Mrs...
...And to end each scene where she stretches her head to the engine room shrieking...
...It is more ta the nature of one of those slow-motion pictures...
...In real life in America, the highest a to cleverly ensconced behind a screen of holding Ttniri...
...Let Mrs...
...Food Supplies, the Housewife, and the Tory Government...
...In this report we see the need for a woman's movement within the party...
...A few sentimental sailors, a consumptive lover, and an oat maid romance shimmer a little on the verge of reality, but only with an adolescent promise, that the years later have not brightened into real fire...
...understand it, may begin in the mind of a "^l* worker the time he sees the foreman com"^^fTd ^ corner of the factory, and proceeds *"TfcT nearest Drlck- From *uch Primitlve •JTrhs class struggle may well develop into the _atf df ^ you please...
...McAlwtor Coleman...
...There are cases where mill managers select the sects that are permitted to preach in towns...
...And recent experiences have shown us that me only honest answer to this question is that it gets the worker more firmly ta the clutches of the employer, splits his union to pieces, diminishes the sum total of production over whom division be is supposed to be straggling, and leaves ban at the end of the week with a notably thinned pay-envelope...
...If O'Neill knows his people as he should, this sort of empty worship must be painful to wttaeaa...
...It was not so long ago whoa your humble scribe announced ta this column his utter diaapproval Of O'NelU's "Strange Internals...
...Where Shall we Live...
...WUson, when she gets a chance to write, concerning the activities of her committee...
...Petersburg," you hear a group of strik^Zr-The Internationale" with its confident asser" rhst this is "the final conflict," and if there is «d blocd in you at all, nothing less than a bangW!ThurJdred per cent, thumb-gouging, hair-pulling, J^uunping, finish fight with capitalism has any ap"Twhatsoever...
...A citizen of one mill town wrote to the author, citing incidents of resentment on the part of the workers, summing up by saying that "the problems of this community are caused mostly by the conflicts between the capitalist class of people and the working class...
...starve the teacher and her kingdom faUs...
...The "welfare workextends to many phases of the fife of the mill villages, from schools and housing to the Boy Scouts, health, and entertainment...
...He treads and slips where even fools fear to go...
...It may have tickled the ssaluoos of our overfed middle clam play-goers...
...WhOe aceepttag without Shegrai smut their fundamental thesis that the through the forces of heredity, he attacks tbclr practical objectives,—to taiii ism the ^-^««^ of Best Minds ta America and to edaoate them up to their full capacity...
...to discover what the thoughts of a successful banker amy be...
...It is when he ventures forth as a cosmic philosopher on Welt-Schmerx and Politjk, on the aniversal forces that motivate the evolving dvUlzatloos, oa human nature in the four dimensions, that he shrivels into a pitiful pretender...
...His eyes burned into my very soul...
...Y,' Samm * Sctmster< aotmd a daring challenge to the euganka...
...The banker, ta his foreword, speaks "to the hard-headed, cold-blooded, tight-fisted, business man wham I admire in more ways than one...
...Vitus twitch ought to bring the customers hack to host ofltce...
...Responsibility for Today...
...Wlfiiam Lehman of Oho Walter* Union will make some remarks oa hade union ism " A Note From Mrs...
...Why wu it shot to pieces by the kakhvture...
...Panken know how many tickets you want...
...A talk wm given by one of the members on the defeated birth control bill, and a report by another comrade on the victory over militarism in the Public Schools in New York...
...Ton may be disappointed if you wait...
...Gambling and Moneylanding...
...And these complex'tas, unfortunately, are not likely to be solved by refcktti incantations, or the ecstasies of Russian revival "nines', v...
...Do not mks tho Staj educational venture of ths New York Wosaen's Befctkav . ;,> * THE CHATTER BOX eaxf]VtO OKI mm ever remember what X amy here on any subject...
...The ethic of dependence often takes the form of intimate personal relationships between mill manager and mill worker, something Hke that which could he found on plantations between slave and muter before the Civil War...
...Yet we must advance further —greatness and riches and power win fan, unless bunt upon a foundation of real umuMshnsm And what is unselfishness...
...I fdt as Moses must have done, (done what...
...Sins of Taxation — Omission and Commission...
...That this report will prove of trnmense value is indicated by the questions it deals with...
...To begin with, there is ^SBculty of finding both ally and enemy...
...The Best Mind is not necessarily "the best human being, still less the completed personality...
...Tragedy of the Coalfields...
...Excheqeur Gains on . Pensions...
...Women hold ta their hands the destinies of their sex and of their country...
...Every reader of this department and every man and woman of the Socialist Party should secure a copy of this report, first, because space does not permit me to quote much from it, and secondly, because lt proves so conclusively what a power the women are in the British labor and Socialist movement...
...It was splendidly acted...
...Perhaps our great-grand-children will know righUy ta this matter...
...Particularly is this noticeable In his cataloguing of Mussolini's talents and virtues...
...a the play kept on .enriching the author with money, it occurred to me that there might be some saving virtue there...
...r of necessity the class struggle must follow the ssrplfTttiei of the present industrial set-up, if it is • have any significance at all...
...Perhaps I had better Just quote the headline of each chapter and hope that they will interest the readers sufficiently to go hunting for a copy of the report itself:— 'Who Wm Vote in 1939...
...It is good to write without worrying whether yon can sell your efforts to this pertodtcal or that...
...Here and there is a flash of class consciousness which holds out some hope of the destruction of the feudal relations and the emergence of an organised working class -fighting for a place In the sun...
...as be stood ta the presence of the burning bush—that he wm on holy ground...
...the South, a meant study by Tfsiilil L Herring (Welfare work in Mm Villages...
...There la the possibility of miracle always with men of talent- But wtth slighter ability there is less chance for the .miraculous to occur...
...This apeSe hcilhaaco, genius, everything...
...Although he conducts his examination of eugenic alms from the point of view of industrial efficiency, he is no mere efficiency engineer, nor does he fall into the error of ignoring certain abilities which he outside the field of testable intelligence...
...The mill regime of the South has largely repeated the history of the textile production in Mew Bnghmd a hundred years ago...
...He k now sknfiy mending, bat for some tune yet, I wSl be compelled to give meat of my time to him...
...as a result we find him dismissing with a phrase of naive contempt the splendid anahak of Shaw's "Intell'gent Woman's tntxpdnctkm to Socialism" With an aoual naivete he 'assures us that the mere furnfctnrng of "money, assistants and laboratory equipment" to 5,000 of the best amaaMSe minds would enable them in 75 rears to do away with "nearly all wars" and "most crime and degeneracy...
...and not production, but the New Leisure is "the vital issue of the coming generation...
...Of the class struggle as taught by its more extreme propagandists, the worker may well remark: "It's pretty, but is lt art And Just where doss it get me...
...So This Is Fascism...
...The clergymen of the denominations most active in mill villages naturally believe and preach doctrines which would be acceptable in the main to a capitalistic employer—a gospel of work, of gratitude for present blessings, and of patience wtth economic and social maladjustment as temporal and outside the religious concern...
...Women ta the Labor Program...
...corporate mergers, horizontal, vertical, and rtrpetdicular trusts, that it is as easy to find him as f tad an honest man in the Republican Party...
...h other words, while all of us may subscribe to and serve in the class struggle, while there is no doubt s. Cat minds of any of us that it is very much here •j bow, nevertheless we may still reserve the right of skrpretation of that particular dogma, and the right, ta, of rejection of any Muscovite authoritarianism...
...The Last Work of Toryism...
...Toryism and Our Children.'' "The Widowed and the Fatherless...
...Injustice to the Old Workers...
...Perhaps, In farther retribution, he put pea In hand and tongue hi cheat aad scrthblei out tho -Trilogy on Super-Power and Humanity...
...Care of Motherhood...
...Fascism baa filled the author" with the hope for the "survival of civilization on this planet" It's the greatest experiment in government since time began...
...His street-women are the only bits of truth that remain out of his hodge-podging...
...But who at there, also, who can seriously maintain that the joaafiBBg of aB our time and energy upon this theory, tad thai theory akme is anything other than a new phase of that tragedy of waste over which our Mr...
...cannot generate current enough to run an "Erector Set" toy-motor...
...We shall be glad to hear from Mrs...
...Many managers revealed facts which showed that the employes came to the bead executive for all sorts of advice, from how to Invest their savings to how to manage an unruly boy or girl...
...Who shall deliver them...
...e I hate to make all these general statements about the failure of a godhead, and appear to commit the same crime of intellectual faking with heavy pretense...
...Security Against War...
...I hope that Comrade Birch WUson is well and happy by now...
...He brings no evidence that our accelerating industry will ever secure for the masses this period of "sweet idleness" after the day's work and the life's work...
...Frustrated Efforts of Labor...
...If any one stm has any doubts about it, let him or her read this report...
...The author then proceeds, through a series of eighteen detailed chapters occupying the greater part of the volume, to examine the opportunities for Best Minds existing and likely to exist ta business, the professions, the arts, and other fields of activity...
...The ^ejection of ''Dynamo" shows the practical Jokmkwttk his trick turned back upon him...
...fjT^ead Ten Days that Shook the World" or T£t rUrys Williams' "Through the Russian Revogo to such pictures as "Potemkin" ox STWd1 of St...
...But just now, I am left only a sense of literary values after having lived aad loved through Shakespeare, CorneUle, Sheridan, Chekov aad Shaw...
...Standards of Life...
...I stat the highest...
...The weaknesses of Pitkin's prssenta tkm am negative rather than postttva, and he where we should naturally expect them, in the field of social economics, Natural science is to him the only wisdom...
...The greatest eulogies of the author arc reserved for the Duce...
...Yet, I know of no set rums whereby one can fairly weigh the genius of a man ta the abort space of a lifetime...
...Scattered through the chapters are reversals of acrcytrd notions that are worthy of Cheattiton: those who achieve in the fine arts are rnmnvwiry persona of svarage or sub-average lntefflgence...
...Fill the theatre with a successful run, and a fortune pours into the pockets of author and producer...
...rrof Beaut Pitkin first clarifies the subject by defining the Best Minds as the highest 100% o fthe population as this might be determined by comprehensive Intelligence teste...
...Motherhood...
...X hope your women's work in New York Is progressing nicely...
...Amusing as this Is it also gives some idea of the economic control on one side and the economic subjection on the other in the mill towns...
...And **« a the struggle of the skilled worker against the Taaixed...
...the plunge into an international conflict stilled political antagonisms, promises ¦ toero given, and par— tial enframdikmasnt achieved kt MM...
...V. a University of Worth Carolina Press, Sa) of the exxea-sdn aettvttiea of' mm owners ta North Carotma shows that them k httls difference between the new rapitaltsm of that region and the old esgamams of the Berth so far as feudal tendencies ta ladosUy are concerned...
...What avail was my weak whimper against the thunder of the Nordics...
...These, however, give him a right to literary recognition...
...Debate in Harlem The QpamuHMtj Progressive Women's Union of Harlem la sponsoring a debate and illanasliai to be held Monday evening...
...Sure, Who is there who has been abroad in America of late who can deny its existence...
...Correct the evils in your own profession lest others try to correct them for you...
...Yet this industrial system is for him fixed and immutable, and the Socialism of O. B. Shaw unworthy of scientific notice...
...His book fascinated us...
...If we were always happy, we'd be wretched...
...The baduaton of a bed room scene stretched through ten acta hi which the whole crew of • osoctrtoal engineers of the power station are somehow woven into the wiles of a vamp afflicted with tho St...
...is his final word, -'Aad -bow*'* Thinking Aloud mm ant teat that S. H. Rhnedss, smhor of "Random Thoughts of a Man at Fifty* (Putnam's $1 JO) is a Wall street banker...
...A cold survey of the work past and present-day of the great dramatist in the light of what men have done and still are doing for the drama, reveals the startling truth that O'NsiU's mind is cruelly limited to-a few ancient phases of life...
...My twenty-two men...
...We are trying to secure a speaker who will give us a summary of what the recent Legislature has and has not done...
...Through facts and figures which appear incontestable he comes to the somewhat startling conclusion that not only is our industrial society in no need whatever of an increased supply of Best Minds, but of the present number of "truly superior men and women in intellectual activities, we have 1144.000 jobless, and not the slightest hope of finding new opportunities for them...
...She is cautious, painfully cautious, in unfolding the story and, especially, In offering opinions and conclusions...
...Ben Johnson looks over my ahoulder aad I turn to find no diaapproval ia the queer twist aa ha) chin...
...In 400 pages the author has presented an exhaustive study of the system in one state, selecting same MO odd mills for lepcial investigation, and portraying in detail the influence of mill owners and their agents on the economic, political, social, ctric, religious and recreational life of the mill towns...
...The arguments and statistics by which Professor Pitkin proves his point make the book a fascinating one...
...The Theatre •hattd can alter the another of men to suit the pay lei,« .. > In this manner the great dramatic lymjihawy of the great American dramatist can achieve iinjuailwt i 8 But for ma, Eugene CPNettl remains aa mfcfuifitta* promise, and the fuUOmeut of a aad tragedy ta...
...The letter's "cryptic utterances" are the essence of wisdom...
...check to Nicholas Moakowits, Box I, West Farms Station, N. T. Edited by Pauline M. Newman CONCERNING WOMAN a aospgtaaoai *f aowa aa* views •! aorucala* latarast t« the waamaa «e um labor awreawat...
...Labor's Program—Happy Childhood...
...I offer the phrase gratia aa won...
...Milk for Mothers...
...Just tbta-that O'Neill has petered out...
...In the Boston crowds which acred the Secco-Vanzetti picketers all the way from * State House to the Joy Street Police Station, there vtre two proletarians to every bourgeois...
...Security against Poverty...
...And we wonder whether the proper time for a banker to have such thoughts Is not, indeed at fifty, after a fife spent following, less golden rules, than golden roads, to success...
...To the ttt* |r» they are holy words indeed, no more to **Z~A or modified, than the description of crea'ti* first chapter-of Genesis can suffer revision P ^Tennessee fundamentalist has anything to say net"- . • • the concept of the class struggle, as most *TL...
...w to attempt to make a hard-and-fast pattern conflicting forces is, in my opinion, to take Jew sands at this particular time a needlessly ar*** job...
...We confess to having read lt from "river to fctver...
...the form ^Ba^^fyvS^^a^a^am^^Lm^J^ tragic dramas of the land...
...This book is invaluable to those who would understand the Industrial South of today...
...May I suggest that other women's groups follow the example of Comrade Zametkln and send us a report concerning women's activity within the party...
...I will grant that about ail this there is not much whoopee to be made...
...How direct their vote...
...What we need •etrtam amount of common-sense guile...
...The Dynamo" being the first play of the promised three...
...Or again, it may take jubtle form of the peaceful but determined *JSment of the producers upon the control that ¦fJSTin the hands of the exploiting master class...
...nor too strongly mention that we are put in mind of the remark: "Honesty is the best policy, but he who acta by this precept is not an honest man...
...More than a hundred yean ago the for sex equality in rltlarnshtp was first made...
...I offer the suggestion gratia...
...h the struggle of huge groups of workers in on industry against those in a rival industry...
...Consider one aspect of mill life alone, its tw«n»nr» upon the churches...
...We must not press against that reservation...
...We want ^J6* far harder thing than mere flag-waving, r^the flag be red, white, and blue or just red, f fWowiag the band as it plays the martial notes ||T3tt*ruationale...
...Despite the caution it is not a pleasant picture that is painted...
...Education' is democracy's noble foundation...
...Cham m so concerned...
...B. B. Rebel Poetry "An Anthology of Revolutionary Poetry," on which Marcus Graham has been working for years, which has an Introduction by Lucia Trent and Ralph Cheyney, and is sponsored by many radical writers and leaders, including the Rebel Poets, has gone through the printer's hands...
...Chapel B3B...
...We behove that women onrnradra aad their friends wffl want to bear about the fats that befell saany of the btlk which dealt wtth social reform...
...Bring a friend...
...He or she does not necessarily have to be a Socialist...
...But we were caught by an earlier phrase ta that Foreword...
...To quote: "The General Election of 10X9 ushers: in a new epoch...
...I suppose the real toot will come beyond ear years...
...For some reason, unknown to me, this letter has been mislaid...
...Wilson Mrs...
...The author aim shows that he is familiar with the Book of Quotations but a bit weak in knowledge of the Book of Synonyms...
...These two classes are divided on nearly everything that the town tries to do...
...There is the ""tfJe of the white-collar man against his superiors, **• «t the same time, against the manual worker...
...There are class struggles and class struggles...
...The epitome of all the best aspirations of the Italian people.' In addition to author Howard's contribution to political enlightenment, he tosses off a few, scientific facts, among them "is the' discovery that the first blologi5* ana psychologist, was jesas...
...The censors have closed up better bed-room dramas merely because the producers were foolishly honest about thep laygoers preference for bawdy boudoir bedto give their work the pretense of neuroticism ta character study, with aa extra half doaen acta thrown . in for good measure...
...Harry T. Smith...
...H tss recently won convert to this theory has extra difficulty in determining just who is his friend, be has an even harder job when it comes to the quests* of settling just who is his enemy...
...Dynamo" fails bocsuso it...
...It wu widely commented upon by all the King Coles of Critique...
...Treacherous Desertion on Industrial Questions...
...That is, of course, si fffiory that violence is inescapably tied up with sffitut philosophy, and that the chief end of a workSjjaas is to make a bloody end "of his boss...
...Scanning The New Books Labor in the South dtag "American ideathm" and we are cariom to know what it km the region where the old American stock is least contaminated by foreign UunOaiallori...
...It Is better to feel that yon have a comfortable place of your own to boose and show off your brain children, and never give a hoot as to what the jealous neisrbbora say about them* AB^aB*tTk* uat^L'wmfc at snmifblag altogether removed from your takmts so that you can play with them altbaut sums aad baak depostta...
...In a young land like ours, lusty with its local prides, and beetle with its thrills, any flash, any quick word has a blinding brilliance...
...The Appeal to the Women Voter...
...And again, never a new thought or a newer phrase for remembrance...
...Be puts the simple questions: what would we do with this increase of Best Minds if we should obtain it...
...Ethelred Brown wm preside...
...The supremely inquisitive and analytical mind is—too deeply absorbed ta natural phenomena and 'heir causes ever to be interested—ta politics, or in social affairs, save by way of diversion...
...Over and over, the latter is compared to Washington, Lincoln, Moses, Napoleon and Jesus...
...And yet X cannot apologise for or retract even a comma from my last tirade against the dtahonesty of "A Strange Interlude...
...1934-20...
...And what of the pastors and their gospel in such communities...
...They find themselves ia a majority over men of mare than 2000,000...
...But, in all fairness, let me further add, for it is the truth, had it not been for overcommercialism America would not be the great, rich, and powerful nation that she is today...
...We want . *** without seeming to move the foot...
...The words, **roggle" seem to evoke a somewhat similar To some, they mean nothing more than **wH*t at Yale, with enthusiastic undergradu***J2jL beneath the elma with bored New Haven *wILto others, they imply the frantic efforts ^^uMarnx* to keep up with the Joneses...
...Rare indeed k the mill management—except among the knitting mills in the midst of a town—which does not still aid one or several churches...
...And by bee leaders of that movement who by every word and ted most violently detest the class struggle advocates, ft on of senu-macblne guns, pineapples, blackjacks ad tear-gas bombs, the more conservative of the licago rank and file have for some years carried ¦ a warfare against the master class that ought I hit somehow doesn't, satisfy the most ardent distyie of the class struggle theory...
...Psibape 19m second part wfll be loaded with more wisdom...
...It may have brought a fortune ta shekels to the author and the producer...
...For example, England has— after long years of agitation and education by the labor and Socialist movement—granted women who are twentyone years of age the right to vote...
...Laws and Family Relations...
...Baking the Flag of Good Health...
...Anyone who has seen a class struggler at J*t sgitpropping around Union Square, or the back pfc of the Loop, realizes that, by the very nature ' Stags, he or she is so possessed of that particular """¦flag dream as to lose touch with all reality, "»sarp out of true perspective, and, when suc¦*fl in his or her mission, cause more unmitigated, the workers, and more unexpected, but never*¦* uproariously welcome heaven for the employa carload of State Police and injunctions com...
...It may go on indefinitely until our own neurotics have filed in and out and their number is exhanatod JChd yet for me at least it win always remain a crudely slopped together sexhibition, written with a shrewd knowledge of what the "people" want, and a canny guess on how to crowd) them to and make them shell out...
...Black Record on Unemployment...
...On the film, th peasant found the highest and gave him a soulsshfyhur licking...
...rpHE author of Fascism, A Challenge to Democracy, (Reveil Co...
...Since O'Neill now would be enabled to write out his real self, using the leisure granted him by income from a temporary digression...
...Tec this very tiiiiiilsisje dees not deter me from poking oat em the portable such opinions as form themselves after sitting three days at the wheal and shooting past six hundred miles of telephone poles and incidental villages...
...The reader feels that a powerful mill owner is at the author's elbow as she writes and yet there is evidence of a conscientious effort to reveal the truth in spite of this handicap...
...not is something significant about the fact that as wry first person to fall with gusto and whirling Z. upon those class strugglers who picketed the i^rf John D.- Rockefeller Jr., in protest against tk treatment of the miners in one of the Colorado ante were none other than horny-banded members at the building trades...
...Naturally, the feudal supervision varies from one town to another, some avoiding certain activities and others including them, but it is rare to find a mill town that does not exhibit some phase of capitalist paternalism...
...James Oneal...
...it eoendad a bit nervy and Just the least hoorlah far aa aamtaur scribbler to point his pencil at a twrsagahmi literary godhead and make derisive whoopee wtth his art...
...Who will get thenvote...
...That is certainly the beginning of enlightenment and two recent struggles of workers in southern mill towns show that there is hope for Socialism and trade unionism In God's country...
...You to American workers, who on the whole are ™*X ttnug lot, and tell them right off the bat that (swj* » bunch of sweated wage-slaves whose only jS~*Jj* to go out and destroy the industry in tT" ~*y are engaged...
...but it may, nevertheless, be deadly efAnd one way in which we can carry on that 00 the political field, and another on the eco«*d still another on that confused battleground ^* civil liberties struggle for mere existence...
...Not since we quit reading our hometown paper, have we run across so many familiar phrases: the number of them, "beggared description...
...Gladly I learned of his proposed trilogy...
...A man asked a manager's advice as to whether he should marry a certain woman, and a motherin-law appealed to the acting executive of the mill to see to it that her son-inlaw cater a bit to his wife's taste...
...Town BaU on Saturday, April 37, at 13:18 o'clock...
...J1** is a time for laughter and a time for tears, ?¦* time for preaching the class struggle pure and But that time is not now...
...and we turn wtth mtereat (not the kxod he desk ta...
...The class straggle...
...the best man for a Job is he who k barely ¦ Siamli to it...
...Here we would have all the turmoil of thought within a great mind presented to the world without a hint of box-office influence, without a whit of worry about the plagoers perference for bawdy boudoir badinage and the rest- The play was produced with profuse care...
...From 10O6 until 1014 the straagie for enfraitcfalamtent made a battle ground of bitter and taawesbjaas fighting...
...A war of attrition may not be r*01...
...Unselfishness, except In fanatic extremes, is everyday plain common sense...
...What shall we conclude from it all...
...The Holy Rollers appear to -be under the ban and for a good economic reason...
...The grim but atest fact remains that, consciously or unconsciously, Tttis country at any rate, the nearest approach to be fundamental technique of the class struggle has em made by the Chicago labor movement...
...Women and the 4}ritish Election We have just received the report of the Standing Joint Commltee of Industrial Women's Organisations to be presented to the National Conference of Labor Women this mouth at Buxton, England...
...I inscribe the volume to him who gets the most out of it...
...And it flopped miserably...
...There is more in this world than money'' (the banker still ipeaking) "and we Americans had best admit that fact, and, before it is too late, set about to correct our much-discussed national fault—Over-Commercialism...
...Judged by thaw standards then Anne Nichols with her "Abie's Irish Rose" towers over O'Neill with his "Strange Interlude'' . . . Thus we come upon an hnpoass for proper appraisal...
...For the first time in our history, women win exercise a franchise based on full equality with men, and nearly 14,000,000 women will be upon the electoral register...
...In m...
...On the contrary, if you know any one who k not, but who may be interested ta an intelligent discussion of important issue bring him or her wtth you...
...Colorful, but after undignified, scufflings with State troopers or dry pohce give but the dustiest of answers to the station asked by the intruding peasant in the picture, 1st Bod of St Petersburg," "Where is the highest...
...Labor and the Nation...
...is our twentieth century industry able to provide an adeqate demand for even our present supply of such minds...
...The Highways of Education...
...Fioaa Mrs...
...Bow to approach these young women...
...For ta the verses and the sentences that follow, it is a combination of Aesop (or Benjamin Franklin) and the Golden Rule that animates the writer...
...Poor Law and Local Government...
...If you take the labor movement serW* not as an outlet for vour revolutionary Impulses, or a test-tube for your classstruggle theories you first find out just bow far the workers will go along with you...
...April g, g:so P. ML, at the Beulah Wedsyan Method** Church...
...Ltttth WUson, chairman of the Socialist National Woman's Committee, writes that "I have not written you hi regard to Women's Cxsxumttee work, as comrade Birch WUson is very sick ta the hospital here with pneumorda...
...Mow, after sixty years of definite political agitation, the representation of the People Act of 19200 estabthhas Equal Rights at 31 yearn of age...
...Where is he...
...He makes no suggestion that it will ever slacken its ruthless driving of the Best Minds into the Twilight of emptiness...
...Over-Commercialism" until you have made your fortune...
...What was the JBaamasarh program...
...Berhaps that is why he made poetic vengeance, and gave them the sexual shivers of "Strange Interiudo" tor their answer ta faith...
...Victor a Caspar, says "yes," while R. P. Bpps wlB take the negative...
...Not until 1934 did the Tory Government declare itself in favor of this move, because "it could no longer face Labor at the poUs without following Labor's lead In regard to justice to women...
...we aamme from the appearance of this book that he Is a successful one...
...3), Is Milford W. Howard, a former Southern congressman...
...Whose job will it be to secure their vote for the labor and Socialist movement...
...Many of the avowed maaters of dramatic 11 till Ism had praised that nine-act moaatroatty into a VaBtaUa of the modern classics...
...L 4 • • • J^* you go Into a fight, you select a time and J^uJat will give you at least an even break...
...then preach unselfishness...
...And then you go there, and when you have arrived you find that, human nature being what lt is, you can get along a bit further, and still, retain your vision at the ultimate goal, which is the elimination of production for profit, and the bringing about of production for use...
...Stem the only room available for the above date k rather small, the women comrades am asked to make reservations at once...
...Do not imagine for a moment that I practice all I preach...
...a There just isn't a line or a,thought kt any of O'Neill's present day work that rings with any eartain value...
...Is the cost of Living Less...
...The few characters out of sea-faring that he hat portrayed have a bright reality...
...He further defines the type of Intelligence in question as the type which k particularly fostered by our schools and colleges, constituting "ability to use language, to analyse propositions, to sense general relational patterns, and so on...
...The promise that came with "Beyond the Horizon" and "Anna Christie" la never to be fulfilled...
...First, our mechanistic Industrialism is speedily producing a society where only the mediocre can effectively function- Second, "the relentless itrenuosity of this fevered epoch" can be warranted only by the attainment of a casrified Leisure, "not the leisure of a few made possible by the sweat and agony of the many," but a leisure for all men through which they may be led by the Best Minds to fulness of living...
...for two hundred firstgrade minds to earn their firing by writing first-grade books hi the United States would be "a gorgeous miracle...
...The answer • to them aad ^iwi^tt questions will be atom .at the skew luncheon...
...Sixteen years ago the first—Women's Suffrage amendment wu moved ta the Boom of Commons to the Tic ha at Act of 1807...
...313 West ilAtb street, on the subject: "Should the Church and Business Cooperate...
...That i3, you do not do this k^ata once...
...William Lea...
...Great Minds A Revietc By JESSIE WALLACE HUGHAN |W The Twilight of the tirrlran Mmd 1 Walter Pttfcta <N...
...But rising from your book, or leavJTflnmotion-picture hall, with head held high and LaTracing you find that it is not so easy, to classSie to America in 1929...
...The picture can hardly be described as a "breath-taking master-piece, with a thrill in every reel...
Vol. 8 • April 1929 • No. 12
