The Balance-Sheet of Socialism
Vandervelde, Emil
Our Weekly Foreign Letter The Balance-Sheet of Socialism Failure at London, Prospects of Minority Governments Ground for Grave Apprehension, Vandervelde Says By Emil Vandervelde (Special...
...In short, if one throws a general glance over the front on which the fight of the working class is taking place one receives the impression of a trench war, of a war of position...
...fallen, Horlund, Fabian Mansson, -indberg, Engberg, Ltndhagen, 3au!i and Olaf Olsson...
...But the Socialist Party is no' Home for Aged and Indignant Radicals...
...Holland Socialists Report Striking Gains (Br a New Leaser Correspondent...
...Tuesday, March 25th, the Spanish Socialist dally "El Socialists" announced that it was impossible to publish an article on "Where Is Spain Going...
...It will be said that these are not very cheering statements...
...The economic depression is extending to all branches of activity...
...I wish to demur, protest and yowl...
...the events of Wasa ire severely condemned...
...The crash on Wall Street has had it3 repercussions on all the exchanges of Europe...
...KPresident Hoover is thinking of speeches in the west...
...In such conditions, to be in the Government...
...Troelstra was 70 years old oi April 20 last...
...For the rest, unfortunately, there is nothing to be found, j France (and one mu3t say France, ! for with the sole exception of I Leon Blum and a few others our comrades of the French Socialist Party have done very little to differentiate their attitude from that of the Government...
...Ths number of members increased from 54,319 to 61.162 during the same period, an increase of 6,843...
...Nop* . . . it is Just this . . . stupidity is so tntersational...
...He did drawl out, "The reason why most of you kids are here at college is that your folks don't want to have you around the house at your age...
...But whal active politics lost was the gain of scientific Socialism...
...At least X have left India aad the British Labor " * A...
...In the united states of the two Americas, from Washington to Buenos Aires, the reaction of the workers remains weak over against the growing dominant power of neo-capitalism...
...whatever this Government may be...
...On Emil Vandervelde the other hand, thank3 to the Three Power Agreement...
...A funny old duck with walrus whiskers, sitting aex...
...Be much for this week's harmless comment...
...In Parliament and in the Labor press Wheatley was one of the most stubborn of Premier MacDonald's critics...
...On the following day, an announcement was made in a space two columns wide and more than half a page long, saying that it was impossible for the paper to publish Its leading article on that day...
...Our only hope is that they will run out of their stock of plain stupidities and go In for ??”M'wrnf blather . . . There is such a thing as an idiot going insane For instance they dish up a sexy slop by that ancient mop-rag of the boudoirs, Elinor Glynn, in which a poor "woLking goil" does the Cinderella stunt against the pis-eyed debutantes of Southampton, Long Island, for the polo-hardened palm of a poor millionaire boy, who is tied up in marriage with a woman who loves somebody else, and makes a bet with another woman that aha can have this other woman's husband...
...It's a racket", we say to ourselves . . . And than we go homo and sleep the rough deal off...
...Jaspar in Belgium, Mr...
...JTT Rrussells, May 7. TIE London Conference has ended as could have been and must have been expected...
...The Committee, in 'ace of the growing distrust of the work being carried on to achieve in international agreement in this sphere, and of the growing volume :i opinion in favor of an isolated disarmament move, called for a discussion, not only of schemes of positive armament and of reducion of armaments on the basis of nternational agreements, but also rt the isolated disarmament of the ndividual nation...
...When, however, I recollected by whereabouts, I ???lowered st this ancient and growled, "What do you mean...
...So it's ho...
...John Wheatley, M.P., Meets Sudden Death GLASGOW, Scotland...
...By all means, the Party should pay due reverence to its pioneers and I feel that rve done my bit in that respect...
...By what principles does he make bis decisions...
...In which, until decisive offensives sooner or later come, the forces balance each other, without either succeeding in securing the ascendancy...
...How Are You Senator...
...partitioned, covered with protectionist barriers, overwhelmed by the burden of its military expenditure, the nation's...
...He was Minister of Health in the first Labor Government and has been a member of Parliament since 1922...
...Neither do they think much 3f the "proletarian" pose affected b y our Communist boy-friends...
...to me and trying to read this over my shoulder, > 1 ?« hailed me, "How are you...
...Why make them on the 1st of May, on which for forty years past the workers have every year affirmed their faith and their hopes...
...Never have we seen the countryside more exquisite...
...In abort, it appears only too clearly that although the effort of Social-Democracy has been able in ten years to force an ever so slightly satisfactory liquidation of the world war upon European public opinion and the governments it is still a long way from counting when it is a question of removing the threats of i new war...
...Let's hope it does not occur to the Socialist Party...
...The number of subscribers to the weekly "Radio" has increased to over 80,000, and the development of the workers' radio system in Holland has been great...
...There being no Communists handy in the village, I went to the movies . . . Not so bad at first, what with the comics and the news, and the theme Tntj" . . . but when the main feature cams on, my brain stopped Its process of relaxation...
...for the Rand School and the Labor Temple and our other seditious hangouts where if you say, "How are you...
...It has an observation car with a ladies' lounge as it and a Japanese gal serving tea...
...Although the Defence Scheme of 1925, which embodied a considerable reduction in armaments, was supposed to bring the discussion to a close at least for a time, the contrary has been the case...
...The adoption of the proposition reported above means the realization of the immediate demand embodied in that unanimous resolution of the last Swedish Party Conference, that: "The question whether the defence system of Sweden is serving its purpose be subjected to a renewed examination...
...Lay off of "prosperity" as a theme...
...As a result of Social-Democratic demands in both Chambers of the Diet for an extensive enquiry into the armament problem of Sweden, the ConstituCommittee proposed that the Diet should request the Government to hold an investigation into the defence problem...
...About 55 per cent of the members are in the 28 biggest towns of the country...
...The party leader, P. A. lansson, declared in the Second Chamber that the Social-Demoratic Party was not committed o isolated disarmament, but he mnhaslsea the point of view that it was "by no means certain that armaments were the best means of defence of, a country...
...That should be the cause for the loudest sort of cheering...
...Nor is there any latent...
...His independence of views brought him frequently into collision with his comrades...
...Because a great party like ours must draw up an exact balance of its successes and reverses: because to get over the deadlock it must realize than an Immense effort is necessary...
...Hollywood is the present First International for just plain crass, common, every-day dumbness The ukases it sends forth in the form of talkies, and "Incomparable Productions'' grow men superb is their stark inanity each day aad night...
...Where does the Spanish press censor stand...
...Of course, the movie magnates wilt tell yen la Uriah Heepiah tones, "We give the dear pubhc what it wants . . . They love to see ana interiors, the costumes of the upper classes, the beauty of their gardens . . . It is an escape from the...
...Since the consolidation of the Fascist or Fas:ist-minded forces in Finland by :he formation on March 15th of t union covering the whole country, the movement has increased n activity and audacity...
...As a matter of fact during our entire stay in the coal-fields we have spent very little time in the pentitentiary, unless you count our ten days in the Hotel Grand, Benton, Illinois...
...Herb...
...No one is being fooled . . . or rather none but a very few...
...As everyone around the Rand School who prides guBself on possessing a super sense of humor has Pten doing that since 1928 when I ran for Senator on the Party ticket, I imagined for a moment gat I was back on that dear fifteenth street...
...A continuation of the aricle was published on the followno* SsHtrrlsv' The Chatter Box Musings In A May ?‚¬mt%mtm\ :?/J SEED has a way of testing all ear fallacies . . . First there is the t old humidity ef toil, And those who lounge im soft supremacies Of birth and inclination are not fit Nor clean enough to fashion with the soil - " - - . \ t ???:* i...
...In Great Britain the magnificent Labor victory of 1929 has been followed by difficult times...
...We have arrived at something...
...But there is something so wormfly low end ugly about the movie racket . . . that all vehemanos of feeling or color of profanity is beggared...
...There are vastly more important phaaaf ef our living under this grabby system to occupy that purpose and plan...
...On Thursday a further announcement was made regarding more articles and reports which could not be published...
...the mad dog of Europe...
...Once the point ibcut effectiveness was raised, the Investigation could hardly avoid facing the question of whether innaments have any value at all, ~-nd so the question of disarmanent arises...
...It takes considerable moon too, to make Southern Illinois look good to aa Of course, much of the romance of that moonlit drive was lost owing to the fact that our sole companion was a hard-bitten coal digger who told as all the way up what be had done to two blank Wank scapes at Virden in '98...
...The circulation of the Party has increased...
...We are beginning to wonder where we have been all these past Mays...
...And that would coat like anything...
...When I saw some 400 youngsters at the meeting out at the University listening to "The Internationale" being played on a pipe-organ which was undoubtedly paid for b y John D. Rockefeller, I got one of the few authentic kicks of my recent years...
...Senator...
...Senator...
...Thi report of the Executive of the Dutch C":'alDsmocratic Party states that the number of Party sections increased from 607 to 645 between the end of 1928 and the end of 1929...
...Three great volumes, wh^ch come down to 1915, have appeared...
...we will shoot jou on sight, we being a bully boy fresh from the pits...
...The agricultural crisis effects with equal severity Polish oats, German rye and French corn and vineyards...
...In recent numbers' of the "Forward," the Scottish organ of the L L. P., Wheatley has carried on a critical attack on the Labor Government which brought spirited replies by its supporters...
...In Spain and Lithuania the situation is still troubled...
...Anyhow, Clarence doesn't exactly play with rattles...
...At least she ???wears a Japanese kimono, though on second glance *T suspect he...
...But let us not hide the fact that the converse is no les3 true...
...He decided to write his memoirs, which are inseparably bound up with the history of the Dutch labor movement...
...De Morgan...
...CAPITALISM Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to kite 'em, * And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad Infinitum...
...of coming from the Far East of Eoomington, Illinois...
...Among the bourgeois >arties also...
...Even Clarence Darrow was stirred a bit out of his usual pessimism...
...In Poland the Colonels' Party continues to bully the proletarian organizations...
...We're looking forward to our arrival in Chicago, for we've asked Clarence Senior and his charming wife to meet us there and have dinner with us...
...So far...
...A happy medium is struck by most officials who for any great distances travel in Pullnans but avoid extra fare trains...
...to close its list of prohibited articles with the comment: "Our readers should carefully note that we have not yet reached constitutional normality," which comment was an open criticism of the censorship...
...Through the thickets and bogs, the ops and downs of daily politics, Social-Democracy most march with an ever-surer step towards its aim, an aim from which nothing should distract it ??” the liberation and sovereignty of labor...
...We drove up 165 miles under a Japanese lantern moon from Herrin last last night...
...Senator?'" It then developed that he thought I was a Senator from Cook County in the jUtnois State Legislature, God forbid...
...To save its face the Conference has reached a Five Power Agree- ghumanizing 6f submarine warPact possess the "last war" Is not behind but before us...
...Furthermore, seeing that these limits allow of a defence scheme 3f various degrees of effectiveness, the development of the Implements 3f war would have'to come in for investigation...
...Our last column, through a stroke of good luck for you and me alike, went astray and in its place Eddie Levinson thoughtfully inserted an article on Penitentiaries...
...Poete Yeeles Troelstra, p i o n?«e e : leader of the Dutch Socialist party died here Monday night...
...Ws am lifting the slums into a higher standard of living by showing them what architectural and natural glee iea exist outside of their daily ken...
...Now understand me I'm not setting forth here a plea for classics, for Dostoyevskian depth, or Slaw seriousness in our theatre...
...We go out with a sense of having bees gypped . . . good and plenty...
...During he night of March 28th a Comnunist printing works In Wasa vas destroyed...
...Lewis's private bouse organ, "The United Mine Workers' Journal," which so quaintly designates our bunch as "rats and scabs," tails to stir us to literary allusiveness...
...It's like selling chalk and water for milk to blind babies, and making the tots take and like it...
...Pruning in Germany...
...ON THE INTERNATIONAL FRONT P. J. Troelstra, Dutch Veteran, Passes at 70 Great Figure in International Socialism Spent Recent Years of Illness Writing Memoirs AMSTERDAM...
...continues to reply upon its bayonets In spite of the increasing economic difficulties...
...This idea of spending a lot of money to find out wSy haven't any money to spend, is dangerous...
...The son of a Scottish laborer, Wheatley was 61 years old when he died...
...Wheatley was a Catholic In religion and worked as a miner from the age of 12 to the age of 22...
...It is the dwelling-place of youth...
...is not an enviable situation for the parties and men concerned...
...ITI snl for a few lonely maiden aunt domestics and some sentimental adolescents of the old school the rest of us sit and snicker and yawn quite audibly...
...I will agree with their coatmttons, . . . But when they offer to our newspaper scandalised brains, all the personal filth and msifnaas of life among the parasites and "upper clawses", and encase it on the ground that it creates a superiority complex and satisfaction among the poor by the opportunity that they have to uhssrsa their own hard and atraltly virtuous lives in comparison to those who live so viciously la the higher spheres, (whew...
...Let us not undervalue, however, the imjortance, of better augury, of I the Socialist progress in New J York with Norman Thomas, and hi the Argentine in the recent legislative alee twins...
...Wheatley credited J. Keir Hardle, the founder of the I. L. P., with converting him to Socialism and be had been a profound admirer of Hardle and his work...
...The dura thing just got In on my irascibility . . . It was uncommonly stupid . . . But hell's bells...
...Fascist Outrage in Finland (By s New Leaser Correspondent} HELSINGFORS...
...There is furthermore no intention on my part here to organize the long suffering movie-goers into a vast party of protest against the Gyps of Screen land...
...McAlister Coleman...
...I had a good close-up of the Seniors at work during the May Day celebrations at Chicago...
...Everyone of us regular guys would Just like to take a full swing of five closely cramped knuckles at the Pompeian massaged phiss of the here, or the heroine for that matter, when for no reason at all they go oozing their sffly sex appeal aa ever the silver sheet...
...He was certainly right, and it seems that events must soon prove this...
...on here to hold forth on any Jdnd of purity or style of entertainment...
...And surely there is always prayer for ram, And impertd sum, end just a blow of S-rtest . . . (While ell the rest are bellowing for gum . . ?« Ask for the benediction of the trees . . . ) i Then there is the patience reouisiU Before the barrenness is lost in flower . . . Those who cannot bide the blossoming out Can never know the glory of the hour When toil and seeding, tenderness and care Draw forth a bursting beauty to the air . , . And so it seems It follows with the manner of our dreams : . , Sometimes, when my mind seeds a rest, I argue with a Union Square Communist, or go to the neighborhood movies . . . And the frisky little bunch of cells and strings was so tired the other night . . . What with collections hems...
...In France the successes of our friends in the by-electipn3 weaken the Radicals but do not injure or hardly injure the parties of the Centre and the Right In Germany Bruiting has followed Muller as Polncare has followed Herriot in France, and from the point of view of the Republican institutions, the dependence of the Government upon the Nationalists is far more disquieting than in a country in which the Third Republic will soon be 60 years old...
...In the observation car proper, you can hear the gam...
...Not because of the profundity of the story, nor the perfection of the art portrayed therein...
...But he ended up b y adTising them all to be good kickers and join the socialist Party and we love him more than ever...
...In Italy, Fascism...
...the British Labor Government secures the substantial benefit of being able to reduce its naval expenditure by ??60.000.000 to ??70,000,000 by obtaining from Yankee megalomania satisfied by parity a partial renunciation of its gigantic plans for competition in armaments...
...spoke in avor of isolate ddiaarma merit and, onsequently, of the inclusion of his measure in the terms of refrence of the proposed investigaion...
...For some years tb great leader of the Dutch Social Democratic party had been con fined to his bed, and in view of hi: illness he asked that no demonstra tion should take place on the oc casion of his birthday...
...But you can't have everything in this world...
...by Louis de Brouckere, the Belgian Socialist leader who recently visited Spain...
...The miscreants lave not been discovered...
...But when one's reading matter consists almost wholly of "The United Mine-*Work era' Journal," "Coal Age" and "The Illinois State Register.," one somehow feels a bit out of touch with the world of belles lettres...
...On the next day the paper announced the titles of four more articles which it cmild not publish, including a second article by Louis de Brouckere...
...Why just call it a lot of gutterish names . . 1 Why must all the movie theatres of the land be made so devilishly fireproof . . . ? It_seems to me there is no greater menace to the development of our national soul along the ways 'of beauty and sanity . . . than the Hollywood-ized institution of the day...
...e .'.., Then there is the nature and the touch . Of kindness for every thirsting root . . . .And only those who feel smother's want WUl wait until the npening ef the frmk...
...You must know that they are having a special session of the Illinois legislature to find out how come the city of Chicago has done gone bust If they'd ask us, we'd tell them one reason w h y the City of Chicago is bust is the delegation from Cook County to the special session of the Illinois legislature...
...drab reality of the common man's existence . . . It hi a atlas of social work that wa are performing...
...He joined the Labor Party in 1907 and was a Labor member of the Glasgow town council for teri' years...
...This is a mighty snooty choo-choo train we are on...
...so cosmic in its elements, that it really cannot hide itself under any particular guise and palm itself off as the characteristic of any pastta ular nation...
...We want to assure our anxious friends that there was nothing significant in this...
...If there are more than four millions of unemployed in the United States there are at least six or seven millions in Europe, including Soviet Russia...
...Tardieu in France, Mr...
...In Austria, in spite of the splendid Socialist defence, the CTerico-Fascist reaction is registering partial successes...
...The number of women's clubs has increased by 13, and the number of women organized in these clubs is 7,678...
...He has long been identified with the Independent Labor Party, the main Socialist organization affiliated with the Labor Party, and has been one of the most persistent critics of some policies of the Labor Government...
...But who does not see that this power is encountering in all countries a resistance which is all the stronger as the ruling classes feel themselves to be threatened...
...T h e death of John Wheatley, MP., here on Monday removed one of the most active men to the British labor movement...
...There Is certainly no comparison between the increased power of the Socialism of today and its relative weakness before the war...
...if we may anticipate the vote of the American Senate...
...France there- i fore stands irrevocably by the j "absolute needs" of M. Tardieu Fascist Italy, more hysterical than ever, continues its theatrical demand for a parity which financially it would not be In a position to establish...
...The Committee notes that the scheme was never operated so as to keep the costs within the limits set in 1925...
...While these again have greater still, and greater ???oil, and so on...
...Whether It is a question of Egypt, the Arab countries, India, China or Indo-China, it is- too evident that if the domination of European Imperialism is everywhere threatened, undermined and condemned sooner or later to disappear, the struggle of the "colored peoples" for liberation encounters and will encounter for a long time to come, because of their political immaturity, all the obstacles which come from themselves rather than from their masters...
...He has cur his wisdom teeth and knows his economic onions despite the talk of some who seem to think that he goes to his office on roller-skates...
...The truth is that almost everywhere the forces balance each other, that a deadlock has been reached, and that in this part of Europe which is not given up to dictators there will only be room for ten or perhaps twenty years for minority government^ which are by definition weak, or coalition governments whose heterogeneity makes them weaker still...
...Even that peerless intellectual giant, Ellis Searless, editor of Mr...
...e I think the best sort of a raxzberry we moviegocrs could, invent without any resort to mnsosney, is to get up in our seats whenever the hero or the heroine comes lounging or strut Msg' serosa the screen in full dress or negligee . . . and yell out with coilaga cheering unlearn . , . "What de you de for a living . . . V There ought to be vagrancy laws against photo plays wherein the great mystery of "useful occupation" for the players is never revealed...
...So much so that Henri de Man has been able to say without being too paradoxical that in almost all the countries of Europe since the war the Labor and Socialist partiesabove all when they are in power ??”must carry on a policy of conservation and the bourgeois parties a policy of reform...
...Dr...
...except for the exreme Right...
...And right here we want to tell you boys and ???iris something confidential...
...The membership of the Workers "Radio Union "V...
...This number includes 42,935 men and 18,227 women...
...For the irst time in Finland a purely Fascist act has taken place...
...which was reprinted from "Le Peuple" of Brussels, and is presumably the one which was completely forbidden three days before...
...On our little promontory of Europe, finally, a Europe cut up into segments...
...r -w- AH writing this on a train en routs from SpringJ_ geid, Illinois, to Chicago, and I have Just received the crowning insult of my career...
...If they could utter all their thoughts with regard to this, Mr...
...We wish that somehow we could get' more literary in these columns from the Midwest...
...The Social-Democratic group immediitely prepared an interpellation 'or the Diet, in which the Govsrnment is asked what steps it vill take to oppose the Fascist novement...
...On the Thursday mentioned above he permitted "El Socialists...
...ir...
...The prospects for the General Disarmament Conference at Geneva have not been Improved...
...May 12 following a prolonged illness...
...you will bring down the whole capitalist system...
...The Dutcl Social-Democratic party respectei this wish, but his life work we...
...not only remembered at the Dutcl party conference which was helc on Troelstra's birthday, but hli friends in all countries recalled with love and respect .their lonj common fight in the Internationa alongside the pioneer of the Dutcl working class...
...When Troelstra felt his fllnesi coming on he decided that he woulc voluntarily retire from the activt politics in which he had done at much for the Dutch and interna tional labor movement...
...isolations do not even possess the advantage of more or lass protecting one or the other people against the economic cyclones which cross the world...
...Now and then I hear some low moaning through rray beards over the fact that the Senior's are young...
...On the contrary...
...On the same day he allowed the paper to publish a censored article by Louis de Brouckere entitled "Where Is Spain Going...
...Socialists Force Sweden to Consider Voluntary Arms Cut (By a New Lesser Correspondent} STOCKHOLM...
...On the other hand, when under the pressure of circumstances the Socialists are obliged to participate In the Government, in order to defend Republican institutions, check Fascist advances, or ward off monetary or ?«"?»"--t.i catastrophes, they must reckon even more with bourgeois forces which are not all in the opposition...
...The investigation already set on foot by the Government is also manifestly intended to provide material for further compliance with the wishes of the reactionary forces of the country...
...AMSTERDAM...
...A. R. A." increased from 4,000 to 71,000 between the beginning Spanish Censor Puzzles Madrid Socialist Party (By a New Leaser Correspondent Madrid...
...The leader of the German Populists said two months'' ago that it is no longer possible to govern against and even without SocialDemocracy...
...A rupture has been avoided...
...Accordingly, even those who would otherwise have been inclined to let matters rest for the time being found it opportune to vote for an investigation of the scope envisaged by the Committee What the Committee in fact pro- | posed for the new investigation was In the first place the question of how a Defence Scheme can be rarried out within the budgetary limits of the 1925 agreement...
...They are not particularly keen about the magnificence with which $12,000 per annum John L. Lewis swanks around...
...In the countries where democracy has some reality, the strangely disparate bourgeois coalitions must reckon largely with a redoubtable Socialist opposition...
...Moreover the military authorities have been constantly pressing for larger grants and the present Conservative Government has been meeting their demands...
...We have come from nothing...
...But the Spanish censor must be a peculiar person...
...Nor will we go in for sueh stuff as tickles the jaded palates of the intelligentsia at those queer "different'' theatres...
...Schober in Austria, would not speak, setting aside possible satisfactions and vanity, in any other manner than Muller, who has just had this experience, oi Raraoay M&cDonaid, who must find that political life was a fine thing when he was Leader of the Opposition...
...The request was adopted by a clear majority April 5th...
...He: Volk" in Amsterdam has secured nearly 13,000 new subscribers, and the Rotterdam "Vorwarts" about 7,000...
...zero-like in business, and my getting slammed all over the lot by the Anglophilic comrades for my recent little note to Ramsay...
...The board, food and drink bill of this delegation alone, must be enough to keep the Chicago tax payers hustling for a year...
...In a general manner, moreover, the robust optimism which Is one of the postulate* of our Socialist faith Is required in order to envisage without the gravest apprehension the political and social situation of the moment In Europe and the world...
...Bat woe betide as if we loiter on the stages of the Journey...
...Clarence's report of Chicago's May Day, which appeared in the last "New Leader" was far too modest The Chicago crowd, especially the University of Chicsgo Socialists, put on meetings that would be a credit to the movement in its palmiest 1912 days...
...And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on...
...between the Cubs and the Braves being broadcast, if you are that feeble-minded, or you can bury yourself in the last copy of "Liberty," which is the best burying-ground for dead brains I know 3t > At first we felt a bit uncomfortable amid such luxurious surroundings but then we discovered that across the aisle from us was the President of District 12, United Mine Workers of America and se remembered that coal-diggers like to have their representatives travel in style...
...We have in our National Secretary and his wife two of the finest personalities and most sincere Socialists that it has been our luck to have in charge of affairs for s long while back...
...However, all that will soon be remedied as we sre once again homeward bound where anyone osught reading a book is not regarded as a bit "seer...
...That is, within reason...
...In the long debates In both Chambers on April 5th, a number if Social-Democratic speakers...
...S. Socialists Send Regrets Morris Hillquit, national chairman of the Socialist Party, has sent the following cable to the Dutch Socialist Party: "The Socialists of America join you in mourning the irreplacable loss of Peter Trolestra, a faithful leader and effective fighter in the cause of human emancipation...
...We'd be in continuous session from January to December...
...Our Weekly Foreign Letter The Balance-Sheet of Socialism Failure at London, Prospects of Minority Governments Ground for Grave Apprehension, Vandervelde Says By Emil Vandervelde (Special Csiressonssst ?»( The New T...
...And around every bankrupt bank and shut-down coal-mine in southern Illinois, the trees stood in ghostly grandeur...
...until the next.week...
...and this intermingled with Scotch highballs, and some Sally In our Allay singing, and a close-up kiss and fade-out . . . is supposed to compensate us for the hard earned thirty cents we shall out to be entertained...
Vol. 10 • May 1930 • No. 15
